Combinews and %2520 problem

GrahameNZ

Hi folks,
Zenphoto version 1.4.5.9 [12ad1f92fa]
Clean install yesterday, not an update, though there was an earlier version of Zenphoto on server.
New database.

I'm using the combinews optinn, with latest images being displayed on the index page.
When you click on the thumbnail a %2520 is inserted into the url giving a 404 Not Found situation.
This is happening with both the Zenpage theme and zpBase 0.90 ( downloaded from gjr's website yesterday).
The same thing happens with both themes on the server at home that I play around on.

An example of the url would be
http://grahamenz.com/Dreams%20Within%20Dreams/Borked.jpg

I've left my website with Zenpage on it so you can see the behaviour
http://grahamenz.com

If I click through from albums the %2520 is not inserted into any urls.
Just the normal %20
This didn't happen with earlier Zenphoto and Combipage I have used with same group of images on same server.

This problem is not browser related, have tried Trident, Gecko and Webkit.

For those that don't know about %2520 here's a bit of info

"%2520 is a space character that has been encoded twice : once to get the standard %20 character and then the %
encoded again to give %25 and hence %2520 overall."

Anyone have any idea as to how to fix this ??
Many thanks
Grahame

acrylian

Probably some wrong encoding. But it will not be fixed as CombiNews will be deprecated - actually thrown out - with Zenphoto 1.4.6.

I would suggest to always avoid spaces in urls anyway as it always looks better without. If you upload via the backend the seo_zenphoto plugin would do this. You can also do this afterwards but of course that is an issue as the urls change.

GrahameNZ

Hi acrylian,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Fair enough if Combinews is history, no point in hunting down where things have changed.
A shame because the Combinews option was the reason I started using Zenphoto many years ago.
If I go back to an earlier version where this was working can I just replace the zp-core, index.php and themes folder like an upgrade ??
I guess plugins as well or should I clear my server out again and start from scratch ??
Thanks for the work on Zenphoto over the years, guess it may be time to see if there is something else out there 3/4 as good that works how I want.

acrylian

The reason theh CombiNews option is thrown out is technical (the Zenpage CMS plugin itself is of course not). It "bites" with the concept of being file system based and an articles being not. The joining of both to get the "combinews" was a good idea but caused maintainance overhead behind the surface.

There will be an alternativen with the plugin galleryArticles which can create real articles from new gallery items. You can read what is coming here already:
http://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenphoto-1.4.6

If I go back to an earlier version where this was working can I just replace the zp-core, index.php and themes folder like an upgrade ??

Not sure what you mean, but you cannot mix old and new release parts of course.

GrahameNZ

Thanks again acrylian,
That's an informative link.
Is there an approximate date for the release of 1.4.6 ??
It will probably be worth my wait.

By going back, I meant to a 1.4 or early 1.5 version where this worked.
As I thought I need to clean out 1.4.5.9 ans re-install, not a problem.

acrylian

We cannot really recommend to downgrade especially because of security fixes since then. Also we don't (can't) support older releases.

I have never tried downgrades and we don't test them. There might be unexpected trouble with the db structure.

1.4.6 is scheduled for March 31st.