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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Multi-Lightboxes v1.03.1

« on: August 30, 2010, 05:38:47 PM »

[EDIT] - had a look in the db fields for users. There are three fields for the lightboxes: user_lightbox; user_lightbox_count; user_lightbox_private.   Even though I have the admin cp set for 15 boxes for all users, some of the manually added users have the following settings:

user A (he has three lightboxes)
user_lightbox: 18
user_lightbox_count: 0
user_lightbox_private: 1

user B (he has no lightboxes created)
user_lightbox: 6
user_lightbox_count: 0
user_lightbox_private: 1

user C (he has three lightboxes created)
user_lightbox: 11
user_lightbox_count: 0
user_lightbox_private: 1

user D (he has no lightboxes created)
user_lightbox: 20
user_lightbox_count: 0
user_lightbox_private: 1

All told, 10 users with varying number of a value for the user_lightbox.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brian


Hi -

I installed this MOD several months ago and have tested it off and on while I have been installing other MODs and getting our image gallery close to launching.

I am using v1.7.7
I am using mysql 5.1.47
I am using php 5.2.13
current cp Multi Light box setting: 15 boxes

Issues:

Overall problem is that the multiple lightboxes don't stick or hold on to their stashed pics.  At first, everything works great. But over time, as I log in as the admin, as a moderator, as one user, and then another user, the pics in the lightbox for one profile just don't stay.

Let's say User Joex has 3 lightboxes. They are named:

#1 regatta dogs (was the default and is now renamed as such)
#2 sheer blisss (with a space between the words)
#3 maman, j'ai faim (yes just like that)

such that if I click on light box #1 of the user, I see the pics from lightbox #3. Then I click on lightbox #2 and still see the pics from lightbox #3.  

this effect happens as another user clicking on another profile, seeing their user profile and clicking on the link

now I log in as the user with the 3 lightboxes and decide to clear my light box. the one that is selected gets cleared but then I click on Manage my lightboxes and see the three listed, one now empty and two with a summary number of pics to the right, and let's use Vano's example pic, I click on the number to the right of cars that says "1" ... this causes the light box to clear, when it should, I believe, display the current pics in that light box.

So there are two issues, using Vano's example pic in his first posting:

1. If I were to view Vano's user profile and click on Nature, all I would see would be the final light box, whatever123456
2. If I were to log in as Vano and click on clear my light light box, the light box currently selected in the drop down menu would clear but then if I clicked on Lighbox in the user panel which takes me to Manage my Lightboxes, and I clicked on the summary link of pics to the right of the light boxes, all the pics would clear.

The main issue is that somehow the lightboxes lose their function over time. I have tested this over and over.  At first, they work great but as I log in and out as various users and click on their user profile and then click on their shared lightboxes, I can only see the last lightbox in the listing.

Has anyone else experienced this or can some of you test these same conditions by click on your various user profiles and visiting their lightboxes, and also try to clear one lightbox and then go back to manage your lightboxes and click on summary number link and see what happens?

Thanks,

Brian

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

« on: August 20, 2010, 01:09:58 AM »

Hey Buddy Duke,

I have prepping my 4images gallery for use with aMember external registration.  I am following your notes about this with avid interest. I am somewhat familiar with phpmyadmin so I will let you know if I am successful in changing the default settings.

[Edit] changed the default settings for the two fields so I should be all set.  Since we use aMember for several Single Sign On (SSO) functions, what we have found is that aMember creates the user profile in the receiving database, passing those amember fields we specify. So our users register with aMember, providing a user id, password, email, country, sex, state, city, and other information. I work with the folks at aMember to modify the plugin they offer to pass these additional fields to the 4images user database where I have already created the additional fields.

Thanks,

Brian

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

« on: August 19, 2010, 05:26:21 PM »

Dude, you don't have nearly as many MODs installed as I do ... I think I have 17 installed BEFORE I installed this MOD.  This was the last MOD that I wanted to install before we make the gallery operational because it takes so much time and you have to be very careful and methodical in making all the changes to the files.

I don't see why you would need to do a fresh install at all.  Like you, I have v1.7.7 and yeah, I don't quite know what to do with the upgrade to v1.7.8 but I after all of my work to this point, March 2010 - August 2010, creating this image gallery and installing all of these MODs, I can't even imagine doing a fresh install of v.1.7.8.  That would be a nightmare.

