Comments on: Beta 368 http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/ Simplified Image Organization Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:44:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: noel http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-87 noel Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:54:21 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-87 Let's start at the beginning and I'll try and answer everybody's question... <strong>romamor</strong> - You are getting a HTTP 401 error unrelated to the program, but with your apache setup/permissions on your web directories. - You need to set your upload_max_size in php.ini to eliminate the upload limit. - Your path to ZIP is probably incorrect <strong>chris rhee</strong> - The admin URL is http://photostack.org/demo/organize.php <strong>Noah</strong> - Thanks for the idea - I did already think of it and may implement it in the future. <strong>Jorn</strong> - I'm really sorry about your safe mode problems, but I'm not sure I can even get it to work with safe mode, most gallery scripts don't. <strong>Stacey</strong> - True, all browsers don't work with the admin interface - but I'm stiking with the "37 Signals method" and ignoring the old browsers. <strong>Park</strong> - The gallery is emptied every 5 minutes <strong>Joel</strong> - Confused, but I'll check it out. Thanks <strong>Joe</strong> - I'm afraid that photostack will not work with safe mode on. sorry. <strong>Another Will</strong> - Thanks. <strong>Lance</strong><strong> - it does change, it just doesn't rename the album's actual folder, only the Metadata</strong> Let’s start at the beginning and I’ll try and answer everybody’s question…

romamor
- You are getting a HTTP 401 error unrelated to the program, but with your apache setup/permissions on your web directories.

- You need to set your upload_max_size in php.ini to eliminate the upload limit.

- Your path to ZIP is probably incorrect

chris rhee
- The admin URL is http://photostack.org/demo/organize.php

Noah
- Thanks for the idea - I did already think of it and may implement it in the future.

Jorn
- I’m really sorry about your safe mode problems, but I’m not sure I can even get it to work with safe mode, most gallery scripts don’t.

Stacey
- True, all browsers don’t work with the admin interface - but I’m stiking with the “37 Signals method” and ignoring the old browsers.

Park
- The gallery is emptied every 5 minutes

Joel
- Confused, but I’ll check it out. Thanks

Joe
- I’m afraid that photostack will not work with safe mode on. sorry.

Another Will
- Thanks.

Lance
- it does change, it just doesn’t rename the album’s actual folder, only the Metadata

]]> By: David Foltz http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-86 David Foltz Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:06:14 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-86 Overall i like photostak very much. However I'm having a few problems with the latest beta: * unable to make new gallery * sometimes "up" or "next" navigation in the gallery is broken. the url is pointing to /,12 which doesn't look right to me. not sure why it's doing this. maybe a bad config on my part. Overall i like photostak very much. However I’m having a few problems with the latest beta:

* unable to make new gallery
* sometimes “up” or “next” navigation in the gallery is broken. the url is pointing to /,12 which doesn’t look right to me.

not sure why it’s doing this. maybe a bad config on my part.

]]> By: Crooked Shack » Photostack or Zenphoto? http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-85 Crooked Shack » Photostack or Zenphoto? Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:59:22 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-85 [...] I have been using photostack for my photos section and it has served me well up to a certain point. There have been a couple of things that have annoyed me about it but they were small enough that I let it go since the rest of it worked really well. The version that I have been using is 2.17b which was released just about a year ago. Noel has finally released the next beta of photostack and I have been playing with it on another site. There are many great improvments but one that really stands out for me is on the user end. If a gallery has a large number of photos and therefore many pages of photos, when a user is pageing through the thumbnails and wants to see the larger view, they click on the thumbnail. Once they have viewed the photo if they would like to go back to the previous page of thumbnails they can now. In version 2.18b or less, if you click the “up a level” link to go back to the thumbnail view you will be taken back to the first page of thumbnails. That is most annoying. I am really enjoying the new look and layout of the admin section. It uses AJAX for a lot of the editing and is really pretty slick. I do have one issue with the gallery creation section. The gallery folders are created using the script of course but as a result the owner of the gallery folders is apache. That is probably not an issue for anyone using apache without SAFE_MODE turned on, but my host uses SAFE_MODE. Because the gallery folders are owned by apache you cannot write to them i.e. upload photos. I don’t know if there is any way to fix this but I have my fingers crossed. I have been looking into a couple of other products and one that I have found that is really enticing is Zenphoto. There is a bonus on this one in that it is also set up as a blog. While I like this feature I don’t know if this would draw more comment spam. A couple of others that are interesting are Simple PHP Gallery and Plogger. Whatever software I end up using it will take a little work because I will have to set up some kind of redirect in my main .htaccess file to redirect all of the links to photo-posts that are currently out there. [...] […] I have been using photostack for my photos section and it has served me well up to a certain point. There have been a couple of things that have annoyed me about it but they were small enough that I let it go since the rest of it worked really well. The version that I have been using is 2.17b which was released just about a year ago. Noel has finally released the next beta of photostack and I have been playing with it on another site. There are many great improvments but one that really stands out for me is on the user end. If a gallery has a large number of photos and therefore many pages of photos, when a user is pageing through the thumbnails and wants to see the larger view, they click on the thumbnail. Once they have viewed the photo if they would like to go back to the previous page of thumbnails they can now. In version 2.18b or less, if you click the “up a level” link to go back to the thumbnail view you will be taken back to the first page of thumbnails. That is most annoying. I am really enjoying the new look and layout of the admin section. It uses AJAX for a lot of the editing and is really pretty slick. I do have one issue with the gallery creation section. The gallery folders are created using the script of course but as a result the owner of the gallery folders is apache. That is probably not an issue for anyone using apache without SAFE_MODE turned on, but my host uses SAFE_MODE. Because the gallery folders are owned by apache you cannot write to them i.e. upload photos. I don’t know if there is any way to fix this but I have my fingers crossed. I have been looking into a couple of other products and one that I have found that is really enticing is Zenphoto. There is a bonus on this one in that it is also set up as a blog. While I like this feature I don’t know if this would draw more comment spam. A couple of others that are interesting are Simple PHP Gallery and Plogger. Whatever software I end up using it will take a little work because I will have to set up some kind of redirect in my main .htaccess file to redirect all of the links to photo-posts that are currently out there. […]

