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Latest Mods / Re: SMF Links

« on: March 09, 2007, 04:29:17 pm »

Richmedia -

It sounds like you set the permissions in the "Configure Links" section - where you gave guest the right to view and everyone else the right to do everything.

You also need to go to the bottom of the admin section and select "Permissions" (just plain ole vanilla permissions) and modify each group. There's a new links section in there with about 9 or 10 different rights pertaining to the links section.

I did the exact same thing as you and was about to say very bad words when I sort of stumbled on the solution.

Feature Requests / Two requests

« on: March 09, 2007, 03:15:59 pm »

Actually, one of them (#2) might be a bug of sorts.

#1 - The keywords feature is AWESOME. Thank you for including it. On my football site, I'm able to use the players' last names as keywords and their mommies and daddies don't have to bother looking at anybody other than their son.

However, I'd like it if those keywords somehow formed a sort of "virtual category" when they're used. As it is, if I click on the keyword "Ray," I'll get all of the thumbnails of Ray. So I click on one of them and look at the picture. But the previous | next buttons don't go to the p|n picture of Ray. The go to the p|n picture in the category/subcategory that Ray's picture happened to be in. Hope you know what I'm saying. Could this be accomplished by making the keyword query dump image numbers into an array or something?

#2 - Also with keywords. I just noticed that the return set isn't limited to the keyword itself, but to any word that contains the keyword. Again using "Ray" as I keyword, if I click on it I'll get thumbnails of Ray....and of Bray, and of Gray and of Monterray, etc. Is there a quick fix for this?

Thanks.

Support / Newest update

« on: March 09, 2007, 02:47:38 pm »

Sorry if I'm being dense, but where do I get the new update mentioned on your front page?

Feature Requests / Re: Quirks/Annoyances

« on: March 08, 2007, 08:45:08 am »

Thanks. I was hoping I hadn't missed anything incredibly obvious!

For #2 (the "Next | Previous" question) - and forgive my ignorance, as I'm very unfamiliar with mysql - is there a way to do a subquery inside of your initial "get all the pictures" query which would indicate that a picture is first or last on the list? Something along the lines of:

SELECT pictable.picname, pictable.picdesc,
(select max(picname) from pictable) AS [first], (select min(picname) from pictable) AS [last])
FROM pictable
ORDER BY pictable.picname DESC;

Then when you display the links for next and previous, you'd put them into if statements (if [picname]<>[First] then display the previous link, etc).

Make any sense? I did something very similar in .asp for an articles database and it worked great.

The edit next picture thing would be a huge blessing for me, but I guess I'll just get around it now by editing the database directly.

Thanks again for the quick response.

Feature Requests / Quirks/Annoyances

« on: March 07, 2007, 02:33:21 pm »

Please forgive me if this should be in a different forum. I have SMF Gallery Pro and for the most part it's a nice package. There are a few things about it that are kind of a pain for me, though. If there are quick fixes for these, please tell me how to implement. If not, please add them to the next version.

1. The galleries appear to auto sort from high to low. I use mine almost exclusively for slideshows of football games and the sort order for the pictures should almost always be low to high (lower number pictures occurred earlier in the game). Is there an easy way to change to sort order or (better) to manually sort?

2. The Next|Previous links are still displayed even when a user has reached the Beginning|End of the gallery. Is there a way to keep a running count somewhere so that when one reaches the end of a gallery, the "Next" link is not displayed?

3. My galleries are stored by years. I'll have a category of 2006 which contains maybe 12 subcategories - 1 for each game played in 2006. When I create a new subcategory, I do a bulk import of all the pictures for that game and then go in and edit each picture to add the captions. Problem is that after I edit a picture, I'm thrown back to a page containing all of the thumbnails from the entire category. I want to go back to a page with all the thumbnails from just the SUBCATEGORY (or - ideally - I'd like to just have the option to EDIT the next photo in the subgallery). Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

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