FancyArchive v1.3 Released

[ibejo]

I just released v1.3 of Fancy Archive:

http://www.pixelpost.org/v1/index.php?x=downloads&details=101

Here is the change log for 1.3:

v1.3 Change Log
1. Added the tbl_css_id variable. This allows you to explicitly set the style for the blocks of
displayed images. This was implemented to get around Internet Explorer's problem with CSS inheritance in
HTML tables.
*** NOTE: YOU MUST REMOVE THE <DIV> tags before and after the <IMAGE_RESULTS> tag *** in your old fancyarchive_template.html file!!!!
2. Added the markdown function to the body text - so now, markdown should be properly parsed.
3. Fixed a couple random bugs.
4. Fixed some XHTML compliance issues.

As usual....let me know of any problems or things you would like to see in future releases!

[japanwindow]

I got the archive working, and it looks great. Thanks so much for doing this, and for adding the line to parse Markdown.

Could I ask one more ignorant question (maybe two in one)??

Does this addon (or any addon) slow down the entire site? Ever since adding the Fancy Archive, the main page seems to loading a bit slower. I can understand why the Fancy Archive itself could be slow loading, but would the archive slow the main page down, too??

On a related note, I am still using the normal archive (now renamed "photos only gallery"). Is there any problem have both the regular and simple archives active at the same time?

[ibejo]

I've had one other talk about slowing down of the site - but I've also had lot of folks say it was no problem. I would need more info on this to be able to trouble shoot it.

Shouldn't be a problem at all running both the normal and fancy archives.

[Joe[y]]

index.php literally just adds addons to it's code - unless there are any looping functions in the addon code or any unreasonable requests from databases then there is absolutely no reason why fancyarchive should slow anything.

as far as i can tell, fancyarchive does not and should not slow down anything.

[cyberico]

using this new ver. i still have my bug.

pls see www.photorape.com/blog/

browsing fancy archive the problem is NO image results after filtering with <CAT_COUNTS> <DATE_COUNTS> !!

<LIMIT_COUNTS> works good.

im using <FANCY_IMAGE_CATEGORY> in my image_template.html

is there something to change in index.php ????
in database ???

pls i wonder if anybody may help me.
thnx

enrico

[cyberico]

only cat_counts does not work.

im using last IE and Firefox.
my fancyarchive.php:

//*************************************************
//MODIFY THESE VARIABLES TO CHANGE DISPLAY BEHAVIOR
//*************************************************
$two_column_display = true; //true = 2 column layout, false = single
$tbl_width="550px"; //width of table displaying layout.
$default_limit="20"; //By default, show X images per page - MUST be (10,20,30,40 or 50)
//NOTE: the large the number, the longer the load time per page.
$nav_tag = "1"; //1 = [Next] [Prev], 2 = (Next) (Prev),
//3 = Next | Previous, anything else = Next Prev
$pic_col_width = "20%"; //Width of Thumbnail column as percent of total table width
$cell_spacing = "0px"; //Cell Spacing in the Display Table
$cell_padding = "2px"; //Cell Padding in the Display Table
$display_exif = true; //true = display exif data, false means don't.
$tbl_css_id = "images"; //This is a workaround for users having CSS issues
//*************************************************
//NO MODIFICATIONS PAST THIS POINT
//*************************************************

[cyberico]

other info for debugging:

PHP-version 4.3.10 (Pixelpost's min requirement: PHP version 4.3.0)
MySQL version 3.23.58 (Pixelpost's min requirement: MySQL 3.23.58)

GD-lib bundled (2.0.28 compatible) with JPEG support

Server software Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora)

EXIF Pixelpost is using exifer v1.5 for EXIF information.


Addons installed:

Pixelpost Copy Folder Contents (copy_folder.php - version 0.7)
Fancy Archive (fancyarchive.php - version 1.3)
Extra EXIF Information for (PP v1.4+ only) (extra_exif.php - version 1.1)
Pixelpost Calendar (calendar.php - version 1.0.1)
Page-By-Page-Archive for category and month (for PP v1.4) (paged_archive.php - version 0.6)
Pixelpost Current DateTime (current_datetime.php - version 1.1)
Advanced stats (advanced_stat.php - version 1.0)
Code generator for robot (increase_stats.php - version 0.1)
Visits Today (visits_today.php - version 0.1)
Pixelpost Anti-Spam (anti_spam.php - version 2.0)


thnx

[cyberico]

Ok, i found the problem by myself at last.

