[i]okay, so it's not possible to let users have their own gallery and create their own albums in it? [/i]
Could you please read and understand the links i posted before asking? All I referred to that the gallery means the Zenphoto installation in our terms. What you are talking about is albums. How to do that is also explained on above link.

For auto created user albums there is: http://www.zenphoto.org/news/filter-personal-album
I have not tried or used that plugin.

okay, so now the page goes blank again.
even when error reporting is on, i get blanks.

and for chrome, i get is: HTTP Error 403 (Forbidden): The server refused to fulfill the request.

also, on the reset form, is asks for user name/ID... which is?

Sorry, we really can't help with that without any proper error or at least a link to test...

[i]also, on the reset form, is asks for user name/ID... which is?[/i]
The user id (aka user name, not full name naturally...) of the user you want to reset maybe?

hmm, it shows:
User:
[Captcha Picture]
Enter CAPTCHA:

so for the User field, users should enter their full name or email, since during registration users were not prompted to enter a user name.

[i]so for the User field, users should enter their full name or email, [/i]
As I said above the user name/id NOT the full name........

and since during registration users were not prompted to enter a user name, what's the "user name" should be entered?

If the user name should show on the register form is an option as well. It is called "Email-ID" so it is the e-mail-address... If both is not set it will naturally not work...

For the details my collegue is the expert as he codes the user management stuff.

I guess that your users are not very observant. Once they confirm their registration via the e-mail link they are presented with the logon screen with their user id already filled in. From that form they enter their pasword.

Seems they might want to make note of that user id.

But, ofcourse if you think they are particularly dense, you might want to change the text that is sent in the confirmation e-mail to point out that their user id is their e-mail address (naturally you should remind them that it is the e-mail address that the mail was sent to in case their attention span is really short.)

That text is an option which you will find just above the checkbox that makes the e-mail the user id.

Great, so i've unchecked "email id" option which prompts users to fill in "User ID" upon registration instead of after activation which is not user-friendly".

I've also found out another issue is that, although users albums were automatically created upon registration,
but if they delete the album that's been assigned to them (with their user ID),
they'll not be able to create a new album but only for me to delete their account and re-register.

Is there any way to prevent primary album (the one that's been created and assigned to them upon registration) from being deleted except sub-albums created by them?

Edit: The blank page appears again (Chrome shows it's 403: Forbidden).

Quote: if they delete the album that's been assigned to them (with their user ID),
they'll not be able to create a new album but only for me to delete their account and re-register.
Not at the moment I think. But maybe you should instruct your users that they should not do that. They are of course not allowed to create new ones as they can't assign albums to themselves if not having administration or full album rights (which you don't want to give these people I am sure). How many users do you have or expect that this will be an issue? I mean as an admin you will have to do things for not so versed users no matter how it is setup...

Re: blank page. Which page excatly? Any error in the server log? Otherwise we are guessing.

I've tried to, even creating a new album and assign it to the test account, it's not visible due to security reason which i left one of the check box un-checked on the plugin u provided for me previously.

right now i'll need the site to be stable in order for advertising on my forums for users to utilize the zenphoto gallery, but would expect at least 10+ users but will grow eventually.

there's only a sentence of log for Nov 9th which isn't my ip address (it'd be private LAN address)
[Wed Nov 09 02:54:31 2011] [error] [client 180.76.5.56] File does not exist: /path/to/public_html/gallery/var
the ip turns out to be someone in Beijing, China.

as for access log, i notice one of the log item is:
180.76.5.179 - - [09/Nov/2011:10:20:25 +0800] "GET /?C=N;O=D HTTP/1.1" 200 8469

Sorry, for that I have to refer to my collegue sbillard who is more versed and the coder of these user management stuff.

Regarding the upload. If oyu try to upload 200 photos at once you should use ftp or really make sure your server upload limits manage that.

Quote:Great, so i've unchecked "email id" option which prompts users to fill in "User ID" upon registration instead of [i]after activation[/i] which is not user-friendly".
???? a ueser id can NEVER be modified. So you can either have the users pick a user id or use the e-mail for the user id. The problem with the former is that they may try to use one that already exists. But of course, it is an option, so it is your choice.

If you let users edit their albums one of the things they can do is delete them. If they do this, it breaks the link so that there is no "primary" album associated with the user. There is no means to recreate this link, but since the only thing it is used for is to clean out albums for users you may delete it is no big deal. Create them a new album and give them rights to manage it. No need to delete their account.

so if it's more than 200 photos, i'll get I/O error?
is there a way to make if available for more than 200 photos using flash player?
because i'm making this public gallery in which anyone can have unlimited photos on a single album with single upload instead of facebook's limit which allows 200 photos max.

Update: i've tried uploading using flash with 25 files only but was also given "IO Error".

it's stated as:
"ZIP files must contain only Zenphoto supported image types. The maximum size for any one file is 10GB which is set by your PHP configuration upload_max_filesize.
Your available upload quota is 10,485,760 kb."

So it should be enough?

After unchecking "email id" just below "email notification text", an extra field of "User ID" will be shown for users that tries registers instead of after activation, it's stated as "user" and "password" which for me honestly, when i first created a test acccount, i thought it means to fill in my "user" created during registration which is email address and it makes me confused.
unless there's a notice just above the "user" and "password" such as, showing the email address and telling users to choose a user name and also don't autofill their email in the field.

but i've tried assigning them on my admin settings, it still didn't show on the test account (probably due to "use prepared albums" that's checked on "filter-personal_album" plugin so i had to delete the account... but 2 albums was created** (plugins clashed) see below

** i've unchecked "user album" under "register_user" plugin as it clashes with "filter-personal_album" plugin (it'll result in 2 albums created).
and checked "use prepared albums".
it was shown the following message beside "use prepared albums":
Only use this option if ALL albums in the gallery are meant to be personal albums. Otherwise, this option could compromise security!

so checking that will it compromise security?

Update: i've tried unchecking "use prepared albums" and also leaving "User album" unchecked but when registered using a test account, an album was created by the test user was not able to "see" the album.

Update: i've tried using http method for uploading on the primary albums with "Make a new Album" check and typing in a album name and tried uploading 1 photo but was given the following error:
"Upload Error
You have attempted to upload to an album for which you do not have upload rights "

Regarding upload: Generally that should work but the server might nevertheless not able to handle that much POST data or that much files. I cannot answer. It might even be a limit of that tool and/or flash. I don't know. The tool we use is www.uploadify.com

Note that the "filter-personal_album" plugin is third party and a little older. It might therefore not work correctly.

and how'd i implement it for ZP?

also, what bout the error in uploading?

[i]and how'd i implement it for ZP?[/i]
What? Uploadify? As said that is the tool we use................

Regarding the error, try uploading less images at once or use ftp.

Update: i've tried using http method for uploading on the primary albums with "Make a new Album" check and typing in a album name and tried uploading 1 photo but was given the following error:
"Upload Error
You have attempted to upload to an album for which you do not have upload rights "

You as the fulla administrator have to create the album first and then you can assign it to the user in questions. Of course they can't assign it to themselves.

it was automatically assigned/created.
As above, I've mentioned that I've to delete the user and recreate an test account.

So i've recreated a new test account (a folder will be automatically created) and tried uploading but doesn't work.