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Softlinks in gallery directory not working with PHP 5.3.3

shredluc — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:30:47 -0500

So i had a server running Centos 5.7 which i believe ran PHP 5.2.17. In the minishowcase installation i use softlinks in the galleries directory (i ran jm's fork, located at http://people.via.ecp.fr/~jm/minishowcase-jm.html for the submenus). It would correctly follow the softlink and display both subdirs and photos.
I decommissioned my old server and setup this new one and in the process ended up moving to Centos 6, which includes PHP 5.3.3

Here any directory that is a softlink fails to display both sub menus and the photos. I have tried both vanilla minishowcase and jm's fork.This ability to use soft links is absolutely essential since i have hundreds of gigabytes of photos and a tiny mirrored 74GB sas drive in the server. Copying the photos to the galleries directory is not possible. The softlinks point to NFS mounts on a central NAS unit.

The culprits seem to be the PHP scandir() and opendir() methods and the fact that PHP 5.3 does not recognize symlinks to directories as directories. is_dir() returns false on a symlink. I don't know if PHP will be fixed in the next patch or if this is the intended functionality progression. Any chance that minishowcase will be modified to work with newer versions of PHP?

Thanks!

Navigation thumbnails not showing

mickie — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:00:03 -0500

Hi.
I installed the minishowcase both; locally on my iMAC 10.6.4 with MAMP and on the server. It's fantastic working and really easy to handle, great showcase.

The only issu I see now is online, the smaller thumbnails of the navigation bar (above the large images) don't show and a missing icon is shown instead. no idea why that would be. I have plenty of other images, etc with other script and no problems, so I can't think that this will be any problem with the GD...

Thanks a lot

chane of $settings['gallery_default_name'] does not work

ong — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:43:26 -0400

Hi,

I want to upload images to directories encoded with the date - for example, if I upload today, i would use "2010_07_07" as directoryname (below /galleries/ of course!). Tomorrow I would use "2010_07_08" and so on.
I changed the settings.php
Instead of
$settings['gallery_default_name'] = 'venezuela';
I am using this:
$heute = date("Y_m_d");
$settings['gallery_default_name'] = $heute;

Also set:
$settings['gallery_default'] = true;

My problem: It does NOT work! Always the gallery which fits the FIRST of the
$settings['gallery_sorting'] = 5;
definition is shown on startup.

... please - any idea?
Olaf

minimanage - client

arthurema — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:31:30 -0500

Anyone know how to get in touch with Jan about a minimanage problem? I am running the client with jre 1.6.30 and I get an error "com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.ver1_1.Message1_1Impl cannot be cast to com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl" As I think I discovered that removing the dependency for xalan might be the fix. I believe this is enabled in lib/jaxp-api.jar Or does someone else have an idea for resolution? Thank you

Gallery Selection box not showing more then 17 Galleries

faizan101010 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:07:00 -0500

Hello,
I have installed minishow case gallery on my newspaper site and it is working great. How ever I come to an issue that in the drop down menu for gallery selection it is only showing latest 17 galleries but I have 23 galleries there. Can you tell me How can I show all the galleries or Is that a bug.

Please check here

http://www.pakistantimesmalaysia.com/site/photo-gallery/

This is the only problem I am facing for now otherwise the gallery Rocks!

Thanks for the great work though :)

Regards

Issues with Go Daddy and Thumbnails

heckels — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:59:44 -0500

First, I tried to read the forum guidelines but the link seems to be broken.

I'm having issues with the thumbnail capabilities of minishowcase. If the "create thumbnails" option is set to true, nothing with happen and I'll be left with placeholders for each of the thumbnails with their descriptions. If it is set to false, then it takes forever for the thumbnails to load - I assume because we're having to load the full image and then scale it down.

In reading others' issues, I think the issue has something to do with GoDaddy as our host. BUT, since I've seen some progress since on the GoDaddy issue I'm not sure if this has been rectified yet or not.

I've tried the ?thumbnail.php but despite it saying that the thumbnails have been successfully created there are still no thumbnails in my cache. Is this a space issue with GoDaddy? If so, how do I correct it?

If the thumbnail GD issue cannot be rectified, is there a way for use to create thumbnails and place them in the cache folder? If so, what naming convention do we need to follow???

I believe we meet the requirements listed on your page. You can see our test.php file here:

www.mheckeldesign.com/test.php

The gallery is hosted at www.mheckeldesign.com/gallery/index.php.