So even though you have a bunch of MODs already installed, don't worry. This one works just fine with all of the others. Budduke has seen to that. Have you seen his image gallery? He has a gazillion MODs installed on his image gallery. He, like V@no and so many other others on here, are not only brilliant but so incredibly nice to help everyone.

Yes, I think you COULD install just this MOD, User Categories, and it would work for you even if you did not install MODs 7112 and 7385.

Brian

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

« on: August 19, 2010, 05:13:33 AM »

Hey Zman,

this MOD is perfect for our rowing community. We want our members to upload rowing pictures to various public categories like regattas, or countries, and so on.  But ... we also want our members to share their personal pictures .. of their cruise ship trip, or their new dog, or their big family gathering.  

So this MOD allows us to keep our rowing pictures in the rowing categories, and then each member can have their OWN photo album where ONLY THEY can upload pictures of their new doggie, or their boyfriend, or their car, or their halloween party.  

The beauty of this MOD is that a User Category is only allowed to have pictures uploaded from its own user.  Other members can look at the pictures, make comments, download them, send an eCard ... those kinds of things ...

But this MOD allows members to personalize their space on our community website.  I have already tested this out with several test memberships.  Under ONE PARENT category, all of the member's galleries are listed. So as a 4images visitor, I can see Joe's pictures of his car, Jane's pictures of her new puppy, and John's pictures of his boyfriend he just started dating.

The other main categories, unless you have specific groups and separate permissions set up, allows ALL members to upload pictures to a category.

I hope that explains the main concept and the brilliant work that Budduke has done to create this MOD.

As to your other question about which link to download, you need to install the MOD called user categories ... BUT this MOD works best if you install the two other MOD's he has listed, which is 7112.0 and 7385.0.  So install those two first, and then install this one. That's my advice.

Brian

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

« on: August 17, 2010, 08:05:26 PM »

Hi -

Thanks again and again and again for taking the time to respond so quickly to me. I was able to achieve success but I do want to explain what I did because other users may find this helpful

My User Categories installation is slightly different than the image you posted. If we treat your image as having four quadrants, then here are the differences:

In the upper left quadrant:

Everything matches in my admin panel for User Category Settings.

In the lower left quadrant:

1. I do not see a field below the user manage drop down in edit categories for "Category Image" so I only have 9 fields while you have 10. Therefore I do not see an image count of images in the user category.

In the upper right quadrant:

1. My screen says 'parent category for this user category area' and it is not a blank field but a drop down field of all the categories. To achieve what you said of entering a "0", I had to change the drop down selection from the current parent user category to 'No Category.'

In the lower right quadrant:

1. I think you made a slight typo. I think you meant to write in black "upload" and "direct upload" instead of download and direct download. The permissions area may be confusing for others because if they (I) look in the user groups permissions, we see the same check boxes for the User Category areas and they are unchecked. I had a look in the admin panel for one user and looked at the permissions and they are all checked just as you show in your image.
--------------------------

I just uploaded some images into the personal user area using your multiupload and everything went fine, and thumbnails were created.  My other comments:  the single upload vs. multiupload is confusing since the single upload button is present for the other categories but that is just a matter of removing the coding on the html file. When I click on the User Category and click the user main category, I find I can edit the description but not the name so the category name is something like 'joe's collection.'  It would be nice to allow our users to change the name of their main user category but I don't know if that is possible.  I just noticed I can change the name of the member main category but only from the admin panel.

That's it I think. 

Thanks again.

Brian

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

« on: August 17, 2010, 04:08:53 PM »

Hi -

Thank you so much for the quick reply.

Bugs are bugs. No problems on the logout from the admin control panel. I understand.

Unfortunately, I am still unsuccessful in activating a new User Area for one of the registered users. I changed the user manage - private but that still did not allow the User Area to activate.

To troubleshoot this, could you tell me what permissions I should use for settings 1 - 9 for the parent category for the User Category? All administrator except for the last one or all private? I keep getting an error - you do not have permission to access this page with all of the settings at private.  Or should I be trying to click on the permissions page? Sorry about the confusion.

Also, unfortunately, I do not understand what you mean when you say

If you already placed info in their field for the category, change it to 0 and the mod should take over from there.

Thanks so much for patience as I try to understand this.

