General Support: The Official Help Me Release Beta 3 Thread

Alright guys, here's the deal.

I really want to get this release out to the public as soon as possible. Myself and several other contributers worked really hard to completely revamp the Plogger codebase, update the UI, add a built-in XML service, AJAX inline editing of captions, integrated language localization, a complete theme engine and a bunch of other small features like comment moderation, improved install process, and picture descriptions.

With that said, it is not quite ready to go. I need your guys' help. I have been so busy the last year or so with a couple of startup companies that I haven't been able to dedicate any time to this project. I'm surprised that so many people are still using beta2 even though the code is almost 2 years old.

I need to few people to test the hell out of this new version. I think that the theme builder API also needs quite a bit of testing. The problem is that none of this stuff is documented, so you will have to figure it out yourself with minimal guidance. I think the theme building stuff is quite self explanatory. Just open up some of theme files for the other included themes and you will understand right away. All the available theme functions are also located in the plog-functions.php file. Also, if someone feels like writing a small "how-to" guide for creating themes, I will publish it to the website documentation section. I think that is really important to have before release.

So, I've packaged the latest SVN version into a sort of prerelease for the kind souls who care to help me get this thing out the door.

Download Beta 3 Pre-Release here.
It's released! Download Beta 3 here.

Run _install.php to get it going. _upgrade.php to upgrade from an old version (don't overwrite plog-config.php when uploading if you go this route). I suggest a new installation on a test directory in a test database so you don't go ruining your nice galleries.

As a side-effect to this pre-release testing, I am hoping to get a few themes and language localizations together to release with the official package. For those of you who are up to it, create your best possible theme and send me a link to it in this thread. The best ones will be included with the next official release. I've already seen a couple on this forum that I would include in a second (a wedding one comes to mind...). There are a few poorly put together themes in this pre-release package that you can use as reference, but I am hoping to have 4-5 solid themes to include with the release.

I also need language translations, so once you download the pre-release, go to http://dev.plogger.org/wiki/TranslatingPlogger and figure out how to make POT files for your language. Also, I haven't tested the language localization myself but Anti assures me that it is working =)

Post all the problems, themes, and translations you find/create in this thread! Let's get Plogger out the door! I will update the pre-release file as I fix problems in the package until I feel it is ready.

You can also contact me through email, I can't guarantee a timely response but my email address is mike at plogger.org.

I'm not sure what we have as minimum requirements, but I can say that I've had it running on PHP 4.3.9 and it's currently on 5.1.x. I haven't tested it on the 5.2 branch of PHP as of yet.

I've also had it running on MySQL 4.x and 5.x.

There was a problem with the install that I fixed last night, give it another try.

Hi Mike, nice to see there's still some life to this. A couple weeks ago I posted a couple issues I found with Beta 3 and some comments, I'll summarize here in case it helps:

Checkboxes (for downloading pics) didn't work in my installation
In my installition the checkboxes or download button weren't appearing in any of the themes that came with it. Of course my theme wasn't working either.


Themes
I don't know, you may be referring to my theme that I've started to create for my wife and I's website. Right now there are only some sample pics there to test it out, and there are a number of pages still needing to be created. Once I finish it, i may create a modified version (I've removed a number of things that I don't need) and post it somewhere for download. You can see the work in progress here:
http://andresyalison.com/photos/


A little tip
I just thought I share a little tip, which is a crude hack as well, but may hint at an idea.

Since it's still a development version I didn't want to modify the gallery files to do my customization since there's still plenty HTML code in the functions, so I created a php file for my own version of the functions and placed it in the theme folder.

I simply copied the functions I needed from the plog-functions.php file and modified the formatting parts of them so they would fit with my design. Including them in the header.php file propagates them through the rest of the files.

An approach like this one, but done better and by design, would give much more flexibility to those customizing without having to modify the core gallery files, allowing you tow easily switch themes.

Thought I share.

Ben, I feel stupid, i didn't realize I didn't have that option enabled in the Options page. Thanks!

Now I get an error message (in all themes):

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/andresyalison/www/photos/plog-functions.php on line 424


SELECT * FROM `plogger_pictures` WHERE `id`='49'

In file: /photos/plog-download.php

On line: 287

this is good news :) cheers to the beta 3 !!!
so after uploading everything to server i went to update my plog and got this :

Performing Upgrade...

Upgrading database structure (plogger_config)...

