An update on this:
Ukastle now has an integrated Image Gallery which runs parallel to the phpbb forum software. To access the gallery, please use the link in the top right of the main content area of the forums (next to the links for FAQ and User Control Panel). Images uploaded to the gallery can easily be linked to and displayed in any posts made in the forums.
To do this you may either upload pictures into one of the existing photo albums or upload to your own personal album. to upload to your own album, you must first activate it in your User Control Panel. In the UCp there is a set of links in a box on the left, the last link is entitled GALLERY - and it is this that you click on...
Next there will be some new links below the word GALLERY:
* » Personal settings
* » Manage personal albums
* » Manage subscriptions
* » Manage favorites
- to create a personal album, you will click on the link MANAGE PERSONAL ALBUMS. Text will state that you do not have a personal album, and there will be a button to create one - click that and confirm (if asked) and then you will then have your personal photo album.
TO UPLOAD into the personal photo album:
go to the gallery at
gallery/ and take a look down to about 1/3 of the way down the page. After the album for Collections, The first few albums are the regional photo albums for pictures related to regional discussions - and these are then followed by the Photo of the Month photo albums. After this is a section called USERS PERSONAL ALBUMS, and if you have activated your album it will then read "your personal album: " followed by your username - and this is a clickable link.
Now, on the page of your personal photo album, there will be a button to UPLOAD IMAGE in roughly the same position on the page as the "new topic" / "post reply" buttons are in the forums.
UPLOADING
You can upload up to 10 images in Bulk, however the only restriction on Bulk Uploads is that they will share the same description and Image Name within the set. you can append the description of each image when typing out the description by including "Image {NUM} of 10" for example, and the {NUM} will be changed by the software to give the number of the image within the bulk uploaded set. If you wish to add further descriptions to individual images within a bulk uploaded set, you will have to view each image seperate and then either comment on it or use the Edit link to alter the description.
LINKING TO AN IMAGE
there are several ways you can show a gallery image within your forum post. This will be used as an example image:
gallery/image_page.php?album_id=19&image_id=110On this page you will see the image, followed below it by three different boxes of code. Each box will give a different way of the image being shown in the forum. By copying
[album]110[/album] into your post, you will get the following appear:
<- this is a thumbnail image, and clicking on it will take you to the image viewing page within the gallery. this page has the code boxes in, as well as links to next/previous images and any comments the photo may have.
If you copy the code from the second box
[url=http://www.ukastle.co.uk/discussion/gallery/image.php?album_id=19&image_id=110][img]http://www.ukastle.co.uk/discussion/gallery/image.php?album_id=19&image_id=110&mode=thumbnail[/img][/url] you will get this result:
<- again this is a thumbnail image, but clicking the image will not take you to the image page in the gallery, but will instead open up the image in full size
Or finally, you may decide to copy the code from the last of the code boxes
http://www.ukastle.co.uk/discussion/gallery/image.php?album_id=19&image_id=110 which will give you this result:
gallery/image.php?album_id=19&image_id=110so you will need to add the
[img][/img] tags before and after in order to show it as an image:
It will be shown as a full sized image with no links contained within.
If you have further questions regarding this, please use the thread entitled "the all new GALLERY" within this announcements section of the forum