Brian

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

« on: August 17, 2010, 02:47:55 AM »

Hi Buddy Duke,

Installed your v 2.02 on v1.7.7;

Just installed this MOD and alas, some problems.

1. In the admin panel, when I click on Log Out, I get this error message:

"Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/user_functions.php on line 520

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/user_functions.php:520) in /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/sessions.php on line 101

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/user_functions.php:520) in /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/sessions.php on line 101

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/user_functions.php:520) in /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/admin/admin_global.php on line 94

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/user_functions.php:520) in /home1/xxx/public_html/xxxgallery/includes/functions.php on line 134"

Issue 2:

I had added several users as test subjects.  I went into the admin panel and set the User Category Settings as:
Yes, Using one main area
21 images
yes - Allow new users to create without admin involve
yes - allow direct upload as default
yes - record log file for all activity
parent category for this area: using a previously created category that has been sitting idle for several month.

okay, with that complete, I tried to log in as one of the test subjects and could not find the 'Your user area' and determined in going back into the admin control panel and editing the user that I had to manually activate the profiles with:
yes - allowed to create a user category area
yes - allowed to direct upload to user category area
selected the parent category mentioned above for this user category area

then, I relogged in and WAS able to see the Your User Area link in the userbox. But, when I clicked on it, it took me to the user categories page and yes, the link does say www.xxx.com/xxxgallery/user_categories.php instead of the action?=createuser link that you mention in the first page of this post to one of the users. When I click on the links on the user_categories.php page, it says I do not have permission to edit the parent category or upload files to the parent cateogry (that makes sense since by your explanation, the user category area should be restricted to just that one user category area).  The page also says I do not have permission to add a sub category

So, I have still been unable to achieve the initial activation of the user area.  I checked and reloaded a fresh copy of the includes/page_header.php file, ensuring that the //mod string was placed below as you directed.

I am unsure what permissions I should assign to the parent category for in the admin panel. Here are the current settings:
1. view category - registered users
2 - 8. - administrators
9. user manage - registered users.

I was extremely slow and methodical in adding all of the mods to the files. What do you think I have missed or what series of problems do you think I have encountered?

Thanks,

Brian

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Feedback & Suggestions / Re: 4images 1.7.8. - Feedback

« on: August 15, 2010, 06:26:02 PM »

Hi Rembrandt [Andi]:

I am using Google Translate from german to english but even then the replies on this string are not making a lot of sense.

I am like Zakaria666 who has installed a number of MODS to v1.7.7

If I install the upgrade to v1.7.8, won't a lot of the upgrades stop working? 

But then I stopped worrying so much about me and thought about you. Your site is incredible with sooooooooo many modifications.  Can you tell us how you will go about upgrading your site? We can take that as a model.

Thanks,

Brian

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] Batch Copy/Move/Edit Images v4.15 (2010-07-17)

« on: July 17, 2010, 08:56:54 AM »

Hi -

Thanks for the the update. Can you advise how to upgrade from v4.14 to v4.15?

Do I just download the 4.15 zip file, and upload that over the existing file?

Thanks so much.

Brian

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Tutorials / Re: [TUT] Tooltip for Thumbnails

« on: June 16, 2010, 06:12:53 PM »

Ivan,

If you have a later version, please share! My version is v 5.3.1 from that link even though it says 4.12, and it says it was last modified 07 Nov 2008.

Cheers,

Brian

- see attached -

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Tutorials / Re: [TUT] Tooltip for Thumbnails

« on: June 15, 2010, 05:39:59 PM »

I was surprised to read your post since I had used the link just two months ago.  After some research on the web, I found some posts that said Walter Zorn had passed away last year and apparently the web hosting had expired.

I found this archive link where you can still download the the tooltip:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080103025045/www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm

If anyone who has enjoyed the tooltip has any idea how we can preserve this knowledge, please speak up!

I still have two unresolved posts (on page 4) in this topc on how to make the tooltip work for:
1. thumbnails that appear in remote images uploaded by url (topic 6921.0) but the image won't preview in tooltip
2. thumbnails that appear in the last comments received MOD (topic 15701.0) but the image won't preview in tooltip

- Brian

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Español / Castellano / Re: [MOD] Incorporar Moderadores en la galería

« on: May 23, 2010, 01:42:06 AM »

Hey,
Thanks for your reply. I already have the Moderator MOD installed.

