Here are answers to frequently asked questions about CpmFetch, its usage, and its goals. These tend to be broad in scope. Answers to technical issues can be found in the documentation, and questions about features in the features page.
What versions of Coppermine does CpmFetch support?
CpmFetch is designed to be as independent of CPG code as possible. Because of this, only changes to the format of the CPG database have any effect on CpmFetch. This led to issues as CPG moved from 1.3.x to 1.4.x. Generally CpmFetch does not need to be updated during CPG updates. The install program for CpmFetch should probably be re-run as it gathers information from the CPG configuration.
Is there a forum for discussing Coppermine Fetch?
The Coppermine Photo Gallery folks have given CpmFetch an entire sub-board on thier gallery. That is the best place to go for questions and discussions of a CpmFetch nature.
What about private albums?
This library will not display any images that are not viewable by the world or are not in an approved state. If you request the number of images in the gallery, it will count the private images in the number it returns. This may be changed as you see fit - if you want to display private images you can.
What if you need help?
Check the support page. It contains helpful info and also instructions on how to get more help.
What if its close to what you need, but not quite?
I would suggest posting to the forum. I have only found a few things that could not be done in some fashion with CpmFetch. The nice thing about the forum is that the CPG dev's also take note and provide helpful insights.
Can I control the HTML it generates?
Currently you can control the tables and images it gives back via css settings and passing the css name to the object. You can also request the data come back to you as an array instead of an HTML table, then you can build your own. In the future I plan on implementing a framework to make outputting in different ways (Text, CSS layout, HTML, DHTML, etc) easier.