>>>> MySQL version 3.23.58 (Pixelpost's min requirement: MySQL 3.23.58)

too old mysql version. with ver 4.x fancy runs good.

now i still have bottom of the page problem to fix...

[cyberico]

i fixed my bugs.

a suggestion for drop down menu (category and date).

now the default position is empty.
i would change it in "All", both for category and date drop down menu.

it will be more usable. hope you can add this improvment (easy) very soon!
thnx

[Joe[y]]

sorry to bring this up but i have a couple of bugs with this version:

flash exif does not work .. nor does my ISO exif but I think that's more likely the camera's fault as it isnt' displayed on my normal page either. what happened to the flash exif though? the flash info isn't displaying on your site either.

also, i seem to be displaying posts from the future... urr, not sure how far into the future though as i have 2 in the future right now and only the closer one is showing. i think it may be coming up 12 hours early.

[ibejo]

']sorry to bring this up but i have a couple of bugs with this version:

flash exif does not work .. nor does my ISO exif but I think that's more likely the camera's fault as it isnt' displayed on my normal page either. what happened to the flash exif though? the flash info isn't displaying on your site either.

also, i seem to be displaying posts from the future... urr, not sure how far into the future though as i have 2 in the future right now and only the closer one is showing. i think it may be coming up 12 hours early.

I've never been able to get the flash exif to work! The ISO exif seems to work though - you are the first to talk about that one. Let me know if it is something I need to look into further. The future post bit - I limit it to the same day - not hours/mins/secs - I didn't want to get into doing discrete calcs based upon the time - but enough people have asked for it - I'll look into it.

[ibejo]

i fixed my bugs.

a suggestion for drop down menu (category and date).

now the default position is empty.
i would change it in "All", both for category and date drop down menu.

it will be more usable. hope you can add this improvment (easy) very soon!
thnx

I'll put it in the next release - should be this coming weekend

[Joe[y]]

I've never been able to get the flash exif to work! The ISO exif seems to work though - you are the first to talk about that one. Let me know if it is something I need to look into further. The future post bit - I limit it to the same day - not hours/mins/secs - I didn't want to get into doing discrete calcs based upon the time - but enough people have asked for it - I'll look into it.

well i'm pretty sure the ISO isn't down to you - but it would be great if you got the flash working (could you not just pull it in from exifer like pixelpost does?, especially as you appear to include it in the addon - why include a feature that doesn't work?

also, it would be for sure an improvement to include at least hours and minutes - if you're up to it.

thanks so much for my fave addon!

[-okapi-]

sorry to say, but also the latest version (1.3) is terribly slowing down my site.
this happens as soon as the fancyarchive.php is uploaded to the addons folder.

it's the same as with version 1.2. i do not have exif data with my jpg's.
but this should not affect the performance. this addon is unusable for me at the current state.

i seem to be the only one who has got this problem...?

[lokjah]

bit off topic, but okapi your work is amazing.

[-okapi-]

thank you so much!
:)

[funktifeye]

is it just me, or does that link seem to give me version 1.2 again?
edit: perhaps just the readme hasn't been updated? nor the version # listed in the fancyarchive.php?

[japanwindow]

The same thing happened to me. I contacted Okapi and he emailed the new version to me directly. Not sure what the problem is, because he was sure he had loaded the new version online.

[-okapi-]

The same thing happened to me. I contacted Okapi and he emailed the new version to me directly. Not sure what the problem is, because he was sure he had loaded the new version online.

i think you mean ibejo, not me...?

[japanwindow]

Sorry about that.

[cyberico]

Hi

please reply to me:

- i'd like to change the _________ line that separates eacy couple of images in fancy results. default is gray. whare i have to change? in fancyarchive.php? where??


