Pixelpost v1.6 beta

[blinking8s+]

Ladies and gentleman, it's here.

We're looking for beta testers, people to install it, rip it apart, put it back together, upgrade, whatever you can think of.

Heck, if you feel like making a checklist of things to test, post it here.

Remember though, if you do upgrade your version on the server BACKUP EVERYTHING first...that means the files and the database.

Ok...so here it is.

Download: http://www.pixelpost.org/releases/pi...t_v1-6beta.zip

Originally Posted by jaywilliams

I've setup a mirror on my site for people who are having issues downloading the beta.

http://labs.dview.us/other_files/fil...t_v1-6beta.zip

You can verify that the mirror is the same as the "official" version by checking the MD5 Hash: 78153f831bbe612bce88cb466369ec41

A huge thank you to GeoS and schonhose, it's really THEIR pixelpost version, they put a massive amount of effort into this. As well as a special thanks to cancerbox for his NEW template donation, horizon.

Changelog from Pixelpost 1.5 to Pixelpost 1.6
The Big Changes

    * Tag support
    * Secondary language support
    * More anti-spam features

Feeds

    * Now Pixelpost produces valid ATOM 1.0 feedUp to Version 1.5, Pixelpost produced valid ATOM 0.3 feed
    * As the feedvalidator at www.feedvalidator.org issues deprecation warnings whenever it encounters Atom 0.3 feeds, this upgrade was really necessary
    * RSS: <guid> no produces complete URL + index.php...
      Example where nn stands for the image-number: <guid>http://www.yourdomainhere.de/index.php?showimage=nn</guid>

Security

    * Comments enable/disable/modarated for individual posts
    * More secure thanks to switching off by default error_reporting when not logged in
    * Check if the commenter IP address is in the DSBL list @ http://www.dsbl.org. If it is, the user is redirected to a warning page mentioning the used address is blocked. Otherwise, comment gets trough
    * Users can set the number of seconds between comments in the admin user panel. If a comment is posted before that the script dies because of a possible spam flood

Comments

    * Bug fix with twice much <br /> in comments visible on page
    * Markdown enable/disable
    * Comments for an individual picture can now be disabled through editing picture properties or set when uploading a picture
    * User comments with the same mail address as the admin mail address get a new style <li class="admin_comment"> to differentiate
    * Fixed comment redirection when $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] is empty
    * Added new functionality: direct redirection after posting comment (without "thank you screen"); it needs <input type='hidden' name='withthankyou' value='no' /> in comment form (in template file)

Language and Tags

    * Fixed a bug that the selected language for the blog was shown twice in the list
    * Code added for selecting language files and language specific templates while maintaining backwards compatibility
    * TAG replacement and stuff is added in an addon
    * If no language is set the 'old' way is used to display the page
    * Support for <LANGUAGE=XX> tags (creates url) and <ALTERNATIVE_LANGUAGE> tag (for switching between the secondary language)
    * Added secondary language support for title and description

Usability

    * Switch template select: removed duplicate entry
    * Showing exif is an option in the admin panel
    * Added Mark all images in admin area (see: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5361)
    * Added a massdelete image option and a mass publish option
    * Added additional info to the file upload error message when there are incorrect write rights to the /images directory
    * Global setting, set through the Options, is used as default for new picture
    * Nice error message when the user selects an alternative language similar to the default language
    * Nice spam flood error message in the language file

Other Changes

    * Many spelling errors corrected
    * Addon type 'front' added for workspaces in the frontpage. See: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?p=42907#post42907
    * Added error_reporting switch. index.php?errors (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE) or index.php?errorsall (E_ALL). Must be logged into admin to work
    * Added a count_addon_admin_menus function. If count_addon_admin_menus > 0 then show HTML menu code. Otherwise don't show code
    * Small bug where index.html needed to prevent folder browsing showed up in the selection lists for language and templates fixed
    * When uploading picture Exif info is stored in database and on viewing restored from database
    * Added SVN tags for development
    * Fixed small bug when get_file_contents is disabled when checking for latest pixelpost version. if get_file_contents returns false, cURL method is tried. If cURL returns false, "Unable to retrieve current version" is displayed
    * When gpc_magic_quotes is not set PP title and site url is escaped by using addslahes. Bug fix for http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5366
    * Added code for adding alt_fields in the categories table and tags table
    * Fixed problem with incorrect variable name used for taking thumbnail image size
    * Many more minor bugs fixed

Please report any bugs you may find in the Pixelpost 1.6.x section of the forum, not in this thread. Make a new post.

