Unfortunately, since literally every file has gone through radical changes since 5.7, there is no upgrade path. Your best bet is to blow away your templates and style sheets and start again. Anything short of that and you're only causing yourself more work. The good news is, your gallery doesn't need to be touched. Titles, ratings, views, owners album heirarchy, etc will all automatically transfer to V6. (So you just need to replace the files that come in the .zip.)
For your pain, you'll get the following features and fixes:
New Features
Completely re-designed the templates and style sheet, to use more "modern" standards.
Added search screen, with the capability to search filenames, descriptions/tites, owners and ratings/comments.
When an album contains both sub-albums and photos or movies, their icons/thumbnails are grouped together. (Added "groups" class to style sheet for this.)
Added button graphics (thmb_album_*.gif) and a whack of new config items (*_button). Also added a new img_dir config item to indicate the directory for all images.
Added "Random" link to album_header.tml, which will bring the user to a randomly selected image. Thanks to End_User for providing code that was used as a basis for this feature!
Added the ability to "shroud" images (I.E. they don't have to live under the web root, album.pl will read them directly). To enable this feature, set album_dir to the location of your photos, and leave album_web blank. Thanks again to End_User for providing sample code!
Added "Set Album Thumbnail" to album admin menu. When selected, the admin can pick one of the thumbnails to "represent" that album.
Adding an empty file called "no_upload.txt" into any album prevents users from uploading into that album (not for per_member_uploads).
Added thumbnails for peer and parent albums in the navigation bar.
Added "Fullscreen Slideshow" link to photo views, which allows users to view photos in a new (fullscreen) browser, using a 5 second per picture slideshow. Changes in album_strings.txt, album_footer.tml and Photo_Album.css.
Added "Start Slideshow" option to photo admin menu. (Default of 5 seconds per photo.)
When viewing photos, the link to the "parent" album (in the nav footer) will take you to the page that photo is on (not always page 1).
Added ####CONFIG=var#### tag, which displays the value of "var". For example, inserting ####CONFIG=quota#### will display the current upload quota, and ####CONFIG=loggedin#### will show the currently logged in user's name.
Added ####DATE#### tag which will display the current date and time.
Updated album_header.tml and album_footer.tml to move the image sizes links below the photo.
Added capability to deal with MD5 hashed passwords in UBB 6.4.
Changed all web vars to be separated by ; instead of &: http://server.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?album=:recent&ssi=5 becomes http://server.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?album=:recent;ssi=5
Directories no longer need to be world writable in many cases. When updating descriptions, ratings, view tracking info or even the album config, as long as the file is writable it will succeed. (In previous releases, the directory had to be writable in order to create a temp file).
Added "block_ubb_junior_members_from_uploading" config item. Made the name long, but it should be self explanatory. When set to 1, Junior Members will be unable to upload.
Added "bread_style" config item, which allows you to switch between a folder heirarchy and a single line format for bredcrumbs.
Added "fullscreen" mode for slideshows. A "Fullscreen Mode" button is now shown when viewing slideshows, and it'll display just the photo, with a width of 1024. Still not fully polished, but it works.
Added "member_subdir" config item. When set in per_member_upload mode, all user upload directories will be created under this directory. (I.E. users/member1, users/member2...)
Added "rows" config item, which replaces "photos_per_page". The rows config item determines how many rows of photos and movies to display on a page.
Added "default_size" config item, which allows you define the default size that photos will be displayed (small, medium or large, as defined).
Admins are exempted from the "no_upload.txt" per album upload blocking.
Changed hard coded borders for albums, photos, movies and newly generated thumbnails to use style sheet classes (img.album, img.photo, img.movie and img.thumb in Photo_Album.css).
When logging in to a password protected album, you are now taken to that album, not to the root album. (Code from J.P. Stewart)
Changed upload log to use display names (not user names) where possible, which shows up in the recent uploads screen.
Users are now logged in when they successfully upload a photo (for flatfile authentication).
Moved revision history out of album.pl and into this file (CHANGES.txt).
Added "Show More" link to recent uploads, which allows users to view all logged uploads.
Added new mode: descloc=2 hides all titles/ratings/info under a thumbnail, showing just the thumbnail itself in album view.
Mismatched version numbers or inaccessible views files no longer cause album.pl to halt, instead a warning is displayed at the bottom of the page.
Clicking on "Upload" from a specific album will now set that album as the default upload directory. (Thanks to Systematic for the code!)
Added randomizer "SSI" code: http://server.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?random=1;ssi=1 will display the thumbnail for a random photo, linked to the actual photo in the album.
The value of the "SSI" variable now indicates how many recent uploads to display: http://server.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?album=:recent;ssi=5 will show just the most recent 5.
You can now run "SSI" slideshows: http://server.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?photo=photoname;slideshow=5;ssi=1 will show just the photos (with no styles or formatting) in a slideshow. Great for SSI includes...
Removed "login," "upload," and "rating_form" function codes from album.cfg. They're now hard coded in album.pl, as there was no real benefit to being able to change them.
HTML tags are now stripped from the object's title, when it appears as the page title title.
Added comments to the templates, to make them easier to understand.
Fixed up static HTML statistics.
Improved code all over the place! album.pl is now much easier to extend, as several core functions have been moved into subroutines that can be called without context.
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug with ImageMagick creating the same thumbnail for multiple images. (Was a bug in album.pl, not IM)
Fixed album delete problem, where files and albums where not deleted.
Fixed pagination problems.
Fixed a bug where "unsetting" values in a local config (I.E. sortby=0) would not work.
Cleaned up some of the upload errors, to be popup windows, instead of just text at the bottom of the upload screen.
Converted all paths to UNIX style (using /'s not 's) for internal use. This fixes some minor issues with the config.
Fixed a problem where the "Rate it" link was being displayed differently based on if there were comments or not.
Fixed problem where updating the description for the last photo in an album threw an error.
Fixed a bug where albums with certain characters, like ( or ) would have a broken title and nav footer.
Fixed a bug where albums with & in the filename would have broken pagination.
Check in with the album.pl support forums if you have any problems of questions. Cheers, and enjoy!
P.S. Allen et al, this "mod" works with the 6.3 betas as well... Not sure where this thread belongs, and I didn't want to start a new one.
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The good news is, your gallery doesn't need to be touched. Titles, ratings, views, owners album heirarchy, etc will all automatically transfer to V6. (So you just need to replace the files that come in the .zip.)
When set to 1, Junior Members will be unable to upload.