- fancy does not display "Flash" fired/notfired in exif output.


thnx!!!
enrico

[Ariel]

Fancyarchive is great. It's much better than the default archive. However, it no longer sees any of my 2005 photos now that the new year has started. Has anyone experienced a similar issue?

Here's the archive (http://www.arielbravy.com/photoblog/index.php?x=fancyarchive), if you'd like to see.

Also, on a side note, is there a way to move the menus which let you select categories, etc.?

Ariel

[Arabica]

Hi pixelposters,

i have the same problem like Ariel and I'am not the SQL-Pro to find out, what's going wrong. Can anybody please help?

thx
Arabica

[jharlap]

The solution is to simply edit addons/fancyarchive.php and do a find and replace...

Find "%m %d %Y" and replace it with "%Y%m%d" (without the quotes). You'll end up making 8 changes (2 on each of 4 lines).

Cheers,
J

[Arabica]

T
Find "%m %d %Y" and replace it with "%Y%m%d" (without the quotes). You'll end up making 8 changes (2 on each of 4 lines).


Thanks a lot. Works perfect now.

Arabica

[Ariel]

Find "%m %d %Y" and replace it with "%Y%m%d" (without the quotes). You'll end up making 8 changes (2 on each of 4 lines).

Thanks J! That fixed it perfectly for me now too!

Ariel

[Joe[y]]

can i point out that if Ibejo is planning on rereleasing this addon with the fix above he should also look at removing the blank lines from the end of the file which caused me some problems with google :p

[Outdoor Words]

Just added the Fancy Archive addon ... The initial archive apears fine but when I use the drop downs to "see" last months images I get the following error.

Error:
No language folder exists or the file "lang-.php" is missing in that folder.
Make sure that you have uploaded all necessary files with the exact same names as mentioned here.


Any Clues

Pete

[Joe[y]]

Just added the Fancy Archive addon ... The initial archive apears fine but when I use the drop downs to "see" last months images I get the following error.

Error:
No language folder exists or the file "lang-.php" is missing in that folder.
Make sure that you have uploaded all necessary files with the exact same names as mentioned here.


Any Clues

Pete

that message is telling you that you are missing a language file from your 'languages' folder - double check the file is there and if so reassign the language in your admin side.

[unseen]

how would i go about making the archive show only the beginning few lines of text from an entry instead of the entire post? also, is there a way to create a second set of thumbs for the fancy archive? i want those thumbs to be bigger than the regular ones. thanks so much! :]

[cyberico]

hi

i found problem with the NEW year 2006.

http://www.photorape.com/index1.php?x=fancyarchive

as you can see fancy does not display months of 2005 year (where november 2005 has images).

please help me!!!

thnx
enrico

[Joe[y]]

cyberico - only a few posts above yours is the solution to this problem! look up.

[cyberico]

Fixed! thank a lot.

[DerPatrick]

I have installed the fancyarchive 1.3 addon to my photoblog and have changed the most 'hardwired' english words into german (don't know why it use a language file).

But now i don't know how i can change the dateformat to german so that the date is '14. Jan 2005' instead of 'Jan 14, 2005', (DD. MMM YYYY instead of MMM DD, YYYY) the same problem on the dropdownlist with the english monthnames.

I hope anyone could help me.

Patrick

[DerPatrick]

Sorry, but nobody could or want help?

What had i have to do to get help or support?

Is there nobody who have the same problem?

[Connie]

do a search for "php locale date format"

the output of date mostly relies on the "locale" which is configured at the server
there are directives to change that as well (I remember something like "set TZ =" )

read the php manual, it is in german as well, you will find it online at www. php-center.de for (http://www.php-center.de) example

[Orangetones]

It was asked before I think but not answered. I was wondering if anyone knew how to limit the image description to a certain number of characters in the Fancy Archive add on. Is there any way? You know what I mean to have it put up just the first few words of the description for those of us who have lengthy descriptions.

Any help would be apprecitated.

Cheers,

Steve

[runxc24]

Is there a way to order the thumbnails by exif date rather than post date (or id number)? Mine displays them in the order I post them rather than the actual date taken. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.

Edit: figured it out... There's two places where b.id needs to be changed to b.datetime in fancyarchive.php...