Plogger Support Forum - General Support

Hanging on to Plogger - But WordPress Plug-ins are fighting me

joemolloy — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 14:42:24 +0000

I've hung on to Plogger despite persuasion from a development consultant, and got by until a combination of storms.
My photo galleries have been accessed from a WordPress page for three years now, into my PHP, MySQL database.
I got a critical site error on 26 June 2021 when the StopBadBots plug-in auto-updated.
Several remedial actions were taken, including turn off StopBadBots, update PHP, and more.
Working with the site design consultant, I now have back the thumbnails that should then open my albums.
But all are replying with error http 500

I'm going to get the hosting service to take another look at this and this post is purely to get any comments from other Ploggers on any recent upgrade misery.

Plogger and Oypo

edwink — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 08:55:02 +0000

After much trial and error with other gallery scripts, I finally found out (at least partly) how to get Oypo to work with Plogger.

In picture.php I added the following:








Aantal foto's in winkelwagen:

checkout via de Oypo-site: checkout

As you can see, it now takes the same image for both the thumb as the Highres image. Those Highres images should be located at http://www.voorugezien.nl/HighRes/ with exact the same path as the thumb
You can see my test and playing around at http://www.voorugezien.nl/

Future of Plogger (potential for adoption / fork)

phual — Sat, 17 May 2014 15:35:16 +0000

I've just been upgrading a site I run that integrate Plogger and Textpattern, The upgrade was prompted by my hosting provider upgrading my PHP version and I though that I'd take the opportunity to upgrade Textpattern as well. The result of all of this was that I suffered a repeat of problems I've had with conflicting variables used by the two systems as well as incompatibilities with php version 5.4. Looking through the forum, I can't help but notice that:

- development appears to have halted
- the source software (subversion) is down
- lots of people are having compatibility issues with newer software releases
- the developers appear not to have posted for quite some time.

In short, the project shows all the signs of a loss of resource, motivation, or both from those maintaining Plogger. This leads me to the inevitable question: would there be an interest from the maintainers to pass the project on, or from the community to take forward a fork?

At this point I should point out that I'm not a developer and can just about find my way around some PHP code. For this and other reasons I would not be an ideal candidate to take the project forward (at least not to do anything more than maintain), though I would be willing to support however I could. I wonder, are there others out there who would be willing / able to make some form of commitment?

Stuart
(a Plogger lover grateful for excellent work on project to date)

Plogger stopped working, probably PHP problem

poslanik — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:17:42 +0000

Hello guys,

I know it's a longshot asking for help on this forum since Plogger is discountinued but I decided to try anyway.

So, to make a long story short, my website running Plogger suddenly stopped working. Now, as far as I can recall, it happened immediately after my web hoster updated his PHP version, and certainly the errors that Plogger is reporting have something to do with PHP functions.

Here is a screenshot of what shows up when I try to open my website (it runs Plogger on the homepage, basically the whole website is a Plogger gallery): https://snag.gy/kwroUZ.jpg

And then, if I try to open _install.hp or _upgrade.php like it tells me to, this is what I get: https://snag.gy/BPRNgD.jpg

If there's somebody who can helps me out or point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it so much...

HTTPS Support

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 14:02:37 +0000

Plogger don't seem to support HTTPS. My ISP has just blocked port 80 and a nice migration to HTTPS would be nice.

Thanks,
Clayton

Some folders won't upload

edwink — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 10:47:49 +0000

I have some folders added to the upload folder, but when importing them, not all are getting through. No clue why. They have spaces in the name, but others have as well, and they still get through.

