Block Random (Improved)

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

I keep getting error messages and I am confused.

Code: › /Fatal error: Failed opening required 'www.xxx.xxx/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/init.php' (include_path='') in /home/xxx/public_html/Nuke/html/blocks/block-random.php on line 29

Here r the first couple of lines of the block

Code: › $GALLERY_BASEDIR = "www.xxx.xx/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/";
define(ALBUM_BASEADDR, "http://www.xxx.xxx/albums/");
define(SERVER_ADDR, "http://www.xxx.xxx/");
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "init.php");
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "random_support.php");

And from random support:

Code: › $GALLERY_BASEDIR = "www.xxx.xxx/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/";
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "init.php");

Thanx, Steve

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dari · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject:

i doubt that your gallery base directory is in the form of www.xxx.yyy, it's probably more along the lines of /home/foo_bar/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/

here is the top couple of lines from my block-random.php file:

Code: › $GALLERY_BASEDIR = "/home/httpd/htdocs/modules/gallery/";
define(ALBUM_BASEADDR, "http://www.nukedgallery.net/albums/");
define(SERVER_ADDR, "http://www.nukedgallery.net/");
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "init.php");
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "random_support.php");

define(CACHE_FILE, $gallery->app->albumDir . "/block-random.cache");
define(CACHE_EXPIRED, 86400);

and from my random_support.php file:

Code: ›
$GALLERY_BASEDIR = "/home/httpd/htdocs/modules/gallery/";
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "init.php");

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

Dari, I'm just getting too old to learn, I think. You said

Quote: › i doubt that your gallery base directory is in the form of www.xxx.yyy, it's probably more along the lines of /home/foo_bar/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/

I am confused. My gallery is located at

Code: › www.sharlein.net/nuke/html/modules/gallery

What would be my GALLERY_BASEDIR =? The rest of the info is the same as yours. Thanks, Steve

P.S. - what the heck is foo_bar???

dari · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:27 pm Post subject:

a ha...make sure you have a slash before the beginning of your basedir name:

Code: › GALLERY_BASEDIR="/home/www.xxx.yyy/blah/blah/blah/gallery/";

and don't forget the /home part either.

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

I added the /home to both random_block and support.php. Now this error appears:

Code: › Fatal error: Failed opening required '/home/www.sharlein.net/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/init.php' (include_path='') in /home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/blocks/block-random.php on line 29

Steve

dari · Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject:

sharlein wrote: › I added the /home to both random_block and support.php. Now this error appears:

Code: › Fatal error: Failed opening required '/home/www.sharlein.net/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/init.php' (include_path='') in /home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/blocks/block-random.php on line 29

Steve

hmm...well the part after the /home/ should be the same in both those messages (you must have it declared improperly, thus it's not finding the proper directory). i'm guessing that line should be:

Code: › $GALLERY_BASEDIR="/home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/";

just make sure that you have the capitalization correct, as Un*x and PHP are cASe SeNSitIve.

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

Well, that changed some things Very Happy

. Now I get

Code: › Warning: fopen("/home/sharlein/public_html/albums/block-random.cache", "r") - No such file or directory in /home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/platform/fs_unix.php on line 53

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/random_support.php on line 230

Warning: Unable to open '/home/sharlein/public_html/albums//.thumb.jpg' for reading: No such file or directory in /home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/platform/fs_unix.php on line 24

I think I am going backwards. Steve

dari · Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 7:30 am Post subject:

actually, the first error about not finding block-random.cache causes the second error (the function in which the second error occurs loops through the cache file and chooses a new random album to draw the pic from). that in turn, i believe causes the third error (thumbnailed photos have the .thumb.jpg extension), but since no cache file can be found, and the file can't be looped through to pick an album, it craps out and gives you a blank file name.
if there is already a block-random.cache file in the albums directory, delete it and see if the error occurs again.
also, please post the top couple of lines from both your block-random.php and random_support.php files that have all your directory declarations and such.

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

There was no block_random.cache file in the albums directory.

Code: › $GALLERY_BASEDIR = "/home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/";
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "init.php");

function daily_photo(){
global $gallery;
if((fs_file_exists($gallery->app->albumDir."/daily.jpg"))){
   $stat=stat($gallery->app->albumDir."/daily.jpg");
   $modtime = $stat['mtime'];
   if(date("d", $modtime) != date("d", time())) {
      list($album,$index) = get_random_photo_id();
      list($url, $albumURL) = random_photo($album,$index,24);
$content = "<center><a href=\"".$url."\"><img src=\"".ALBUM_BASEADDR."daily.jpg\"
border=\"0\"></a></center>";

and

Code: › $GALLERY_BASEDIR = "/home/sharlein/public_html/Nuke/html/modules/gallery/";
define(ALBUM_BASEADDR, "http://www.sharlein.net/albums/");
define(SERVER_ADDR, "http://www.sharlein.net/");
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "init.php");
require_once($GALLERY_BASEDIR . "random_support.php");

define(CACHE_FILE, $gallery->app->albumDir . "/block-random.cache");
define(CACHE_EXPIRED, 86400);

/* VALID VALUES FOR $selector:
* "DAILY"
* "HOURLY"
* "RANDOM"
*/

dari · Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 9:36 am Post subject:

in the random_support.php file, locate the get_random_photo_id() method (around line 125).
Change:

Code: › // Check the cache file to see if it's up to date
$rebuild = 0;

to

Code: › // Check the cache file to see if it's up to date
$rebuild = 1;

that should fix it.

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

Excellent work. Thank you very much - up and running. Very Happy

If you have time for two more, can I use more than 1 block at a time, and how do I control the time interval? Steve

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

Just read your article - answers my questions.. tyvm

dari · Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 9:55 am Post subject:

hehe..no problem i was in the process of writing a reply when an email popped up notifying me of your response. if you have any other questions, let me know.

sharlein · User Joined: Apr 07, 2003 Posts: 30

I was just getting ready to add a second block, and I was looking at my first one. Clicked the photo and got a 404. Hourly.txt read

Code: › http://www.sharlein.net/modules.php?set_albumName=album06&id=Getting_Ready_to_do_it&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php http://www.sharlein.net/modules.php?set_albumName=album06&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php Our Wedding

URL on 404 read

Code: › http://www.sharlein.net/modules.php?set_albumName=album06&id=Getting_Ready_to_do_it&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php http://www.sharlein.net/modules.php?set_albumName=album06&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php Our Wedding

Clicked the album link under photo and got another 404

Code: › http://www.sharlein.net/modules.php?set_albumName=album06&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

What did I do????????? Embarassed

dari · Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 10:22 am Post subject:

make sure that after the "modload&name=" has the name of your gallery (case sensitive).
EDIT: I checked it out. for some reason it isn't prepending /Nuke/html/ to your modules URL. it might be an error with the "makeAlbumURL" function that came shipped with gallery....I'll dig around.

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