Mike, in this thread:

http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=26;t=000790

They talk about a file attachment to include a picture or zip in a topic/reply. I wonder if this could be done, only for an image. I think the album script has all the fundamentals to accomplish this. The upload, thumpnail and integration with the ubb.

A member could add an uploaded image in a topic/reply so that it appears not only in the album itself, bit also in the upper right part of the topic/reply field as a thumnail. This doesn't have to be a "click and enlarge" image. Maybe it could be done by a scriptline in the public_topic.pl. It would be very nice. <img src="wink.gif" border="0" alt="" />

how are we to see the examples when they are passworded?

Most of them are linked to forums. Just join the forums and see what you can see...

Version 5.0 has gone final!

Get it at http://perl.cdnarmy.ca/album

Changes from 5.0 Beta 3 are as follows:

• Added recent_template config item and album_recent.tml template in order to allow the recent uploads screen to be properly templated.
• Visual styles, including all templates and style sheet have been totally re-done.
• Common header is now used for the upload form.
• Javascript removed from upload form.
• Common look and feel used for all pages.
• photo.tml is gone! I've merged it with album.tml, which is now used for both photos and albums. You can still define seperate templates if you wish.
• Fixed a bug where a views.txt entry was created for some actions that shouldn't.
• German translations now included in album_strings_deu.txt. Provided by Wander (wander@habing.de)
• Fixed a bug with YaBB authentication.
• Updated the movie icon.
• Added rating_location config item, allowing you to show the rating form either on the photo viewing page, or under it's thumbnail, in the album.
• Setting thumb_width or thumb_height to zero will not constrain that dimension for thumbnails. Some browsers (mostly newer ones) will keep the aspect ratio of an image when only 1 dimension is specified.

For a list of all changes since 4.6 please see http://perl.cdnarmy.ca/album/!readme.html
If you want to see what the new style looks like in action, check out this Sample Gallery .

If you have any questions or problems, let me know.

Cheers!

Hi Mike,

photo_icon
movie_icon
album_icon

don't work correctly I think.

file_photo_icon
.
.

these ones work fine!

I my old cfg the paths for photo_icon ... worked correctly. I just copied the path into the new cfg!

Where could be the problem?

Bye
Dennis

Hmmm. I didn't touch that code (that I remember ).

On which screens are the icons broken? (in the Legend, or the page itself, etc...) Also, what are the actual links to the icon images? (Right click, properties to see what URL it's trying to load...)

Thanks!

i've tried to install version 5.. but i kept getting this problem

String table is not found! Cannot continue execution. album.pl/album_strings.txt: Not a directory

i've already upload english version in to the cgi-bin/album directory along with album.pl

can some one tells me what's wrong?

I fixed this issue with the stringtable late last night (I hope). Try re-downloading and use the new album.pl.

Cheers

nop..no such luck..sry still having the same problem

Ok, I definitely got it this time. Sorry about that folks. Re-download now, and replace your album.pl with the new version.

Cheers

it's working fine now thanx ^^

just onq small problem.... is the deleting function work? evrything seem to work ok... but when i tryed to delete pic.. i got to confirm delete file, press yes then i get this error

WARNING: /home/webserver/ubb/album/female/ayu.gif could not be deleted!

anyidea what's wrong?

Glad to hear it's fixed. The deleting problem may be caused by permissions. Does the web server have write access to the directory the pic is in? (Write access to the pic itself?)

CHMOD at 777 all the way in to the album folder (pic storage).. i used ftp to delete the old and upload a new one.... try delete the new one...but no luck.. i can edit the files just fine..but the deleting.. >_<

Sorry for taking so long to reply. I should have checked my notes earlier.

Your particular problem is that you're not authorized to delete the file! One of the following conditions has to be true:

• You have to be logged in as a user who is a "default_admin"
• You have to be the user who uploaded the file (and allow_delete=1)
• The "function=admin" code has to be active.

It appears that none of those are true in this case!

Hey Mike any chance of making this able to use MYSQL authentication like UBBthreads so it can use those existing members?

Hello again!

Version 5.1 is now out the door, downloadable at http://perl.cdnarmy.ca/album . New features in 5.1 are as follows:

• Added support for the Image Magick ( www.imagemagick.org ) suite of graphics tools. ``imagemagick'' config item points to imagemagick binary installation, and thumb_quality config item determines JPEG quality level. When integrated, thumbnails are generated automatically for images that don't have them. (This happens the first time the thumbnail is requested, and not found.) New thumbnails are currently emphasized with a 1 width border.
• Admin menu now shows up by default when you are logged in as an admin.
• Updated install package to have more intuitive directory structure.
• Upload error and success messages are now popup windows. (Thanks to Will (webmaster@cygnusprime.com) for the code for this feature!)
• Fixed a bug: rating_location was broken.
• The picture being rated is now displayed on the rating form. (Another feature from Will!)
• Fixed anonymous upload bug.

Yep, you read that right. Long awaited "automatic thumbnail generation" is here!
In the end, I decided to link it to Image Magick's "convert" binary, rather than using it's PERL library. I figure it's way easier for people to just grab the binary than it is for them to install the PERL lib.

Let me know if you find any problems.

Cheers

P.S. That's a neat idea Chuck. I'll add it to the list. I'm a MySQL newbie, so it'll take a fair amound of learning on my part...

I use-
http://www.menalto.com/projects/gallery/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index

demo here-
http://www.audi-sport.net/gallery/members

Yep, that's a good one. I've used it myself, pretty slick. But no UBB integration.

Mike I really like this Album.

I have two little problems that maybe you could help me with.

First. There seems to be some issue with the way imagemagic is being used to make the thumbnails.
I keep getting e-mails from people who says that the thumb nail pic is wrong. I delete the thumbnail and reload the page and the problem seems to be fixed. This sometimes happens if I delete all the thumbs in a dir and reload. I sometimes get the same thumb for all of the pics.

I am not sure if this is a imagemagic problem. I downloaded and compiled version 5.4.3-11
I am on a linux-mandrake 8.0

Second. I have been noticing that when people delete thier pics the thumbnails still remain. If the script that deletes the pics could also delete the thumbnails if they exist that could fix the first problem. (or at least be a work around)

Thanks again for a great product. (sorry for rambling)

Hi Thonolan,

I've noticed the "wrong thumbnail" problem on one of my albums too. But as far as I can tell, it looks like maybe a caching issue. (Try this: move or copy a "wrong" thumbnail to a new filename, and then access it through the web. For me, it showed the right thumbnail then, insinuating that somehow the "wrong" image was just a cached copy (or something).

As for the thumbnails not being deleted, that'd be a bug. It's supposed to delete them, so I'll have to check that one out.

Cheers