'cdn_url' missing

edwink — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 10:38:12 +0000

I've got a fork-ed version of Plogger, but everytime I want to update the options, I get the error:

Unknown column 'cdn_url' in 'field list'

UPDATE `plogger_config` SET `truncate`= '0', `feed_title`= 'Plogger Photo Feed', `feed_language`= 'en-us', `feed_num_entries`= '15', `allow_dl`= '0', `allow_comments`= '1', `allow_print`= '1', `default_sortby`= 'date', `default_sortdir`= 'ASC', `album_sortby`= 'id', `album_sortdir`= 'ASC', `collection_sortby`= 'id', `collection_sortdir`= 'ASC', `thumb_num`= '20', `compression`= '75', `admin_username`= 'Edwin', `admin_email`= 'edwin.kort@gmail.com', `date_format`= 'n.j.Y', `use_mod_rewrite`= '0', `square_thumbs`= '1', `comments_notify`= '1', `comments_moderate`= '0', `gallery_url`= 'http://voorugezien.nl/', `gallery_name`= 'Plogger', `cdn_url`= 'http:///', `thumb_nav_range`= '0', `enable_thumb_nav`= '0', `allow_fullpic`= '1'

In file: /plog-admin/plog-options.php

On line: 81

I thought of adding this column my self with 'add colum' to the table, but somehow this doesn't work. Any one got a clue?

Error on admin Notice: Undefined index: JPG Support in...... /plog-a

Daz wilde — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:46:59 +0000

Hi all im getting this error when signed in to the admin:

Notice: Undefined index: JPG Support in ........... /plog-admin/plog-admin-functions.php on line 1986

photos disappeared

KimberlyApril — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:50:12 +0000

I had 8 pages of photos on my gallery - I now have only 2.
I can not log into plogger - it tells me "http 500 error, that's odd, website can't display that page"
I am freaking out because this is my entire portfolio that I use for work nationwide!

Log in

KimberlyApril — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:16:36 +0000

PHP GD extension is not installed, it is required to upload images.

xiphias — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:58:59 +0000

While trying to update the code be able to run on newer PHP versions I ran into some ereg() to preg() replacements. No biggy. But all of a sudden I got the above error when logging into the Admin even though server info stated: GD Version: bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

When looking at the PHP log files there was a preg() error. After the update below, error gone and plogger running fine again.

plog-includes/lib/phpthumb/phpthumb.functions.php line 362
Old:
if (ereg_match('bundled $(.+)$$', $gd_info['GD Version'], $matches)) {

New:
if (preg_match('/bundled $(.+)$$/', $gd_info['GD Version'], $matches)) {

How Do I Increase Slideshow Image Size

joemolloy — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 21:53:59 +0000

As an amateur user of Plogger, I keep things simple and very happily run things fairly much at default.

However, I am wishing to increase the size that images display when running a slideshow from an album. Could you point me to the correct file? I've had a look through the directories but do not see where the size is set.

I am running
PLOGGER VERSION: 1.0-RC1
Theme Classic Version 1.2
Server Software: Apache/
PHP Version: 5.4.29 (CGI-FCGI)
MySQL Version: 5.5.37-cll
GD Version: bundled (2.1.0 compatible)

album links not working after upgrade from plogger 3 beta

bjornart — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 14:48:02 +0000

Is there anything more I need to do to make the links work?
I upgraded from version 3 beta.

http://www.trondsen.org/gallery/

plogger_album_picture_count() returning nothing

xiphias — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:26:53 +0000

I've been having issues that plogger_album_picture_count() is not returning the amount of images in an album.

It looks like mysql_result has been altered in the new PHP 5.4 I'm running and needs a row number.

On line 2808 in my plog-functions.php I changed the function call to:
return mysql_result($numresult, 0, 'num_pictures');
and that seems to do the trick.

Hope this helps anyone with the same issues.

-XiP

can not upload photos to gallery

KimberlyApril — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:52:26 +0000

Please help! Plogger is not allowing me upload any images to my gallery. Is there a phone number I can call for technical support?

Cruft-free url's problem with utf-8

Creatium — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:11:02 +0000

Hi everybody!

I've just upgraded to newest version of Plogger - 1.0 RC. Everything works fine, exept the cruft-free url's when using utf-8 characters. My album names have "????????" (Lithuanian) symbols and Plogger system automatically changes those symobls to _. Is it possible to make it change from ? to a, ? - c, ? - e and so on?

