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Joe,

There is a big bug with the galleries. It looks like the right side of the template menu might be a bit cut off and some options might be missing because I uploaded my galleries and they all ended up being password protected. I checked and rechecked and cannot find an option to uncheck password protection or to input the desired password on the template. So I have no access to my galleries on the web.

Joe Never mind found the password solution in the forums

Yes sorry, i should maybe update that. Basically if you deleted the word PASSWORD from the php file then it will not be password protected. I should deliver the template with no password in the php file so that they default to no protection.

That would be great or if possible to put a checkbox in the template if you want a gallery password protected and input the password through the template.

Also I am still having problems with shipping not showing up in the paypal box

this is my exact IPTC INSTRUCTION INPUT:
4×6 print-7.95-2,5×7 print-9.95-2,8.5×11 print-24.95-3,13×19 print-59.95-6

Can you see if it works for you? Cannot for the life of me figure this out. The template pulls all info off of there except the shipping whicj shows up as 0

Thank you for your great work

Mark,
i think the X in your IPTC field is the issue. it was showing up as a special character for me in the paypal cart. i went back into the IPTC field and retyped all the X’s for the sizes. maybe typ to copy and paste the link below into your IPTC:
4×6 print-7.95-2,5×7 print-9.95-2,8.5×11 print-24.95-3,13×19 print-59.95-6

Mark,
Flat rate shipping works fine for make. make sure flat rate shipping is set to false. open up your shellData.xml and look for flatRateShipping. make sure its false. can you maybe send me ftp info through the contact us link so i can check it out and do some test galleries on your server. or please send me a link to your test gallery.

Can anyone help out a newbie?

I am trying to get LRGC RC2 to work on my site, http://www.untamedimages.com/demo. I am trying a simple initial test with an index page, an about page, a contact page, and one gallery.

Unfortunately, right now the main page just sits there saying “loading site data”, and clicking on the “about” link does not bring up the “about” page, it just makes the “loading site data” logo go away. The contact page does seem to be working.

I tried making the recommended changes to the pageContent.xml file, but that wasn’t the solution. Any suggestions on what to try next?

Thanks in advance,

Michael

Just to make sure we’re talking about the same thing I have flat shipping unchecked. I looked at the shelldata.xml and there is no reference what so ever about flat rate shipping. there is about local pickup and that is set to false. I don’t know why it is missing. Can I add that manually? and what should I type in.

well I think you meant that I check the gallerydata.xml in each gallery data. And yes for some reason it is showing flatrate shipping “TRUE”. I do not understand why I left it unchecked in all my galleries but I guess it is not accpeting it. If I change it to false will that work?

Hey Joe,

A nice option would be if the “Menu Bar” could disappear when a visitor goes to one of the “Pages.” Currently, I am leaving mine set to always be open, and it looks a bit awkward when going to the contact page, for instance.

If it is problematic to have it disappear completely, perhaps if the menu is always set to be open, than if one visits a “page” than one can have the option in lightroom to have it set to close when not in gallery mode.

Thanks,
C.

I just saw your comment about the upper case x I’m using. I’ll try changing them to see if that works. You think that might be making the flat rate shipping in the gallerydata.xml to switch over to “TRUE”?

Michael,
Did you comment out the following line in menuxml.php
header(”Content-type: text/xml”);

I have to change the line to
//header(”Content-type: text/xml”);
for it to work.
Justin

mark,
yes if you change to false it will work

Christopher,
You are talking about the custom menu that goes under the header bar right?

Mark,
no the X in your options should not change anything with shipping, i think thats just a matter of flat rate shipping being set to true in the gallery’s galleryData.xml file. the X cause odd characters to appear when the cart info gets sent to paypal. just retype them with an X

Justin and Michael,
I found the error with the header(content-type) thing. there is a space before that line and before the PHP tag. those simple spaces are causing the problem i thought i fixed it in RC2 but i guess not. for now just comment it out until i update RC2. thanks guys

Joe,
Switched them all to false and it worked.
Do you have any idea why flat rate doesn’t automatically go to false in my case? Am I the only one with this problem? Be a bit of a pain if I have to go and change the gallerydata.xml every time I update it.

