Bridging CPG 1.6.03 with SMF - not working

[PZsHosting]

Has anyone been able to get Coppermine Gallery 1.6.03 to bridge with SMF 2.0.14?

If so, any helpful hints or tips would be appreciated

[lurkalot]

Just tested it on a local install, fresh copy of SMF 2.0.14 and Coppermine 1.6.03 Bridge seems to be working ok on there. 

In SMF you need to go Admin > Configuration > Server Settings > Cookies and Sessions.

Untick the  "Enable local storage of cookies", and "Use subdomain independent cookies" (turn off local cookies first!)

Click save, and then test to if it works.

[PZsHosting]

Nope

Maybe I should mention that the server was recently upgraded to use PHP 7. It's smokin' fast! But I haven't upgraded the old Gallery, I tried it first with a fresh install of a new Gallery and every time I try the bridge, I get this error:

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Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function query() on null in /home/removed/public_html/gallery/bridge/udb_base.inc.php:60 Stack trace: #0 /home/removed/public_html/gallery/bridge/udb_base.inc.php(33): core_udb->query('SELECT NULL FRO...') #1 /home/removed/public_html/gallery/bridge/smf20.inc.php(112): core_udb->connect() #2 /home/removed/public_html/gallery/bridge/smf20.inc.php(287): cpg_udb->__construct() #3 /home/removed/public_html/gallery/bridgemgr.php(592): include('/home/removed/pu...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/removed/public_html/gallery/bridge/udb_base.inc.php on line 60

Which really doesn't say anything that I would understand, other than it doesn't work :-\

[ron4mac]

Did you resolve this?

It's generally best if the server and database name are the same between CPG and SMF. If that is not practical, try making this change:

Add one line after line 30 in bridge/udb_base.inc.php

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    global $CONFIG, $CPGDB;
    $this->dbObj = $CPGDB;   // <- add this line


Please let us know if (and how) it gets resolved.

[PZsHosting]

Wow ron4mac,

That did work! That one little line. I'm surprised no one else has come across this problem.

Thank you!

[ron4mac]

Thanks for your feedback. I'll apply an appropriate change for the CPG distribution.

[PZsHosting]

I got brave and upgraded my old Gallery so that I wouldn't have to create all those user galleries again. I had to apply your fix, but it worked! I also had to turn off a couple of plugins. I used that xfeed plugin to put the latest thumbnails from the Gallery on my SMF forum. That definitely doesn't work any more. Going to miss that

[ron4mac]

I used that xfeed plugin to put the latest thumbnails from the Gallery on my SMF forum. That definitely doesn't work any more. Going to miss that

If a plugin is no longer being developed/supported by its author and is not compatible with CPG 1.6, point me to a version that you have been running and I'll consider modifying it to make it compatible (no guarantees).

[PZsHosting]

That would be most generous!

Until cpg1.6 I was using cpg1.5.x_plugin_xfeed_v1.11

Basically I used the feed to put a block on the left side of my forum where I use EzPortal. It worked great until cpg1.6 or PHP 7.1

The code used to generate that block was:

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http://www.somewhere.com/Gallery/index.php?file=xfeed/xfeed&cat=10003&type=atom

It just put a couple thumbnails of an album from a particular member's most recent photos. He recently retired as a teacher in Bremen-haven, Germany and I hate to take away something from his routine. He's been doing this for years.

[lurkalot]

Wow ron4mac,

That did work! That one little line. I'm surprised no one else has come across this problem.

Thank you!

Nice one.  I confess I did forget about the database stuff, I have my coppermine and smf all in one database as per the recommendations, hence why it worked as expected.  Nice to know it'll work either way though.

[PZsHosting]

Oooo... lurkalot, I see that you are an SMF Arcade Support member? A bit off topic but are you running SMF Arcade on a server with PHP 7 yet? That's something else that stopped working for me

I think I would have probably put my Copermine data base in with my SMF data base, but it was so many years ago I forget now what was going on. I got everybody to re-register from the old YaBB to SMF in early 2006. And I don't think Coppermine bridged to YaBB, I don't remember. Some how it just came out that I did it that way and when it worked, I didn't mess with it.

[ron4mac]

That would be most generous!

Find it in the CPG 1.6.x plugins.

[PZsHosting]

Find it in the CPG 1.6.x plugins.

I checked in the plugins for 1.6x and don't see it. Attached is a screen shot...

Did I just get there before it was uploaded?

[PZsHosting]

Oops! I thought you meant at sourceforge. I found it. Testing now....

[PZsHosting]

And it works!

Thanks again!

[lurkalot]

Oooo... lurkalot, I see that you are an SMF Arcade Support member? A bit off topic but are you running SMF Arcade on a server with PHP 7 yet? That's something else that stopped working for me

I think I would have probably put my Copermine data base in with my SMF data base, but it was so many years ago I forget now what was going on. I got everybody to re-register from the old YaBB to SMF in early 2006. And I don't think Coppermine bridged to YaBB, I don't remember. Some how it just came out that I did it that way and when it worked, I didn't mess with it.

I was on the support team for SMF Arcade a while back when it had its own support site, but have been busy with Tinyportal for the last couple of years since taking over the project.  I must change that reference on my profile, thanks for the reminder.

[PZsHosting]

I used TinyPortal for years. I thought that when the original developer from Norway, I think, moved on it was going to fade away. Does it work with SMF 2.0.14 and PHP 7? If I remember correctly, I preferred the way it handled RSS feed Blocks etc..

SMF Arcade will be missed

[lurkalot]

I used TinyPortal for years. I thought that when the original developer from Norway, I think, moved on it was going to fade away. Does it work with SMF 2.0.14 and PHP 7? If I remember correctly, I preferred the way it handled RSS feed Blocks etc..

SMF Arcade will be missed

I'll pm you with info if that's ok, we're already going of topic. I'm just in the middle of moving hosting for all my sites. and I'll get back to you via PM here.

[PZsHosting]

I got the PM. Tried to reply to it. There must be some limit here on PMs that I don't qualify for or I'm missing something :-\

But thanks!

[petergariepy]

SMF version 2.0.13
Coppermine 1.5.46 (stable)

If i turn on bridge i have no success. If i try to login to CM it takes me to SMF, but Im still not logged into GM.

www.65gs.com
www.65gs.com/board
www.65gs.com/photogallery

Any help is appreciated!

Peter

(FYI:  I cant seem to start a new post here, only respond to existing)