Also when I'm using name like that: "Name of the - plogger album", I get something like that in url: "name-of---plogger-album". Is it possible to throw those tripple dashes away and just have one - (in bolded place).

Thanks for those, who will try to help me.

And sorry for "broken" (:D) English.

GoDaddy-Windows Backslash in URLs

cameling — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 08:10:03 +0000

Installation went fine, but nothing is being referenced correctly. All URLs when viewing source code look like:

http://domain.com\/plog-admin/

I've tried several workaround mentioned in other threads revolving around line 94 in plog-load-config.php using str_replace, with no luck. In fact any changes I made seemed to have no effect at all. I know some basics of PHP so am out of my depth here.

Any advice?

Problems with plogger/joomla integration. (SVN601)

xiphias — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:49:08 +0000

Hi,

From what I read on the web there's a lot of need for a joomla plogger component. I've done some basic modules on Joomla 1.0.x but I've challanged myself to create a basic plogger component for joomla 1.5.

A little background, Windows Server, PHP4, MySQL3 (I think), Joomla 1.5 (works fine without Plogger), sitename_joomla DB for Joomla, sitename_Plogger DB for plogger (keep things seperate and smaller DB size but seems to give me problems.)
In the plog-config.php I set embedded to 1.
I'm not to familiar with PHP yet but do have prior application coding (long time ago in Pascal) and webdevelopment (ASP, CFML, java-/cfscript).

I tried a verry basic component which basicly only had in it and the include and head code is hardcoded in my template. When I call the component I get a white page so something is going wrong there.

Since I'm using the SVN version the included gallery.php is just for backwards compatibility so I then took the code from it and included plogger.php and called the_plogger_head() and return the_plogger_gallery().

To avoid the greation of a real component I just put all of this in my template, so at the top before // including plogger file
include_once(JPATH_ROOT . '/plogger/plogger.php');

between and I put:

and at the spot where the main Joomla body would be displayed I put:

I figured this would basicly show my complete Joomla site with the plogger gallery on every page.

This seems to work fine although I get a lot of errors. None of the Joomla components are showing anymore. Looks like Joomla has a db=sitename_Joomla and then plogger does db=sitename_Plogger so Joomla tables unreachable. I could put them together but would be nicer if it would run seperatly, that way creating a Joomla site and including a running Plogger would be easier.

Appart from the Joomla errors Plogger isn't working OK. I can browse collections, albums and images but they aren't showing any images. Here is some of the plogger code generated in the template.

USA Sport Fotografie: Collections

The RSS/Cooliris links are generated via the plog-functions, guess that the gallery.css, dynamics.js and explorer.css need to be done in simular way.

This is collection generated by plogger.

Baseball

Contains 4 Albums

Baseball en softball foto's

The href should be simular to the RSS links the thumbnail SRC is completely wrong and link below also needs full URL.
Even better would be that plogger gets the URL that was called forinstance /?option=com_plogger&ItemId=15?level=collection&id=2 and change the level and id tokens so that the querystring used by main site stays in tact.

I think plogger reads the parents folder but when included it's different from the plogger folder. Include pasth should be added I guess or something.

@sidtheduck: do you have any tips for me and should I post a ticket about the last bit with the correct URL's.

Has anyone accomplished a joomla/plogger successfull integration or is anybody working on it, maybe it's an idea to team up.

Friendly regards,

Michael Rosa

P.S. The plog-cooliris.php thing is something I'm working on to make plogger Cooliris/PicLens compatible. I've added a ticket and files to the dev.

Custom changes to varibale names

phual — Sat, 17 May 2014 15:41:54 +0000

I've just finished updating my installation of my site and its use of Plogger. I had to resolve some conflicts between software using the same variable names (specifically 'id') and though that I'd share what I changed to resolve this (by renaming the variable that Plogger uses from 'id' to 'plogid'). The changes below relate to RC1

-plog-includes/plog-functions.php
-search and replace '&id=' with '&plogid=' (4 changes)

- plogger.php
- Line 25 - replace ['id'] with ['plogid']
- Line 26 - replace ['id'] with ['plogid']
- Line 50 - replace second element of array ('id') with 'plogid'
- Line 78 - replace '$_GET['id']' with '$_GET['plogid']' (x 2)

Stuart

FORBIDDEN Error when importing images

nolak — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 21:13:38 +0000

Hello all.

