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I must be missing a step somewhere, with getting Gallery integrated with my GL install.

I have both GL and Gallery installed and working fine. And when I make the config change for an embedded gallery and add the full path to my GL install it seems to work fine.

But when I visit my GL URL (localhost/geeklog/main). I see nothing about gallery anywhere.

When I visit my Gallery URL (localhost/gallery), I now see GL with Gallery in it.

What am I missing? Do I need to add Gallery as a static page or Block?

Gallery is not a plugin, i.e. it doesn't use Geeklog's plugin API and therefore won't show up in the list of installed plugins.

bye, Dirk

[edit: bah, didn't read the post properly - listen to what knuff said and ignore me]

You have to activate the link in lib-custom.php.

Look for this code and uncomment it.



Once you did that and adapted config.php you will see the gallery link in your menu.

Additionally you can add some blocks, like the random picture block.
Have a look at Squatty for available plugins / blocks

Greetz,
Boris

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Vanrillaer.com - our Family Portal

Thanks for the tips. I see by that code that Gallery IS expected to be in the main_html directory of GL.

I give it a try.

Thanks again.

That got it.

Thanks again for the help.

After uncommenting the custom_menuEntries procedure at the end of geeklog/system/lib-custom.php , then edit geeklog/config.php and uncomment 'custom' (remove //).

If you have uncommented all the previous menu elements, remember to add a comma after the 'plugins' immediately above 'custom' else you will be going around in circles trying to find why it WONT WORK AAAAAHHH. It now works, bliss.

$_CONF['menu_elements'] = array
(
'home', // link to homepage
'contribute', // contribute / "submit a story" link
'links', // link to the links section (aka web resources)
'polls', // link to past polls
'calendar', // link to the site calendar
'search', // link to advanced search
'stats', // link to site stats
'prefs', // link to user's preferences
'plugins', // links added by plugins, like {plg_menu_elements}
'custom' // for custom links (see lib-custom.php)
);

And why would you do that ???

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True, it doesn't make any difference. I just looked at a previous procedure and it was in lowercase. The comma does though!

That's what's been bustin' my chops!
Thanks!!!!

Hi all I realise this is an old issue, but for those of us new to geeklog it still is pertinent. I have tried the solutions described above to display the link to gallery to no avail. However, after studying the config.php and lib-common.php files I was able to come up with a solution that does work for me. Yes, I know that it is recommended that customizations be done in lib-custom.php...be that as it may for others who encounter this same issue rather than getting frustrated like I did at one point and was thinking of seeking another simpler package. I will post what I did. Maybe it may help someone else.

There are three changes necessary to display the gallery link on the top of the page. One to config.php and two to lib-common.php.

Below is the change to config.php
Add gallery to the menu elements as below;

$_CONF['menu_elements'] = array
(
'home', // link to homepage
'contribute', // contribute / "submit a story" link
'links', // link to the links section (aka web resources)
'polls', // link to past polls
'calendar', // link to the site calendar
'search', // link to advanced search
//'stats', // link to site stats
'prefs', // link to user's preferences
'plugins', // links added by plugins, like {plg_menu_elements}
'gallery', //link to gallery
'custom' // for custom links (see lib-custom.php)


Now for Lib-common.php
1st add gallery to the menu elements sub-menu of "COM_renderMenu"
as seen below;

function COM_renderMenu( &$header, $plugin_menu )
{
global $_CONF, $_USER, $LANG01, $topic;

if( empty( $_CONF['menu_elements'] ))
{
$_CONF['menu_elements'] = array( // default set of links
'contribute', 'links', 'polls', 'calendar', 'search', 'gallery', 'stats',
'plugins');
}

2nd change:
Add the following code under: "foreach( $_CONF['menu_elements'] as $item )


case 'gallery':
$url = $_CONF['site_url'] . '/gallery/index.php';
$label = gallery;
if( $anon &&
( $_CONF['loginrequired'] || $_CONF['statsloginrequired'] ))
{
$allowed = false;
}
break;


I hope you find this helpful.

Ahh...I am retracting the above...It does solve one problem but produces undesired results in the admin page....so I will investigate a solution. Back to the drawing board...lol

Ok, the changes are cleared for implementation. I isolated the error I was getting and it was unrelated to the changes above. Infact it was an issue with the hosting service. So happy trails.

Instead of hacking lib_common.php why don't you just hard code a link in your header.thtml file?

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Yes I am mental.

sounds good but I wouldn't know where to start...lol

Just open the header.thtml (public_html/layout/yourtheme/) file and look for {menu_elements} and add your link right after it.

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Yes I am mental.

If I may interrupt here: The "custom" menu entry in config.php and lib-custom.php was made exactly for this purpose (that's why it even includes an example that links to Gallery ...).

So what exactly is your problem with this?

bye, Dirk

Well, now. I never said I had a problem, other than that as per the recommended solutions made earlier in this post don't seem to work for me. Of course I could be missing something or doing something wrong. However, I did exactly as instructed, but fail to produce the desired result. Hence the reason I took the measures I did. Now, do you have a problem with that?

Nope. I'm just irritated when someone takes the complicated route when we provide a much easier (and cleaner, IMO) solution.

Btw, did you remove the comment markers around CUSTOM_menuEntries?

bye, Dirk

Dirk, I prefer the easy way too, but I if it doesn't work I am not one to just give up...lol. Yeah I did uncomment that entry....Who knows maybe there are gremlins in there...lol

I wasn't talking about the "comment" entry in config.php, but about the entire CUSTOM_menuEntries function in lib-custom.php. It is commented out by default.

bye, Dirk