Tweaking photo albums

[pindakoe]

I have recently started to use the photo album stuff. It is functional but pretty Spartan. My main wishes would be to have a bigger preview of the photo (I have a 1680x1050 monitor; having a preview of 600 x 450 pix leaves a lot of white space) and ability to customise the album further (use black background instead of white maybe, play with fonts etc). I cannot find ways in the web-interface to go beyond creating/deleting and managing access to albums. Some investigation shows that one can tweak some bits by modifying the source (/usr/share/album), but w/o knowledge of PHP this is cumbersome. I have been able to modify the album's looks a bit by modifying the style sheet for the web pages (
/usr/share/album/views/_css/album.css), but it is slow going to first understand how a particular layout is generated from PHP and then look up the right class in the CSS.

Is there any documentation on how the album software works?
Any ways to modify the standard configuration other than modifying the various PHP scripts?

[eds_oyo]

I find the photo album part way to basic and "home-made" too.

I am looking at replacing the whole album site with another php album. There are several different php album softwares available, just google "php album" and find one you like.

The php files for the original bubba-album is found in: "/usr/share/album" (Defined in /etc/apache2/conf.d/album.conf).

I will post back when I have tried to replace the album with a third party one.

[redw0001]

Hi,

Did anyone find a better photo album. I'm trying to share photos with some friends and my family, so some shared items some private. The split is by directory so not at an individual level but even so with the current photo album this is tedious. I'm also keen to allow the friends to add new photos (we share a common interest) via some route.

Interested to see if you came up with a better alternative.

robin

[Ubi]

I installed gallery2, which does all of these things. It's a little heavy on the cpu, but I managed to run it on a B1, so a B3 should not have issues with it.

[kjellberg]

Was just about to recommend Gallery 3

[redw0001]

Should have said .. I'm on a Bubba2. Was looking at phpalbum, but will have a look at Gallery3.

<update> decided to go with Gallery3, however, could someone explain where I should install it? The Gallery3 site says "Extract the archive and upload all files and folders to your web server (usually via FTP)." I'm keen to put it in a place that would not get messed up if I do an upgrade but doesn't impact its operation (gallery3)

thank you, robin

[kjellberg]

Since I have a B3 I can't tell if the structure is the same on a B2, but on a B3 I would recommend you to put it in /home/web/gallery/

[C.Igar]

Yep, on bubba2 install it under /home/web and choose any dir you like that's not in use (admin, album etc. are already in use). In fact, you can install it multiple times and use seperate mysql databases. That way you can create different trees (eg public and private), very handy!

[redw0001]

Hmm ... move to Gallery3 went pretty bad so far. Did install and all seemed ok. I think I followed correctly. Added my first album, added some photos and started getting error messages 'server error:Error #2038 (IO)'.
I found comments to change a setting in advanced settings from 5 to 1 (to do with parallel transfers).

Re-tried adding the photos, got same errors and Bubba looks like it is looping. Got wrong for sinking the Squeeezeserver ... and killing wifes music and cant get file sharing or mail access. The Bubba sounds like it is going ballistic on I/O to the disk and has been for 20 mins.

Anybody seen any of these symptoms?
robin

[C.Igar]

Hi Robin,

I've added over 3500 photo's today without any problems. I'm still using 5 streams to upload photo's. Are you sure your disk isn't dying on you?

Can you check out /var/log/messages and/or /var/log/kern.log for errors?

[redw0001]

Put a hold on my statements. I (embarrassingly) think I found the problem. What was the old rule about not making two changes at the same time? Sorry, looks like my enablement of syslog analysing of my router using my HA software has gone wrong and it is not Gallery3. Not quite sure how it impacts the 2038 errors but can understand the poor response times. robin

[pcrene]

Hello

I have Gallery3 running for a while.....no problems so far. Used all the defaults and
made one change.... the albums are not public.

The B3 handles the Gallery3 much better than the B2.

Rene

[redw0001]

Hmm, interesting problem, I'm clearly doing something wrong.

When I add photos to an album I get a successful message for some and a failure message for others. The failure message is the "#2038 (IO)" error. I've changed the settings to 1 from 5 as recommended on the Gallery site but it still happens .... and more puzzling .... it is the photos with the error messages that get loaded OK. The ones that report as OK do not appear!

robin