* Adding new field disabled to database.
* Adding new field gallery_url to database.
* Adding new field feed_num_entries to database.
* Adding new field feed_title to database.
* Adding new field feed_language to database.
* Adding new field use_mod_rewrite to database.
* Adding new field default_sortdir to database.
* Adding new field default_sortby to database.
* Adding new field admin_email to database.
* Adding new field allow_fullpic to database.
* Adding new field comments_notify to database.
* Adding new field comments_moderate to database.
* Adding new field square_thumbs to database.
* Adding new field thumbnail_id to database.
* Adding new field thumbnail_id to database.
* Adding new field path to database.
* Adding new field path to database.
* Adding new field ip to database.
* Adding new field approved to database.
* Adding new field description to database.
* Adding new field theme_dir to database.
* Adding new field album_sortby to database.
* Adding new field album_sortdir to database.
* Adding new field collection_sortby to database.
* Adding new field collection_sortdir to database.
* Adding new field enable_thumb_nav to database.
* Adding new field thumb_nav_range to database.
* Setting default theme directory to web/plogger/themes/default/

Reorganizing your images folder...Access denied for user 'httpd'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

SELECT id,name FROM plogger_collections

and nothing more, there is no message saying for exemple, everything went fine, now you can login.

then i tryed to login and got this :

Table 'buzzworkerscom2.plogger_thumbnail_config' doesn't exist

SELECT * FROM `plogger_thumbnail_config`

ps: this is not from a fresh install, it's by updating from beta2

any help would be very good, thanks in advance !

Ben b.

Same bug has another user ahead :
when i import some pictures from a folder to a category i got this :

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in //web/plogger/admin/plog-admin-functions.php on line 100

but then everything is fine, import seems to work a lot better (without hacks etc..then previous beta version) so this is good news :)

also there is a bug when clicking on the rss feed, you can see it for yourself
going here : http://www.buzzworkers.com/plogger/feed/

Thanks guys, keep 'em coming. I will update the pre-release as I integrate some fixes. Also, note that you can do a fresh install of Plogger without overwriting or upgrading your Beta2 installation by changing the "TABLE_PREFIX" variable in the source code. It is set to "plogger_" right now, so all your tables will be created as "plogger_albums", "plogger_collections", etc. If you change it, new tables will be created so that Beta3 and Beta2 can be used within the same database.

This is the error i get at first login after i run _install

SELECT * FROM `plogger_config`
In file: /putnam/gallery/admin/plog-upload.php
On line: 17

Ardamis, theme looks great!

I have a few general comments about themes in general that may guide people a bit.

First of all, in my mind there are two types of themes. Standalone themes and integrated themes. A standalone theme is great for someone who uses Plogger for their entire website. It generally looks great all by itself. An integrated theme is one that will look good in embedded into any website. This is like the default theme, as Plogger is really designed to be wedged into your current site. An integrated theme shouldn't mess with background colors, fonts, or anything else that would be inherited from the styles of the site which it is embedded in.

If you do create custom PHP functions for your theme, DO NOT modify the core plog-functions.php file. Plogger doesn't treat this file as a modular component like the separate theme files. Instead, simply create a custom file (name it whatever you want) and pull it into your theme head.php or header.php file using a require_once or include statement. This will keep your custom theme portable and allow us to upgrade the Plogger core without messing with your theme.

Ardamis, keep up the good work on the themes. If you get into the code and find the solution to some problems, feel free to send me the code via Email and I will commit the changes to the repository. This goes for anyone currently looking at the pre-release. Thanks!

Hi,

i started to translate the pot into french. After upload, it seems that some of the strings aren't being translated and some are double translated (one ":" as difference)

How can we improve this?

Pivwan, can you email me your French POT file? mike at plogger.org. I will check it out.

Hello mike, hello forum
I think i found a bug.
When you set the maximum number of thumbnails to display to something very low (like 3) the number of collections is affected.
And when you click on the second page or "next" to view the other collections it generates a malformed url:
"...../&plog_page=2"
it works with pictures in albums:
"...../?level=album&id=1&plog_page=2"

It has probably something to do with function generate_pagination
in plog-functions.php but i'm not sure.
I don't have the skills to fix that. Can someone help me.
Thank you.

I'm having the same problem as someone else. Here's what I'm getting:

Upgrading database structure (plogger_config)...

Adding new field disabled to database.
Adding new field gallery_url to database.
Adding new field feed_num_entries to database.
Adding new field feed_title to database.
Adding new field feed_language to database.
Adding new field use_mod_rewrite to database.
Adding new field default_sortdir to database.
Adding new field default_sortby to database.
Adding new field admin_email to database.
Adding new field allow_fullpic to database.
Adding new field comments_notify to database.
Adding new field comments_moderate to database.
Adding new field square_thumbs to database.
Adding new field thumbnail_id to database.
Adding new field thumbnail_id to database.
Adding new field path to database.
Adding new field path to database.
Adding new field ip to database.
Adding new field approved to database.
Adding new field description to database.
Adding new field theme_dir to database.
Adding new field album_sortby to database.
Adding new field album_sortdir to database.
Adding new field collection_sortby to database.
Adding new field collection_sortdir to database.
Adding new field enable_thumb_nav to database.
Adding new field thumb_nav_range to database.
Setting default theme directory to /usr/home/sites/www.bouley86.com/web/photos/themes/default/
Reorganizing your images folder...Access denied for user: 'admin@localhost' (Using password: NO)

SELECT id,name FROM plogger_collections


Any thoughts anyone?

