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Feedback & Suggestions / [Feature Request] Display all available keywords for search

« on: June 29, 2002, 02:34:25 AM »

Keyword searching in its current form is great but it only works if you already know all the available keywords in the database or happen to click on a keyword from the page generated by details.php

It would be really nice to have a php generated keyword list to select from in search_form.html.  In other words, let 4images generate a drop down list of all the available keywords like it already does for the available categories. This would make keyword searches more powerful for the end user.

My guess is this would require a new database field or table.  Future version perhaps???

Whether this suggestion is taken or not, thanks for listening to the user community.

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Templates & Styles (Requests & Discussions) / Yes, yes!

« on: June 28, 2002, 02:58:41 PM »

When I first installed 4images, I was thinking it would be really nice to have a php generated keyword search like this.  

In other words, let 4images generate a drop down list of all the available keywords like it already does for the available categories.  This would make search_form.html much more useful to the end user.

Keyword searching in its current form is great but it really only works if you already know all the available keywords in the database.

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Bug Report 1.6 - Search errors for anything but 'All Fields'

« on: June 28, 2002, 06:44:33 AM »

I entered the word 'Pond' into the "Search by Keyword" form field.

CASE 1:

If I leave the "All fields" radio button selected, I get 7 images returned.  There are actually 386 images that have the keyword 'Pond'.

CASE 2:

If I select either the "Only image name", "Only description", or "Only keywords" radio buttons, I get the following error:

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DB Error: Bad SQL Query: SELECT m.image_id FROM 4images_wordlist w, 4images_wordmatch m WHERE w.word_text LIKE 'pond' AND m.word_id = w.word_id AND wm.name_match = 1
Unknown table 'wm' in where clause

Also, for CASE 1, hitting my browser BACK button doesn't return me to the search form.  Instead I see the same search results again but the table width is slightly altered.  Hitting BACK again takes me to the page from where I clicked "Advanced Search".  I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem or helps in any way.

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Bug Report 1.6 - Paging does not work for 'New Images'

« on: June 28, 2002, 06:23:00 AM »

From index.php, I clicked on "New Images".  This is

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<a href="{url_new_images}"><b>{lang_new_images}</b></a> in the home.html template.

I was presented with 4 pages of search results from /4images/search.php?search_new_images=1  

When I clicked on "2", or any of the other page numbers, I was dumped to the search_form.html template with this message "Your search resulted in no matching records."

This bug is reproducible.

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Installation, Update & Configuration / 4images is _NOT_ SpyWare

« on: June 27, 2002, 03:54:29 PM »

Alain:

From zdnet.com

Spyware:
Stealth components and background processes that may violate your privacy or expose your computer to attack.

I hardly think 4images falls into this category.  From what I can see, the link back to http://www.4homepages.de/version/version.php serves two purposes.

1.  The 4images administrator can easily see when a new version is available without having to manually check for themselves.  This is a nice convenience feature.
2.  The HTTP referer provides a method by which the 4images author(s) can ensure the users comply with the terms of the license agreement.

Excerpt from the 4images licence agreement:

All copyright notices including the hyperlinks, and headers remain intact and unmodified in the source.
...
From time to time, Dots United may inspect the adherence of this License Agreement. This will be done without collecting any information whatsoever about yourself, your server or your users. The only information verified will be the adherence of this License Agreement and the domain on which the software is run.
Should we discover discrepancies in the software usage, we are entitled to initiate appropriate steps.

Most software these days comes with some form of protection which is typically copy protection or license protection.  It's a fact of life and it's entirely legal.  One only has to look at Microsoft's software activation technology for an example.  Given that you can use 4images for FREE, what is the harm if the authors know you're using it?  The link isn't providing them information about your web surfing habits, shopping habits or anything about how you're actually using 4images.

How many other software suppliers have you encountered that let you use their software for FREE and provide exceptional and responsive support?  In all fairness to the generosity of the 4images license terms and the continuing hard work of the authors, I hope you'll reconsider your viewpoint on this.

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Installation, Update & Configuration / Ah ha !!

« on: June 21, 2002, 04:32:22 AM »

I found the problem.