Weird error. I installed my gallery and starting uploading images into folders. I uploaded well over a hundred images into 3 different albums no problem. All of a sudden I went to upload my next album and I get this error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /gallery/plog-admin/plog-import.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Can someone shed a light as to why this suddenly happened? Thanks.

Cannot install Plogger on PHP 5.4

ixnay — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:11:19 +0000

I have a well established Plogger site but I need to upgrade my server from PHP 5.2 to latest version for security reasons on some ecommerce sites I run. I thought that there may be problems so I have tried to install Plogger on one of my other servers that already is running latest PHP and I am getting errors:

string(184) "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Type=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8' at line 6" string(184) "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Type=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8' at line 8" string(226) "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(14) NOT NULL, `date_submitted` timestamp(14) NOT NULL, `EXIF_date_taken` varc' at line 7" string(185) "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Type=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8' at line 12" string(185) "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Type=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8' at line 29" string(184) "You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Type=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8' at line 6"

This is well beyond me! Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks

ps if I cannot get it to work, is there anything else out there like Plogger that is more modern?

Administration Setup

armandotop — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:37:34 +0000

I just installed Plogger and then I created a Database. When I load up the install link I get an Administration Setup Page I use the data base logon information and I get this error:

?Cannot connect to MySQL with the information provided. MySQL error: Access denied for user 'roycgarr_jenn'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
?Cannot find the database roycgarr_garrett. MySQL error: Access denied for user 'roycgarr'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

What needs to go here to work?

When I did the install link it did not prompt me to enter the server database information.

Please help...

Armando

Deprecated eregi

gabixSVK — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:45:06 +0000

If you have problem with .....

Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in "path" on line X

Just open the .php file , find the X line and change the eregi() to preg_match()

You can have problem also with no ending delimiter "^" , just add a simple ^ into preg_match()

example [ here tag ]: preg_match('^(f|ht)tps?://^', $this->sourceFilename)

Moving the gallery to another directory

icue — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:07:54 +0000

Hi, I have installed and setup my Plogger gallery the way I want and all seems well but I need to move the gallery files into another directory. Is there a config file I can change so the gallery works in new directory, or do I need to re-install plogger. If I have to re-install, is it possible to keep all my database of images and settings.

Thanks,
James

subtle installation error: "Notice: Undefined index: resize_option in..."

jshine — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:00:40 +0000

I recently updated my installation of Plogger to RC1 and noticed that, although it appears to function okay -- read the database, etc. -- it displays copious error messages on the tops and bottoms of the pages:

http://www.jshine.net/plogger/

Any ideas what could be causing this or how to fix it?

Thanks!
-Jon

Issue when importing photos from upload folder in 1.0-RC1

Faken — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:24:41 +0000

Hi all,

I have been using Plogger for years and still love it to this day, but I am running in to a new issue with larger photos when I try to import them from the uploads folder. I have uploaded 6 images, each are around 2.6MB and are 3648 x 2736, which is the native resolution of the camera I used for these pics. Now this is not a new install and have already added many photos with no issues. But with these large photos, I get the following error:

