ZOOM to Phoca II ?

[ep98]

Wondering is it planned a Import script from unsupported galleries like ZOOM/ICE, Datso, Pony, slowly developed (almost with state frozen) RSGallery, buggy and ugly like Morpheo show ?

Or to make Phoca Gallery II number 1 option for Gallery for Joomla 1.5, should be good if support import/conversion from everything Native/Legacy to Phoca II

[Jan]

Hi, no planned yet, Phoca Gallery has utils to add images into the system very fast, just save your images on your PC, create folder tree and move it to the server, the go to Multiple Add and Phoca Gallery will automatically make categories and subcategories from folders (subfolders) and will create thumbnails at once...

I don't know the previous galleries, so it is not possible for me to do some transformation scripts ...

Jan

[ep98]

But for some advanced users here will be possible, such Import scripts will prevent people from picking anything else. Your way is good, when there is no tons of description which each photo. Datso for example gives users ability to type unlimited number of lines as content in the description box. Also several stupid and abandoned galleries already, convert images during the upload and the 'picture_of_my_new_car.jpg' becomes _abc234.jpg, and who will know what the hell is what .
Also yesterday I've noticed bug which is present from 1.3.0 when I've start translating Phoca Gallery and it's extensions, the upgrade script is not working on MySQL 5.0.x the full bug and debug info will be posted in another topic.

[Jan]

ok

[Gruz]

Zoom Media Gallery to Phoca gallery converter

I have:
Zoom Media Gallery ver 2.5 beta3
Phoca gallery 2.1.0 RC

What this converter does not do:

- convert images' statistics (Because in ZMG each image has statistics, but in Phoca Gallery the statistics concerns only Categories)
- convert image comments (because of the same reason, as statistics)
- user permissions and so on

What this converter does:

- converts category structure, images and descriptions

To convert ZMG to Phoca Gallery you need to pass several steps.

Let's imagine you have 2 sites - 1.0.x with ZMG (http://www.old.com) and 1.5 with Phoca Gallery fresh install (no categories and images) (http://www.new.com)

0.
Backup everything. Twice.
Better make all tries at a local copy of your web-site.

1.
Copy all image directories from old site (the directories have names like BXNTIO, NXTSWM, YRSTWK)
www.old.com/images/zoom/
to
www.new.com/images/phocagallery/

2.
OPTIONAL
Open every directory in www.new.com/images/phocagallery/
(something like www.new.com/images/phocagallery/YRSTWK)
and manually delete there 2 Zoom Gallery directories with all files in them (you don't need them anymore)
www.new.com/images/phocagallery/YRSTWK/thumbs
www.new.com/images/phocagallery/YRSTWK/viewsize

3.
Extract the attached script to a directory at you old website (e.g. www.new.com/converter/index.php)
Edit the script to enter correct database connect options (at the top of the file )

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   $dbname_old="plast";
   $dbuser_old="root";
   $pwd_old="12345";
   $table_prefix_old="jos_";
   $table_prefix_new="jos_";

Run link http://www.new.com/converter/index.php in you browser and copy the content of textarea. It's the needed SQL-script.

4.
Open new web-site's database in PhpMyAdmin or any other MySQL editor and execute the SQL-script.

5.
Open www.new.com's backend administration and enter
Components - Phoca Gallery - Images

This will start thumbnail creation for all the added images. Wait and after the process ends, it's DONE

NOTE: If it doesn't start thumbnail creation, go to, Components - Phoca Gallery - Images and open Settings button at the right-top of the window. In the newly opened modal window choose Thumbnail creation settigns and enable them. Then go to Components - Phoca Gallery - Images once more to start thumbnal creation.

That's all.

If have any questions ir troubles, ask me. Always glad to help.
My ICQ 21971586

P.S. I think it's possible to write a conveter component for joomla 1.0.x to make a migration SQL-script and a component for joomla 1.5 to import the migration SQL-script (I have not done it only because I needed to convert only one gallery).
I'm not sure how to copy the images other than manually.

[ep98]

Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try next weekend and will report any issues

[ostry]

Hello,
first of all thank you for the great gallery that I started using on my website.

I just finished changing over from Zoom to the latest Phoca so I'd like to share my way of doing this transition:
When I had to convert from Zoom Media Gallery I decided to use the above script. The only thing that suprised me a little was the fact that the script did not run with current version of Phoca. I noticed that SQL table structure has changed since Phoca ver. 2.1.0 were in use. To resolve this issue I have installed ver. 2.1.0 which is available for download over here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/phocag ... ge_id=3942
Then I ran the script and successfully transferred all the data. Next step was just an upgrade to the latest version and here we go - everything works perfect
When I entered gallery for the first time it has re-created all thumbnails (this takes a good while depending on amount of pictures in gallery so have to be patient).

One thing you need to be aware - make sure you did not used any single apostrophes ( ' ) in the picture/category descriptions that you wish to import. I had few and SQL was giving errors so I simply deleted them and re-entered into the database directly. You can also replace them with two single apostrophes - should work ok ( '' )

THANKS AGAIN!

[sneakyX]

Hey,
I just wanted to thank You for the migration-script from zoom-phoca-gallery.
I just had one problem. The categories were migrated, but not the pictures.

I thought that it might be a problem with my provider. It seems that the script thinks the pictures are not there (maybe there are wrong directory permissions) .
I changed line 81 in Your script to

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if (file_exists($file)) $flag="OK"; else $flag="OK";

and everythink worked.
Thanks again for Your script and for the tipp with installing the old version

Yours

sneakyX

[Gruz]

Hi. Does anybody have the converter? It's gone from the forum because of the migration. I have no the file at my comp. Maybe someone else has?