IPB Tutorial: Module and Component Management

Gallery in Invision Power Board

Adding a gallery to your IPB forum can really boost your visitors' inflow. There are several options though. The easiest one that you can implement is to add a Invision Gallery which is developed by IPB's programmers and will not yield any incompatibilities with your forum software and can be easily administered from the admincp of IPB.

In this section we are going to discuss how to add Coppermine gallery to you forum. There is a bridge that links IPB Forum and Coppermine PG applications.

NB: You should have Coppermine application installed prior to installing the bridge.

Installing IPB-Coppermine Bridge

• Download the IPB-Coppermine Bridge
• Extract the files to your computer
• Upload invisionboard.inc.php to your bridge dir (if you have installed Coppermine through Fantastico the file will be already there). In order to use the bridge, you should make some changes in the invisionboard.inc.php file and enter IPBs database information:

define('IB_DB_NAME', 'database_username');
define('IB_BD_HOST', 'localhost'); //
define('IB_DB_USERNAME', 'username');
define('IB_DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

Please, check Invision Power Board Installation Process to see for your Database name and username (DB_NAME, DB_USERNAME')

• Upload login.php in the sources directory and you are set.