General Support: The Official Help Me Release Beta 3 Thread

Just upgraded my testsite to revision 448.

A few things I found (which must be te result of working on the final version :)):

1. Importing images: no thumbnails are created
2. Viewing images in an album shows no images and no (theme)styling or lightbox functionality ... and now suddenly none of the styling works (missing stylesheet link I guess).

One request I made earlier and imho should be a standard option: using the filename minus extension if no caption is added to an image. Great for archiving and very easy to import lots of images without the need to give each image a name (which it already has=> the filename). Especially usefull when using Plogger not only as an album but as a real image archive. It would be best if this filename would be added automagically inside the caption field in the database, but just using the filename is OK too.

Another request (but let's finish the final release first ;) ) is that the description field can also be searched instead of only the caption. This way the description field could become a 'description/tag' field.

Yet another feature (LOL) would be a tiny quick edit button only viewable by the one who is logged into Plogger. This should bring up the edit screen for just that one image for quick editing a name/description/tag or moving the image to another album.

Yet another feature (LOLx2) would be another tiny button to select an image (could be the same as for the 'Allow Compressed Recursive Downloads'), and after collecting a few or a lot of images clicking a kind of 'Your Selection' button which could bring up a screen with several options: 1. download and/or 2. e-mail filenames or captions to administrator (perhaps for selling purposes?).

OK, that it for now. I'll test some more soon.
And a very big complement for the admin interface. It's really beautifull, including the live preview. I love it!

Hi,

I just installed (fresh) it on my website (www.sprint15.com), no trouble there and attempted to upload some jpg's to it, the files appear in the folders but when it tries to import them into the thumbnail generation fails and when you click import, I get this error message, its a bit big I'm afraid:

"Failed: setSourceFilename(/websites/LinuxPackage02/sp/ri/nt/sprint15.com/public_html/pictures/images/plogger_test_collection/plogger_test_album/cimg0066__2__sprint_15s_at_grafham__by_mark_aldridge_1.jpg) set $this->sourceFilename to "/websites/LinuxPackage02/sp/ri/nt/sprint15.com/public_html/pictures/images/plogger_test_collection/plogger_test_album/cimg0066__2__sprint_15s_at_grafham__by_mark_aldridge_1.jpg" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 216 $AvailableImageOutputFormats = array(text;wbmp;gif;png;jpeg) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 636 $this->thumbnailFormat set to $this->config_output_format "jpeg" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 646 $this->thumbnailQuality set to "75" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 663 !$this->config_allow_src_above_docroot therefore setting "/websites/LinuxPackage02/sp/ri/nt/sprint15.com/public_html/pictures/images/plogger_test_collection/plogger_test_album/cimg0066__2__sprint_15s_at_grafham__by_mark_aldridge_1.jpg" to null in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 790 $this->sourceFilename set to "" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 587 phpThumb() v1.6.2-200511240855 "" does not exist $this->config_cache_directory () is not a directory in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 704 SetCacheFilename() failed because $this->config_cache_directory is empty in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1986 GetImageSize("") failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1869 using ImageMagick path from `which convert` (/usr/bin/convert) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 825 source dimensions set to 100x100 in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 875 ImageMagick called as (convert -coalesce -geometry 100x100 "" png:/tmp/pThumbR6DoO2 2>&1) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 899 ImageMagick failed with message (convert: unable to open image `': No such file or directory. ) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 904 ImageMagickThumbnailToGD() aborting because ImageMagickCommandlineBase() failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 923 ImageMagickThumbnailToGD() failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1876 EXIF thumbnail extraction: (size=0; type=; x) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1925 starting SourceImageToGD() in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2073 Not using EXIF thumbnail data because $this->config_use_exif_thumbnail_for_speed is FALSE in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2076 Populating $this->rawImageData and attempting ImageCreateFromStringReplacement() in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2182 phpThumb() v1.6.2-200511240855 cannot fopen("") on line 2195 of /websites/LinuxPackage02/sp/ri/nt/sprint15.com/public_html/pictures/lib/phpthumb/phpthumb.class.php"

Any ideas what is wrong?

Thanks,

Martin Searle

I'm still trying to get the sort order options to work (no matter what combination of ascending or descending and date taken vs. submitted, etc).

One thing i've noticed is that if I have "descending", I sometimes get the following error:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: (ASCII=8) state=1 in /home/andresyalison/www/photos/plog-functions.php on line 752

or

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /home/andresyalison/www/photos/plog-functions.php on line 752


In any case, the order of my photos doesn't seem to change based on what I do there. But for whatever reason, the order does change some days. I just can't figure out what makes it change, but everynow and then the order will be different!

