1.05 out

[Pekka]

http://photography-on-the.net/ee/download.php

There is a choice of

full install (will destroy your current galleries!) which is installed by instructions on http://photography-on-the.net/ee/install.php

and

update install which will preserve your data. Update is done by copying all PHP files over old ones, and running
1_to_105.php which them updates the database. Back up your data first in case you encounter problems in upgrading.


Changes in 1.05
--------------------------
- Fixed a bug in installer which made two invisible photos.
Also reduced number of photos in basic install.

- New feature:
New 'misc settings' editor: set basic settings for public list displays, webmaster etc. Will add to this later.

- New feature:
'Create a new photo' made much easier: select from thumbnail
page - immediate save when you click any thumb.
Used thumbs are bordered on selection page.

- Database structure simplified in path size area (update
script gathers all current data and builds the new structure)

- New feature:
Defaults editor added. You have now an editor which lets you
enter new photo settings for each exhibition, and one for exhibitions
to be created. Defaults include size path settings.

- New feature:
in input editor list.php has a new output option 'multidelete'. It lets
you select photos and delete them with in one command.

- Misc. bugs fixed here and there, suppressed some errors related
to unset variables. 'Current' exhibition in now tracked in editors.

[HotDogOne]

Thanks for the update Pekka !

Im going to re-install from scratch as I think I might have messed a few things up. :(

I did have one thought though in regards to my 'full search' thing.

IF I use just one thumb and microthumb directory I will be able to place ALL of my photographs into one BIG exhibition, then ALSO place them into smaller Exhibitions.

Ill give it a go - Ill write out my findings and pass them along to you.

Thanks again,

btw, Ill sort out a PayPal donation in the next week !

[Pekka]

Using only one microthumb path and only one thumb path in order to create a "master gallery" is a good idea.

Of course as time goes by you'll end up having problems with duplicate filenames unless you rename before upload - a big reason for this problem is only 8 character filenames in cameras (remember DOS?) and big part of that is reserved to some nonsense folder or date info.

Im going to re-install from scratch as I think I might have messed a few things up.

If you see any patterns emerging in how you can mess things up I'd be very interested to find them! :)

[HotDogOne]

Hi - got it reinstalled and initial set up done.

http://milphoto.hotdogone.net/gallery/


I understand how I messed it up before - I was using too many directories and using these to try and sort the photographs, rather than using EE itself. (Old habit).

Now that all thumbnails are in one, mircrothumbs in another, and photo's in their own areas (as a master gallery) it is coming together nicely, and really starts to show the power of EE.

I might try to write some kind of 'How to' stuff for how im using EE. I will email them to you to see if you could use them on your site for FAQ's etc....

Hope to help you out in return !

[steelduck]

Novice EE question... Can I run this on my Sun Solaris box. ie. Does it have Linux binaries or something?

Kristian

[Pekka]

steelduck wrote:
Novice EE question... Can I run this on my Sun Solaris box. ie. Does it have Linux binaries or something?

Kristian

I'm sure it will run as there are no system calls or anything fancy like binaries. Plain PHP/MySQL stuff. I'd be interested to hear how it goes if you happen to try it on Solaris.

[steelduck]

Pekka wrote:

I'm sure it will run as there are no system calls or anything fancy like binaries. Plain PHP/MySQL stuff. I'd be interested to hear how it goes if you happen to try it on Solaris.
->

I think I will give it a try as soon as I find the PHP binaries for solaris or I get a good C compiler for my Solaris box.

I have allready found the MySQL binaries that I can install with the pkgadd command.

I have NO experience in MySQL nor PHP so I am a bit hesitant to try ;) Is there a good documentation somewhere how to configure the MySQL and the PHP so that the EE works.

Kristian

[GenDEM]

I had no experience with setting up MySQl either, but I managed after some trial and error ;) I'll try to summarize the steps I did on my Linux box once I move the EE from my testing server to the live one.

By the way, Pekka, Any tips on doing that? I had planned on just doing a re-install on the new box...

