Allen.. I confim they aren't showing up on your site using I.E. here too.
I got Zarzal's code to work on my site (UBB.t V7.0.2 & PP V5.6.2) by removing the code at the bottom that asks for the ubb database:
mysql_select_db ("dbname")or die("Could not select database");
So the end of my content island code looks like this:
PPPRINT;
$counted++;
}
if ( $counted == 5 ) break;
}
mysql_free_result($result);
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE BELOW */
$body = <<<PPPRINT
$featured
PPPRINT;
EOF;
/* DO NOT CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE */
Also note the spelling error in the script "lastest" should be "latest". In addition to the default "random", "latest" works, but "most_view" does not. I haven't played with it to determine why.
I also had to uploaded and modify the text file Zarzal posted earlier in the thread, and saved it in the PP directory as photopost.inc.php. This appears to be a file that was present in an earlier version of PP, but is not present in the latest download. inc-photopost.php appears to have much of the same code as Zaral's script.. but I was not able to figure out a way to make it work (with my very limited PHP skills).
And lastly, I set the cache to '3' on the content island to have it rebuild the random set of images every 3 minutes.
Anyway, the result is a pretty clean sidebar box which only shows the user name under each image. (your implementation has a link to the user's gallery, how many images they have and how many comments). Have a look on my site to see the result.
The only other buggy behavior I've found (and haven't yet figured it out) is the sidebar sometimes pulls random images from categories that only have copied images in them (admin copied to a feature category). In those cases, there is no thumbail in the category to pull.. so a red-X appears. Not sure if this is an issue with PP or the PAL script. You won't run into the problem unless you've set up some Admin/Mod only categories in PP (or other similar categories) that only have images that are copied into them from other categories. My "SS Exhibit" category is an example of this.
Let me know if you need more info.
Oh.. and thanks Zarzal!
