Protected Gallery, but user able to right click?

jbr13 · September 9, 2008

Would it be possible for just the user to be able to right click a picture that is protected? I like to protect pretty much all galleries, but share an image here and there on a forum or two. I hate that I have to unprotect a gallery, get the URL, then reprotect it.

Is there another way, that I haven't heard of or is it just that way.

Thanks for all the great work guys!!

Jason

Andy · September 9, 2008

I'm sorry, there's not a way.
- Andy

jfriend · September 9, 2008

jbr13 wrote:

Would it be possible for just the user to be able to right click a picture that is protected? I like to protect pretty much all galleries, but share an image here and there on a forum or two. I hate that I have to unprotect a gallery, get the URL, then reprotect it.

Is there another way, that I haven't heard of or is it just that way.

Thanks for all the great work guys!!

Jason

You can just learn how to construct the URL yourself and then figure out the URL without having unprotect to get it. Here's how:

If you are in the Smugmug view, your URL in the browser will look something like this: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/gallery/5608869_vwzCG#344291068_HdnTo. The characters past the # sign in the URL are the imageID and the imageKey. So, to construct a URL to that image for a forum posting, you simply take those characters after the # sign and put them into a URL like this:

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/344291068_HdnTo-L.jpg.

This is a URL to the Large size (-L). Other sizes are:

-S = small
-M = medium
-L = Large
-XL = XLarge
-X2 = XLarge2
-X3 = XLarge3
-O = original

So, now you know how to manually construct an image URL. All you need it the imageID and imageKey out of the browser window and you just put it into the rest of the URL.

jbr13 · September 9, 2008

Thanks Andy, I figured that to be the answer. If it could have been done you all would have already done it.

Jfriend.....thanks I will try it that way!

Jason

denisegoldberg · September 9, 2008

I may have totally missed the point here, but are you just trying to get to the share photo screen? I use the share button all of the time to grab the url of my photos, but I don't want that button available to anyone else.

Try this CSS to allow access to that screen just when logged in:

.share_button {
    display: none;
}
.loggedIn .share_button {
    display: block;
}

--- Denise

JenGrace · October 8, 2008

Denise! That is wonderful, thanks for sharing that!

denisegoldberg · October 8, 2008

JenGrace wrote:

Denise! That is wonderful, thanks for sharing that!

Jen -
You're very welcome.

But... you'll need a slight update to the code I posted last month. There was a recent change in smug, and the code that you need to enable the share button now is:

#shareButton {
    display: none !important;
}
.loggedIn #shareButton {
    display: block !important;
    display: -moz-inline-box; 
    display: inline-block;
}

--- Denise

JenGrace · October 9, 2008

Thanks again!

Protected Gallery, but user able to right click?

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