slideshow doesnt work

chitgoks

hi
i upgraded my zen photo to the latest version but the slideshow doesnt work
the required files are all there

in the album page, when view slideshow is submitted, it just returns to the same page. nothing happens after submitting the form.

in the image page, the view slideshow link is not there.

pls advise? thanks

acrylian

What theme? Also please try the nightly build, there has been some work on the slideshow recently.

chitgoks

hi acrylian, stop design theme
and i just had my zen photo upgraded using simple script. it's in my host provider's feature

when i click view slideshow, nothing happens, it just goes back to the same page. but the required files are all there

jackdaw

Did you also enable the plugin? I forgot that myself
And just to check: are the files inside your themes folder?
I don't know if the link works from within the album.php. Probably it does, but I used the link only in my image.php file.

I just finished adding the slideshow functionality to my own pages, and I must say (imho) it looks very nice: link to image page

acrylian

@chitgok: I don't know simple script, there might be something missing. I would like to suggest a manual install..

@Jackdaw: The slideshow link is setup to work on both album.php and image.php

chitgoks

@jackdaw, it should look like i saw the png file myself and the player ui looks good.
well, i dont see any link of view slideshow in my image.php, only in album.php.

and yes, i did enable the plugin but i did disable the flowplayer. and well, it doesnt work

in image.php did you manually add the view slideshow link code? because it doesnt appear in my image.php, only in album.php

@acrylian,: simple script just lets you fill up some details and it will install everything into your host. probably the host provider made this for their customers. hmmm would like a manual install but somehow.. ick.. ive done too much in my photo gallery, im looking at it to make it work without doing that tsk

if you want to check my photo gallery let me know, ill give you the url. you may be interested in checking the code generated

chitgoks

by the way, i noticed my php file doesnt have the function printslideshow(true). only the printslideshowlink(text) was there, so i guess naturally since the form action is url/page/slideshow, it returns back to the same page without showing the images as a slideshow. should i add something else here? pls advise. thanks

jackdaw

This is the code in my image.php file, which I copied from the default theme:

`<?php if (function_exists('printSlideShowLink')) printSlideShowLink(gettext('View Slideshow')); ?>`

That's all. Also the lines

`/slideshow.css" type="text/css" />

<?php printSlideShowJS(); ?>`

in the head section of the (custom) slideshow.php page.

acrylian

chitgoks: If you use any of the included standard theme, they all should have the slideshow link on album.php (only if there are images of course) and image.php, if the slideshow is enabled.

chitgoks

@jackdaw: yeah i have that code

@acrylian: ic... anyhow, i have no such luck again, guess ill try to dig some more and see if some other managed to make it work somehow

chitgoks

this is my photo gallery. maybe anyone here has an idea why

http://gallery.chitgoks.com

then, when you click on slideshow you go to this url .. http://url/page/slideshow

then nothing happens

acrylian

Yes, I see it, but I have currently no idea, why since I can't reproduce it. Could you please try the nightly?

chitgoks

hmm ok.. if i create a new one from nightly, would transferring all the photos to the album folder not give any problems in the database? just wondrin in advance. thanks

chitgoks

i installed a fresh copy and it worked. though i noticed the different of their action URLs.

the one that worked was /photo/index.php?p=slideshow&album=test

where in the zenphoto was installed in http://domain.com/photo

while the existing one that didnt work's action url was /trips/page/slideshow

where trips is the album name. could it be because my http://gallery.chitgoks.com is pointing to http://chitgoks.com/gallery and i created a subdomain to have it pointed to there? that the mod_rewrite messed things up?

chitgoks

@acrylian: i was right. the slideshow didnt work when i had mod_rewrite enabled.

anyone here managed to make it work with mod_rewrite enabled? i dont like urls to be in querystrings, but it doesnt make the slideshow work

acrylian

Good, at least it works. Maybe you could try to set the paths within the zp-core/zp-config.php file manually (at the bottom uncomment the both lines `define(....)`).

I believe subdomains can cause a little trouble, I can't remember it right, probably sbillard will know.

sbillard

Subdomains are no problem. Also it works with mod_rewrite. Perhaps as acrylian mentions you need to fix the path defines.

chitgoks

didnt work though. and i noticed , when the config was ran, it told me .htaccess is wrong version, that i should use the one that is with zenphoto? but i dont see any .htaccess within the package. pls advise

coz it said the .htaccess used is the wrong version. pls advise

sbillard

You operating system probably has certain files "hidden". You need to make system files visible so you can see the .htaccess file that is part of the zenphoto distribution. That is the file you need to upload. Once you do, be sure to run setup.php again.

chitgoks

thanks. it's working now

i just noticed there's a rating module here but it's not appearing. it only requires jquery right?

sbillard

It is a plugin which must be enabled.

chitgoks

yeah. it's been enabled but it's not displaying. ill do tweakings on my page. great job on the plugins sbillard. they're very useful.

acrylian

Good that this is finally solved!

Generally only some plugins are already implemented. some you need to add yourself (the nature of optional...:-)), you'll find all information about them in our functions guide.