[Beta 1.5.1RC1 & 1.4.1] Photo Gallery Mod

[JRCarr]

Finally got around the relative link problem by creating a symbolic link to the YaBBImages directory in the gallery directory.  Seems to work fine.

Excuse what is probably a stupid question, but what is a symbolic link?  

Jack

[Steve Snell]

A symbolic link is the UNIX equivalent of a Windows shortcut or Mac alias.

[Spaceman-Spiff]

Follow up to:

Everything seems to be working now except, I get this error message when I try to send an e-card.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gzcompress() in /usr/home/jackcarr/htdocs/yabbse/gallery/ecard.php on line 56

thoughts?

My host is using PHP 4.1.2 and the gzcompress() was available since 4.0.1, thought this might help determine why the script is saying it is undefined.  Thanks

Jack

YSE 1.5.1 is using a different method of gzip, no longer using gzcompress function, but it uses: ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
i dont know if it affects the ecard or not
if the problem still appear, u can open ecard.php, search for

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      if (function_exists("gzcompress")) {
         $encoded_data = urlencode(base64_encode(gzcompress(serialize($data),9)));
      } else {
         $encoded_data = urlencode(base64_encode(serialize($data)));
      }
and replace it with

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      $encoded_data = urlencode(base64_encode(serialize($data)));

[Nerd3d]

I don't understand why on one system the file paths for the images work and on another they don't work.

Any reflection on this before I start hard coding paths in my installation?

[Steve Snell]

When trying to upload a photo, the photo get's placed in the albums/userpics/ directory properly but the results of db_input.php page is completely blank (no error code, nothing).

In the thumbnail settings, I've tried GD1 and GD2 but there is no effect on the output (there is no output).  Can anyone tell me what GD is and if I need to install it?

Steve

[Nerd3d]

If you didn't have GD installed you would probably get an error. So that's probably not the problem.

GD is a set of image functions built into PhP (PhP is built with GD) most newer versions have one or the other.

[JRCarr]

Jack.&lt

YSE 1.5.1 is using a different method of gzip, no longer using gzcompress function, but it uses: ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
i dont know if it affects the ecard or not
if the problem still appear, u can open ecard.php, search for Code:
     if (function_exists("gzcompress")) {
        $encoded_data = urlencode(base64_encode(gzcompress(serialize($data),9)));
     } else {
        $encoded_data = urlencode(base64_encode(serialize($data)));
     }


and replace it with Code:
     $encoded_data = urlencode(base64_encode(serialize($data)));

Thanks , but you know that one thing is almost always going to raise another question or problem. The email sent just fine, took me to a e-card sent page.
However, on the e-mail the FROM: name appeared as (Jack.&lt) and if you try to reply you have the same thing in the TO: field.

Don't hate me, I'm starting to figure this php out and before long hope to solve these minor things myself

Jack

[Spaceman-Spiff]

I don't understand why on one system the file paths for the images work and on another they don't work.

Any reflection on this before I start hard coding paths in my installation?

i dont understand either why the install script work for some people and doesnt for others

In the thumbnail settings, I've tried GD1 and GD2 but there is no effect on the output (there is no output).  Can anyone tell me what GD is and if I need to install it?

check in your phpinfo if u have GD installed
if its not available, i believe your host needs to install it
u will not be able to install it yourself, unless u're the server admin
if u dont know what phpinfo is, make a file called phpinfo.php and put this code inside the file:

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<?php phpinfo(); ?>
upload it, and view it using your browser
it should tell about your php settings/environment

[Spaceman-Spiff]

The email sent just fine, took me to a e-card sent page.
However, on the e-mail the FROM: name appeared as (Jack.<) and if you try to reply you have the same thing in the TO: field.

i just realized i didnt put the latest ecard.php on the zip file
oh well... i'll fix it when i release a newer version
about the ecard, im not experiencing that problem in my gallery
pls try to send an ecard to: monkey at monkey-pirate dot com
so i can take a look at the problem

[Steve Snell]

Well, I appear to be using PHP 4.1.2 and I don't see any mention of GD after doing a phpinfo query.  I manage my server so I could install it but since I have to install something, should I install ImageMagick?  Is there a benefit to doing so?

Steve

[Spaceman-Spiff]

GD doesnt support gif file, ImageMagick does
IM & GD2 have better thumbnailing result than GD1
i dont know anything else about them
maybe others can help more...

[Steve Snell]

I'm rockin' and rollin'.  Thanks everyone for your help.  Installed PHP 4.31 with GD 2 support and everyting works.

ATTN: Mac OS X Server Users: the PHP mod that is installed with 10.2.4 does NOT include GD support.

Install Marc Liyanage's (thanks Marc) PHP Apache module.  

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

Be sure you modify your httpd.conf to disable "apple_auth_module".  

Steve Snell

[Spaceman-Spiff]

to ppl having problems with ecard, try this file: ecard v0.95
just overwrite the older version
tell me if it works fine or not

[JRCarr]

Spaceman-Spiff, you are great as always.  This file does fix the problem.

Jack

[dschwab9]

Thanks for porting this to 1.5.1.  Been wanting to install for a while and haven't had time to try it manually, but now I'm up and running!

Got one minor problem:  If I try to log out of yabb while in the gallery, I get the error "Session check failure. Please try again."
Does anyone know a solution to this problem?  Anyone else experienced it?
My forum is at http://bbs.zuwharrie.com if anyone would like to take a look.

Thanks!