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

[Kindred]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Error_in_mod_installation

The online manual and FAQ should be in your bookmarks.

[jonesH]

My forum is multi-language and to eliminate posting truncation issues I loaded English-utf8 as the default language and several other -utf8 language packs as user-selectable options. To be sure, I mothballed all non-utf8 language files.

What I see now is that in the permissions settings for membergroups, the entire Aeva Media section (the table header and the rows below it) are empty. The checkboxes are as I want them, though.

I also notice a set of three Aeva-related entries in the error log; they all point to /Sources/Aeva-Subs.php, lines 2592, 2669, 2673, while the error says 8: Undefined index: aeva_gotolink. The set of 3 errors seems to happen every time a page is loaded, so the error log swells rather fast...

Anyway,my feeling is that the problem here is that Aeva calls for the english language pack (line 3626), and it can't fid it. Am I right? [My Edit: I mothballed the default and language packs' english files, and got the -utf8 versions in use, but I did not touch any Aeva files.]

So my question is: can anyone tell me what and where to modify to trick Aeva into using the english-utf8 file?

Much appreciated.

[Arantor]

Does Aeva even ship with English-UTF8 language packs?

[jonesH]

French-utf8 yes, English-utf8 no!

Are there any workarounds, though? I can live with the empty rows in Permissions, if need be, but the piling up of errors in the log is very bothersome.

I am contemplating some crazy ideas, like just renaming some files and altering the code to match, or finding some iso-to-utf converters, or... I don't know; what else?

I am very pleased with the concept of having an integrated, local application to handle various files, such as multimedia, pdf etc. I could perhaps go Coppermine instead, but that'd force the members to learn a new approach to things, among other stuff.

[Arantor]

You should be able to copy the Aeva .english.php files to .english-utf8.php files since there should be no difference between English ISO and English UTF-8 except for the designation in index.english-utf8.php to enforce it as UTF-8.

[jonesH]

I did this:

- used Notepad++ to encode the english files in UTF8, so now all Aeva language files, including the Modifications.english.php one, are UTF8-encoded
- made manual modifications to the program files in locations were requests to english were made and changed them to english-utf8

All seems to be working fine (except suddenly the font size has increased in certain parts of the displays, as for ex in boardindex themes). I see no errors being logged any more and the menus and settings have reappeared, which is great!

Thanks for all your help!

[Arantor]

You probably set the files to be encoded as UTF-8 rather than UTF-8 without BOM; it should be encoded as the latter.

[jonesH]

You're correct. So I re-encoded without BOM and all's as good as gold!

As far as I'm concerned, the issue is solved.

Thank you.

[jonesH]

My question is about rotation of images uploaded from mobile devices: they get dispayed with their original rotation angle (while the iPhone's software shows them always right side up on the device). Can this be changed, so that the uploaded images don't lean on a side?

What I do now to compensate for this is edit the image on the phone, rotate once, save, re-edit, rotate again to the desired position, save again, then upload. A bit cumbersome, right? Is there a better way?

I am using GD2; would switching to ImageMagic help (my forum is hosted on GoDaddy and I believe I could use ImageMagick)?

[Kindred]

no... basically the phone overides the actual image because it is designed to do it that way. This system is designed to use pictures as provided, therefore any option of flipping it would you be, at best, an estimation or a guess. Additionally no further development is being done on this mod.

[jonesH]

Thank you Kindred. Based on my readings of other posts, I expected this to be the case but hoped maybe someone other than the dev team worked out some solution.

Another question is this: as Admin, I do get properly notified in BoardIndex that there are new files in the AM folders, by way of Media [3] if there were three files, for ex. But the same does not happen to the users without admin rights (and there are no moderators, no guest access). Yet, when going to the folders, the theee new files are there and the 'new" tag is above each.

Is there a setting that I'm missing? Or can I do anything else, perhaps in code?

[Kindred]

hmmmmm....   Do all your users have access to the galleries (both in smf permissions and in the aeva permissions profile?)

[jonesH]

Yes, they do. In fact, just about all I could find is enabled except permission to manage the folders. Posting, deleting, viewing etc are working fine, only the notification doesn't. Iwent thru all settings and haven't found any kind of specifically allowing/denying the notification.

I am now leaning towards thinking this will turn out to be yet another UTF-8 related story. I will set up a localhost faux forum with non-utf8 language packs and see if the problem persists...

Thanks though, Kindred, for your interest and help so far.

[Arantor]

I have a feeling that this is controlled by the "Access unseen area" permission in the *regular* permissions area, not the Aeva specific one.

[jonesH]

Arantor, you're right again! I enabled that setting and now the notifications do show up. There was a reason though for which I disabled that in the past, I guess it had  to do with not wanting to allow users to access certain (hidden) folders belonging to the Admin. Anyway, for now, the notifications works great, and that's good. Thanks a lot!

[Kindred]

"unseen" is the gallery equivalent to the forum's "unread"

[Adrek]

Okay, here's my work in progress...

http://media.noisen.com/item/1488/ (original picture)
http://media.noisen.com/item/1488/?rotate=270 (face is now vertically aligned.)

This is only tested in Opera 9.64, Chrome 4.x and Firefox 3.5.
I just need to add rotate buttons now. The problem is that it'll force the entire page to reload, although the picture itself will not need to reload... If you have a fast server, it's not a big deal.

Also, when clicking the picture, it shows up in non-rotated view. (Because Highslide isn't compatible with SVG -- I would have to disable it on rotated pages.)

Was this function (rotate) added to main package Aeva Media?

[mrkid]

I'm running AEVA auto embed 7.2. It works perfectly to post vids and pics. I even added the resize image mod. (I was getting this error before that) I've been getting this error for years, and have tried to fix it numerous times. Not sure what the problem is. These two always come in together, but only for me (admin). Can't seem to find anyone having the same issue.

http://www.hauntersnation.com/forum/index.php?action=admin;area=modsettings;sa=general [nofollow]
8: Undefined index: aeva_desc
File: /home8/haunters/public_html/forum/Sources/ManageSettings.php
Line: 206

and

http://www.hauntersnation.com/forum/index.php?action=admin;area=modsettings;sa=general [nofollow]
8: Undefined index: aeva_desc
File: /home8/haunters/public_html/forum/Sources/ManageSettings.php
Line: 210

[roomeat]

Even though AEVA is not supported of developed for SMF anymore, is it still the best option to use for a gallery?
I am in the process of upgrading my site from 2.0 RC3 to the latest SMF version.

[TheListener]

Even though AEVA is not supported of developed for SMF anymore, is it still the best option to use for a gallery?

In the words of Simon Cowell "It's a YES from me."