Server Info:
OS/Hosting Type: Windows / Shared Hosting

Hosting Configuration:
.Net Runtime Version: ASP.Net 2.0/3.0/3.5
PHP Version: PHP 5.2
IIS Version: IIS 7.0

Thanks so much, Victor.

Scott

Bug Report: MiniShowcase Sep2011: IE Conditional Comments - Correction fo Proper Validation

twohawks — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:15:34 -0400

Edit: ...not really a bug, rather, a validation issue...

Just reporting on this.
In minishowcase/index.php, about Lines 106 to 122, the "START SCRIPTS/STYLESHEETS FOR IE PC" section, need to remove the double dashes (--) on the nested IE comments for proper validation.

Nested IE conditional comments cannot contain the double dashes "--" in them due to the w3c spec that forbids it.
So the correct method is to use the 'downlevel-revealed' type of IE conditional comment, which includes no double-dashes.

Again, this is only necessary for the nested IE conditional comments, not the initial opening, or the final closing, ones.

For instance

I do not yet know where else this is being used, but upon finding this I figured I'd report it.

Cheers,
TwoHawks

Integrated into a webpage - adjusted for fluid design

twohawks — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:24:37 -0400

With much gratitude to Victor (thanks so much for your work and sharing spirit) ...I am sharing this integration of minishowcase embedded into a webpage containing the site header, footer and side menu -->

rush-creek.com/minishowcase/index.php

1) The main interesting/unique thing to point out (that anyone can freely inspect at the page posted) is I tweaked the css to allow for a fully fluid functionality. When you visit, be sure to resize the window, both manually and using zoom, to see the effects.
**The main benefit** of doing this is it allows for more amicable embedding of minishowcase into an already existing page design by diffusing the compromise it otherwise might impose to pre-existing site design with its natively "rigid" structure. I kind of went overboard ...to the point of making even the left side of the thumbnail-board flow around the minishowcase gallery menu (just to make it more 'completely' fluid).

2) Another thing worth mentioning.. for those noticing/questioning the use of relative paths (you know who you are, and why you are questioning this ;^), those are all code generated from a call to a single function (for the whole site), not hard coded. I have an unorthodox co-ssi+php environment utilizing nested includes that drove me to figure out a solution for not only allowing ssi and php to live together (a separate but intimately related story),

*but also allows placing any internal link using a single anchor syntax onto any page on the site (i.e. any nested directories I can use the same anchor) and have the server resolve them without undue load, without fussing over manually having to deal with relative pathways.

This is relevant to this project due to the site using nested ssi (and now php) includes.

Anyway, #1 is the main thing to see there that may benefit others ;^)
TwoHawks

Subcategories

OldSparky — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:47:27 -0400

Hello,

I extended brains modification to enable better sub categorie support.
I changed the modification from brain to show subcategories like:

Folder
  - Subfolder
  - Subfolder
    - Subfolder
      - Subfolder
    - Subfolder
  - Subfolder
Folder
  - Subfolder
(and so on)

I attached the modificated file, just replace it.
Only do this, if you use the minishowcase from Brian C. Becker and not the original!

Greetings
OldSparky!

Brains modification under: http://briancbecker.com/tmp/minishowcase_subiptc.zip

continuous_nav doesn't work for slimbox and thickbox

kwokkie — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:34:27 -0400

continuous_nav in ajax.init.js is set to true, but it works only in the built-in navigation. It doesn't seem to have any effect in Slimbox or Thickbox mode.
Is there an easy way for me to enable continuous_nav for those two preview modes?

missing files

Werner — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:52:19 -0500

I downloaded msc (minishowcase) from Your homepage, unziped it and did make an upload by filezilla. I found the script and the instruction page via:
http://www.warweg.com/minishowcase/index.php
http://www.warweg.com/minishowcase/Instructions.htm

But there are now example-pictures as promised and themes are missing...

Where is my mistake?

Thank You for Help.

Sorry for my bad Englsh.

Warm regards
Werner

New Version (Finished)

ceruleansin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:13:57 -0400

Ok, I updated the gallery and used some info from a previous version in 2008 that allowed sub galleries.

So, this version will not only function as the original will, it will also allow sub-directories. I've also added a customization of my own that includes a header bar for the images with a close graphic.

Check out my gallery: http://www.Chrisamend.com/gallery/

Moving the Gallery menu down the page

trevzilla — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:27:26 -0400

I was thinking that the layout of minishowcase might look a little nicer, (at least on my page at http://www.ashleystevickphotography.com/ ) if the gallery menu was moved down the page so that the top of it lined up with the top of the pictures in the gallery itself.

Any ideas of what code I need to look at to have this happen? Thanks!

