General Support: my gallery is in an other folder what plogger's folder

Hi,
In first, sorry for my bad english, i'm french, i hope what you'll understand me.

I wish to use this script for a trilingual site. I installed Plogger
with the root of the site and I want to integrate it in 3 different
pages (for each language). But these pages are in various files... I
obtain http://www.jenyfer-online.com/vf/galerietest.php
The ways are not good any more, how then I to make?

I visited the forum but I did not find discussion on this subject, if
there is of them already one, thank you to indicate it to me and my
excuses to have start a new discussion unnecessarily
thank you for your help

Titi

no other solution? Thanks Ernie

Interesting idea ... Because if you can have three separate installations calling the same database, by the same token you should be able to have three different themes/skins going on.

Hmmm. Well that's tomorrow evening taken care of ! ;-)

I wonder if anyone can help me here, please?

I've now got two Plogger installations on the one website, both pointing to the same database. The second installation is retrieving information from the original database perfectly, but I'm wondering if there's any way to make the second installation call the actual .jpg images from the first installation's directory on the server? Just so I don't have to keep duplicates of all my images.

I'm taking a wild guess here that I need to modify the following lines in gallery.php:
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$output .= '
<div id="picture-holder">
<a accesskey="v" href="'.$config["baseurl"].'images/'.$row["path"].'">'.$imgtag.'</a>
</div>'
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... and change the "baseurl" bit so it points to an absolute path, the path to the directory the images are held in, in my original Plogger installation. I can't just put in "images/secondPloggerInstallation/" because the images are actually held in a level UP, not down.

I don't have much of a clue about PHP, virtually none really, so I don't know if this is possible.

Any advice would be hugely appreciated because I'm way out of my depth here!

Kind regards,
Croila

My suggestion is to use mod_rewrite, and when something requests /images/eng/ it is redirected (transparently) to /eng. If you can't do that (not running Apache or it won't work), then I would suggest dynamically editing the baseurl, but try the above first. It should be simple and exactly what you need.

Check:
http://www.mod-rewrite.com/
http://www.modrewrite.com/
for resources.

Regards,
Derek

Thank you Derek. I really appreciate your advice. I'll look into it right away.. =)

mod_rewrite is an Apache module (if you give me a link to your server, I can tell you if they run Apache) that parses HTTP requests before they're interpreted by the HTTP server. So mod_rewrite can grab "/eng/images" and change it instead to "/images" before the information is retrieved. However, as far as the user agent (browser) is concerned, it is looking at "/eng/images". This means you can basically point to one directory from inside another.

This is usually done inside .htaccess files. Open the .htaccess file in your main Plogger directory (it creates one already; this is what Plogger uses for cruft-free URLs).

RewriteRule ^eng/images(.*) /images$1

This will redirect "eng/images" to the higher "/images" directory.

There is one caveat I hadn't considered; if you tried uploading images from the changed Plogger install, it might get angry that it can't actually put files in its own images directory. You would have to change plog-upload.php to have it figure that one out.

Also, Mike knows his regular expressions and mod_rewrite better than I do, so if you could get a definitive statement from him, that would likely help too. But I do think the above should work, if your directories are set up like I envision they are.

Regards,
Derek