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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Photo Preview Hack

« on: February 25, 2010, 10:07:49 AM »

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Thanks i like this one bro can we also add previous image next image on both side by any chance ?

in details.html:

Code: [Select]

{if prev_image_name}{lang_prev_image}<br />
                              <b><a href="{prev_image_url}">{prev_image_name}</a></b>
<br /><br /><a href="{prev_image_url}"><img src="{prev_thumb_file}" border="1"></a>
{endif prev_image_name}&nbsp;</td>
                            <td align="right" class="row2">
&nbsp;{if next_image_name}{lang_next_image}<br />
                              <b><a href="{next_image_url}">{next_image_name}</a></b>
<br /><br /><a href="{next_image_url}"><img src="{next_thumb_file}" border="1"></a>
{endif next_image_name}</td>

mfg Andi

Using 4images 1.7.7:

Got the Photo preview hack working. At first, it seemed to be perfect but now with 7 images in the category, only 5 are appearing in the preview. The 5 in preview are only the first 5 images.  Two new uploads are not appearing in the preview screen, even after I click on them in the detail page, the preview shows the first 5 only. 

Also, and perhaps related, the image previous and image next is not working. Am using the code listed above, for both the top and bottom of the details page.

What do I see? A blank grey table but no images or even links, just a wide bar.

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

Thanks,

Brian

[edit] - issue resolved.  see note here: an update for 1.7.7?

able to resolve issue; on a hunch, decided to try V@NO's advice in this post:
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=7294.msg133435#msg133435

moved the photo preview hack code for details.php to the location specified by V@NO and badda bing, it worked.

not sure if this is good advice for ALL 1.7.7 users, but that was able to resolve the display of the links and show prev/next images;  also, this fixed the photo preview hack that was only showing the first 5 images even after you clicked on the 6th or 7th image.

- Brian

137

Chit Chat / Getting my arms around organizing images in categories and subcategories

« on: February 24, 2010, 08:18:11 PM »

This is an organizational question and not a technical question.

I am new to the gallery function. What is the best practice for a large community that is sharing photographs within categories? I have installed the user sub category mod but I can see this turning into a gazillion sub categories. A few subcategories is good, a lot might be overwhelming.   Our community is focused on rowing. Many of our members attend a given rowing regatta.

Here is a good example:

We have a main category: Regattas

We have several subcategories for individual regattas, and undoubtedly users will add more subcategories for other regattas that they attend, be it in Sydney, Australia or Munich, Germany. Let's take one subcategory we created to get the ball rolling:
Head of the Charles (HOCR)

Now, we, as an organization, attend this event every year and take a number of photographs. So it seems natural to create subcategories for each year under Head of the Charles such as:
HOCR2007, HOCR2008, HOCR2009, and so on

So far so good. Now we, as the organizer of our community, upload our photographs to HOCR2009.  Do we make a subcategory yet again for our photographs, as opposed to other members' photographs? The dilemma is that perahps 100 of our members attend the Head of the Charles, and many of them are taking photographs.  Should they all share their photographs in this one subcategory, say HOCR2009?

To review:
Regattas -> Head of the Charles (HOCR) -> HOCR2009 -> even more subcategories under here? 

I realize there is nothing we can do to prevent members from creating their own subcategories but those of you with experience in large galleries must have some feeling on how to make this work well.  I ask this because we are starting to add descriptions to the main categories to nudge our members towards a preferred sorting method.

Thanks,

Brian

138

Templates & Styles (Requests & Discussions) / Re: {whos_online} random error?

« on: February 24, 2010, 09:41:41 AM »

Perfect!  Thank you so much!

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

- Brian

139

Templates & Styles (Requests & Discussions) / Re: {whos_online} random error?

« on: February 24, 2010, 04:46:09 AM »

Hi -

I am using 1.7.7 and using the default templates.  Have been successful in installing about 5 mods so far. Thank you for all of your work everyone.

I would like to feature the who's online in the left column of the all of the templates.  I was successful in moving the who's online code on the home.html template and it displays just like I want:

<table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                    <tr>
                      <td class="head2" height="20"><img src="{template_url}/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="4" height="4" />{lang_registered_user}</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td class="tablebgcolor"><img src="{template_url}/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td align="center" class="row1">{user_box}</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td class="tablebgcolor"><img src="{template_url}/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td align="center" class="row1">{whos_online}</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                      <td align="center" class="row1">{user_last_action_box}</td>
                    </tr>
                  </table>

But when I paste the same code into the other templates, I only see the user last action box.  I made the changes you outlined in this topic.  Do I need to somehow create a {whos_online_box} somewhere and change my code to add that?  It's confusing because the whos_online code works great as is in the home.html template .

Thanks,

Brian

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] V1.3 Let users add (sub-)categories / User erstellen (Sub-)Kategorien

« on: February 24, 2010, 04:13:33 AM »

Mod installed and working great.

Noticed two things:

1. the option .../option values you enter display the categories in that order, rather than in alphabetical order. There is a silver lining to this because it allowed me to sort in the order that best suited our community site, although it did take some tedious copy, cut, and pasting.

2. when a new subcategory is added by a user, it does not appear in the drop down list. yes of course, I understand why - this is a very simple coding command that creates the drop down menu and it is constructed by us, and not by php scripts. but the newbies should realize that going in.

One question:

to better sort the opion.../option values and make them more readable, I inserted this code as separators in the listing:
<option value="">----------</option>

Will this create a problem if someone accidentally selects this line to add a new user category? Is this dangerous? If so, might there be a different code that would work?

Thanks,

Brian

141

Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] User Categories Area

« on: February 20, 2010, 10:29:11 AM »

In your first post, you note:

Could not remember link of mod that I used but it was the auto resize mod with big folder mod
(if you need to use make sure you add all of this mod to your site first)

Hi -

Are you referring to this MOD:
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=7700.0 ?

I installed this in my new install of 1.7.7 and it works fine.

Now, my question, in following your instructions ... should I install your MOD first before I install this other MOD?  That would mean I should reinstall a clean version of 4images and start with your MOD first ...

Being new to 4images, there doesn't seem to be a protocol on how to install MOD's, one after another ...

Thanks,

Brian

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Re: Help please, Auto image resize on upload for 1.7.7

« on: February 18, 2010, 06:01:14 PM »

Just follow the instructions in the first post on the first page.  I know what you're talking about. With all the comments and 30 pages of replies, where is the real, latest stuff but have faith in the first page instructions. 

I installed 4images 1.7.7 at 7pm last night, and by 11:15pm, following the instructions for this auto-resize, I had the mod installed and working perfectly.  I had never used the software before 7pm, ever.