Those of you who have been having issues recently with uploading images should now be all set.

It appears the gallery was storing images in a single file. If you know anything about file storing, that is a massive "no-no". Images are large. When they are all tossed into one file, that file gets massive. Once the file hits "x" amount of size, it can crash the system or won't upload the images.

Our gallery stores around 3500 images. That was ALOT of images for one folder.

I simply changed the file storage method, and now that issue is resolved.

There is one bug however. Lots of posts have little red x's in them. They link to the correct image still however.

As I come across posts with the "x's", I will update the images location to the new image location in the gallery.

The staff can do so as well.

If you can edit your posts, you may also do so.

Hopefully this is the last of the issues with the image gallery.

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Thanks Rich, I was having alot of problems uploading pics, Ill have to give it a try again later on

Do we have to downsize our photos to upload them? I get "invalid file" a lot especially with larger files.

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I was getting that same message when I tried to attach a pdf file.

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Okay, help me out here, how am I supposed to link from the gallery?
I am trying to utilize your gallery, but I am having such a hard time with it.
Flickr makes it so much more simple, as does photobucket.
Is the gallery customizable or is it pretty much what you see if what you get?

Having to choose our category and input the name to upload under is tedious as well, if you forget it starts all over. That and it gives me 'invalid file' a lot even if it is in jpeg format.

Sorry, i'm whiney and frustrated tonight.

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Yes, most likely you would need to downsize some of your images. There are restrictions on filesize. 600 x 800 is the maximum dimensions. 2.0 mb is the max filesize.

This is because the code creates 3 versions of the file. It has the original, the display, and the thumb. That is a lot of file storage space per image. The bigger the image, the more resources we eat storing it.


Thats because PDF files are not supported. lol Portable Document Format files are not typical image files, and I have them blocked. There is a way to attach a pdf and use it to spam, so we don't allow it.

Currently it displays the bbcode output that is used across this site. What types of link code are you looking for?

Something like this:

Those sites are aimed at photo sharing. Every bit of their code is aimed at that purpose. Our sites aim is the forum. Everything else, as you know, is something I added for functionality. Without a list of features you are looking for, I can't code it in. My thought process is aimed at securing the forum and the features that enhance IT. I will see what I can do.

Nothing written in PHP, minus encrypted code which I am not running, is safe from me. lol If its written in php, which the gallery is, I can make it do backflips if I want to.

That is because there are different categories. The program doesn't know which category you wish to upload to without input. I can correct that and set it to use the members category by default. I can also set an initial value to the input field for the title. If you forget to add one, you will need to edit that field once you hit submit to change the default.

Your images are likely too large or contain hidden values the program can't read. I know some image output programs do this. If you can email me an image that gives the error, I can have a look at it. If I know what is causing it, I can work on a fix.

Thats ok, I still love you. lol

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The only bbc code that I ever have seen is the stupid little tiny link for the useless itty bitty thumbnails. What good are they anyway?

Is there a way to make the program automatically resize original photos that are too large?

When I mention liking the ease of use on the photosharing sites i'm just looking for maybe a box or two of bbc code, one that says "thumbnail" and one that says "original" or something so I stop having to upload my picture to the gallery just to find I can't figure out how to link to an original. I always load it on HC, can't get it to work, and then I have to go back to stupid photobucket because most of the images arent worthy of a flickr posting.

Making the gallery a nightmare is a definite way to discourage people from stealing.

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