Want to tweak things a bit?

schroeder — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:38:30 -0400

To get your website to make /gallery come up when you go to the home page, I put an .htaccess file in the root directory with my index.html file with only this in it:
Redirect /index.html http://www.yourwebsite.com/gallery/
This way, one only has to go to yourwebsite.com and voila, they're in your gallery. (gallery is what the directory is named where I put minishowcase)

Of course you must have an index.html in your root directory of your web site...

To make the theme transparent so you can put up a background image, edit /gallery/themes/whichever-theme-you-desire/data.php like this:

under //// colors

////change the color to transparent.
$theme_general_bg = "transparent";
////this changes the font to black
$theme_general_text = "#000";

look for either font or text, also, and change it to whatever color you want throughout the rest of the file. Now save this to a new folder, and name it whatever you want. Copy the other files from your original folder into this one, too.

Congratulations, you now have your own theme! (I used transparent because I'm showing how I did my theme)

TO MAKE A BACKGROUND IMAGE SCALE UNDER "MOST" CIRCUMSTANCES, in /gallery/styles/gallery.css add this after the word body, put this:

{
margin: 0px;
background: ;
background: url(http://www.schroedervision.com/bg2.JPG) no-repeat center center fixed;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size: cover;
-o-background-size: cover;
background-size: cover;

}

To change the theme use /gallery/config/settings.php,
and look for

/**** LOOK & FEEL *************************************************/

/* selected theme
* VALUES: [ theme name ] */
$settings['use_theme'] = 'transparent';

Just enter whatever theme you want, like maybe a new one you just made up all by yourself! I entered transparent between the ''s.

Now you should have a page that looks comparable to what I have (only better, probably)

Other files to edit are:

for the first greeting on the first page, edit /gallery/languages/whatever-language-you-a-speak-a.php.

for the second greeting on the first page, edit /galleries/_info.txt.

for the stuff under that, use /gallery/config/settings.php and look for

/* footer content
* VALUES: [ ]
* NOTE: you may use HTML in it, please put a backslash (\) before
* any single quote */
$settings['gallery_footer'] =

And just enter whatever you want.

But be sure you change the link for cpaint to http://cpaint.sourceforge.net/ okay? I used this to put my company logo on the site. (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but the original link is bad)

Can't think of anyting else here, except that if you want to do resizing and watermarking incredibly fast, use phatch http://photobatch.stani.be/ until such time as minishowcase can do watermarking automatically... koff koff.

Any chance of making .ini files so we all can do customization on the fly? A lot of this scripting is not too different from uscript I used to make weapons with in unreal tournament, and also the anticheat packages we used to stop hackers on the servers. They had .ini files that you could change stuff in, and it would customize stuff. Just a thought, not sure it it works that way or not with web stuff.

Bill

*edited for accuracy again

Gallery inspired by minishowcase

marioosh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:56:38 -0500

Inspired by Your minishowcase i made my gallery using prototype.js and lightview as viewer and for slideshow :) I've added admin/owner button (login). Admin can making photos/galleries private or public, edit photos by picnic. Owner can view all photos (private and public).

You can look at here: http://mini.marioosh.net
(admin password: admin, owner password: owner)

Thumbnailing errors

gabbermatt — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:44:29 -0400

I did a search for thumbnail and couldn't find anything related to my issue, if there's already something on it just link me to it and ill go there...

basically, when I goto /galleries/?thumbnails and try to run the script on a folder it gets about 60 pictures in and then just stops. I check the error_log in /libraries/ and I see this:

[16-Sep-2011 17:20:09] PHP Notice: getimagesize() [function.getimagesize]: Read error! in /home/**redacted**/public_html/Anime/libraries/thumb.display.php on line 108
[16-Sep-2011 17:20:09] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/**redacted**/public_html/Anime/libraries/thumb.display.php:108) in /home/**redacted**/public_html/Anime/libraries/thumb.display.php on line 220
[16-Sep-2011 17:20:09] PHP Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /home/**redacted**/public_html/Anime/libraries/thumb.display.php on line 224

I was having other issues before, but it was related to php memory limit, raised that and continue to get those errors.

If you want to see it let me know (is thre a PM system?) I would post the link but the thumbnailing uses quite a bit of resources and I don't want 5000 people running the script at once. =\

galleries opening with subs as well

virus — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:55:10 -0400

not sure when/why it happened, but all of our sub folders are displayed beneath each root folder. there are so many displayed that some of our galleries are not listed (i guess the menu length maxes out as some point?)

any advice is appreciated.

gallery at - http://phoenix-mc.org/pics/index.php

thanks!