[Pekka]

gendem wrote:
I had no experience with setting up MySQl either, but I managed after some trial and error ;) I'll try to summarize the steps I did on my Linux box once I move the EE from my testing server to the live one.

By the way, Pekka, Any tips on doing that? I had planned on just doing a re-install on the new box...

Use phpMyAdmin (http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net) to backup whole database (use these settings: http://photography-on-the.net/ee/support/dump.gif , then reinstall EE and phpMyAdmin on the new server and restore the SQL backup.

I run and develop EE on Windows XP Pro machine (worked on Windows 2000 Pro earlier) and use the aforementioned method to move EE to new servers.

[Pekka]

steelduck wrote:
I have NO experience in MySQL nor PHP so I am a bit hesitant to try ;) Is there a good documentation somewhere how to configure the MySQL and the PHP so that the EE works.
Kristian

All the installation info you'll need is there at http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php and http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Installing.html#Installing

EE does not need any extra modules - it works on basic PHP 4.xx and MySQL 3.2x installs.

Only things that you should check is that you install PHP as module (not CGI) and that php4 uses also .php extension.

I have not installed PHP or SQL into unix, ever. I've either had them installed by ISP, or in current server I have them preinstalled (although updates has to be done with telnet root account).

[jonday]

I have downloaded 1.05 and done an upgrade. The upgrade worked perfectly (good work Pekka).

It was not clear to me, so may need highlighting in the upgrade instructions. An upgrade will recreate the 'input' directory which is insecure. I suggest you delete the whole directory which you renamed to 'foobar123' or whatever. Then rename the 'input' directory back to the name you used previously. This was my approach and there were no problems.

The improvements re adding photos and the default settings are great. I added 10 more photos in just a few minutes this time. The thumbnail viewing page is a great addition.

Please feel free to visit the site to have a look.
http://www.teammel.com/eegallery

I still have not added the camera and photo data as they are all with a D30, 28-105mm or 50mm at the moment. I still feel a way of importing the EXIF data would massively reduce the data inputting - even if you just upload a text file with the data and have an extra field on the add photo page to pull in the data from the selected text file to populate the relevant fields.

If anyone needs hosting or wants to trial EE, I have my owned dedicated server with php and mysql already configured, and can offer very reasonable hosting options for photographers who wish to host their galleries. Please contact me offlist at admin@jdrive.com if you wish to discuss.


Cheers
Jonathan

[mmusta]

Hi Pekka,

I have installed version 1.05 of exhibition engine
on my Windows XP machine and it works fine with
PHP as a cgi.

I use a nifty distribution of Apache, MySQL, and PHP
available from www.nusphere.com. It takes about
ten minutes to install the windows package and
about another ten-fifteen minutes or so installing EE.

I also have EE running under Linux with PHP as a module.

Is there something wrong with running EE with PHP
as a cgi?

My plan is to use EE on a laptop when I am on vacation.
It will be great to catalog my photos while the information is still fresh in my mind.

Great Program! Thanks

[Pekka]

jonday wrote:
I have downloaded 1.05 and done an upgrade. The upgrade worked perfectly (good work Pekka).

Thanks! I spent some time to make it's a secure for old data!

It was not clear to me, so may need highlighting in the upgrade instructions. An upgrade will recreate the 'input' directory which is insecure. I suggest you delete the whole directory which you renamed to 'foobar123' or whatever. Then rename the 'input' directory back to the name you used previously. This was my approach and there were no problems.

Good point.

The improvements re adding photos and the default settings are great. I added 10 more photos in just a few minutes this time. The thumbnail viewing page is a great addition.

Please feel free to visit the site to have a look.
http://www.teammel.com/eegallery

Nice stuff. And a double-bass, too!

One thing to point out is that the lens descriptions are my own - you opinion of the lenses may be very different and you might have more to tell about them in how you use them. So please take some time to check that descriptions match what you would have written. Same thing about camera descriptions!

