Okay this is a modification from code posted here based on Michael Pierce's main index hack which pulls Photopost on the main page. I have been using this for quite a while and made a multiple photo pal for my site which many people have requested so here you go.
and photopost.inc.php []$url_path = "http://www.couch-tomatoe.cc/photopost/data/3003/"; //URL of your photo album, where the index.pl is (with / at end) $data_dir = "http://www.couch-tomatoe.cc/photopost/data/3003/"; //URL of your photo dir where those jpeg stored (with / at end) [/]
and my query fails everytime.. I cannot find the gallery directoy which according to that mod has a index.pl now only thing I do find is the data directory which has the gifs under them...
Any clearer information as to what these should be set to would be helpfull..
$url_path = "http://www.couch-tomatoe.cc/photopost/data/3003/"; //URL of your photo album, where the index.pl is (with / at end)
It asks you here the directory to your scripts not your data directory. You should have this set to this
$url_path = "http://www.couch-tomatoe.cc/photopost/"; //URL of your photo album, where the index.pl is (with / at end)
Now as far as your query failing I would recheck your mysql access information. Did you edit the prefix variable right under the path to the include file in the pal box?
// // Featured Photos Code // Follow down to End Feature Photos Code //
$Globals['pp_db_prefix'] = "[:"red"]w3t_[/]";
// leave blank for no customization, otherwise list cats you only want images to appear from $forcats = "";
// which type of images do you want to show $q_switch = "random";
switch ($q_switch) { case "most_view": $query = "SELECT id,user,userid,cat,title,bigimage,views FROM {$Globals['pp_db_prefix']}photos WHERE bigimage!='' AND approved='1' $forcats ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 5"; break; case "lastest": $query = "SELECT id,user,userid,cat,title,bigimage,views FROM {$Globals['pp_db_prefix']}photos WHERE bigimage!='' AND approved='1' $forcats ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 5"; break; case "random": $query = "SELECT id,user,userid,cat,title,bigimage,views FROM {$Globals['pp_db_prefix']}photos WHERE bigimage!='' AND approved='1' $forcats ORDER BY RAND() DESC LIMIT 5"; break; }
// // Featured Photos Code // Follow down to End Feature Photos Code //
$Globals['pp_db_prefix'] = "w3t_"; <<<<THIS DOES NOT SEEM RIGHT
You would set this to whatever prefix your photopost install has if any. If your tables read settings photos etc etc without a prefix this is set to blank. This is not set to your forums prefix which you have it set to unless you made the prefix to photopost this.
and the last line as I stated in the instructions. On most hosts expecially when using the sidebar you need to fill in the database for threads here since you will get errors if you do not have this line in there. DATABASE is set to your forums database.
Cool thanx Got it to Work Just had to change that last DATABASE Line to the ubbthreads one and yeah I set the photopost to w3t_ to be similiar to threads Thanx for all your help I can style it from here like now I wanna take out that link so they can't click and get to the graphics page
Well don't know I have to look at it. It randomly pulls images. There is some code that can be added to restrict it to display only specific cats if you want.
Hey Chuck I get only the Pal table header saying "Featured Photos" but it doesn't pick up any photos.
My photopost.inc.php has: $url_path = "http://www.domain.com/threads/photopost/"; $data_dir = "http://www.domain.com/threads/photopost/data/";
...and my database name and user info below that.
My customboxpal has: require ("/home/myaccount/public_html/threads/photopost/photopost.inc.php");
...and my photopost prefix info ($pp_db_prefix = "jopho_";) plus my database name at the bottom (my photopost database and my threads database are the same)
I would double check your path and user information. This is the exact same thing I use on my site as long as your access info is correct all should be good.
[]AllenAyres said: worked well for me, thank you [/]
When did you install this? If you installed it prior to January 6th then that's the same code I had as well and I had no problems with it....it's only after the changes were made on the 6th with the code that I'm having troubles with.
In the instructions for photopost.inc.php where it reads:
[:"red"]//URL of your photo album, where the index.pl is (with / at end)[/]
Is this a misprint because I don't know where this file is. I am assuming, and that's usually where I go wrong, that it's to read index.php (inside the PhotoPost directory).
With this pal in place (I left the name of it as custombox3pal.php and overwrote the default file) on the left of the page layout...I get the same error in the center and right side of the page layout:
As I move this integrated pal into the middle of the page, the same error gets less. And as I move this pal into the right side of the page layout, the error is gone but I do get a little error note on the bottom left corner:
suggestion: rename the custompal3.php to custompalx.php to prevent me from overwriting someone's already in use custompal3
I had renamed it to custompal7 but accidently clicked on the old one after opening an ftp connection I don't have a backup either Users will still need to rename it to something else, but there won't be a custompal3 sitting on their harddrive to overwrite another one
It's odd...... on mine, I found I couldn't get this to work unless I commented-out the last line. When I put my forum database name in there, it stopped working. The only problem I've found is that the Max Online in the ShortStats Pal (which is below the PhotoPost Pal along with other Pal boxes) doesn't convert the Unix time into normal time. Or at least I think that's the only problem.
I also tried adding above the last line: mysql_connect ('localhost', 'name-of-my-database', 'password'); ...and that worked just the same as when the last line is commented-out.