[tami]

sounds cool

are the URLs more friendly? e.g. is it still index.php?showimage=422 or something along the lines of inheriting the title and making that the url?

[livejamie]

4) Upgrade from Version 1.5 to 1.6
- Backup your Pixelpost.
- Unzip the Pixelpost 1.6 zip into a directory on your local machine.
- Blah blah blah

hahaha.. i'm sure i can figure it out, but it might be a good idea to complete that in upgrade.html

[Dennis+]

Yeah, this is what you get in a beta version. Code-wise it should be stable and backwards compatible with all old addons.

If addons don't work, download them again, upload them again and make sure they are on.

[Dennis+]

Originally Posted by tami

sounds cool

are the URLs more friendly? e.g. is it still index.php?showimage=422 or something along the lines of inheriting the title and making that the url?

This beta version does not contain this feature. However, work is done to make nice url's like wordpress with a minimum of possible hassle. Jay is trying to figure out how this can be implemented but we are not sure if it will make the final.

Perhaps we release an (or a couple of) intermediate version(s) between 1.7

[Dennis+]

Another remark which I didn't found in the docs and we ALL want this:

Better SPAM protection.
You should open your comment_template.html and you will see something like this:

<form method='post' action='index.php?x=save_comment' name='commentform' accept-charset='UTF-8'>
<textarea name='message' rows='2' cols='40' onfocus="clearBox(this);">Type your comment here.</textarea><br /><br />
<input type='text' name='name' class='input' value='<VINFO_NAME>' id="name"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <label for="name">Name</label><br /><br />
<input type='text' name='url' class='input' value='<VINFO_URL>' id="url"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <label for="url">Website URL, if any</label><br /><br />
<input class='input' type='text' name='email' value='<VINFO_EMAIL>' id="email"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <label for="email">Email (not visible to others)</label><br /><br />

<input name='vcookie' type='checkbox' id="saveinfo" value='set' checked="checked" />
<label for="saveinfo">Save User Info</label><br /><br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='submit' value='Add' class="comment-button"/>
<input type='hidden' name='parent_id' value='<IMAGE_ID>' />
<input type='hidden' name='parent_name' value='<IMAGE_NAME>' />
</form>

Add the following tag <TOKEN> right before the last </form> line. Basically it adds a hidden field containing an unique set of characters. This set is also stored in the user's session. If they don't match the comment will be rejected. This will prevent automatic spam injection by injecting POST variables to the save comment routine.

This feature has to be enabled in the admin panel otherwise the tag will not be replaced.

[dhdesign]

I am having problems with the zip file included in the first post. I download it, and try to open it with 7Zip or with XP's native function, and both of them report that the file is corrupt and cannot be opened.

I've tried doing "right click--save as" in both Firefox 2.0.0.3 and IE6, with the same result.

I had this same problem when downloading 1.5 from a forum post. However, when I went to the website and downloaded it from there, the zip file was fine.

Does Vbulletin do something to the files when downloading them via the forum?

[austriaka+]

I downloaded it myself from this link here to compare some things with the developer version and it worked without any issues (using WinZip).
I just tried it again using Filzip which is a free program (http://www.filzip.com/) and it worked.
Try another unzip program and if this doesn't work either, please list exactly all steps you did for downloading it so we can give you advice

KArin

[dhdesign]

The problem seems to be (for me) that trying to download the zip file from the forum post results in a truncated zip file at completion (only 213kb), thus the message that the file is invalid or corrupt. It doesn't seem to matter if I just click on the link directly, do "right-click -- save as", or even copy/paste the url for the zip file into the address bar - all of those resulted in a truncated zip file at the completion of the download.

I had this same problem when I tried to download 1.5 from a forum post - the file would show as invalid or corrupt. I finally went to the main page of the website and downloaded it from the link listed there, and the zip file was fine.

I've ended up having to make a basic html page and embed the link from the OP in that, show it in local mode in FF, and try the download from there. Doing that has resulted in a successful download of the zip file (all 447kb), and I was able to open that and extract the files.

I'm probably only one of a few that will end up having this problem, but it might be worth it to put up a basic html page with the text from the OP and a link to download the zip file, and include that in the OP as an alternative download method, in case anyone else has this same problem.

Thanks for the heads-up on Filzip. I've gotten it downloaded and installed, and I already like it much better than 7Zip!

Now I'm off to install to v1.6beta and see all the new stuff!

[livejamie]

although i think you can solve the problem by clearing your cache or trying a different browser, i've mirrored the file here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6womr6

for anybody having the strange truncuation problem