Lost "Previous" "Next" after 5.3 upgrade

[Chuck S]

Right this thread has to do with next previous links and not the thumbnail strip which is what I have said.

The thumbnail photos are sorted by the sortid of the category or default sort so photos numeric id does not play in this. This is how Michael reworked everything for 5.31 to be way more efficient.

[mjm]

I'm all for improved efficiency but look at the logic.

The Next/Prev links essentially means go to the next pic in the direction of the arrows << ... >> go right or go left

But when you look at the thumbs preview filmstrip you are going in the opposite direction.

When you use the Next /Prev you are assuming you will be going in the direction of the thumbs showing in the preview filmstrip.

See the logic behind this?

[Chuck S]

>> << correspond to nothing in the program on that page as they are not links. What I stated is the next and prev links work fine which we agree on. Now your talking about the thumbnails and the thumbnails are shown in the sort that is current for that category or the default. Clicking the thumbnail shows the correct picture so I dont see the issue here. The order and which thumbnails that are shown can very by install based on your settings and what variables are passed to the page. We have not shown the next and prev two images directly related to the actual image shown for probally a year now in the program maybe a year and a half as I think this philosophy changed with the introduction of PP 5.0

[mjm]

Also as I pointed out, when you view the latest upload in a category, there is no SlideShow link:
http://www.reeftalk.com/gallery/show...o=1246&cat=502

PS look at the directional arrow << Previous in this pic - going in opposite direction

[mjm]

We have never used anything but the default descending order of pics viewing and I assure you this did not change till 5.3 when we lost Next/Previous links completely.
(otherwise I would have brought this to your attention earlier)
Unfortunately Carole was unable to upgrade to 5.3 for me till a couple of weeks ago and this is why I have not been able to join in on the troubleshooting of that upgrade.

As you know, we bought an extra license which we use purely for testing on a password protected site.
This is either 5.1 or 5.2 version and works as intended.

Also your PhotoPost gallery here has not had these changes.
What version is this?

The missus was able to come up with a partial fix by switching some things around in the wee hours of the night, and she knows little coding so I think this fix should not be a big deal.
She's at work at the moment so is not able to comment on what she did.

Believe you me, the last thing we want to do is give you a hard time on this issue, but the way it is now is not user friendly using the default sort .

The right / left links should jive with the thumbs preview filmstrip when default is used.

[Chuck S]

The next and previous definately give with the thumbnails shown

I will let Michael comment further on this as from the new coding I am looking at it appears to work fine at least in my opinion here.

[mjm]

There is nothing wrong with the filmstrip and sequence of thumbs/photo viewing.

What we simply need is the snippet of code that provides
<<Previous Image . Slide Show . Next Image >>

as shown here in the gallery at PhotoPost ...
Category Toys that Go:

http://www.photopost.com/photopost/s...oto/6355/cat/5

which follows the same viewing sequence of thumbs in the filmstrip.

Michael, has something changed where this is not possible?

Mark

[Chuck S]

Mark

The next prev links that you are referring to go in the same order they have always gone in. Nothing has changed on those.

What has changed is the display order of the thumbnail block as those are decided on the sorts. This is what has got you all thinking things are backwards. If I am viewing Photo 216 on my site and hit next as I said it properly goes to 217 and prev to 215 therefore there is nothing wrong

Test this yourself and you will see I am correct. Now if you really want to change the order just do something like change the bold and 1 and 3 around here in showphoto.php

Content visible to verified customers only.

[mjm]

Chuck, I can't do anything about this till Carole gets home tonight as install/upgrades is her charge.

It is not fully correct because as you can see there's a dot (.) at the beginning etc
I will ask her to explain how she managed to get it working thus far.

BTW, you will notice that the first pic does not have Slide Show displayed which has been addressed in this thread:
problems with Slide show

[mjm]

Chuck, according to AndreasP, your above fix has resolved this, so will try it out tonight.
Thanks
Mark

[AndreasP]

Hi Mark,

One more thing to add: Yes, it solved the problem, but there is still a dot just before the slideshow-link, even if it is the first image to display and the 'previous'-link doesn't show up.

So there's need of an if-condition whether the 'previous'-link is shown or not. Depending on this the dot should be shown or not. And that's the code I've added:

goto showphoto.php
find

Content visible to verified customers only.

replace it with

Content visible to verified customers only.

Now the dot is only shown if there's a previous-link, in other words, if it's the first image of a slideshow.

Andreas

[mjm]

Thanks Chuck! It's working great now with the default sort - descending

Yes, I noticed when the category sort option at showgallery is changed, both the filmstrip AND Prev/Next disappear altogether when you click on showphoto.

I never use any other sort options personally, and doubt viewers to our site do either, so .. in following our philsophy of KISS, I think I'll just remove those sort options in PHP MyAdmin.

Would there be a way perchance of removing that whole sort option segment at the bottom of showgallery, leaving only the Quick Jump to Categories intact?
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Hi Andreas, thanks for the tip on removing the (.) at the first pic in SlideShow. I'm clueless as to whether this adds another query thingy or could in any way affect overall performance, so for now, the (.) is something I can live with.

Thanks,
Mark

[mjm]

Chuck, we figured out how to completely remove the category sort options at the bottom of the cat pages, in the showgallery template, just leaving us with a default descending view.
Ahhhh everything is so sweet and simple now.

Thanks,
Mark

[Chuck S]

Each to their own buddy