PhotoPost 4.8.5 Released! Upgrade Instructions

[Michael P]

Now available for download from the Members Area is the final release for PhotoPost 4.8.5. There are some significant changes to this version which means you should read this entire document before you start the upgrade process.

You can read a summary of the changes for 4.8.5 in this thread.

New Installations

Follow the normal installation instructions; vB users should note that the header-inc.php file has changed and been seperated into two files: header-inc.php and config-int.php. In the install instructions you are instructed to edit the header-inc.php file, but in this version you would edit the config-int.php file instead. There is no need to edit the header-inc.php file.

Upgrade Instructions

1) Before you upload any files, login to your Admin section and from the Admin... Options.... page, close your gallery for the upgrade process. If you have not done a backup, now would be a good time. I also recommend you backup your scripts that you plan to overwrite.

2) Virtually all of the files for this release have been updated - the first step will be to upload all of the file except for config-inc.php. Also upload:

forums/*
languages/*
templates/*

2) From the upgrades directory, upload the script upgrade482.php (if you have an earlier version, you may need to upload other upgrade scripts) to your main PhotoPost directory. Run the upgrade482.php script to perform the upgrade.

3) If you are using a vB integration, you will need to edit the config-int.php file (notice the "t" and not the "c" - this is for config-integration) and set your paths and integration configuration options. You can edit this file manually or adjust it later in the Admin... Edit Integrations... page.

4) Login to your Admin... Edit Config page and confirm the settings and hit Submit. This will rewrite the new config-inc.php which has much fewer configuration options than before (most of these have been moved to the database).

5) Remove any upgrade scripts you uploaded and open your site.

You should now be up and running.

Cautions

The config-inc.php script has been changed to remove items to put them into the database. Please read the instructions above carefully and do not upload the new config-inc.php until after you have run the upgrade482.php script - this is because the values to be placed into the database need to come from your old config-inc.php first.

vB users!

Please take note of the changes that effect the header-inc.php file; we've redone this file to eliminate any need to edit this file and moved the configuration items to a seperate file called config-int.php. We've done this so that other integration files can use this same file and not require you to reenter this information for each integration.

You will also notice two new files:

inc_features.php
inc_photopost.php

These scripts, in combination with the config-int.php file, will allow you to integrate PhotoPost features into your vB forums. Consult this thread for instructions on how to add one or both to your vB Forum Index.

A good example site of an integrated forum with PhotoPost features is PhotoPostDev.Com.

For more information about using vB3 Enhanced features, please consult this thread for more information.

Estimated time for upgrade: 15-20 minutes.

[etaslim]

hi, i've just finished upgrading from 4.8.2. Everything went smoothly & my gallery looks great now with the vb3 enhanced features. Luckyly I haven't modified the header links because now all links in the header are referring to the right URL's. Not the links in the footer though. That one still need to modified manually. Right? or do I missing something?

Overall thanks for the update especially the daily upload limit feature. That is really what I'm looking for. Now, ooking forward to get the enhanced feature for classifieds as well

[flat]

Some nice new features, but some "bugs" remaining :
- Language files have not been updated, although a complete french pack was posted here.
There are some important things missing that were reported some month ago.
- Associate albums to categories bug not fixed.

I dont want upgrade to reinject fixed bugs

[littleady]

I have followed the new enhanced integration to the word and when I include the following file

include('./photopost/inc_features.php');

in my index.php for my forums I get a blank page, when i comment this line out it all seems to work.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks

Adrian.

[wrang]

Originally Posted by littleady

in my index.php for my forums I get a blank page, when i comment this line out it all seems to work.

What have I done wrong?

Great job with this new verison it works with the intergrate atleast for me
But i have a blank page like littleandy to

[kall]

Originally Posted by littleady

I have followed the new enhanced integration to the word and when I include the following file

include('./photopost/inc_features.php');

in my index.php for my forums I get a blank page, when i comment this line out it all seems to work.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks

Adrian.

If the file is not in a directory called photopost that is at the same level as your /forums directory, then you need to change that include path to reflect where it actually is.

[Michael P]

I used your French pack in the BETA which is in the release; ther emay be a couple new additions since then, though. Also, these "bugs" which were reported should also have been applied - are you saying that you've installed the final release and tested these items and found them to still be an issue?

If so, can you please start a new thread in the Errors forum so it can be addressed; if they were resolved, I would be shocked that the fixes arent in the current codebase.

Originally Posted by flat

Some nice new features, but some "bugs" remaining :
- Language files have not been updated, although a complete french pack was posted here.
There are some important things missing that were reported some month ago.
- Associate albums to categories bug not fixed.

I dont want upgrade to reinject fixed bugs

[Chuck S]

It appears we updated the ib2.php file with the canassign but not the ib.php file is missing it