Failed: phpThumb() v1.7.9-200712090829 in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 216 setSourceFilename(/home/danrich/public_html/gallery/plog-content/uploads/IMG_0272.JPG) set $this->sourceFilename to "/home/danrich/public_html/gallery/plog-content/uploads/IMG_0272.JPG" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 243 file_exists() = 0 in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1101 is_executable() = 0 in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1102 ImageMagickThumbnailToGD() aborting because cannot find convert in $this->config_imagemagick_path (), and `which convert` returned () in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1131 $AvailableImageOutputFormats = array(text;ico;bmp;wbmp;gif;png;jpeg) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 884 $this->thumbnailFormat set to $this->config_output_format "jpeg" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 895 $this->thumbnailQuality set to "95" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 912 $this->sourceFilename set to "/home/danrich/public_html/gallery/plog-content/uploads/IMG_0272.JPG" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 813 setCacheDirectory() starting with config_cache_directory = "" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 919 $this->config_cache_directory () is not a directory in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 955 SetCacheFilename() failed because $this->config_cache_directory is empty in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3037 starting ExtractEXIFgetImageSize() in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2894 SetOrientationDependantWidthHeight() starting with "3648"x"2736" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2873 SetOrientationDependantWidthHeight() setting w="150", h="150" in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2889 EXIF thumbnail extraction: (size=6616; type="2"; 160x120) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 2976 image is 3648x2736 and therefore contains more pixels (9980928) than $this->config_max_source_pixels setting (6291456) in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3018 $this->useRawIMoutput=true after checking $UnAllowedParameters in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1232 ImageMagickThumbnailToGD() aborting because ImageMagickCommandlineBase() failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1865 starting SourceImageToGD() in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3234 $this->useRawIMoutput=true after checking $UnAllowedParameters in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1232 ImageMagickThumbnailToGD() aborting because ImageMagickCommandlineBase() failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 1865 Not using EXIF thumbnail data because $this->config_use_exif_thumbnail_for_speed is FALSE in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3295 $this->gdimg_source is still empty in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3335 ImageMagickThumbnailToGD() failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3337 phpThumb() v1.7.9-200712090829 All attempts to create GD image source failed. ImageMagick is not installed (it is highly recommended that you install it). Source image is too large (3648x2736 = 10.0Mpx, max=6.3Mpx) for GD creation (either install ImageMagick or increase PHP memory_limit to at least 51M). in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3652 phpThumb() v1.7.9-200712090829 Image is too large for PHP-GD memory_limit, please install ImageMagick or increase php.ini memory_limit setting in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 3652 SourceImageToGD() failed in file "phpthumb.class.php" on line 323

If I remove all the images and only keep one, I get the same error. If I remove ALL the photos and upload a smaller image file say 200k, it works no problem. In the error message, it tells me to increase the memory_limit setting in phpthumb.class.php to at least 51 on line 3652 but when I load the file and look, line 3652 has this:

$this->DebugMessage($text, __FILE__, __LINE__);

And I don't really see anything around that line with that field... I search the file for "memory_limit" and it finds it about 20 times, but I am not sure which one I need to modify. Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks!
Dan

Album problem

rozsival — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:28:22 +0000

In "jump to" menu I see all my albums (15) in my collection "ostatni" but in standard view of collection I see only 5.
Please let me know where is the problem.

http://www.dolnibenesov.cz/zakladniskola/index.php?idStranky=555

if possible please send me youc comments also on my e-mail atile@seznam.cz

Thank you

Plogger and PHPBB

Geert-Jan — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:27:48 +0000

Hi,

I succesfully integrated plogger into my site. Now I have only one problem left, my site uses phpbb for user management. But when I require gallery.php and some phpbb files (like extension and common) in the same file, I got the followling error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare generate_pagination() (previously declared in /home/gjvliegt.nl/www/forum/includes/functions.php:443) in /home/gjvliegt.nl/www/fotoboek/plog-functions.php on line 263

Has anyone a solution for this? I can simply not use the phpbb files with plogger but it would be a lot better if I can.

Thanks,

Geert-Jan

Dont save picture's caption on russian language

shut — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:33:43 +0000

Hello! Sorry, my english very bad ((
When I make caption for picture in manager, caption on english saving, but on russian - not saving. Please, help me. Plogger's version is 3.
Oh, when I add caption in MySQL table - all working. What is it?

Please Come Back Plogger

C4talyst — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:42:23 +0000

I love this software and am still using it for new sites I'm creating. Any chance development will ever resume?