I still feel a way of importing the EXIF data would massively reduce the data inputting - even if you just upload a text file with the data and have an extra field on the add photo page to pull in the data from the selected text file to populate the relevant fields.

This is something which is on the todo list.

Maybe I'll have to give up and give a choice to upload the original, and let PHP read the EXIF and convert it to database fields.

I'm also thinking of having a C program for sharpening and PHP would take care of resizing and saving.
I have a fried who is really good C programmer - let's see what develops.

One big problem with originals (other than it's not safe keeping them in servers) is that with new cameras they are getting too big to to upload comfortably.

[Pekka]

mmusta wrote:
Hi Pekka,

I have installed version 1.05 of exhibition engine
on my Windows XP machine and it works fine with
PHP as a cgi.

I use a nifty distribution of Apache, MySQL, and PHP
available from www.nusphere.com. It takes about
ten minutes to install the windows package and
about another ten-fifteen minutes or so installing EE.

I also have EE running under Linux with PHP as a module.

Is there something wrong with running EE with PHP
as a cgi?

No if it works! :)

My only concern was that some ISP's require a .cgi extersion for cgi php's and a file header to usr/bin for each file, which would make install quite complicated.

My plan is to use EE on a laptop when I am on vacation. It will be great to catalog my photos while the information is still fresh in my mind.

That reminded me I'll have to think about coding an utility to copy photos between databases. This way you could move photos from laptop database to online database easily. It would have to check unlisted locations, cameras, lenses etc. and recreate them to online database - and remap id's on new photos to those new recreated ones...

Great Program! Thanks


Thank you,

Pekka

[MikeDE]

I just want to say I think this is a wonderful script. You've done a great job.

[steelduck]

I have succesfully installed the EE 1.05 on a Sun Solaris server.

I used the mysql package from the www.sunfreeware.com and the php source code from the www.php.net

The Apache is included in the Solaris 8 install.

There is a good howto here: http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/php+solaris.html

http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/php+solaris.html

[steelduck]

EE is running but I cannot add pictures to it?? When I place thumbs to thumbs directory they just show as red X:s in the browser.

Any idea what is wrong?

Is there a documentation somewhere how to add pictures?

[steelduck]

I am getting quite frustrated with this... The ee shows all the thumbnails as "those boxes with a red X". If I check the properties of the picture it points to a right address.

HELP!!

[steelduck]

Ok ... I solved the thumbnail "mystery".

I had entered the absolute path (/rootoftheserver/ee/thumb) to the thumbs directory in the multieditor "Thumb path editor"

It should read ../thumb

Now the next problem is to get the actual pictures to show.

When I click on the thumbnail on the frontpage it does not open the picture. There is just the copyrigh text where the picture should be.

The URL on the picture properties points to the root of the EE and not to the path I have entered in the "size path editor"

This happens on all the picture sizes.

ie. the URL on the page that is shown is http://my.server.fi/ee/Helsinki_001.jpg

ee is the root of the EE

The path in the "size path editor" is http://my.server.fi/ee/photos/small etc.

Any ideas?

ps. compiling the php on solaris seemed to be the easy part ;)

[Pekka]

steelduck wrote:
When I click on the thumbnail on the frontpage it does not open the picture. There is just the copyrigh text where the picture should be.

The URL on the picture properties points to the root of the EE and not to the path I have entered in the "size path editor"

This happens on all the picture sizes.

ie. the URL on the page that is shown is http://my.server.fi/ee/Helsinki_001.jpg

ee is the root of the EE

The path in the "size path editor" is http://my.server.fi/ee/photos/small etc.

Any ideas?


You will need the training slash:
http://my.server.fi/ee/photos/small/

Also, check for each photo that you have selected and saved correct size paths in photo editor.

As in the bottom of:

http://photography-on-the.net/ee/graphs/photo_editor.gif

You set the defaults so that you don't have to do this for new photos.

[steelduck]

OK, I found the problem. I had renamed the "default" variable in the "size path editor"

:)

Now it works like charm...