How to unable direct link to original photo (enlarge) when open a photo

peopleinside_it — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:57:57 -0500

Hi,
i want unable direct link (function enlarge photo) when user has to click photo to view in a new window original foto file.jpg
how to disable this?

I want disable link Click to enlarge.
Thanks,

Mark from italy.

How do I change the color of the thickbox background

sebastienb — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:24:10 -0500

I tried changing it in the css and other places but it still loads a transparent black layer. I tried searching the forums and I found one link but it talks about lightbox not thickbox.

thanks

Change Color of the Default Theme

TheDuke — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:28:19 -0400

Hi,

I found the minishowcase script and its exactly what I was looking for!

But I got a disign question. How could I change the grey background on the top of the DEFAULT THEME? I wan´t to change it into white :)?

How can I use minishowcase to sell photos?

schroeder — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:41:27 -0400

First of all, Thank You Victor! What a great job you have done!!! Thank you!

A little background: I taught myself just enough html code back in '98 to make my own website (in notepad), and have for the most part not touched code except for a tweak now and then on forums that I administer. I am by no means what you would call a programmer.

My wife and I are toying around with starting a photo/graphics business, and we wanted a way to show our photography. I found minishowcase, and felt that it suited our needs.

The first thing my wife asked was for me to put a background image on the page. I finally figured out how to make all the different sections of the page transparent, then I found some code to put a non scrolling image that pretty much fits the screen at all resolutions (for the most part), then found out how to change different font colors for different sections, and how to change the lightbox colors. Whew! If you'd told me two days ago that I would do this, I'd have said you're crazy.

This is what I've done so far.

http://www.schroedervision.com/gallery

In case I change directory: http://www.schroedervision.com/images/Screenshot-2.jpg

I run Ubuntu 10.10 (at present), Firefox web browser (but test also on Windows 7 with current I.E.), and do most of my scripting in gedit, because all the php and html etc editors are just totally overwhelming. I get lost in them, but they are good for starting a basic page from scrap if you want to say, Hi there, and put a photo up with some links. (if you can tell, I'm no programmer!)

So, I'll shut up and get down to business. I don't want people to see our full sized images! What I want them to do, though, is to have the opportunity to purchase pictures. Instead of clicking on the image to enlarge it, I would like to know if one can change that link to, "click on the image to purchase it"?

Can this be done? I've looked in every file I can, and I haven't seen anything helpful.

(also, on our website, please understand that today, July 5, 2011, we have just got stuff up there to see how the overall site is working out. We'll be resizing images later on, those massive ones are just up there because we wanted to throw something up real quick. please comment on the style/theme, though, I'm very proud of it!)

register_globals and safe_mode Setting

jpc — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:58:53 -0400

The minishowcase program doesn't work on my localhost(MAMP). I have not changed any code in minishowcase...
The problem with minishowcase when I run it is that it doesn't show the titles of the galleries. In the case of the original minishowcase that one can download from the minishowcase website, the title of the gallery that should be showing the gallery_menu is "venezuela". In my case, you the "venezuela" title is not displayed at all.... I am guessing that this could be because of my php settings.

Does minishowcase require register_globals to be on?
Does minishowcase require safe_mode to be on?

Thank you....please help me...I really need to have minishowcase working soon...I have used it before successfully both on my localhost(MAMP) and on my webhost. However, because I needed to reformat my computer, after I reinstalled MAMP without changing any setting....suddenly the galleries are not working properly.....

Thank you

Customization to add close button on image

ceruleansin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:20:50 -0400

Yesterday I was frustrated by the forums lack of information on customizing the miniShowCase so in the end I just did it my self.

I've added a cross broswer compatable close button on the top right of every image that you open in the gallery. In the code below, ignore the /*****/ stuff, I just used it to make the actual code stand out.

Example: http://www.chrisamend.com/gallery

Here is the CSS that I added to gallery.css


/******************************************/
#close_me_button {
	z-index: 1;
}

#close_me_button_img {
	float: left;
}
/*******************************************/

Here is what I added to the ajax.functions.js on line 995 and as you can see I use the existing Ajax info to get the width of the new image so that I can accurately predict where to drop the close button. You can copy the images that I use by going to my gallery and right clicking the images (header grey bar and red close button).


/*********************************************/
imgout += '
/********************************************/

I also added this line on line number 1014 of ajax.functions.js


/********************************************/
imgout = '
';
/*******************************************/

disable right-mouse-click-downloads on all images

tjarman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:21:22 -0500

I found how to disable the ability to enlarge a picture - and consquenly prevent the downloading of it. Very simple to do!