Oh and are you still looking into being able to extract the IPTC title to show up in the cart rather than the filename or have the option to chose one or the other? Gets confusingfor the buyer when all he sees is the photo title and then in his cart he sees a filename that they’ve never seen before.

Great work with the latest revision. I just added the Google checkout and it works great!
Justin

Mark,
awesome, glad it worked. Its my fault, i released the template with flat rate set to true. if you want to change it you can open up galleryMaker.xml which is located in your gallery template installation folder (where you installed the template into lightroom).

Look for this:

< flatRateShipping >
< value >true< / value >
< / flatRateShipping >

and just change it to false

Justin and Mark,

Thanks for alerting me to the problem with the menuxml.php file. Commenting out the line has gotten my Galleries working. I got my “about” page working, too. I guess there’s no need to mess with the pageContent.xml file (as in previous versions of LRGC)?

I’m still having problems with my home page stalling out with a persistent Loading Site Data icon. Do I have to create a home page using the Page Template to generate the content for the default page?

You wrote:
*Ability to create unlimited custom pages with text, images, and links to be used for your site

I try to create page with more than one image, but i can`t. I don`t understand how to create text with links on the page.
And I can`t launch WYSIWYG text editor

Hi, Excellent work once again!

I need some help as I’m now trying to get the contact page to load from the index file. I think I’m making all the proper changes. I’ve read your comments about changing PageContent to the php file. However, when I do this with the contact form, I don’t see the same code: <?php
echo “”;
?>

The html code I see does not have the encoding=/”UTF-16 in the line. I’ve tried to get this to work for several hours with no luck, having updated with and without the encoding line. I’ve verified that my index file uploads to pages/Contact too.

So far my site only has the index page up and running. I haven’t yet tried to upload a gallery.

interesting, after uploading the first paragraph where I say that I don’t see the same code - the information between the has changed. It originally was a paste of what you showed as an example of what needs to be changed.

Oh wow! great work! Do you think you can add a download button with the pictures to avoid shipping? It could be great to have this kind of feature on your very very usefull gallery!
Thanks for this one!

Gerald,
Are you talking about adding something that allows you to download the images once purchased of just add a button on each image so anyone can download?

Wow- I am really loving this! The download feature sounds like a neat idea too.

None of my galleries are loading in the side menu at all. I am able to access one through a link on my top menu, but nothing is showing on the side menu! Any thoughts?

I was thinking about a download button once the pics are purchased. It could be a great solution for a lot of photographer! but maybe this is a bit complex?

Hey J,

Love Complete Beta [before google checkout] so far and I’ve had a good group of people who have trial tested it and they love it too. I also played with the base background colors to use the two colors but also the same color [black] to have more of a ‘traditional’ look.

One consistent comment I’ve received is the pain of being five “pages” into the gallery, looking at the full sized image and to hit thumbnails only to be taken back to the beginning. Normally not too big of any issue when you have small gallery collection but when there are 30 pages, there isn’t any ability to “Jump” to a specific page.

This was the same comment I received with LRG One Paypal.

I’m going to begin my testing with the Google check out version.

Bobby,
awesome, glad you are liking it! You make a good point, with LRG One PayPal, from what i remember, this was not possible. With this template it is for sure. I’ll try to fix that asap.

Gerald,
yes digital delivery is complex. im looking into a solution

To continue Gerald’s suggestion on download options, I’m using LRG as a way for friends and families to access pictures. Having a simple method for visitors to download pictures for free (e.g. a download button against each picture, or tagging thumbnails for batch download) would be really great! The other alternative I thought of was that the user could create a cart as normal, but rather than sending this to Paypay/Google, the system simply mails me a list of the selected pictures which I can then send via email/post. This could also be of interest to professionals who may want to manually invoice for the selected pictures.