How do I get this to have the same background color as the rest of the PAL boxes? The previous version of this pal box was that way. I'm not a big fan of the white background. http://www.laondalatina.com
find this bgcolor="#FFFFFF" and change to class="lighttable"
Now the select database command at the bottom will be required by about 99% of people out there otherwise you get error's
Now as far as your error Pasqualist I found that and there is always some sort of bizarre behavior when selected between databases I assume. While this does not wreak havoc with threads it does tend to play a little bit with IIP. Now given the fact that I love Photopost etc I just tweaked by loginpal.php file as bit. I can post it here if you like.
> Photopost/Reviewpost cause havoc when used in IIP and the sidebar you must always switch back to the threads database.
For a while I had mine running this way and added mysql_select_db()'s to the end of my PALs. I finally merged my db's into the Threads one simply to avoid the overhead of switching databases.
[]Omegatron said: Easily fixed download it again [/] Does this keep the pal from pulling photos from ALL users albums, or JUST their personal ones? If it's just personal ones, can you edit this pal for me to not pull any photos at all from users albums? I would appreciate that Omegatron
I get this error: [] Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pp_get_ext() (previously declared in /home/laondal/public_html/foros/pals/custombox2pal.php:6) in /home/laondal/public_html/foros/templates/default/ubbt_photopost.tmpl on line 15 [/]
try commenting out the function in the customebox2pal.php since its being defined elsewhere or go in and edit it and in THAT box change the function to pp_get_ext2() and all calls to it.
Thanks scroungr. I did just that and it almost worked. I just got the same problem with another function in the pal box, but following your "add 2 to the end" algorithm, I have this working correctly now
photopost.inc.php is incorrectly stomping on the $user variable causing subsequent Pals to fail. To correct the issue, change $user to $username on lines 9 and 14.
your layout of the pal box looks odd in Opera. I attach my version. If you like to use it, rename it to your pal box name, modify the path at the beginning of the script and the DB name ant the end of the script like your old pal box.
This version use the stylesheet and center the images. Looks better on my site.
looks good in Opera but different from IE. I have on the right side a vertical bar in deep purple. Maybe another display probblem but it looks 'as is' . It's ok.
Whats the proceedure to get reviews shown on the main page like the photos??? I have tried modifing it to work, but so far has been out of luck.
I get reviews to show on my threads main index, and i have photopost working on my IIP page too, but cant seem to get the reviews to show on the IIP page...
I allow my members to have their own albums, which they can upload anything there. But, the main focus of my site is fishing, and the pal was pulling random photos from anywhere so I would end up with non fishing photos being displayed in the pal. To overcome this I went in and added certain photos to the My Favorites feature in Photopost, then altered the query to pull random photos from the list in My Favorites. Works kind of like a "featured" photo and works well. (Actually, a featured photo (a list that the admin ccould create) would be great in a Photopost release. But this is about tha PAL right?
What I was wondering though, is instead of using RAND in my query, I would like it to cycle through each photo in order. In other words, the first page load pulls the first photo in the list, the second pulls the scecond, and so forth. Then when it gets to the end of the list it starts all over. Now you may ask why. Well, it seems that although pulling randomly might seem to work well, I in fact see a lot of the same photos many times more than another, some I haven't seen at all. Hence my desire to ensure that each photo is displayed equally. Any idea how I could do this without modifying the database? Thanks
You will see what I mean by showgallery lite that featured photo block displays like the last 240 images with page navigation 24 to a page on there main Photopost index.
If you want a copy of that featured script to play with and modify just let me know.
That's very nice, but not what I'm looking for, though I may want to check it out later.
As far as using the cattype=c, some of my users put all of their photos in their album, where as others just add to the main category. So, in order to display from both I changed the query to pull from my favorites list, then went and added the better pics to my list. I only want on location shots displayed in the PAL see, and some pics are taken after getting home and they're cleaning fish, and some are better than others, etc.
Basically, instead of showing random photos in the PAL, I simply want to display them in order. Am I making any sense? Sometimes I confuse myself.
I don't really need them sorted. Just one photo displayed in the PAL.
ex.
page loads, photo #1 is displayed page loads again, photo # 2 is displayed page loads again, photo #3 is displayed if there are a total of three photos in the list and photo #3 was the last one, the next time the page is loaded it starts all over again with photo #1 and so forth.
I was thinking of a loop. There would be a check to see if there was a variable set, if not then pull the first photo in the list. If it was set, add 1. Query the data base. Count the number of rows. If the number is more than the sum of rows..... pull the first phot, if not then grab that number pic. But then there's the case of a deleted row and how to pass the variable from page to page. um... You know what? Maybe it's more trouble than it's worth. I know what I want, but I don't think there's an easy way to do it. Thanks anyway. I'll mull over it a while and get some other things done. Maybe something will go off in my head.
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in g:\webs\www.bm3w.co.uk\public_html\ubbthreads\pals\custombox1pal.php on line 57
Warning: mysql_free_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in g:\webs\www.bm3w.co.uk\public_html\ubbthreads\pals\custombox1pal.php on line 82 Featured Photos Could not select database 'DATABASE'
So, I amend "DATABASE" in the custompal as clearly its not getting the variable, and then I just get
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in g:\webs\www.bm3w.co.uk\public_html\ubbthreads\pals\custombox1pal.php on line 57
Warning: mysql_free_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in g:\webs\www.bm3w.co.uk\public_html\ubbthreads\pals\custombox1pal.php on line 82
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