Featured Photos box--but no photos?

[Synn]

I have finally reached the integ. stage to add the featured photos on the vb3 forum page.

For some reason I'm getting the box..,"Featured Photos"...and "Photo Galleries" but there are no images underneath.

I've been at this all day but can't seem to figure it out.

(btw vB3 Enahnced features option is on in admin panel)

[Chuck S]

How about a link?

[Synn]

Just sent you the link and admin login info....as our forums are currently closed.

Thanks for your help!

[Synn]

Features box is now working correctly, must have made a typo somewhere! Thanks anyway Omegatron.

[Chuck S]

Okay nevermind then I was just about to look into it Glad you got it working

[Zenith]

I was having the same problem, and found the inc_features.php includes " AND p.cat != 500" in the SELECT statements. If you've only got member galleries and no other categories then you get an empty result set.

Now, why does the Featured Photos panel on this site include member galleries (cat=500)? And why is the above AND included in the distributed code?

Not meaning to offend anyone, but the documentation on photopost is very poor and invariably requires a lot of digging around, and there's a lot of information still on this site that is extremely outdated, and some that is simply wrong e.g. in the upgrade instructions for 4.8.5...

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.

What upgrades directory? There isn't one in the downloaded archive! OK, upgrade.txt in the archive has the correct instruction. And what if you have 4.8d? After some digging I figured there were no database changes from 4.8d to 4.8.2 so used the 4.8.2 upgrade script...but it was by no means obvious.

Sorry for the digression.

[Chuck S]

Well first the upgrade instructions are not incorrect. When there was a 4.8.5 download there was an upgrade482.php file and upgrades directory. When 4.8.6 came out the upgrades where moved into one file upgrade.php and this is in the 4.8.6 annoucements as well as the upgrade.txt was updated

Your looking at a new Photopost and an old upgrade doc.

Here is the upgrade doc I see when I open the latest version

Content visible to verified customers only.

The inc_features.php pulls photos from categories. It displays a random or latest etc image and then places the category name number of photos and comments underneath the photo. This is the way it was coded by the developer and as such since it displays category totals etc it does not work with members galleries.

As always with any of our code you may modify it to suit your needs

[Zenith]

What I quoted is from...

http://www.photopost.com/members/for....php?p=1084957

which is pointed to by...

http://www.photopost.com/members/for...d.php?t=110947

There is no pointer to upgrade instructions in the 4.86 announcement at...

http://www.photopost.com/members/for...d.php?t=111296

I agree the upgrade.txt in the dowloaded archive is correct, and I acknowledged that in my post.

The Featured Photos code does work with member galleries if you modify the SELECT statement. My point is that Featured Photos on PhotoPost's own site includes member galleries, but the code as distributed does not, and there is no documentation on this... hence my comment on the documentation.

Code duly modified, no prob.

Cheers