General support topic for Aeva Media (Latest release: July 28, 2010)

[knockout]

Language file!

What's wrong with Media?

my users! they prefer Gallery
thanks for the info I'll try it tonite!

[Nao 尚]

Kindred,
The issue with folders being created as 0-byte files is an SMF issue.

http://dev.simplemachines.org/mantis/view.php?id=4007
http://dev.simplemachines.org/mantis/view.php?id=2747

[clothahump]

I am not that new to SMF and have been running forums for 10 years, before I upgraded I created a series of albums for our competitions, I am now unable to create any more so that indicates to me that something has changed.
I started a new thread as I thought it needed addressing separately.

[Nao 尚]

Create *what*, where?

The forum is moderated because many people don't like my way of sparing my thoughts about tech support and go very vocal, which tends to turn into petty fights around here. And since it's a big mod and I'm the only one who can answer many questions, I guess they tried to find a compromise.

[Nao 尚]

Tell them to grow up

Aeva Media is no longer just a gallery. The final version will have a control panel for their embedding preferences...

[clothahump]

In the following screen shot you can see the albums I originally created, I now need to add some more but I am now unable to do so.

[Nao 尚]

For those interested--

SVN revision 137

@ A big update internally...
! Attempt fixing some errors with charset in old BBC converter (aeva_convert_old_bbcodes.php) (<--- Just got feedback about it: doesn't work better... >_<)
! An unneeded preg_quote() in lookup function prevented YouTube video titles from being retrieved. (Aeva-Embed.php)
+ Added 'master' field to album table, which represents the current branch of the album tree for a given album. Updated lots of functions to account for this new system. (db_aeva.php, Aeva-Gallery.php, Aeva-Gallery2.php, Aeva-Subs.php)
* Optimized aeva_getAlbumParents() function to no longer require a SQL query on top-level albums, and to only use a single query for all sub-albums. (Aeva-Subs.php)
* Very minor updates to item page layout (Aeva.template.php, style.css)

[Nao 尚]

Why can't you?

[K4EEO]

My apologies.. it wasn't my intention to piss you off.. my main concern is the option list is listing private groups that are not to be advertised to the other member groups.. but hey, this is my problem, not yours. I'll find a different solution for my members. Thanks anyway.

[SEEN]

the newest one.. aeva media 1.0 alpha 2 and i have never installed aeva media before

[leftezi]

Hallo Naolington.
I faced a problem with Greek Utf8 characters.
I have SMF 2.0 RC2 and Aeva Media 1.0 Alpha 2 installed.

When i upload an item in the album with Greek title and Greek description all is OK.
But: If i later edit this item and save it again, then the Greek item-title characters turned to question marks (?? ?? ?? ??). Only the item-title. The description stays in Greek.

I have tested the other two options in Aeva settings for Utf8 but then it was worse because not only the title is turned to ?? ?? ?? ? but also the description is converted to ?? ?? ?? ?? ?.
The best option for "Convert UTF-8 strings to entities?" is the "Always convert" but (only) the title-item has problem in the conversion and only after "edit" not by the first save (upload).

[leftezi]

Another issue (in the same forum, Greek utf8 SMF 2.0 RC2 ) is with the album title.
If the album title is in Greek and there are more than 8 characters, the rest characters are disappeared and there is a "&" or "&#" in the end from the album title. The first 8 characters are OK (in Greek).

[sherwinaval]

sherwinaval,

I'd have a talk with your host about ownership and permissions. it sounds like they have the default ownership and the ownership of php created contents all messed up.

Thanks for the effort of trying to talk to the host. But can you help me on how to this on my own? I got shell acess on the server with root privileges

@Naolington
Thanks for the info, at least I know that it's not only me who's having this kind of problem. But FYI, Aeva is in ZIP and not in TAR.

Is there another way to install Aeva? I can upload the folders manually but what should be the permissions? As I've mentioned, I thought I could upload images, but it won't let me. Might the creation of Album folders... in my server, it gives owners of nobody.nobody.

Help please... Thanks

[petesky]

Hi !

Installed now latest SVN; removing permissions succeeded. thx

[clothahump]

THe album I want to add a sub album to is not in the Target drop down.

[Nao 尚]

Were Aeva or SMG installed before? Did you uninstall them as required?
Do the Installation Notes show up at least? Does it show any errors in the file list?

[Nao 尚]

Hmm...

This is a very special case. In Aeva-Gallery2.php, look for:

Code Select Expand

$request = $amFunc['db_query']('
SELECT g.ID_GROUP AS id, g.groupName AS name, g.minPosts AS min_posts, g.minPosts != -1 AS is_post_group
FROM {db_prefix}membergroups AS g
WHERE (g.ID_GROUP > 3 OR g.ID_GROUP = 2)
ORDER BY g.minPosts, g.ID_GROUP ASC',
array('user_id' => $user_info['id']),__FILE__,__LINE__);

Replace there WHERE clause with what you need. For instance, if you don't want to show anything apart from guests and regular members, just replace with:

Code Select Expand

WHERE (1=0)

this will basically return zero entries...

Or, if you don't want to show groups ID #7 and #8, for instance:

Code Select Expand

WHERE ((g.ID_GROUP > 3 OR g.ID_GROUP = 2) AND g.ID_GROUP != 7 AND g.ID_GROUP != 8)

Should do the trick... Of course, you'll have to change that line every time you upgrade Aeva Media / SMG.

[Nao 尚]

That's because these albums have owner ID = 0, which prevents you from adding to them directly. You need to install the latest SVN. Or wait for Alpha 3.

[clothahump]

Is it just DB update required, if so can I just get the dump?

[SEEN]

never installed before..

these are the mods im using

   Mod Name   Version   
1.   Spoiler Show And Hide    1.0.3     [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
2.   Anti Bot: Are You Human/Bot?    2.3     [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
3.   Country Flags    1.0.3     [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
4.   SMF Prediction League    1.0.2   [ Apply Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
5.   Advanced Reputation System    0.1.5     [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
6.   Referrals Mod    2.2.6     [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
7.   Spoiler Tag    0.6b   [ Apply Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
8.   Aeva Media    1.0 Alpha   [ Apply Mod ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]
9.   TinyPortal    1.083     [ Uninstall ] [ List Files ] [ Delete ]

when i clicked apply mod for aeva media, it just refreshes the page. not even installation note. im confused myself