I suppose connecting to the database would help the upgrade script work =/

Add to Line 107-108

include("plog-functions.php");
include("plog-globals.php");
<span style="color: green; font-weight: bold">include("plog-load_config.php");</span>
<span style="color: green; font-weight: bold">connect_db();</span>
$errors = "";


Or just redownload the package in the first message, I reuploaded it.

Now a new problem has come up. (The upgrade files works fine now). But here's what I'm getting when I try to login to my admin:

SELECT * FROM `plogger_config`

In file: /admin/plog-upload.php

On line: 17

Also, try re-uploading the files you are getting this error on, perhaps there is a partially uploaded file? I don't know, I can't recreate this.

I should also mention. This is an upgrade from my old gallery. I tried doing a seperate install of 3 before I tried the upgrade and I had no problems with that at all.

thats the same problem I have been posting about in another thread.. seems to be an issue if you had v2 previously installed.

Here's another question (this is on a different, fresh install of 3)

When I add collections is does not CHMOD the folder to 777 then will not let me create an albums because it's unable to add directories. Also, if I create the folder first and CHMOD it, then add the collecion it will let me create an album but then will not let me upload pictures to that album as it also wasnt CHMODed to 777 when it was created. Thoughts? Could this just be my server giving me problems cuz it sucks?

So on the plogger I'm trying to upgrade, when I run the install I get:

Unknown column 'max_thumbnail_size' in 'field list'

INSERT INTO `plogger_config` (`theme_dir`, `compression`, `max_thumbnail_size`, `max_display_size`, `thumb_num`, `admin_username`, `admin_email`, `admin_password`, `date_format`, `feed_title`, `gallery_name`, `gallery_url`) VALUES ('/usr/home/sites/www.bouley86.com/web/photos/themes/default/', 75, 100, 500, 20, 'admin', 'murdock.daniel@gmail.com', MD5('9gwdu'), 'n.j.Y', 'Plogger Photo Feed', 'Photos', 'http://photos.bouley86.com/')

And then when I try to login to the admin after doing the upgrade I still get:

SELECT * FROM `plogger_config`

In file: /admin/plog-upload.php

On line: 17


As for the new install, I have no idea if SAFE_MODE is on...

In the admin, when I click on the edit icon for an album (to choose the default thumbnail, for example) I get the following error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for generate_thumb() in /home/andresyalison/www/photos/plog-functions.php on line 430

This error appears repeated as many times as there are photos in the album.

Editing the album still works as expected, the errors just get displayed at the top of the page.

Andros, thank you for all your testing! I will fix those problems as soon as possible.

BTW, what you have done with Plogger3 is simply beautiful, congratulations =) Would be an honor to include it as a theme in the official release (if you can get it done on time! ;)

I just downloaded the alpha from http://plogger.org/source/plogger3alpha.zip (linked from Mike's post 6 days ago). When I try to run through the initial setup process, something goes wrong.

Specifically, I'm starting with a completely fresh setup - new directory, new database, etc. I go to _install.php and enter in my database/user info, then click Install. I'm told that setup is now complete, and get my admin password. However, when I click the 'Proceed' button, I get the following error page:

Notice: Undefined index: PATH_TRANSLATED in /home/burnetts/public_html/plogger/plog-load_config.php on line 34

Notice: Undefined index: PATH_TRANSLATED in /home/burnetts/public_html/plogger/plog-load_config.php on line 34

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/burnetts/public_html/plogger/plog-load_config.php:34) in /home/burnetts/public_html/plogger/_install.php on line 27


I also notice that I am unable to use the admin password (that _install.php gave me) to login to the /admin directory.

In case it matters, my server is running PHP 4.4.1 and MySQL 4.1.21-standard, on CentOS w/ a cPanel setup.

Andros, I guess everything needs to be checked, but most importantly the theme stuff. Also, it's nice to have a lot of different people test it out because we often have problems on particular web server configurations that are hard for us to reproduce. I am really just looking for major problems right now, as it will be impossible to get it perfect at this point.

The latest version has been uploaded (same link above) to include the fix for the comment deletion/approval bug.