gallery

[dshatha]

....does anyone know of or have installed a gallery with tinyportal successsfully? Let me further explain...something EASY to install. I have searched for a portal forum/gallery tight integration however I have found none that are ready for primetime...too much work on the frame instead of just user customization.
http://www.photozo.com is a beautiful example however there is nothing that I know of off the shelf that produces a beautiful tight portal.
Am I the only one out here feeling this way? Can anyone point me to a working solution?
Sorry didnt want to come across as a rant...sigh...just frustrating all the hacked  energy going on with integrating a gallery with forum for a multi user portal.

dshatha

[G6Cad]

You are not alone with the feeling of and easy way to setup a gallery with in TP.
A gallery module is in progress for TP but not done until 1.0 release, so it is quite some time left before a release on that.
For now you can use some other gallerys that blend in after some work as you say.
Coppermine have a bridge for SMF so it uses the same users and membergroups as the SMF and TP, then you have a gallery mod on SMF that blend it pretty good to, i havent used or tried that one out my self, but i have seen some that have done it and it looks good.
I prefer coppermine in my setup, and then show it in a iframe in article, that way it look and feel like it's a part of SMF and TP.
You can look at it on my site.

But a simple gallery that look like from your link will not be good before the 1.0 release of TP.

[stormlrd]

There are a cpl options you can do temparairly, but try not to muck with the database to much until 1.0v comes out with hopefully a gallery module. Ive got one that uses my forums database but I kinda wish i had waited because its iframed into the forum and like you and everyone else I want one totally integrated.

I had thought about doing a integrated one but bloc already plans on it so why duplicate his efforts especially when he knows his way around smf better than most of us

[Techdomain]

I use smfg which partially integrates (it uses parts of the css and index.template.php to generate, and uses the same database, so members etc all are the same): http://www.techdomain.com.au/gallery/

the link to their site is http://tpvgames.co.uk/web/smfg/

its nowhere near as good as a built in one will be though

[IchBin]

OldiesMann from SMF is in the process of integrating Gallery2 with SMF. Here's a link to his beta site if you want to sign up.

http://smf.oldiesmann.us/galleryproject/index.php

[dshatha]

I signed up to his site and notice that he released I think Beta 2 however no idea how to attain that download.

dshatha

[IchBin]

I think you have to request to be added to his beta testing group.