Most Popular Images

[anthroa]

fraid ya gonna hafta be a little more specific for this dumb%^& from downunder

ok go to show gallery as suggested 3 replies ago - see bit of code below from showgallery.php changed most_views to most_popular but didn't work - also tried changing most_views to most popular in index.php didn't work

so let's go back to where i am at - i currently have most_views showing above the categories and most recent below the categories

i would like the most highly rated images above the categories (that what i always wanted at least in my mind but we seem to have a semantics problem about what popular actually means - you seemed to have taken it as views and me as most highly rated - hence my repeated questioning about this - but all this aside)

how do i get from my current configuration to most highly rated above and most recent below - step by step i can't seem to follow the last couple of your posts i need clear instructions please


if ( $cattype == "c" && empty($si) && empty($ppuser) ) {
if ( $Globals['memformat'] == "no" ) {
if ( $Globals['mostrecent'] == "yes" && $Globals['recentdefault'] == "yes" ) {
display_gallery("latest", "", $cat);
}

if ( $Globals['dispopular'] == "yes" ) {
display_gallery("most_views", "", $cat);
}

if ( $Globals['disrandom'] == "yes" ) {
display_gallery("random", "", $cat);
}
}
}

[Chuck S]

Well the changes laid out above are for index.php. I simply stated you could apply the same types of changes to your showgallery.php script. The code is all in this thread.

If your looking for someone to write up the actual modification you might want to post in the unsupported modifications forum

[anthroa]

Chuck - Still very confused here - so on the index page ? of PP to get the images above the category listings (eg on my site i have a listing in descending order as a series of text links to the following sort of categories member galleries, landscape, nature etc)

which currently show as Most Popular which = the number of page view to show images ranked as most highly rated - i must edit the showphoto.php ? is that what you are saying ???

it seems a little illogical to me so perhaps i have confused things here ? i would have thought that i need to change index.php to achieve this ?

to change things within the categories which is displayed by showphoto.php - i would have thought changing showphoto.php would have been necessary - i do want to make a change here also but i will put this in a separate thread to avoid confusion

[Chuck S]

Yes please do try posting in the modifications forum

[anthroa]

But can i have an answer to this part not just the last sentence

"Chuck - Still very confused here - so on the index page ? of PP to get the images above the category listings (eg on my site i have a listing in descending order as a series of text links to the following sort of categories member galleries, landscape, nature etc)

which currently show as Most Popular which = the number of page view to show images ranked as most highly rated - i must edit the showphoto.php ? is that what you are saying ???

it seems a little illogical to me so perhaps i have confused things here ? i would have thought that i need to change index.php to achieve this ?"

[Chuck S]

What I am saying is that we support unmodified code. This forum is here to answer questions on how to work the program. If you need assistance is asking how to modify your code I suggested you post in the unsupported modifications forum to see if anyone would assist you.

I layed out above the changes for you to change index.php but thats it. If your trying to achieve looks on other scripts I suggest you move your discuss to the proper forum for assistance since it is not a support question.

Thanks

[anthroa]

Chuck - I am asking a "how do i..." question and not a modification of another script - please read my post carefully

I want to get most highly ranked in place of most views thumbs on the index.php page which are currently placed above the category list with the recently posted thumbs below.

what i am confused am about now is why you were happy to answer how to do it before when you thought i mean't most views but not now when i articulated what i mean - sheesh - to me its an arbitary distinction you are drawing and a bit bloody minded to boot - but if it makes you feel better i'll cut and paste my question into the other forum as always

[Chuck S]

Yes I was happy to assist in telling you how to alter your code on one file cause I had a few moments and figured I would be nice.

Your now asking how to modify other files such as showgallery and showphoto in this thread from the default coding of Photopost hense I suggested you post in the modifications forum.

To change to highest rating you need to modify your pp-inc.php file display_gallery function and modify the query for most_views

change the

ORDER BY views

to this

ORDER BY rating

Now just as an FYI please realize Photopost staff is not specifically here to assist people in modifying there code. We placed an unsupported modifications forum here for users to assist each other out and we assist if we have time.

Our time is spend assisting customers with Product Support which deals with the default code as it is written

[anthroa]

Chuck - thanks for that clearer i'll give it a try -

on the other matter - you must see things from my perspective - how was i to know that you were just being nice and its not the type of mod that you support how do i know where you draw the line - to me it just seems like a small alteration and thats what you were inferring originally when you said "its just like what i outlined above" but when i tried to do what i did to get the most views working it created bizarre results - it seemed to me that you were confused about what i was asking (you answering just do what i suggested before) but when i identified that didn't work (your answer need to mod something completely different and implied that i have changed what i was asking - which i didn't) your answers seemed increasingly vague

cheers

[anthroa]

hey that worked - now thats all i wanted at the very beginning