Mambo 4.5.1 / 4.6 Integration

[mmx]

I have Coppermine running under Mambo 4.5.1 and Mambo 4.6 and now need to handle user authentication. Are there any docs on writing bridge files or do we need to reverse engineer one based on the existing files.

[Tarique Sani]

There is a bridge file for Mambo - see in Mod/Hacks board

[mmx]

Thanks!

[mmx]

I couldn't find it. I did a search for all messages with the keyword 'mambo' and checked through most of the messages in the Add Mods forum. I'll just have to build one from scratch or integrate users, cookies, session, etc. directly. I do appreciate the earlier help. Thanks again.

[Tarique Sani]

Strange - we will have to wait for Omni to answer that, I do see the file in CVS though I have attached a copy, probably you will have use the latest CVS checkout as well....

Lastly - CVS checkout install are not supported - implying if things go wrong we wont fix it BUT if you tell us the fix we will gladly incorporate it

[mmx]

Thanks... I have the file. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

[omniscientdeveloper]

Strange - we will have to wait for Omni to answer that, I do see the file in CVS though I have attached a copy, probably you will have use the latest CVS checkout as well....

Lastly - CVS checkout install are not supported - implying if things go wrong we wont fix it BUT if you tell us the fix we will gladly incorporate it

Indeed. I'm testing the file on my site, and so far, I haven't had any problems reported. If you find anything, you can let us know. Also note that I'm not the orginal author of the Mambo bridge file. I orginally had mine setup with the bridge file and the wrapper component for mambo, but I changed it so Coppermine opens in its own window instead.


-omni

[mmx]

Omni... if your interested in doing some alpha testing, leave a pm for me or send email from forum.mambserver.com. I use the mmx handle there and mediamechanix on SF.

I'll try to take it the rest of the way and pass it back to the author at the Coppermine project on mamboForge.net for maintenance. He can maintain it there and pass copies back to the SF project. I can get it to the point where is installs and unistalls using the Mambo 4.5.x installer. A couple of the normal install options and some permission setting needs to be handled after the main install using install.coppermine.php. The Coppermine template will be like a block inserted into the Mambo template within mainbody.php, so Mambo XHTML-CSS would apply. I may need to beg a favor from Andrew to make this work.

It would make sense to place uploads under /media/ in Mambo because in 4.6/5.0 MediaManager could access those files for insertion into centralized Mambo content via plugins. Anyway, it appears that Coppermine can handle <objects> like videos which works well with future versions of MediaManager. What do you think?

The 4.6/5.0 versions may not need the bridge file because Mambo should have support for handling integration more elegantly. For 4.6, we may need to find some volunteers to convert the existing Coppermine language files to 4.6 style classes (simple to do--two cuts & pastes and three global replaces per file). I will do the the English and Portuguese files as samples.

Does anyone know if a TYPO3 3.6 or xarAPI 0.9.9/1.0 version is in the works?

[Joachim Müller]

A Coppermine version for Typo3 has been requested/discussed before, but afaik nobody has started coding on this yet. Although I use Typo3 quite a lot I must admit that my skills in Typo3 won't be enough to port it, so basically I'm waiting for a Typo3 guru to turn up and start the port  .

GauGau

[big nose]

Hi all

Ive been using mambo and coppermine for the past few years on a couple of sites so the thought of integrating the two togther is great....

Can someone draft some simple instructions on how to do this, Im used to installing compontents and mods to both apps but would appriciate a little guidence to integrate the two..

regards

martin

[Casper]

Get the file attached to Tariques psot above, rename it to mambo.inc.php, edit lines 24 - 33, and put it in your bridge folder.

Open your include/init.inc.php, and add this line, around line 34;

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define('UDB_INTEGRATION', 'mambo');

As this is development code, that's as much support as we can give on this.  If you have a problem with it, you will have to sort it.

[Navztar]

Hi,

I had tried out the bridge but wasn't able to get it working. I had field in the values of my mambo database and all was set out as mentioned above but I cannot seem to get it working . I tried logging in with the username and password of my mambo installation but it did not recognise it.FYI, I have the protect from visitors capability set whereby when someone accesses my gallery he has to register first or log in to view the images. Should I disable this or will it work with it enabled. Can someone help?

thanks in adv.

[zaxpaw]

OK I got coppermine integrated in mambo using the bridge file and wrapper in Mambo as long as  I check the "remember me" option on the mambo login. Is there a way around this so that coppermine will recognize the logged in user from mambo even if they do not select the "remember me" option?

[Joachim Müller]

As this is development code, that's as much support as we can give on this.  If you have a problem with it, you will have to sort it.

This should answer your question: there is no support for development code here.

Joachim

[Akari]

Does anyone know if a TYPO3 3.6 or xarAPI 0.9.9/1.0 version is in the works?

I was looking for a project to port myself, (already tried Gallery but their concept is miles away from the whole concept of TYPO3) does Coppermine keeps userdata in a table which is used in SQL queries or do you use a class interface to fetch these?

~Akari