Beta r396
Download here: http://photostack.org/releases/beta-newest.zip
Mostly bug fixes, including control panel glitch and a lack of IM support for rotation. Everything else is working wonderfully. Please report any problems you have. This is going to be the “public” beta if all is good.
Also, spread the word! If you like PhotoStack, let your friends, neighbors, and enemies know. :)
David said,
November 10, 2005 @ 10:21 am
“An error occurred: Could not upload file”
Noel,
From 391: “Sorry David, I saw the error, but figured it was a permissions thing. If you can throw me something from your error log that would be awesome.”
Permissions are OK (they default to ‘777′ anyway with Windows box). Apache error.log contains nothing relevant. access.log contains no errors (I’ll post if you want to see that). I’ve tried with IE, Firefox + Opera.
Don’t know what else to try. :o/
Ralph said,
November 10, 2005 @ 10:27 am
Works great!
One problem: mod_rewrite does not work for images with the file extension in uppercase like this - 800729.JPG (it gets a 404 not found error)
but works if it is .jpg
Ralph said,
November 10, 2005 @ 11:47 am
OK, now I fixed it - I added .JPG to .htaccess
Simon said,
November 10, 2005 @ 12:08 pm
Im allso having trouble: foto.simz.dk
noel said,
November 10, 2005 @ 9:07 pm
Simon, your trouble is with permissions, not with photostack. Just set your permissions to 777 for the galleries folder.
Simon said,
November 11, 2005 @ 5:22 am
Noel, thank you for your reply.
I allready set chmod 777 on galleries, cache and the 2 files.
A ‘ls -l’ on the directory shows this: http://simz.dk/galleries_access.jpg
Allso, the css seems to be missing?
Brian Allen said,
November 11, 2005 @ 1:17 pm
When I go to change my password, the field’s contents looks like it has some of the MD5 junk in it.
Entering a new password does work.
noel said,
November 12, 2005 @ 12:45 am
Brian,
The MD5 Junk, is junk - a random password to change to, it’s just a suggestion, but helpful for creating new passwords.
The problem is NOT the MD5 stuff, but likely permissions on your config.users.php file.
noel said,
November 12, 2005 @ 12:47 am
Simon,
I have no clue about your CSS problems - perhaps try reinstalling from scratch.
noel said,
November 12, 2005 @ 12:48 am
Simon,
You need to chmod galleries/ AND all the files in it.
Brian Allen said,
November 12, 2005 @ 11:20 am
PHP error due to file being too large. What is the file size limit?
I am getting the PHP error on a single 2.7MB picture. This is a big limitation, bummer.
Any work arounds other directly uploading files?
Brian Allen said,
November 12, 2005 @ 11:27 am
large zip files are failing, too.
Kyle Rove said,
November 12, 2005 @ 12:13 pm
In the latest beta, when I attempt to change the thumbnail associated with a gallery, it always shows the first image in the gallery instead of the one I picked. The metadata.csv file correctly shows the thumbnail I want associated with the gallery, it just is not reflected in the list of galleries.
I am not sure if this ever worked….
Brian Allen said,
November 12, 2005 @ 2:29 pm
Kyle Rove — Have you forced a reload?
noel said,
November 12, 2005 @ 6:47 pm
Size Upload issues are related NOT to PhotoStack at all, but to your servers php.ini files settings.
felttippin said,
November 12, 2005 @ 11:31 pm
I am having the same problem with the gallery thumbnail. I have changed the gallery thumbnail and when I click on edit again, it shows that that thumbnail should be the one showing up for the gallery, but it is not. I have purged the cache on both the gallery and my browser, but no luck.
Kyle Rove said,
November 13, 2005 @ 12:36 am
I forced a reload and emptied the cache, but nothing changed.
noel said,
November 13, 2005 @ 1:33 am
Gotcha, issue with thumbs will be fixed.
Brian Allen said,
November 13, 2005 @ 12:10 pm
Thanks Noel, it was set to 2MB. The error message that you show is good, but this item is a good candidate for frequently asked questions.
Brian Allen said,
November 13, 2005 @ 12:19 pm
The image generation is very slow. Is there some way to pregenerate all of the images?
The speed is preventing viewers from just flipping through the images. A image is loading in about 13 seconds from an original 3072 × 2048 in size.
Kyle Rove said,
November 13, 2005 @ 12:29 pm
Once the cache is generated (i.e. the thumbs and pages), there should not be as much of a delay. Depending on how large the “thumb” is of your original 3072×2048 image, it could just be taking time to download.
