SMF Media Gallery (SMG) - 2.0.5 is out! (December 2)

[seeker365]

Hi,

I want to convert SMG to a classified system, is it easy?

[Nao 尚]

I did try to look for that but with so many posts in this topic you don't know whether to start at the beginning middle or end. I just didn't have half a day to read the whole topic. Is there a way to search by topic in this forum the regular search is about useless I can never find anything.

Of course there is. You simply need to type the word you're looking for into the search box at the top of the page... It says "this topic" by default. Although simplemachines.org uses a different search system than the one enabled by default for all SMF boards, so it may not be working on a per-topic basis.

Just checked and yes, it works...

Don't know what it is but I can't find it.

Gallery > Admin. It has a credits area with the installed modules.

Yes same error!
"You haven't specified a file to upload"

This message appears in single upload when:
- you specified an embed URL and don't have the right to embed a file,
- or you specified a file name to upload, but don't have the right to administrate, or moderate, or upload audio, or video, or images, or documents. Meaning you have set wrong permissions.

[Nao 尚]

Hey, is there a way that I can make user albums open for other members to add items?

I'm not sure. Not in SMG1, but SMG2 has permission profiles, you can create one that will give upload access to anyone even inside a user album. However, I have never tested this (the permission stuff was written by Dragooon and I find it too complicated for me to really delve into), so I can't say for sure it will work.

@ssha> Mass upload issues are largely documented. Use Search.

@changer> Is WYSIWYG enabled or disabled? Does it do that in both modes?

@micky> A sitemap...? You realize Google knows perfectly how to skip to any page in the User Albums and homepage links...?

@seeker> Classified? Like, ads? What's it got to do with SMG?

[sshahnawaz]

No hope so far?? Uploading multiple files doesn't work for me. Should I stop using the gallery? 

[Nao 尚]

No hope so far?? Uploading multiple files doesn't work for me. Should I stop using the gallery? 

You can disable mass upload. It's just an extra feature, not like the whole thing is based on it...
You can also try to fix it. By reading the documentation....... Don't expect me to do that for you, meh.

[seeker365]

@seeker> Classified? Like, ads? What's it got to do with SMG?

yeah, ads. Maybe 'gallery'/'album' can be abtracted to any model type, such as 'job', 'personal', 'service', or any product, etc. ,
since there are unlimited categories, customized fields for them; these are mainly different in displaying format only. is it possible?

[sshahnawaz]

You can disable mass upload. It's just an extra feature, not like the whole thing is based on it...
You can also try to fix it. By reading the documentation....... Don't expect me to do that for you, meh.

I can expect one thing from you I guess.    Just provide me a link towards the documentation you are talking about. I have searched a lot for it, but there is no documentation or FAQ for it. Sorry. 

[Powerbob]

It's a gallery for gods sake! and a damn good one to boot, all this winging. YUK

[Ch4ng3r]

@changer> Is WYSIWYG enabled or disabled? Does it do that in both modes?

When i press button Toggle View , then write (without WYSIWYG) it works fine...

[Kindred]

@seeker> Classified? Like, ads? What's it got to do with SMG?

yeah, ads. Maybe 'gallery'/'album' can be abtracted to any model type, such as 'job', 'personal', 'service', or any product, etc. ,
since there are unlimited categories, customized fields for them; these are mainly different in displaying format only. is it possible?

@Seeker...    use SMF Classifieds if you want classifieds. This is mod a media gallery system.

[micky_2556]

hello and what about make gust download any thaing they want

[SMGTeam]

I know I'll never release it if I keep postponing it because of obscure bug reports or feature requests, so here it is. Hopefully the last RC before the final release. --Nao

Version 2.0 RC3                                  October 17, 2009
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Regular, cool additions/fixes:

