Zlib Compression setting?

creativepart · November 7th, 2008, 11:36 AM

In the Admin CP what's the proper way to turn on zlib compression? Do you put the word "on" as the description suggests? Or do you put a 1 or what do you put there?

Chuck S · November 7th, 2008, 01:37 PM

Type a yes and that should enable it.

creativepart · November 8th, 2008, 12:25 PM

Might be a good idea to either put that in the description for that option or change it to a Yes/No drop down box.

Currently it says: Set to on if you want to enable Zlib page compression (and it is supported)

So you don't really get the idea to put "yes" in the box.

Chuck S · November 8th, 2008, 09:05 PM

Think it might be a simple issue of when you upgraded the o option should have been changed to no in the upgrade script.

creativepart · November 9th, 2008, 10:34 AM

I don't know what it was before the upgrade, but after the upgrade it was a Zero. If it had said "NO" then I would have logically known that the options were Yes/NO. And I wouldn't have asked.

Since it was Zero, I thought it could be a number, with zero being "off" and a number such as 1, 2, or 3 indicating the level of compression.

But not knowing if that was correct I read the description of the option which said "set to on." Naturally, with that wording I figured that you were saying it should be "on" or "off".

So, nothing here prepared me for Yes/NO and hence I suggested in the future you simply clearify this in the wording.

I see these kinds of issues with Photopost products often and I see the official response often seems to do nothing to correct the situation. And, it seems many times that you don't see these kinds of issues as problems that need fixing.

Why the makers of this software wouldn't want this to be clear and logical I have no idea. It seems you would not only celebrate your users pointing these issues out, but respond pro-actively to fix simple little issues like this.

Chuck S · November 9th, 2008, 10:39 AM

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This is the code right from our upgrade script. What I am saying and I think your misunderstanding is on a proper upgrade your compression setting which use to be stored in the config file as a 0 or 1 setting is corrected to be a no yes option on the upgrade so it should have been converted and stored in the settings table properly. Now you placed a no in the setting now and see it has a drop down of yes no etc correct? I was merely saying I have no idea why your site did not properly convert the setting as the upgrade instructs.

creativepart · November 9th, 2008, 12:49 PM

Ok, sorry. I surely did not get that from your answer. I'm happy to see this has been fixed. But I wonder why it didn't upgrade properly. The date on that file is the new date from all the files of the latest download.

I ran upgrade.php and upgraded from 2.5 to 2.6 and then 2.6 to 3.0.

Chuck S · November 9th, 2008, 01:19 PM

Well glad its sorted for you and you see the no yes box.

creativepart · November 9th, 2008, 04:37 PM

Actually, no I don't. What I meant was that I don't see that and that I ran the upgrade.php. So, I have no idea why mine still shows zero.

Any ideas why that would be?

creativepart · November 9th, 2008, 04:43 PM

Hold the phone... now I do see the yes and no box.

After running the upgrade I still had zero in that spot. You told me, above, to put yes in there and I hand typed Yes in that option.

I just went back to check that Admin section and NOW it shows Yes/No in a drop down box.

It did not initially. It showed only a zero and a large text entry box.

skidpics · November 9th, 2008, 06:47 PM

I have noticed that a few version back - and wondered the same thing too. Seems like there is no initial value set for it maybe?

Chuck S · November 9th, 2008, 07:42 PM

There is an initial no set for it yes on upgrade.