It's driving me nuts! ;-)

Andros,

Here is how the default sort order thing works.

Your current sort order is stored in a session variable (the variable persists as long as your browser is open). Once a user views your gallery for the first time, it will automatically sort by the default sort order. Once the user manually changes the drop-down direction or sort field, a session variable is created so Plogger remembers which sort order you like an applies it to all the other albums you are viewing. This behavior persists until your session is cleared (you delete cookies or restart your browser). At this point it will revert to using the default sort order.

Does it make sense to implement it this way?

Hi Mike,

I've just installed the latest version and the install went perfectly - everything came up nicely.

The only thing I've found so far is a missing "</a>" tag in plog_functions.php at line 1981:

return "tt<li class='$class'><a href='$link' title='$title'><img src='$img_path' /></li>n";

This is causing a few issues in IE when using the thumbnail navigation option.

I'm working on updating/cleaning my theme for this new version, should be ready soon.

Ben

For anyone that's interested, here's a preview of my theme: http://www.digitaldusk.com/dev/plogalpha/

ive integrated beta3 into my website and when i click a picture and it shows its details, the link to goto the full picture does not work

the url goes
http://wallkick.ig3.net/gallery.phpimages/japan_fest_2007/japan_fest/img_0055.JPG

where do i go to remove the .php and add a / between it becuase the /gallery is where my gallery script is located

edit: i found the function in the the plog_functions file, its in
function plogger_get_source_picture_url

but it takes a $config["baseurl"] which i cannot find. but i dont think it'll be able to fix unless you have them seperate for people who use it by itself and those who integrate it.

Edit 2: i added my own $config["baseurl2"] and put the path to my normal gallery in it, and changed the function for the link to the full photo to baseurl2 also.. now it works fine.

i think you could should make it look for the url you put in the option menu that tells you to put the link to your gallery so that getting the full image url compensates for integrated users so that it could do it automatically.

Akuyazi,

make sure you have your options set correctly in the admin screen as well as the corresponding folder for plogger using the right URL.

I'm sure you know this already, but in the Options menu, where it asks for "Gallery URL" you just need the folder address not the file address. In other words if your plogger script is in a folder called "gallery", all you need to put there "http://wallkick.ig3.net/gallery/" in your case.

I didn't have to do any customization of the functions and it works fine on my server, and I put plogger in a folder called "photos".

ardamis,

Depending how extensive the themes are, there are ways of keeping your theme-specific functions off plog-functions.php. I also had to make some changes to my theme and I created a new functions file on my theme folder that contained just the new functions. Then I called the file from the header/head file and referred to the new functions from the themes.

This way I can have all my theme-specific stuff contained in my theme folder, and not modify the core plooger files.

ardamis,

I now get what you're saying. I didn't read the info on your theme's blog page where you explain what you changed. Yeah, the code is a bit all over the place. It would be nice to have as much HTML code on the themes, and use the functions to output only the data, that way you could control as much of the HTML as possible.

Thanks for the suggestion. I still need to go through and clean up the CSS, it's pretty sloppy and all over the place. I will remember your suggestion. Eventually I'm going to do buttons quite differently, so it'll be a good time to change it.

Mike,

Just to let you know that v3 rocks. I'm getting tons of compliments from people about my gallery, and this would not be possible without Plogger. I have a few people also interested in using it in their sites.

Kudos and keep up the good work!

let us know what we can help with.

Well I think my theme is ready for a trial. Anyone that wants to give it a go can get a copy from http://www.digitaldusk.com/download/theme-element.zip.

Ok, another round of Plogger updates here, same place: http://www.plogger.org/source/plogger3alpha.zip

Here are the changes (straight from http://dev.plogger.org) based on the feedback given so far (still haven't gotten through all of it...)

• Some HTML changes based on Ardamis's plog-functions.php changelog
• Fix problem with image path when checking for duplicate filenames during upload
• Missing a closing anchor tag in thumbnail navigation function
• Fix RSS feed functionality, add Plogger descriptions to feed and make sure to encode HTML entities
• Fixed "missing argument" warning when editing an album
• Added localization hooks to feedback management page
• Force UTF8 to be used in MySQL connections for MySQL v4.1 or greater
• Correct improper usage of EXIF "DateTime?" property which changes when you update and image. Now uses "DateTimeOriginal?" which properly represents the time the photo was taken.