]]> By: Lance Willett http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-84 Lance Willett Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:05:21 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-84 Nice work, Noel. I've been waiting for this release for quite a while! Glad to see if finally coming together. Just as Brant Winter noticed, when you edit a gallery name, it doesn't actually stick. When you are done editing, the name is the same as it was before. Also, when I edited the templates/default files, the changes didn't show up on the site. ?? Otherwise, it looks pretty nice! Nice work, Noel. I’ve been waiting for this release for quite a while! Glad to see if finally coming together.

Just as Brant Winter noticed, when you edit a gallery name, it doesn’t actually stick. When you are done editing, the name is the same as it was before.

Also, when I edited the templates/default files, the changes didn’t show up on the site. ??

Otherwise, it looks pretty nice!

]]> By: Alex http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-83 Alex Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:27:08 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-83 It's a really nice work. Just I don't arrive to include this on my website !! my gallery : http://www.moby-fan.com/moby-fan/photostack/ the problem on my design : http://www.moby-fan.com/moby-fan/?p=photostack/index It’s a really nice work.

Just I don’t arrive to include this on my website !!
my gallery :
http://www.moby-fan.com/moby-fan/photostack/

the problem on my design :
http://www.moby-fan.com/moby-fan/?p=photostack/index

]]> By: Another Will http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-82 Another Will Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:41:57 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-82 For beta 368, in order to get the RSS feed working with mod_rewrite clean urls, I had to add the following line to .htaccess before the "rewrite galleries" rule: # rewrite rss RewriteRule ^((.*)/)?(rss/)$ index.php?gallery=$2&template=rss [ne] Not sure if this is the best rule to accomplish this, but it seems to get the job done. See for example: shervinfoto.com/gallery/ For beta 368, in order to get the RSS feed working with mod_rewrite clean urls, I had to add the following line to .htaccess before the “rewrite galleries” rule:

# rewrite rss
RewriteRule ^((.*)/)?(rss/)$ index.php?gallery=$2&template=rss [ne]

Not sure if this is the best rule to accomplish this, but it seems to get the job done. See for example: shervinfoto.com/gallery/

]]> By: Joe http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-81 Joe Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:13:34 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-81 Great work, Noel. I almost have everything working except I am getting the same error that Jorn received. I have shell access to my server so I checked to see who owned the folder and saw that the owner was apache. I tried to delete the folder and of course was denied. My remedy was to first change the permissions of the file to 777 through a php script and then I could delete it manually. Next I recreated the folder manually, not using the admin script, and changed the permissions to 777. I was then able to upload pictures using the admin pages. All of the pictures that I have uploaded belong to apache but I am able to modify all of the information as well as delete them through the admin section. I am confused as to why I cannot do this with folders but I can with the images. I don't know if it is possible to change this behavior or to at least check if safe_mode is on and if so change how the script creates the gallery folders. Thanks again for a great piece of software and I hope this can be worked out. Using the SVN version 369 Great work, Noel. I almost have everything working except I am getting the same error that Jorn received. I have shell access to my server so I checked to see who owned the folder and saw that the owner was apache. I tried to delete the folder and of course was denied. My remedy was to first change the permissions of the file to 777 through a php script and then I could delete it manually. Next I recreated the folder manually, not using the admin script, and changed the permissions to 777. I was then able to upload pictures using the admin pages. All of the pictures that I have uploaded belong to apache but I am able to modify all of the information as well as delete them through the admin section. I am confused as to why I cannot do this with folders but I can with the images. I don’t know if it is possible to change this behavior or to at least check if safe_mode is on and if so change how the script creates the gallery folders. Thanks again for a great piece of software and I hope this can be worked out.
Using the SVN version 369

]]> By: Joel http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-78 Joel Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:05:05 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-78 I tried to upload a .ZIP file (with all permissions set to 777) and recieved this error: Warning: Division by zero in ***/includes/photostack.class.php on line 1022 Warning: Division by zero in ***/includes/photostack.class.php on line 1058 I tried to upload a .ZIP file (with all permissions set to 777) and recieved this error:

Warning: Division by zero in
***/includes/photostack.class.php on line 1022

Warning: Division by zero in
***/includes/photostack.class.php on line 1058

]]> By: Park http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-77 Park Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:02:19 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-77 Am I the only one who gets a virtually empty page at http://photostack.org/demo? Viewing image 0-1 of 0; no menus; no joy. Am I the only one who gets a virtually empty page at http://photostack.org/demo?

Viewing image 0-1 of 0; no menus; no joy.

]]> By: Will http://photostack.org/2005/10/09/beta-368/#comment-76 Will Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:33:41 +0000 http://photostack.org/?p=9#comment-76 Just checked out the latest SVN, good show. All of the issues I was having have been fixed, so I'm quite happy. Can't wait for the template gallery! Just checked out the latest SVN, good show. All of the issues I was having have been fixed, so I’m quite happy. Can’t wait for the template gallery!

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