I am running v1.7.7

I can made any modifications to the MODS I have installed. After having installed about 22 MODs, I am pretty sophisticated when it comes to changing any code.

I don't understand why you would need to make a copy of my files and run the install_moderator.php file. I already did that..

I am very sorry but I don't understand at all what it is you want to do.

Here are my questions:

1. Do you have a solution to the "guest" problem for those users who are selected as moderators when they make comments?

2. Do you have a solution to the hanging 'editar moderadores' link that when clicked says 'no entires found' even though you can see the moderators if you use the 'Edit User Link' and click on moderadores?

Thanks for your patience. I am grateful that you want to help but I am truly confused what it is you want to do and I am utterly confused what you mean by hospital work? 

Brian

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Español / Castellano / Re: [MOD] Incorporar Moderadores en la galería

« on: May 22, 2010, 12:33:45 AM »

Hi -

Not sure if your are responding to my posts. i translated your post from spanish to english with google. I don't understand what you are offering. Should I download the file from the link in your post and install it in the mod? Is that what you are saying?

Thanks,

Brian

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Templates & Styles (Requests & Discussions) / change body color for postcard preview and postcard sent?

« on: April 30, 2010, 09:44:19 PM »

Hi -

The body code for our gallery is a little too dark for the postcard preview and the postcard sent displays:

body {
  background-color: #5C5C5C;
  color: #000000;
  font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 11px;
}

Can anyone suggest where to insert a modified css style, like 'bodybright' into the postcard html or postcards.php file?

Here is a proposed code I could add to the style.css file:

bodybright {
  background-color: #C4C4C4;
  color: #000000;
  font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  font-size: 11px;
}

Thanks,

Brian

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Mods & Plugins (Releases & Support) / Re: [MOD] All Comments (Alle Kommentare) V.1.6

« on: April 27, 2010, 04:40:23 AM »

Hi -

Using v1.7.7  The MOD is operating perfectly and with some tweaking as Manwenzi indicated, got the look I wanted in my templates.  I had previously installed the page comments and universal paging MOD's.  At first I was troubled at not seeing the universal paging but I wondered if my few number of comments might be the cause. I only had 6 comments recorded and these were my comments_all.php  settings:

# Comments per page : standard = 10 ; change through - $commentperpage =  10; -->12(default vs. what I had mine set at)
# Min. Comments per page : standard = 1 ; change through - for($i = 1; $i <=  20;  --> 1
# Max. Comments per page : standard = 20 ; change through - for($i = 1; $i <=  20;  --> 18

So I started pushing the comments and once I got to 13 comment recorded, yes my comment drop down menu appeared at the top and at the bottom although a little ungainly in appearance at the top with two bars and the first table bar directly below the lang_variable_text even though I have a <br /> character afterwards. It looks so sweet if the comment dropdown doesn't appear but once I push the comments to 13, it begins to look a little monstrous. I took Manwezi's code and changed it slightly:

<table width="828" border="0" cellspacing="12" cellpadding="0" class="maincat" >
      <span class="title">{lang_all_comments}</span>
<hr size="1" />
{lang_variable_text}
<br />
{if paging}{if paging_stats}
         <table width="828" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="head2">
            <tr>
               <td>
                  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
                     <tr>
                        <td width="65%" class="row1" valign="left">
                           {paging_stats}
                        </td>
                        <td width="30%" class="row1" valign="middle" align="right">
                           {lang_com_per_page}
                        </td>
                        <td width="5%" class="row1" valign="top" align="right">
                           {commentsperpage_dropdown_form}
                        </td>
                     </tr>
                  </table>
               </td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      <br />
        <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="head2">
            <tr>
               <td>
                  <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
                     <tr>
                        <td class="row1" valign="top" align="left">{lang_navigation}</td>
                        <td class="row1" valign="top" align="right">{paging}</td>
                     </tr>
                  </table>
               </td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      <br />
{endif paging_stats}{endif paging}

Has anyone finessed this paging code so you don't have two table bars right there at the top? Or at least made it a little more elegant as one piece instead of 2 table bars?

Thanks for all the work on the MOD. I read through all 17 pages of the comments and I see you incorporated a number of the suggestions in the MOD updates you created.  It truly is hard to improve on perfection here!

- Brian