Hi

I’ve just found this website and loving it ! LRG Complete 2 is really really usefull.
One thing though, is it possible to match the user comment Template you made previously to the Complete package ? or maybe juste add it ?

Hi folks.

I have been trying, (unsuccessfully it must be said), to load galleries on an index page. The galleries aren’t appearing at all at the moment. The url is:

http://www.eyethomson.com/test/index.html

I have tried changing the header text but to no avail. Any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.

Fixed that folks.

Still having problems with the password issue though. I deleted PASSWORD from the php file but it’s still not letting me in. Do I delete the complete line or just the above word?

Many thanks

lain,
just the word password

Ok, so I’ve had some troubles and got through them in setting up RC2.

1. Gallery structure.
Getting the category/gallery name thing was an oversight on my part the first time. No biggie - read the various posts and had a “duh” moment. BUT, this is going to be awesome as the gallery and category section grows. I even did some “re-arranging” and even some copying of the same gallery to different categories. Sort of my poor man tagging.
2. Password issues
Had re-occuring issues with password protected galleries ALTHOUGH I had used $galleryPassword = NULL; and $galleryPassword = “”; and even tried using a password. But for whatever reason, it just wasn’t recognizing any of the three. I then changed the attributes on the pw.php file to 777 and it worked once. I then refreshed the page and it stopped working.
I got desperate and changed the $galleryPassword to $accessPassword in the applicable locations. Didn’t work - but it was a shot.
I also noticed that my gallery menu titles *sometimes* worked but when I accessed the sidemenu [which contains the same galleries], I was forced to face the password prompt.
Final solution: I deleted the pw.php file from each of the galleries and I was able to go right in.
3. Usability of purchasing.
I have a 24″ and 22″ set of monitors that I normally do all of my photo editing on. When I launched CR2 in a laptop 15″ screen [Macbook Pro and HP Pavillion laptop], I began to have some issues with the portrait images. When the images were landscape, they fit into the viewing area. A portrait shot [at 600px height], forced the pricing drop down into an area in which the user has to scroll the browser window to.
Not good. Most of my clientele would go bonkers.
My expectation was that a flash/swf image launched window would resize based on the screen area. Sort of like Lightbox does.

For now, I’m going to stick to LRG PayPal. Not because I don’t like CR2 because I do. Its more of the client experience and me not wanting to hear their b!tching.

Strong work here though. I hope this comes through in the right tone - as constructive feed back and not a slam - because its definitely not.

what I have set up: http://www.delriofoto.com/blog/events/

Gracias, J. I’m going to drop you some greenies because you have definitely earned it.

Bobby
http://www.delriofoto.com

I’d also like to know how to add multiple images and links in a page.

Thanks!

Jimmy,
this cant be done at the moment. i did’t think many people would want/need more then one image. I can add ability to add more images to pages. Look for it in the next release

Ah, that would be great!

I think that feature would introduce additional flexibility with the template, and provide the customization that many may be looking for.

Any idea when the next release will be? I’m really looking forward to the addition.

Thanks!

Hey,

really love this one, gives almost perfect gallery ability to Lightroom.
Just have two more wishes for the next version(s):

1. An index page, where more than one picture can be linked to the different galleries. Something similar to the TTG Index Templates.
This would covered by add of more than one image to the pages, but maybe it is also possible to get an autocreating Index.
Then it would be great if it would be possible to give the categories links to show this index.

2. Love the function of your comment template. So if it is possible to give the comment feature to the complete galleries?

Thanks for your works!

Hey all
I am having trouble getting the side menu to show anything at all. As of now, I am using the top menu for galleries and have had no trouble uploading. I know others have gotten this to work. Here is my site. http://www.jcreedphotography.com/LR. I don’t know flash really well so it is most likely something simple that I am overlooking. Thanks for the great work.