Image Block with Slideshow module

[KyleG]

Thanks Mtense! I just am in the process of cutting over from a 1.5 site to a 2.5, last thing, get gallery installed and working. Once that is done (plan on a few weeks) I'll install this module and let you know of results.

[ChrisN]

Hi Mtense,

This is probably just something simple (ie me being code blind), but I am having an issue with the new beta version of the module. I have just done a complete new development on my local host, finanlly got G2 functioning as I need and intergrated with j2.5 through jfusion. Having got that all that working I installed the showplusG2 module, put in the details pointing to my G2 installation but it either gives me a message that it could not find the embed.php in G2, or a WSOD. I have tried all variations I can think of on the paths, however none connect to the gallery.

any ideas?

Cheers

Chris

[cordsally]

Great topic, lots of information i "ve collected...................keep doing this

[ChrisN]

Hi Mtense,

This is probably just something simple (ie me being code blind), but I am having an issue with the new beta version of the module. I have just done a complete new development on my local host, finanlly got G2 functioning as I need and intergrated with j2.5 through jfusion. Having got that all that working I installed the showplusG2 module, put in the details pointing to my G2 installation but it either gives me a message that it could not find the embed.php in G2, or a WSOD. I have tried all variations I can think of on the paths, however none connect to the gallery.

any ideas?

Cheers

Chris

Hi Mtense,

further on the problem above, I get the follow error trace in the system messages when viewing a page on which the slideshow is shown:
failed fetching gallery2 data:
Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE)
in modules\core\classes\GalleryStorage.class at line 495 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
in modules\core\classes\Gallery.class at line 209 (GalleryStorage::search)
in modules\imageblock\classes\ImageBlockHelper.class at line 684 (Gallery::search)
in modules\imageblock\classes\ImageBlockHelper.class at line 514 (ImageBlockHelper::_isCached)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\modules\mod_showplus\helper.php at line 874 (ImageBlockHelper::fetchViewableData)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\modules\mod_showplus\helper.php at line 164 (ShowPlusSlideshow::getDataFromGallery2)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\modules\mod_showplus\helper.php at line 97 (ShowPlusSlideshow::getImageSlideshowHtml)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\modules\mod_showplus\tmpl\default.php at line 15 (ShowPlusSlideshow::getSlideshowHtml)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\modules\mod_showplus\mod_showplus.php at line 54
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\libraries\joomla\application\module\helper.php at line 175
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\libraries\joomla\document\html\renderer\module.php at line 106 (JModuleHelper::renderModule)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\libraries\joomla\document\html\renderer\modules.php at line 39 (JDocumentRendererModule::render)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php at line 371 (JDocumentRendererModules::render)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php at line 655 (JDocumentHTML::getBuffer)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\libraries\joomla\document\html\html.php at line 433 (JDocumentHTML::_renderTemplate)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\includes\application.php at line 272 (JDocumentHTML::render)
in D:\wamp\www\mysite\index.php at line 48 (JSite::render)

I used the full path to the folder location, and have tried both the full and the relative url path. Is this a problem with the module or is there something I have done wrong???

[cordsally]

Wow ! that's amazing!

[mtense]

Chris,

This looks like gallery is failing to find its data directory, but this doesn't make sense if G2 is working.

What do your paths versus settings look like? Please post the path structure on the machine and the settings you are using. Relevant directories are:

Paths:
joomla install directory
gallery install directory
gallery data directory

Settings:
G2 Directory
G2 URL

[ChrisN]

Chris,

This looks like gallery is failing to find its data directory, but this doesn't make sense if G2 is working.

What do your paths versus settings look like? Please post the path structure on the machine and the settings you are using. Relevant directories are:

Paths:
joomla install directory
gallery install directory
gallery data directory

Settings:
G2 Directory
G2 URL

The Gallery is definately working. I am having the same issue whether the site is on my local test machine or the remote webhost. I will PM you the path details. I tried removing the preceeding "/" from the install path and has removed most of the error details I last posted however it still doesn't find the images, leaving this error

failed locating gallery2 installation: *gallery path*/embed.php

I haven't set embed mode to embed only in Gallery 2, and the embed.php is definately in the G2 directory, but it would appear to be something to do with looking for the embed file.

Cheers

Chris

[mtense]

Your paths look ok to me. Removing the / before the full path isn't going to work. Finding embed.php is the start of the process, so if it isn't found nothing is happening. The embed mode setting should not matter.

Does your gallery require authentication anywhere to view it? If so, try setting the slideshow album to only pull images from a public album. The gallery code appears to be failing trying to determine if the item is cached.

list ($ret, $searchResults) = $gallery->search(
'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [ImageBlockCacheMap] WHERE [ImageBlockCacheMap::userId] = ?',
array((int)$userId));

I am not sure if it is a problem with user or something else. Unfortunately, I am not a gallery expert and can only try to fix problems as they crop up.

You might want to try rebuilding your thumbnails and resized images.

Cheers!

PS: Sorry for the slow response. I setup notification on this thread, but the notifications were going to a bad email address.

[ChrisN]

Your paths look ok to me. Removing the / before the full path isn't going to work. Finding embed.php is the start of the process, so if it isn't found nothing is happening. The embed mode setting should not matter.

Does your gallery require authentication anywhere to view it? If so, try setting the slideshow album to only pull images from a public album. The gallery code appears to be failing trying to determine if the item is cached.

list ($ret, $searchResults) = $gallery->search(
'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [ImageBlockCacheMap] WHERE [ImageBlockCacheMap::userId] = ?',
array((int)$userId));

I am not sure if it is a problem with user or something else. Unfortunately, I am not a gallery expert and can only try to fix problems as they crop up.

You might want to try rebuilding your thumbnails and resized images.

Cheers!

PS: Sorry for the slow response. I setup notification on this thread, but the notifications were going to a bad email address.

Hi Mtense,

no problems, I've been busy myself so haven't had a chance to look at it this week. I've tried rebuilding the resized images although with the size of the gallery I often have trouble with this timing out.

Does the slideshow require access to full images? I only allow public access to the resized images and in order to order image downloads logging into a user account is required. The resized images are all publicly accessable, but if public access to the full sized image is needed that may be where the issue lies.