Private album "cover" thumbnail visible to quests?

[FinnMin]

I'm setting up a digital comic book gallery for members only; each album contains the pages of one comic book and the "album thumbnail" for each album is the comic book's cover pic. I set up the desired cover thumbnail in "Modify Album".

I would like unregistered visitors to be able to see what albums I have available for members (to lure them in), just the pretty "cover thumbnail" of each album and not the thumbnail indexes!

I tried this: I enabled "Show private album Icon to unlogged user" on admin panel.

Result: member albums are visible to guests, but the album thumbnail is a generic "thumb_private.jpg" for every album and not the unique cover thumbnail.

Is there a way to show the real album thumbnail instead of thumb_private.jpg to guests without letting them see any other private content?

[Joachim Müller]

FAQ: How can I let unregistered users see the thumbnails only, but not the actual pictures?

[Aditya Mooley]

I think he don't even want to show thumbnails. Just want to display the album thumbnail to unregistered users.

To do that -
open index.php file in your favorite editor. Go to line 500 and comment it.

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//if (!in_array($aid,$FORBIDDEN_SET_DATA) || $CONFIG['allow_private_albums'] == 0) {


And now comment the lines from 523-527

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/*} elseif ($CONFIG['show_private']) {
            // $image_size = compute_img_size(100, 75, $CONFIG['alb_list_thumb_size']);
            $cpg_privatepic_data = cpg_get_system_thumb('private.jpg', $alb_thumb['category']);
            $alb_list[$alb_idx]['thumb_pic'] = '<img src="' . $cpg_privatepic_data['thumb'] . '" ' . $cpg_privatepic_data['whole'] . ' class="image" border="0" alt="" />';
        }*/


That's it. Don't forget to take a backup first.

[phyllismc]

I think he don't even want to show thumbnails. Just want to display the album thumbnail to unregistered users

Aditya, I also am looking to do this exact thing.  But when I tried, I keep getting errors.  I tried placing your code at the beginning of line 500, and the second bit at the beginning of line 523 of the index.php file.  But I think I must be placing it wrong, or doing something else incorrectly.

Can you show exactly what I should be placing the above code in front of?  I'd be very grateful.   
Thanks. 

[Aditya Mooley]

You don't have to place the code anywhere. Just comment out the code on those line numbers and it should work.

[phyllismc]

You don't have to place the code anywhere. Just comment out the code on those line numbers and it should work.

LOL That explains my problem.  I don't know what it means to "comment out the code".   How do I do it?
I'm sorry for being so thick.  LOL

[Joachim Müller]

Changing

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} elseif ($CONFIG['show_private']) {
            // $image_size = compute_img_size(100, 75, $CONFIG['alb_list_thumb_size']);
            $cpg_privatepic_data = cpg_get_system_thumb('private.jpg', $alb_thumb['category']);
            $alb_list[$alb_idx]['thumb_pic'] = '<img src="' . $cpg_privatepic_data['thumb'] . '" ' . $cpg_privatepic_data['whole'] . ' class="image" border="0" alt="" />';
        }to

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/*} elseif ($CONFIG['show_private']) {
            // $image_size = compute_img_size(100, 75, $CONFIG['alb_list_thumb_size']);
            $cpg_privatepic_data = cpg_get_system_thumb('private.jpg', $alb_thumb['category']);
            $alb_list[$alb_idx]['thumb_pic'] = '<img src="' . $cpg_privatepic_data['thumb'] . '" ' . $cpg_privatepic_data['whole'] . ' class="image" border="0" alt="" />';
        }*/means commenting out. Just follow the instructions.

[phyllismc]

Thank you, Gau Gau.  I understand now.

Basically, commenting out is just adding /* and */ before and after the mentioned code, right? 

To edit, I had pasted the index.php code into my word processing program and added line numbering.  Lines 500 and   523 weren't the same as above.  Probably because I used a word processor to edit.  But I found the right lines. 

Thanks very much for both your help.   

[Joachim Müller]

Never use a word processor to edit code, as it tends to "auto-correct" stuff that it isn't supposed to. Use plain-text editors instead - notepad.exe is fine.

[tycoonrp]

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} elseif ($CONFIG['show_private']) {
            // $image_size = compute_img_size(100, 75, $CONFIG['alb_list_thumb_size']);
            $cpg_privatepic_data = cpg_get_system_thumb('private.jpg', $alb_thumb['category']);
            $alb_list[$alb_idx]['thumb_pic'] = '<img src="' . $cpg_privatepic_data['thumb'] . '" ' . $cpg_privatepic_data['whole'] . ' class="image" border="0" alt="" />';
        }to

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/*} elseif ($CONFIG['show_private']) {
            // $image_size = compute_img_size(100, 75, $CONFIG['alb_list_thumb_size']);
            $cpg_privatepic_data = cpg_get_system_thumb('private.jpg', $alb_thumb['category']);
            $alb_list[$alb_idx]['thumb_pic'] = '<img src="' . $cpg_privatepic_data['thumb'] . '" ' . $cpg_privatepic_data['whole'] . ' class="image" border="0" alt="" />';
        }*/means commenting out. Just follow the instructions.

I have cpg1.5.x.  I followed your instruction and still see the padlock image.  Please advise.  THank you.

[tycoonrp]

Please disregard my last post.  The padlock still shows on my homepage.  However, when I go to the album's category, the thumbnail displays.  I guess that how it supposed to work.  Thanks.