General Support: Plogger with flash interface

Ok, so here it is. My first alpha version (no functionality tests what so ever has been done) of the flash interface for Plogger.

P(f)logger.

Remember, I have not made any preloaders for XML / Thumbnails, so it might bug out. No interface design has been made yet, due lack of time. My next goal is making the comment functionality, but I need to design the project before I can do that aswell as presenting the EXIF data, and it seems like my time is up this side of new years eve. Everything that is needed, included a really, really neat search functionality, is allready programmed / intergrated, just the interface that is missing.

This way of handling images in albums requires image / album / collection ordering, something I really hope will be in the next version of Plogger. Unfortunatly I had to alter the gallery.php, plog-functions.php and plog-comments.php to make this work (All I had to do was making an XML option, so output came without HTML)..

So, what do you all think of this way of handling images for Plogger system?

Wow.

Derek

Needless to say, everyone on the team was absolutely floored by Johan's Plogger + Flash implementation. If you can bear with us, there are already plans to create a multipurpose xml query engine for Plogger. This would facilitate integration of Johan's Flash interface, and would also lay groundwork for things like AJAX browsing. However, the earliest this would appear is Beta 3, due in a few months' time.

Cheers,
Derek

That is the *phattest* mod ever. I'm 110% with you on the ability to order images / albums / galleries, which is in fact what I came to this forum to say. Anyway we can get our hands on the code?

I have been totally choked with work this past 4 weeks. I am however really eager to share what I have done with you, but my new webhost does not allow relative paths, so I can't even get plogger to work, so you will have to bare with me until I've solved this!

Johan,

I'm happy to donate some web/hosting space if you need it.

Cheers,
Danny

Johan: if you still need a plogger installation, contact me at

r underscore 1 at gmx dot ch

Would appreciate help.

Downloaded and installed beta 313 from http://svn.plogger.org/plogger/trunk/ .

Install went smoothly enough, but it seems beta 3 is not *quite* working. I can't seem to upload photos properly, although it says everything went well, I get a ? where the image should be. The 'index.php' of the main site just plain don't work, some kind of missing variable?

check it out at http://flogger.visskiss.co.uk

All comments appreciated to dgk <at} visskiss dot org

Hi Mike,

Seems there are some un-defined constants in _install.php (relating to thumb-sizes). Also, I used wget to download the trunk. Did a re-install (using ...wget_ and then deleted every occurence of index.html (using find).

Blanked sql tables. started a clean _install.php and got the undefined notices. Is there 1) an easy way to get the distro without using wget 2) a better place/ way to let you know about bugs 3) a way to join the dev

I am really confused now, hehe. I tried to install the exact same version of beta 3 on the same webhost twice, just using different accounts, it worked fine the first time, (still works fine) but I keep getting blanks after uploading images etc on the other install. And, it is identical installations. (beta 3 that is).

i have spent the last month just to getting plogger b 3 to work, hehe.. this flash interface might take a bit longer than expected! When do you think there is a stable version of number 3? If it is close I might just kick back and relax, otherwise I will need to find a way around this.

sorry, don't email it to dev thats a public list. not sure what I was thinking there.

Could someone share a plogger-xml.php path to me so I can continue my work soon! :) I am really eager to get this done, but it seems I can't get the plogger beta 3 to work anywhere at all :(

If you have a site up and running with beta 3 and a few sets of categories and albums, I'd really want just to use the xml path, nothing else. No admin required etc. So whoever it might be, please mail me: johan at moment77 dot se

Hi
Here's another one for you, there aren't many pictures in it cos might be useful for testing a limited result set. I can add more if you need them.

http://www1.extremegroup.be/plogger/plog-xml.php

Rgds
B

Thanks all!

Devteam: great work with the xml output / variable content!
This will be really, really fun! :)

Sorry for spamming this thread, but I almost consider it dedicated to me :)

I haven't been able to try the thumbnailpaths etc, but I was wondering how the resizing will work? Will I still call an php script that throws me into the picture after (if needed to be) resized?

Wohoo! It seems I succesfully installed Plogger! Tralalalal! :)

However, I need to create all folders by ftp, when Plogger creates the album, my server don't let me chmod it to 666 (777).. But you allready knew this, right?

yeah I will fix that link soon!
I have rebuilt the entire xml parser for the new plog-xml file, aswell tried to comment as much as possible so people might be able to write his / her own mod of it. But the more I write the more complex it gets. It will need approx. twice the time it took to write it to comment / make it possible for others to modify. So I'll just skip that part for now.

However, I am almost back at where I left this project pre- plog-xml.php! When I have somewhat a working version I'll post it here!

I've tried to start new Tickets over at dev, but I'm useless :)

This is what I need to make this flawless:

1. the php verifier (if thumbnail exists in right size)
2. ability to resize larger thumbnail (ie display image) after either max width or max height.
3. I need to be able to post comments to a page (whereever :) that gives me either an negative or positive response (boolean), like ?commentIsPosted=true/false... Nothing else may be in the postcomment.php or whatever name it will have, it has to be totally clean from all document headers, tags what so ever, you guys know what I am after. Otherwise I will not be able to track comments back to flash (in a nice way)..

And: Excuse me if I sound rude or anything, most of the time I get to do this is laaate at night, so my brain won't just follow my fingers!

I'll upgrade my plog-xml.php today and let you know when it is available.

B

Ok! Summer is on the edge over here, my regular job is not taking up all my time anymore and the flash interface is in the pipeline, almost done. So heads up people! I'm making a new run to install plogger b3!

(1st try, server #1: no go.)
(1st try, server #2: no go.)