Photopost vbGallery to Photopost Pro Import Script - Page 5

Pretty Scrappy · February 19th, 2009, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Member Galleries - Our Gallery

They are all there!!

Ok I see that now I did run that members lastphoto field and they showed up with the exception of 1 but she didn't have any photo in there anyways. I wanted to thank you for your help, and ask if there is an easy way to dump vgallery from vb3, and change the links to go to PP?

Chuck S · February 19th, 2009, 09:34 PM

any links you have hard coded in you would have to update yourself but as far as vbgallery just run the vbgallery install script from the vbulletin admin panel and select uninstall.

You can then delete the vbgallery directory after that.

Pretty Scrappy · February 19th, 2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

any links you have hard coded in you would have to update yourself but as far as vbgallery just run the vbgallery install script from the vbulletin admin panel and select uninstall.

You can then delete the vbgallery directory after that.

Ok I got it all with the exception of the link from the forum to the gallery. I liked how vbgallery had the link just below the header. Where can I find instructions on how to do this, or is it because I don't have it intgat. right?

Chuck S · February 20th, 2009, 10:17 AM

what do you mean by this? You can edit your vbulletin navbar template and place a link in that vb template. vb should have tutorials on how to edit their templates.

djrichards · June 25th, 2009, 12:11 AM

Does this script give the option to append vB Gallery images to an existing PP installation or does it simply replace the existing PP tables & data with those from vB Gallery.

Specifically, I am wanting to merge a medium sized vBgallery installation into a much larger PP gallery so I can clear out the vB Gallery, then import the PP images back into it.

The PP import doesn't seem to want to work with a non-empty vB Gallery.

Chuck S · June 25th, 2009, 08:17 AM

All scripts are designed to be done on clean installs of the galleries. You can not insert entries with the same ids to tables where ids like that already exist so it will not work.

xtumen · September 6th, 2009, 03:59 PM

I have done the import, no error. The counts in PP show the right numbers of everything. Categories and albums are seen in admin panel where they are supposed to be.

The problem is in showing member galleries, maybe I missed a switch in PP:

Nothing here (showmembers.php): Àíþòà (Àíÿ) - My Photo Gallery
(it goes Home - Name of the forum/gallery - Name of the standard Members' Gallery's - Name of the first user by alphabet)

You can only get into a user's album through the admin panel:
Ôîòîñåò 02.09.2009 - My Photo Gallery
(it goes Home - Member - Empty space for the member's name - Name of the album)

I have done all options except the watermarks in PP DB management

UPDATE:
Before importing I deleted all categories and photos from PP (there were some of them) via PHPMyAdmin, simply cleaned the tables pp_photoes and pp_categories. Matbe that is the wrong way?

Chuck S · September 6th, 2009, 07:32 PM

Main Index - My Photo Gallery

I dont see where your electing to show the members gallery category 500

anyway you can rebuild the users last photo under scan database in admin and it should show members then in the members gallery.

xtumen · September 7th, 2009, 03:24 PM

The vBGallery has many albums, one of them has id 500 - the script says:

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INSERT INTO pp_categories (`id`, `catname`, `description`, `catorder`, `thumbs`, `parent`, `lastpost`, `lastphoto`, `photos`, `posts`, `password`, `cattype`) VALUES (500, 'Анюта (Аня)', '', '', 'yes', '3', '343', '4830', '7', '4', '', 'a')
Duplicate entry '500' for key 1

And stops. If I delete category 500 in Pro, I get a messed up Members' Galleries link afterwards - it is still 500 but now it somehow also points to the album 500. How do I do the import correctly in this case?

Chuck S · September 7th, 2009, 05:19 PM

Well you can delete the contents of the categories table through your database viewer in your hosting control panel and do the import.

You might need to do some reorganizing of categories or photos afterward because photopost is hard coded that category 500 is members gallery

xtumen · September 7th, 2009, 05:19 PM

Solved: moved photos from vBGallery album 500 to a new one, deleted the 500 one before import.

Chuck S · September 7th, 2009, 05:22 PM

Yes much the same as I was saying except you could have done the same thing after import also except rename category 500 to members gallery after moving photos to a new cat.

gustotelmy · October 4th, 2009, 06:35 PM

im looking for the vBulletin Albums to PRO importer... can anyone point me where it is?
thanks

Chuck S · October 4th, 2009, 06:39 PM

BETA: vBulletin Albums -> PRO Importer

right in this forum

gustotelmy · October 4th, 2009, 06:41 PM

for some reason when i go to that forum that thread is not visible for me but the link is
edit: ok now visible when show threads from the beginning.

Chuck S · October 4th, 2009, 07:23 PM

http://www.photopost.com/forum/1253395-post137.html

dirkerasmus · October 6th, 2009, 04:15 PM

Is this importer destructive to the target database? So if I have a vbGallery and photopost pro installation, both with images, can I use this importer to import the vbgallery images to photopost without loosing anything in photopost?

Chuck S · October 6th, 2009, 04:23 PM

You can not use the importer to import into an already started database. This importer assumes a clean Photopost install. You can not import rows of data that would already exist on a non new install.

cory_booth · November 14th, 2009, 11:27 AM

Gonna give this a whirl...

Does this script "move" the pictures or simply create a link to the original VBGallery file?

Reason I'm asking is because I will be deleting the vbGallery directory and obviously wouldn't want to loose the pictures by doing so.

Chuck S · November 14th, 2009, 11:28 AM

It copies all content into photopost.