So the moment you've all been waiting for is here! We put out a new zenphoto release today. For the impatient, grab it
here. For those who are interested, here's the list of all the new features:
- Drag and drop sorting of the Gallery and Albums (and there was more rejoicing!)
- Album and Image deletion from the admin section (be careful!)
- Comment notification (so now you know what people are saying about you)
- Improvements to the Admin section
- And many behind the scenes architectural improvements.
You can check the
full changelog here.
WARNING: Although we have made substantial progress in this release, this is still a beta. Make sure that you take good backups of anything you can afford to lose when you upgrade. Just in case..
UpgradingFirst, make sure you back up your DB tables. Next, upload the new files over the top of your existing installation. You will have to update your config.php file manually with the new [admin_email] field and the new pathing at the bottom. Did we say back up your DB tables? Finally, load
http://hostname/zenphoto/zen/upgrade.php (or whatever your path is) in your browser. Click on Go and watch the magic.
Known IssuesYou may have to delete your admin cookie and log back into your site after the upgrade. You may not. Let us know.
RequestsAs usual, please post all issues to the
Support forums. We also like to know when things go right and how pleased people are
If you are keen to keep abreast of zenphoto changes you can do so by following the zenphoto categories at
Tristan's and
my blog.
Future DirectionsWe do listen to what everyone is saying. Really, we do. We try. So here are a few things that we know everyone would like: WP plugin(s), RSS feeds, easier installs, sub-albums, etc. We'll get there. For now, enjoy!
Zenphoto
Comments
(NO it was me - I had to refresh the page - sorry :-)
Fantastic with this new version by the way, can't wait to install it.
Well, just so you can "phew!" - the first hurdle was leapt cleanly. I'm running a totally demo gallery, so I was not worried about backups. Simply shifted all files into a backup folder, except albums and my .htaccess file.
Shifted the new ones over, plus a freshly edited config.php (chaged the chmod for the new cache folder to 777) - ran the upgrade and....
Everything is there, comments and all. Admin panel proudly reads: version 1.0.0 Beta
Nice.
Now playing......
* Sort (for gallery order) and sort (for image order) both work well. [Observation: with a long gallery list, a "save" button at top of list and bottom would be nice!]
>> More on sort: when dragging a new gallery (which is appended by default to the *bottom* of the gallery list) to the top of the list, I am encountering two minor niggles.
Firstly - my list of galleries is deeper than a browser page - and the darg and drop won't initate the "scroll page up" for me (sorry - lacking terminology here) - so I have to drag halfway up the list, save, the scroll page up and drag the rest of the way. (I am using FF).
Also, when I hover too long on the gallery I am dragging, on drop it goes straight into "edit gallery images" mode, thus losing my opportunity to save the Gallery order change I just made!
* Notification of new comment by email works, just as you would expect it to!
* Image deletion (new image uploaded via panel) works well. Confirmation popup provides the functionality you would expect! [Observation: bigger upload boxes, please. With multiple uploads, you really want to be able to see the whole filename!]
* Album deletion - does what it says on the box - and kudos for the extra confirmation at delete album level!
* Dumped a new theme into the folder - found it - used it. No probs.
* "You may have to delete your admin cookie and log back into your site after the upgrade. You may not. Let us know." ... nope. I didn't have to do that.
(is this helpful?!)
Just read the comments about the need to manually change the config.php file..
"You will have to update your config.php file manually with the new [admin_email] field and the new pathing at the bottom."
In the new config.php I can see the admin_email field..... but after that... well I dont really see anything related to any paths...
Can anyone clarify what it is that needs to be changed here, apart from admin_email?
Regards,
Paul.
// Image Processing Configuration
you will have passed all the variables that I found and changed. Basically, the only addition I noticed was for the email address for comments notification.
HTH
MySQL Query ( UPDATE albums SET `sort_order`='1' WHERE `id`=23 ) Failed. Error: Unknown column 'sort_order' in 'field list'
help please i dont know about MySQL.
Fatal error: Call to a member function getTitle() on a non-object in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\kamnikars.com\zenphoto-new\zen\template-functions.php on line 399
at this point I realize i'm in over my head and i went back to version 0.9 and everything seems to be working fine. My best guess is there is something in my setup that doesnt like the zp_conf array and thats why i couldnt connect. I have no clue whether this array is accessed by the getTitle() function. But maybe the same underlying issue is affecting that as well?
for the record i'm running php5 and MYSQL 4.1.14 on Apache. (xampp)
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
TK
Fatal error: Call to a member function getTitle() on a non-object in C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\kamnikars.com\zenphoto-new\zen\template-functions.php on line 399
I also done a brand new install with a new database in a new directory and got the same result.
I've reverted back to 0.9 for now until someone can work this out. I've spent over an hour on this and got nowhere at all.
Anyway, the fix is simple, add this to line 265 of template-functions.php (i.e. in the next_album method):
if (empty($_zp_albums)) { return false; }
And also add this at line 545 (i.e. in next_image):
if (empty($_zp_images)) { return false; }
Sorry about that! <mumble.. beta version... mumble, mumble>
TK
I tried once again to get the install working, so i set up a completely new folder with all the same images etc and same database. Same issues as before. Then a light bulb hit me. I remembered with the LAST install i had to change the name of the config file. There is something with my install of PHP that if i do an include config it throws a ton of errrors.
So i renamed my config file Zconfig.php and changed all the includes to reflect that.
BAM.
everythign now works perfectly! I feel like such an idiot, especially since i looked and saw i did that with the .9 install and i just forgot.
TK
Here is my own little modified theme, all i did was just intergrate it into the look of my site:
http://www.kamnikars.com/zenphoto/
Had it running for a week on 0.8 with minor issues (no album sorting, no thumb sorting despite numbered photos, loosing thumbs). But was certainly bearable.
I manually localized the Default theme into Russian. I am no pro in PHP or CSS at all, but was able to do it thanks to your lean and clean coding concept.
Had no trouble upgrading to 1.0. It addressed all the issues!
I just copied the new /ZEN folder over, using FTP and then put my original CONFIG.PHP back. I also ran upgrade.php to get the database structure updated. I obviously did not want to loose my localized theme, so did not touch anything else in the install folder.
Works without a hitch! Take a look: http://www.reminor.com/zp
Note that i removed the file name when you drill down to see the picture. To me it does not make sense having some IMG_8347.JPG displaying there (i.e. "Photos | Album | IMAGE_34243.jpg" is now just "Photos | Album") . I think it's better of that way.
FEATURE REQUEST: number one on my list is sub-albums (i.e "drilling" down into "chapters" and having many albums there to explore).
Number two: ability to select how many albums are displayed per page. I initially had 6, and the last one required moving into Page 2. I wanted to have all on one page, long page is OK with me. Any chance there will be a GUI selector "Display __ albums per page", or something. Same goes for pictures-per-page. Sorry if it all was explained before elsewhere on the forum (didn't find it).
And again THANK YOU all for the great album script!
Sub albums not so easy, but we know everyone wants it, so it'll come.
I've upgrade from 0.9 to 1.0.0beta.
I've 2 bug report:
1. i've manually sorted my album with the admin tool, but the almbum are still sorted by filenames on the main page. They are only sorted in pages (./page/1 , ./page/2 ...). I guess the main pages need an update ?
For instance:
- not sorted: http://arofarn.info/arogallerie/
- sorted: http://arofarn.info/arogallerie/page/1
2. When I try to sorted the photos of an album, I get this message:
"Error: The 'albums' directory cannot be found or is not readable."
And Thanks for all ;-)