I didn't include any user themes this round, but make sure to check out Softer and Element for two examples of excellent Plogger themes (I am also considering including these with the official release)

I am also patiently awaiting a finished version of Andros' theme, which is insanely cool =)

Posted By: andros69You got me curious and tested my code for validation and it seems to pass. I suppose you want yours to be XHTML strict, right? Mine is fine as XHTML transitional.

Yup, I'm lobbying for Strict. Plogger is now valid Transitional, and very close to being Strict, after Mike's changes two posts above.

Can anyone tell me a way to get a thumbnail's width AND height in Plogger without using getimagesize()? I know that the height for small and the width for medium thumbnails can be set in the Options, but I'm not sure the other axis is available as a variable. I'm running into a problem where captions longer than the corresponding image extend the containing list item, wreaking havoc on the layout. http://www.ardamis.com/testing/longcaption.jpg

Thanks,
-ardamis

Posted By: ardamisI'm running into a problem where captions longer than the corresponding image extend the containing list item, wreaking havoc on the layout.

Have you tried playing with the CSS attribute "overflow"? I think Derek may have used this to truncate long captions on the Table-less theme by setting overflow to hidden.

Actually, part of the reason I released the Alpha early was so that people building themes could give me feedback on what types of template functions they needed to make the process as flexible as possible. Would a thumbnail_info function be helpful? I could do something like: plogger_get_thumbnail_info() and it would return a hash with thumbnail information...

$thumb_info = plogger_get_thumbnail_info();
$height = $thumb_info['height'];
$width = $thumb_info['width'];
$filesize = $thumb_info['filesize'];
// etc..

Mike, that would be excellent! Now, if we could set the max height of the thumbnails in the Options... ;-)

Mike, in the plog-admin.php file on line 67 you have...

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/moo.fx.js"></script>
I was wondering if your intention was to use moo.fx or not since it hasn't been included in the js folder of the admin. Or maybe it isn't need anymore with the other js files you have implemented. Idk just something I saw in my activity list that wasn't loading.

Hmm... so you didn't run the _upgrade.php script, you just tried installing over your old installation? That may have caused the problem... does your old Beta2 password work on your new Beta3 install? If you are going to try to install them both on the same database, they need to have different table prefixes or their is going to be a huge mess...

Posted By: mikeyou didn't run the _upgrade.php script, you just tried installing over your old installation? That may have caused the problem

No, I installed to a completely different directory and just used the same database. I guess that isn't going to fly.

Posted By: mikedoes your old Beta2 password work on your new Beta3 install? If you are going to try to install them both on the same database, they need to have different table prefixes

No, the old password doesn't work on the new installation. I was trying to keep from having to re-enter all the images. I'll do it again with different table prefixes and just re-enter. Sigh.

I have another problem. I have several installation attempts in different directories and am having trouble completely deleting them. Directories in the images directory won't delete. I can't access their permissions at all. Any suggestions on that?

Thank you for such a prompt reply,
Anne Masters

So I haven't posted anything lately because I've been busy having a baby :-) We've been back from the hospital for a few days now and feel like I can be myself again.

I have a theme in the works, based on my current gallery theme, but a little more generic. I hope I can release it soon.

Mike, one thing I keep noticing is that when I click on the edit Icon for an album, I get at the top of the page the following message for however many thumbs there are in the thumbnail choosing form.

Warning: Missing argument 2 for generate_thumb() in /home/andresyalison/www/photos/plog-functions.php on line 430
The form still works fine, but it's definitely a distraction, specially if there are lots of thumbnails on the Album, since it writes the above statement that many times.

Otherwise, the script is holding up great.

Andros, congratulations! Hope to see the Baby Pictures soon up on your Plogger Gallery =D I have been insanely busy myself with work... day job and contract work together are really kicking my butt. Anyway, I thought I took care of that annoying missing argument warning already, but maybe I missed it. Either way, it's a super easy fix and hopefully I can get that together for you sometime this weekend. The thumbnail information template function is coming soon too... must ... find ... time...

I figured it would have enough action to keep it at the top without making it sticky, if it starts to fall out of view I'll make it stuck. _leon_, thanks for testing... let me know what you find.

Firebug is an essential debugging tool for firefox. Combined with the Web Developer Toolbar and some other random extensions like View Live HTTP Headers you should be good to go.

I'm guessing there is a memory issue here with your host. Did you try uploading smaller images? Also, do you have your Gallery URL set correctly on the Plogger options page?

Thanks Mike. I'm running on localhost at the moment - with standard apache/php settings. I'm not too big on this area since I've been doing other stuff for a few years now. I tried uploading just 1 image at around 120k 500x300px and the same happened (with a new browser instance too). The Gallery URL I'm assuming just needs to be the root of your plogger installation?