But I still need to disable the right-mouse-click downloading of the thumbnails and the images displayed during the slideshow, etc. I really only want people to view my pictures, not download them.

If this is code that needs to be modified, please point me in the direction (I have some coding knowledge and can get through most things if I know where to look for it). If it's something in the config or settings, please let me know, too!

Thank you!

Galleries not showing.

netweb — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:08:48 -0400

I have installed this gallery on different websites located on the same server before with no issues.

http://www.91lacrosse.com/pages/gallery/
http://www.liseniorsquadron.org/pages/gallery/

I am installing this gallery on a new website on the same server and am having issues. The galleries are not showing up. The galleries just keep loading.

http://peconicstarfleet.com/pages/gallery/

I have tried several solutions to no avail. I have changed the permissions of several folders, have changed in settings.php the gallery_sorting and thumbnail_sorting both to 0. I have changed the minishowcase_url to the different ones this particular website uses.

The PHP is up to date because the showcase is up and working on other sites on my server (as seen above). Safe Mode is off and GD is enabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If it helps: http://peconicstarfleet.com/pages/gallery/info.php

galleries_menu

jpc — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:46:19 -0400

Hi all,
I have successfully used minishowcase on my Mac with MAMP before.
The result of how i used minishowcase can be seen here: http://www.lizannedesigns.com/minishowcase/index.php
However, from the original time I used Mamp to design the above website until now, I had to reformat my computer.
So I reformatted my computer and re-download and reinstalled MAMP and then I downloaded all the files with the working minishowcase from the above site. This time though, the galleries_menu are not being populated with the titles any more. The same codes and files work perfectly on the web hosting site, but for some odd reason, it is not populating the galleries_menu when I use my MAMP localhost, eventhough I haven't changed any setting on my MAMP. Can anyone help me please? Thank you very much.

To confirm what the problem was, I have just downloaded the minishowcase folder and files from the minishowcase website, and I moved the minishowcase folder to my htdocs folder...opened it....and just as I suspected...the "Valenzuela" title is not showing as well in the galleries_menu, when it should be showing like how it is shown in the demo site of minishowcase.

Please help me solve this issue. Thank you very much.

Error "including" minishowcase in php file

jpc — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:33:10 -0400

Hi,

I have included the index.php file inside the minishowcase folder within a php file called collections.php.
Here is the code inside collections.php:

Here is the result of minishowcase:

[DEBUG] Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1

click to dismiss...

Galleries

tools:
Powered by minishowcase and cpaint
« BACK TO THUMBNAILS

[ 10] | pause slideshow

How can I fix this?
Thank you very much.

The ordering problem

begeiste — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:09:10 -0400

Hi,

I have named the folders under Galleries Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. But the ordering has a problem, the menu list orders Thursday, Sunday, Saturday, Friday. I have followed the instruction at settings.php below:

* 0 : default platform sorting (check it on your platform)
* 1 : natural sorting (0833.jpg comes before 2018.jpg)
* 2 : natural sorting, case-insensitive (recommended)
* 3 : reverse default platform sorting
* 4 : reverse natural sorting
* 5 : reverse natural sorting, case-insensitive
* 6 : EXIF date (not tested thoroughly)
* 7 : EXIF date (reverse order, not tested thoroughly)
* NOTE: if PHP was compiled without EXIF support it'll fall back to '0' */
$settings['gallery_sorting'] = 3;//orignial is 2
$settings['thumbnail_sorting'] = 0;
Please help me to correct the problem when you can? Much appreciate it!!!!

Slovak language translation + troubleshooting

mehturt — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:58:00 -0400

Hi all, I created slovak language file for minishowcase (sk.php).
However some texts do not display proper characters; in particular the content of $lang["gallery_reload"] is not displayed properly. I created the sk.php file using vim via urxvt, it's in UTF-8 and in vim all the characters show fine.
I can provide the sk.php if anyone cares to investigate.
Thanks..

Gallery doesn't show properly in IE7

popinieko — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:54:16 -0400

Hi guys,

I'm testing a gallery at this moment on the following location:
http://www.intellitainment.nl/testsite/gallery.php

It shows up correctly in Firefox // Mozilla/5.0 (Firefox/3.6), but apparently it doesn't show the correct styling in IE7.0.6001. I get the following DEBUG message, while I disabled all three debug messages in the settings.php file.

[DEBUG] Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.3; OfficeLivePatch.0.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30618)

Any ideas what the problem could be?

Bug found... it was an ' too much in a theme file