No Category Images and a?

memobug · March 21st, 2005, 03:44 AM

I am not getting any thumbnails on the category pages (showcat.php) for some reason. Homepage images are fine. I also found what seems to be some diagnostic print statement at the bottom of showcat.php

1) The thumbnails are being made. I have verified that No products need approval at this time and five products show in the category text table I am looking at in a table list, but no thumbnails above.

I have double checked these settings.

Number of columns for thumbnail pages 5
Display # of reviews indicator under thumbnails? Y

I also tried turning the sidebar on and off (the sidebar works), but it didn't help.

2) About the diagnostic (?) print statement:

One thing that becomes obvious - when I turn off the sidebar I see this MYSQL printed on the showcat.php right below the footer, which contains the jelsoft vbulletin copyright. It's actually there whether the sidebar is on or off, it's just more obvious with it off on the uncluttered page:

Quote:

Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2005, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.2.0
SELECT cat,id,title,views FROM rp_products ORDER BY views DESC LIMIT 5

It's still there if I turn of the vb3 integration completely, but I am thinking it something in the last $query in showcat.php

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Regards,

Matt

Chuck S · March 21st, 2005, 07:41 AM

Yes remove the print query statement

$print "$query";

My Bad on that as that was me diagnosing and fixing the search function

As far as thumbnails on showcat thats not a feature of reviewpost. a normal showcat page is like this. There is not a thumb column. I know some people have altered there files to pull a column

http://www.reeftalk.com/reviews/showcat.php/cat/72

memobug · March 21st, 2005, 01:47 PM

Hi Omegatron,

Thanks for your response. I understand now that category thumbnails is not (yet) a feature of reviewpost.

1. Can you suggest where I can learn how to make this a feature of my site?

2. I am quite confused by the function of following administrative settings, which make it appear that category thumbnails were an intended feature of reviewpost:

Quote:

Show Category Options
Number of columns for thumbnail pages:
Display # of reviews indicator under thumbnails?:

Regards,

Matt

memobug · March 22nd, 2005, 04:18 PM

bump.

memobug · March 25th, 2005, 03:33 PM

Bump for support please!

Regards,

Matt

Chuck S · March 25th, 2005, 06:47 PM

Matt

Those two options are pretty simple

One marks whether we show the total reviews with the product on showcat and the other is the setting like in Photopost how many columns. This is used generally in the columns setting in featured items

As far as hacking in the last thumbnail you can post on photopostdev.com for any hacking advice. Most of the code is already in place

memobug · March 25th, 2005, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by omegatron

Matt

Those two options are pretty simple

One marks whether we show the total reviews with the product on showcat and the other is the setting like in Photopost how many columns. This is used generally in the columns setting in featured items

As far as hacking in the last thumbnail you can post on photopostdev.com for any hacking advice. Most of the code is already in place

Thanks for your response.

Please note, I don't want the "last thumbnail" I want photopost-like category thumbnails in showcat.

I am sorry I still have no idea what these two functions do. I will play with them but the descriptions are utterly confusing and your description didn't help a whole lot.

These options may be simple, but they are incorrectly described. Showcat, as you've explained, doesn't display thumbnails so these descriptions, having an option that

Quote:

Number of columns for thumbnail pages:
Display # of reviews indicator under thumbnails?:

simply don't make any sense.

I really want this just to work like photopost does. I am not sure why it behaves differently, but I will follow up over at photopostdev and see if I can get an explanation or suggestion for how to make it work in a meaningful way. I guess I can just grab the relevent section from photopost and stick it in there so I can get basic category thumbnails.

Regards,

Matt

Chuck S · March 25th, 2005, 10:16 PM

Matt

Reviewpost doesnt pull thumbnails like Photopost. It does not operate entirely like Photopost

The options are exactly as I stated what they do. The problem is that the upgrade scripts have not entered or ordered all the right things under the right options. Take note dealtime link is under show category options which is not right either.

The column options is a dead options

The reviews one removes the review column on showcat

memobug · March 26th, 2005, 01:03 AM

Hi there, Chuck

I understand there are some issues and opportunities to clean up the documentation.

I am sure it works exactly as you described but most certainly not as documented.
I have never done any upgrades, so it is not a problem of the upgrade scripts, but simply an issue with the documentation and order of the features. I also find the reference to thumbnails confusing as there are not thumbnails associated with showcate.

I did notice and report the dealtime link issue in another thread.

Unfortunately I don't understand these 2 sentences. I have said them aloud 3 times and they still don't sink in. Could you explain?

Quote:

The column options is a dead options

The reviews one removes the review column on showcat

By the way, I got my thumbs working in both the category and product views. The thumbs on the category were simple. As you said most everything was right in the code and it just needed a couple mods to showcat.php and the corresponding template.

Seeing thumbs now in the category listing

Getting thumbnails to show at the product level was hellish, because all the photopost stuff doing that had been stripped out, so I had to recreate it and modify it quite a bit, but it seems to work now, too:

Getting thumbs now drawn from the same category as the product view

Thanks, I made some progress tonight. It is starting to look more like photopost.

Matt

Chuck S · March 26th, 2005, 07:48 AM

Matt

I dont know what more to say. I have answered your questions on how reviewpost works. A simple options of cleaning up and reorganizing options will be done.

You can continue hacking discussions over at photopostdev.com as code hacking is not supported here.

memobug · March 26th, 2005, 01:10 PM

Hi Chuck, and thanks for your answer. I do appreciate it. I know you have tried to be responsive to my questions.. My suggestion is that when you get done with this cleanup process, have someone look it over who is new to the project and get some comments. It would be great if the options could be listed in a straightforward way with descriptions that describe the features, and items grouped logically by category.

I also really suggest that you folks take a had look at your documentation. I've tried again to understand what you said here, and I know you are trying to explain, but this isn't any kind of English I am used to reading:

Quote:

The column options is a dead options

The reviews one removes the review column on showcat

Neither of these phrases makes any sense to me. The first phrase is nonsensical and the second one seems to have two subjects in it or maybe it is missing a word or words.

At any rate, I did get the features working the way I wanted. Thanks for trying to explain the documentation to me. Please understand that I have a great grasp of the language, and I can hack Photopost to bits, but your documentation and feature layout is utterly Greek to me.

Regards

Matt

Chuck S · March 26th, 2005, 01:21 PM

No problem just alot of what your trying to do with Reviewpost is not a feature and thus yes you are left to hack in added functionality to make it work like Photopost

All 3 products have a base code but the functionality of the program differs in all 3 so not all the features are the same in any one of the products.