When I create a new album in the old PhotoStack (which works similarly in this regard), I always go through the album to generate all the cached materials so my visitors do not have to wait subsequently.
noel said,
November 13, 2005 @ 1:45 pm
Brian,
Control Panel -> Generate Thumbnails… again make sure your cache directory is writeable or it won’t work.
Kyle, it’s quicker to use control panel -> generate thumbnails than to go through the album.
Image generation speed is based on how fast your server is.
Kyle Rove said,
November 13, 2005 @ 4:15 pm
Ah… thanks, Noel.
I think I have another bug:
$photostack->galleryDescription();does not return the gallery description. Instead, it returns nothing. This is on the gallery listing page.noel said,
November 13, 2005 @ 6:36 pm
If there is no gallery description, this will of course return nothing - are you sure you have a description set?
Brian Allen said,
November 13, 2005 @ 8:14 pm
Noel,
The generate thumbnail command only generates thumbnails. The killer is the large version of the picture.
Your code only generates the large picture when it is viewed. Like I said before, you can’t flip through the pictures if it is having the generate the image for the first viewing. The only solution that I can see for now is Kyle Rove’s approach.
This approach is very painful given I just got back from Walt Disney World and I have 157 photos to flip through.
As side note, your code generates files names with ‘.JPG’ and ‘.jpg’.
Brian Allen said,
November 13, 2005 @ 8:34 pm
A great work around would be to embedded the following link or similar into the page.
This would have two affects: first the next image would be built and secondly the image would be preloaded.
Brian Allen said,
November 13, 2005 @ 8:35 pm
missing link from last post
img id=”theimage” src=”./thumb.php?gallery=./MY_GALLERY&image=NEXT_IMAGE.jpg&width=640&height=640″ width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″
noel said,
November 13, 2005 @ 9:29 pm
thumbnail problem taken care of, not worked around, but fixed in the generate thumbnails command. (it now generates all sizes.)
noel said,
November 14, 2005 @ 1:28 am
also, thumbnail for gallery issue taken care of. thanks for the bugs and tips.
Kyle Rove said,
November 14, 2005 @ 12:39 pm
I have a description set for each album or gallery, and in the main listing, I see no descriptions.
Kyle Rove said,
November 14, 2005 @ 9:11 pm
Another minor bug:
When viewing a photo, the title attribute of the navigation links has a number (presumably an index) at the beginning. For example, if the name of the next image is “View of stadium” I see “2View of stadium”
Designer Diary » More wonderfull things to explore.. said,
November 15, 2005 @ 12:42 am
[…] Photostack update In a previous post I mentioned that one of the downfalls for me was that there was no configuration/options page within the administration interface. Noel was kind enough to come by and let me know that the updated version does indeed include this feature. This makes Photostack alot more lovable, and I will be writing a full review on it in the near future as well. […]
sean said,
November 16, 2005 @ 3:54 pm
photostack latest beta installed ok, however thumbnails are not being created.
here is the error:
[Wed Nov 16 20:48:18 2005] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefromjpeg() in /home/sites/site29/web/photostack/thumb.php on line 134
everything else is fine, full size photos are visable.
sean said,
November 16, 2005 @ 3:58 pm
GD Version bundled (2.0.23 compatible)
steve said,
November 17, 2005 @ 12:32 am
Love the latest additions to photostack, been a while since I’ve tinkered with it… I’m having a few issues I’m hoping I can get some help with…
1. the photostack loads well sometimes into the shell of my site but after clicking through a bit, the sites framework seems to get lost. I used my own index.php and put an include in the main DIV that includes the provided photostack index.php (now called index_inc.php) You can see on the other pages of the site how it should look with the galleries loaded in the main DIV.
2. How do I resize the images automatically?
3. on the image pages, the nav has Prev j Up | Next… where do I change that ‘j’ into a ‘|’?
Again,
I really hope I can get some feedback on these issues, I’d love to be able to keep using photostack and promote it more.
thanks,
Steve
Kyle Rove said,
November 17, 2005 @ 12:36 am
Noel, when I modified the
galleryDescription()function to use brackets in theif()constructs, it fixed the problem of no descriptions appearing.Additionally, can you add date sorting to the albums? There is a date field in the metadata.csv, so it seems arbitrary to add a sorting capability. (I did it myself, and it was literally just a line or two of code.)
Brian Allen said,
November 17, 2005 @ 3:56 pm
When do you expect to have another release?
noel said,
November 17, 2005 @ 7:36 pm
soon.