Plugins

Since we don't seem to have enough options for photo gallery plugins, I've packaged up a working version of the Geeklog-Gallery2 integration plugin.

It's a bit skimpy on features and documentation at the moment, but my testers seem happy with it up til now! [Thanks Ajay, Wayne, and John!] I'm releasing it because people have been waiting for a long time and I wanted to give them something useful to play with.

This version installs a random photo block by default and allows you the option of having the G2 control block as a geeklog block or left alone as part of the G2 page.

You can get it through my geeklog software page.

-Andy Maloney

A beta release of the Media Gallery for Geeklog is now available for public consumption. It is available for download in the Geeklog Download Section or at www.ecsnet.org You can also see it in action at www.ecsnet.org

Media Gallery is a native plugin for Geeklog that provides a full featured media gallery, including photos and movies. If you have any issues with this plugin, please post your comments, feedback, bug reports, etc. in the Plugin Support Forum.

Features

Media Gallery attempts to take advantage of many of the features made available through Geeklog. The feature list includes:

• Multiple Media Types Supported (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ASF, WMV)
• Multiple graphics package support (ImageMagick, NetPBM, GD)
• Center Block (featured album)
• Autotags for including links / images in stories
• Comments per media item
• Upload queuing
• Random Image block
• Online Photo Printing Services
• Geeklog Security Model
• Multiple methods to add media
  • Direct Upload through Admin Interface
  • Batch FTP Uploading
  • Windows XP Publish to Web (experimental)
• Flexible Geeklog template support
• Unlimited Album->Sub Album support
• Full integration with Geeklog search and stats

The goal is to provide a full featured method to allow webmasters to display their photo's and other media items.

If Media Gallery does not suit your needs, I recommend you look at the Inmemoriam Media Gallery also available for download in the Geeklog Download Section. Each plugin has it's own set of unique features and functions. Now there are simply more options for an true native plugin.

Hello all!

I've released a new version of GUS. I highly recommend that everyone upgrade to this version because it contains a security fix. Before you start freaking out, the problem does not allow any kind of compromise of the system - it only allows non-authorised users to view some of the GUS pages.

In this release:

v1.5.0 [13 Oct 2005]

• [security fix] fixed a problem which might allow non-authorised users to view some stats pages
• [fix] if you had a file outside the document root which included lib-common.php, the path would not be correct when the stats were entered in the database [introduced in 1.4]
• [fix] if your $CONF['site_url'] was 'http://foo.com' and someone arrived via 'http://www.foo.com', then 'foo.com' would show up as a referrer in the Who's Online block
• [fix] sorting columns on today's stats was broken
• [new] added new config option $_GUS_CONF['allow_ignore_anonymous'] to optimise a bit if you do not need the ability to ignore the user 'Anonymous'
• [new] added filtering by referrer
• [new] added some more navigation options to some pages

It is available through my geeklog software page.

- Andy Maloney