Category Order

russellw · July 15th, 2006, 10:04 PM

We've just migrated our forum to a new server and apart from losing a couple of recently added categories everything went fine with PP except for one thing.

We have a gallery for photoshop competitions and we display the most recent month at the top of the category. The June comp was one of the categories that was lost (well the thumbnails were all blank to be exact) so I deleted the images and the category and added them again. They now all display fine but I cannot reorder the category - any attempt to do so just returns the same order it had with June at the bottom.

I've reindexed the db and tried to change the order on other categories and none of them will change.

Cheers
Russ

russellw · July 17th, 2006, 07:27 AM

I had a suspicion this was related to permissions somewhere but having done an exhaustive comparison between the config of the two servers I can't find a single thing different. I have 4 days left with the old server still on line to sort out this issue but can't see what it is.

Cheers
Russ

Chuck S · July 17th, 2006, 07:43 AM

You should be able to order the categories as you wish in Admin => Edit categories right on the main page or sort subcats if this is a subcategory

You have a link to show?

russellw · July 17th, 2006, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You should be able to order the categories as you wish in Admin => Edit categories right on the main page or sort subcats if this is a subcategory

You have a link to show?

http://www.fordforums.com.au/photos/...ry.php?cat=722

.. repeated attempts to order this category to place June at the top simply fail. No error message - it just doesn't do it. All of my catehories are ordered so I'm familiar with the process.

Cheers
Russ

russellw · July 17th, 2006, 08:16 AM

Running the PHP debugger in the background produces the following error:

[17-Jul-2006 22:09:44] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/photos/adm-cats.php on line 851

there are also errors (fairly regular ones) for:

[17-Jul-2006 22:07:11] PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in /var/www/html/photos/index.php on line 15

Cheers
Russ

Chuck S · July 17th, 2006, 08:20 AM

have you ran all upgrades?

what version of the software is this?

russellw · July 17th, 2006, 08:45 AM

Powered by: PhotoPost PHP 5.02 vB3 Enhanced
Copyright 2005 All Enthusiast, Inc.

We looked at making the upgrade to 5.3 but took the view that a couple of the changes were steps backward - particularly the inability to order images which is important to us as a lot of our images are pages from brochures and manuals that don't make sense if not in order.

Cheers
Russ

Chuck S · July 17th, 2006, 10:01 AM

why do you think order images is not included. You can select the order in which images appear.

Your running a version of the software 1.5yrs old I cant say where to look other than to upgrade your old version.

russellw · July 17th, 2006, 08:36 PM

I didn't actually make it up - the original release information (for which I still have the link) advised that this function had been removed. Are you now telling me it is included still?

Regardless of the age of the version, it worked fine until moved to the new server and I'd expect a better answer than the one above. You may want people to stay on the upgrade path but from my point of view if there are no functional improvements that are impacting us (which there haven't been) then there is little point in going through the pain for little or no gain.

The reality of commercially provided software (such as PP Pro) is that there should be a mechanism for dealing with issues of this nature without simply being directed to the latest version. Not everyone wants to stay on the bleeding edge of development and a functional system is all that we require.

If you don't wish to be of assistance then just say so.

Regards
Russ

Chuck S · July 17th, 2006, 10:11 PM

The nature of your issue is this which is a database error and could be an way old bug that has been fixed. I do not see where moving would cause an issue like this unless you where using an older database tables than the ones you should have moved.

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I can not tell you what the error is since I do not have 5.02. You should upgrade just for the security fixes at the very least.

You can edit pp-inc.php and remove this in bold to see if your presented with a real error. Without the real error my suggestion is to upgrade.

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russellw · July 18th, 2006, 03:49 AM

Hi Chuck

We resolved the issue - it was created by the upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5.

Can you please confirm that the information supplied in the 5.3 release notice is actually incorrect - and I quote:

"PhotoPost 5.3 is a rollup of all updates to the 5.2 release plus a few new features our users have requested.

Sub Albums. The ability to assign albums to a parent album creating categories within an album.
Puzzle Display. Displays thumbnails without formatting:
Gallery Layouts. The ability to specify default gallery view layouts on a per category basis (Gallery, Thumbnail, Thmbnail with Title, Puzzle).
Order Photos. This functionality has been removed and is no longer supported."

That was what I based my belief about image ordering above. If you confirm that it is actually incorrect and this functionality remains then we are happy to do the upgrade.

Regards
Russ

Zigw · July 18th, 2006, 01:40 PM

Russ,

That one had me confused initially too. I believe the removed functionality refers to allowing users to order (buy) prints of photos, not the display order of images. The "Allow users to order prints of photos?" admin option has been removed, and photocart.tmpl is not longer included.

Zig

Quote:

Originally Posted by russellw

Hi Chuck

We resolved the issue - it was created by the upgrade from PHP4 to PHP5.

Can you please confirm that the information supplied in the 5.3 release notice is actually incorrect - and I quote:

"PhotoPost 5.3 is a rollup of all updates to the 5.2 release plus a few new features our users have requested.

Sub Albums. The ability to assign albums to a parent album creating categories within an album.
Puzzle Display. Displays thumbnails without formatting:
Gallery Layouts. The ability to specify default gallery view layouts on a per category basis (Gallery, Thumbnail, Thmbnail with Title, Puzzle).
Order Photos. This functionality has been removed and is no longer supported."

That was what I based my belief about image ordering above. If you confirm that it is actually incorrect and this functionality remains then we are happy to do the upgrade.

Regards
Russ

Chuck S · July 18th, 2006, 01:44 PM

Exactly you can order images on how they display the functionality removed was the order photos which was a feature that never worked anyway since we did not have a print partner