I noticed the same thing on my site last week.  Just now I found the time to look into it.

Jan / Nicky:

If an absolute URL such as http://www.MySite.com/path/to/download/file.jpg is used, the download button works and the user gets file.jpg instead of the jpg displayed from details.php

If a site relative URL such as /path/to/download/file.jpg is used, the image_download_url column in the 4images_images table is overwritten with a null value.

For those with this problem, try using an absolute URL instead of the site relative links you're trying now.

This is what works for me.

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Feedback & Suggestions / 'File Size' for images with site relative download URLs

« on: June 21, 2002, 04:18:20 AM »

If I use a download_url that is site relative, meaning the file is stored locally on my site, is there any way to display it's file size as is done for the image displayed in the deails.php page?

I'd like to use this to indicate to the user that there is a larger, higher res file available for download.  Any quick modification that could accomplish this?

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Feedback & Suggestions / [Feature Request] Opt-Out of receiving admin emails

« on: June 20, 2002, 04:32:31 PM »

Simply awesome.

The funny thing is that yesterday, I too added this feature to 4images on my web site.  From start to finish it took me 1 hour.

Many thanks!

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Feedback & Suggestions / [Feature Request] Opt-Out of receiving admin emails

« on: June 20, 2002, 01:41:21 AM »

During the registration process, and in the user control panel, provide a checkbox, radio button, or other form control, to let users "opt-out" of receiving emails sent from the admin control panel.  Store this boolean value in the 4images_users table.

When the administrator goes to the admin control panel and clicks "Send Email" all the names in the "Select User" list box are highlighted by default.  For those users who have opted out of receiving email, simply do not highlight their names.  That is:

Current generated HTML:

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<option value="User@domain.tld" selected>&raquo; User (User@domain.tld)</option>

Would become:

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<option value="User@domain.tld">&raquo; User (User@domain.tld)</option>


It seems to me that this solution should be pretty simple.

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / That did it

« on: June 17, 2002, 03:32:57 AM »

Superb!  Many thanks Jan.  You always impress me with your ability to pinpoint these little problems and produce the appropriate fix.

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Trouble editing templates containing <textarea>

« on: June 15, 2002, 10:11:55 PM »

This problem exists in 1.5 final.  I think I verified this correctly with a clean, unmodified, version of 4images and the default template set.

The following html template files contain the <textarea> tag and are affected:

comment_form.html
member_mailform.html
member_uploadform.html
member_uploadform.html
postcard_create.html

Here is a screen shot to show the problem:


As you can see, half the template is "cut off" from the edit box and I have two strange buttons.

Anyone else have this problem?

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Templates & Styles (Requests & Discussions) / Re: How to change the alignment of thumbs

« on: June 15, 2002, 05:19:10 AM »

The alignment of the table that contains the thumbnails cannot be changed with html files from the template but has to be changed in the php files.

True for vertical alignment but not required for horizontal alignment.  You can achieve horizontal centering by editing thumbnail_bit.html   This is a better approach, in my opinion, because you won't have to restore your edit with a new release of 4images.

Simply make the following line the 1st line in the template:
<div align="center">

And close the html tag by making this the last line in the template:
</div>

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Feedback & Suggestions / Yep

« on: June 06, 2002, 05:05:34 AM »

Admin Control Panel:

Settings>Image Settings>Sort Images By

Select "Name" from the drop down list.

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / Already there

« on: June 02, 2002, 06:46:26 PM »

Thanks, but that line

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define('TIME_OFFSET', '+1');

is already inside includes/constants.php.  This bug is not important to me because the time is displayed correctly in the gallery detail pages.  As far as I am concerned, this can wait.

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Discussion & Troubleshooting / site width???

« on: May 31, 2002, 02:26:36 PM »

Sorry, I can't tell you each and every little mod I had to make.  There are too many to recall.  Your best bet is to use a visual editor like Dreamweaver so you can see what HTML elements have a fixed size and need to be changed.  

Perhaps the guy who's behind bali-pictures.com can email you his templates.  I've customized mine so much that it would take more time than I have to tell you each little thing you would need to remove.

Best of luck.