+ Box-type thumbnails (in album pages, for instance) now launch a lightbox-powered preview when clicked,
  instead of leading to the item page. Click the item's title instead to be led to the item page, or click
  on the "More details" link when the preview shows up, next to the item's full title.
+ Turned the Document files restriction text field into an actual list of allowed doc file extensions,
  which is much more logical and allows you to easily add any non-embeddable (download only) filetype to SMG.
+ Got rid of all the code that added child albums to custom fields. Instead, always assume
  a child album inherits custom fields from all of its parents (whatever their level).
+ Added new admin setting, Album Columns, which allows you to choose the number of
  albums you want to show per row in album lists. Defaults to 1, but 2 or 3 are just fine too.
* The "Show sub-albums on index" feature now works on all album lists. Disabled, it will show how many
  children there are. Enabled, it will list at most 10 children and then the number of remaining children.
* Don't show a folder icon next to sub-albums, instead show the number of items in the sub-albums
* Don't list sub-album children, instead simply point out their existence with a (+) sign
  that indicates there are more albums within a particular child
+ Added support for the Foxy! add-on's new feature -- RSS feeds for new items/comments in specific items,
  specific albums, specific users or the entire gallery -- by adding RSS icons in several areas
! Yet another tentative fix for some mod_security related issues

Small change, aka Pocket money:

! Fixed (hopefully) a minor bug in getAlbumParents()
* Simplified the album list loading process a great deal
* Profile pages now use getAlbums() like everything else
! Some fixes in the moderation panel's approve functions
! Don't show the previous/next bar in item pages if the album can't be browsed
! More big icon cleanup
* Show whether the album is password-protected when browsing it
! Don't waste time building a linktree if the page is in XML format...
! Added clearfix class to SMG's stylesheet, as it's no longer included in SMF2's Curve theme
! Fixed broken layout with Curve theme in the Unseen area
* Replaced locked/unlocked icons with smaller versions to fit the new smaller size for children albums
* Don't show the page index in search results if there's only one page of results
* Changed mg_large class to be a bit more pleasant to the eye
! Improved smg_cut_string() to deal with BBCode-enabled texts. I'm now parsing them inside
  the function, and the resulting html tags are excluded from the length calculations.
* Right-aligned icons in album lists to make them look at bit less messy
* Many minor improvements, mainly to the layout

Also available :

Foxy! add-on for SMG v1.10 (October 17, 2009)
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- New feature: finally added support for RSS feeds in SMG. You can retrieve
               10-item feeds for pretty much anything you could want:
  * Latest items - in user profiles, albums, album with children (this is the icon next
                   to the "sub-albums" header in album pages), or the entire gallery.
  * Latest comments - in items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.

[Nao 尚]

I'm exhausted... Tough couple of weeks on SMG!

@ssha> readme.txt, changelog.txt, and that pretty useless message that appears in bold after you finish installing the mod... Y'know. They all address your problem. And that's within the SMG package only. There are plenty of messages here or over at smf-media.com that discuss it. Am I supposed to do everything for you? Would you like me to install the mod on your server, clean up your messed up files and make some tea?

@micky> Ever heard of permissions in the admin area? (And English dictionaries, while we're at it?)

@changer> So it's a WYSIWYG issue (again). Hmm... Can anyone else confirm this? (On item comments.)

[Nao 尚]

Silently updated RC3 with a RSS feed link I forgot to add to the homepage.

[sshahnawaz]

Such a stupid question it was!!  Thanks for your kind answer Nao... I can see. 

[Nao 尚]

Lol, now "kind answer" isn't exactly what qualifies my replies.....

[Tiribulus]

<<< and make some tea? >>>

Just make sure you don't spill any on the saucers huh pal? That is such a downer.

I'm debating on whether I should give 2.0 a shot right now. Not that I don't have the utmost confidence in your guys work, but 1.5.6 has been working beautifully. I'll probably do it, the curiosity is gettin me.

[Nao 尚]

SMG 1.5.6 is buggy here and there.
SMG 2 also has its share of bugs, but as you see I'm taking care of them as they are discovered.
I'd strongly recommend upgrading to SMG 2 if you aren't the kind of user who mods SMG after installing it. (In which case you may want for the final version which I'm still planning to release later this month, if no other issues are discovered.)

[Tiribulus]

Aside from some minor surgery I had to do while UNinstalling 1.5.6, so far so good. Installed fine, no manual edits which is a miracle with as many mods as I have, no errors and the new image navigation is beeyooteefull. That alone made it worth the upgrade.

I'll fish around some more later today when I get some more time. Good job dudes.

[Nao 尚]

Eheh.
And I'm particularly happy myself with the new "visual" changes I made to RC3.