Latest Images / Most Viewed Hack

hi Jeremy,

another suggestion for your incredible script:

what about using a 'stats_config.php' to setup all the initial values for:
...
$photosPerPage = 10;
$totalPhotosToDisplay = -1;
$showCaptureDate = 0;
...

so that one has not to change them every time you release a new version for your hack.

Regards, Raven

a useful way could be to set the variables in stats.php und after the last var. include stats_config.php which will override the settings in stats.php.
so all own variables will stay the same after updating and the new ones will be read from stats.php.

or to include include to config files:

stats_config.default.php (with default and new settings)
stats_config.php (with the own settings which will override the default)

hope this helps

Raven

Thanks Raven

I should have thought of that myself after seeing how the headers and footers work in Gallery. Next time I do a release I will add a default config file which can be overridden by your own config file.

Regards,

Jeremy

Hi myriagon, first let me say i really love your hack and your photo's too!
I've downloaded you stats file today so i think it's the 1.93 version and uploaded in my gallery 1.4.3final home www.mcgrelio.com/bin/gallery.
When i point to the stats file in the browser ( http://www.mcgrelio.com/bin/gallery/stats.php?type=views ) my server responds with:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 65537 bytes) in /var/www/html/bin/gallery/util.php on line 338

Probably you've already answered to this issue but i can't find the right post for me so plz excuse me
Should i ask to my ISP admin for more memory or is it a script issue?
Thx a lot, i hope i can solv my problems soon because your hack rulez!

actually i think i found something that fixed the same problem i was having with a different application..

Add the following to your .htaccess file in the root of you gallery directory.

<FilesMatch "\.(php|html?)$">
php_value memory_limit 20000000
</FilesMatch>

Then give Stats a Try!

mcgrelio - try using ini_set as described here

Regards,

Jeremy

www.tearoom.me.uk

Don't consider me ;)
I fix that problem commenting some echo lines.
After watching that the hack works fine i've substituted your lines with these ones:

// End of Control Variables
// --------------------------------

// Make vars passed in from the url available to the script
// This is necessary when the php var register_globals is OFF.
if (ini_set("memory_limit", "100M"));
// echo  "Set memory limit<br>";
else
   echo "Set memory limit<br>couldn't set memory limit<br>";

// "memory_limit set to = ".ini_get("memory_limit")."<br>";

and everything is good.
The script is great, YOU TOO!!!

PS. OT.
I DO love the "Swans at dusk" pic!!

Try stats.php?type=views&total=10 Checkout the readme for all url vars that can be set.

Regards,

Jeremy

www.tearoom.me.uk

I've wrote a mini-tutorial for inserting a [View comments] link next to each album (sub-album) letting to watch that album comments (according to the album permissions). The MOD also add a counter showing the total count of comments for the album and nested albums.
This MOD use the stats.php MOD so i post here the link hoping it can helps some newbie like me.
You can find it HERE.

Hi Jeremy,

I'm running Gallery 1.4.3.

I just downloaded and installed stats 1.94 and when I run it (stats.php?type=views or even stats.php without arguments), I get the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/home/htdoc/modules/Gallery/classes/AlbumItem.php on line 58

Line 58 contains:

$dir = $gallery->album->getAlbumDir();

I did a bit of debugging (as much as I could within reason) and it is occuring somewhere in the big loop of stats.php that starts at:

for ($i = 0; $i<$numAlbums; $i++)

Any idea what would be causing this error?

HMetal - it looks like you have some old photos in your gallery that have no upload date. What's happening is that stats is querying the upload date using the Gallery api, getUploadDate(). This api finds there's no upload date so it attempts to set one. Unfortunately the Gallery code that sets the upload date relies on a global variable $gallery->album - not good. Try making the following change to stats.php as a workaround:

      $numPhotos = $statsAlbum->numPhotos(1);
      for ($j = 1; $j <= $numPhotos; $j++)
      {
         if ( !isAlbum($statsAlbum, $j) &&
              (!$statsAlbum->isHidden($j) || $gallery->user->isAdmin()))
         {
            ++$totalNumGalleryPhotos;
            $uploaddate = $statsAlbum->getUploadDate($j);

to:

      $numPhotos = $statsAlbum->numPhotos(1);
      $gallery->album = $statsAlbum;
      for ($j = 1; $j <= $numPhotos; $j++)
      {
         if ( !isAlbum($statsAlbum, $j) &&
              (!$statsAlbum->isHidden($j) || $gallery->user->isAdmin()))
         {
            ++$totalNumGalleryPhotos;
            $uploaddate = $statsAlbum->getUploadDate($j);

Let me know if that works. You should only need to run stats.php once with that code. It should set all the upload dates so you could then revert back to the original code. I'm not sure about adding this permanently to stats as I prefer to avoid Gallery globals that I don't fully understand although I suspect this particular change will be fine.

Regards,

Jeremy

Jeremy,

It appears that there was a corrupt album on my system.

Knowing that stats.php worked if I specified an album name, I started at the top level and worked down, running stats.php with each album as argument until I found a suspect.

When I found the one that broke stats.php, I then selected rebuild thumbnails and reorder album for that album and waited for the processes to complete.

After doing so, I can now leave out the album name and stats.php works great without an album specified.

Problem solved but now we at least know how to fix the problem if it happens for someone else.

P.S. Sorry, I did this before trying your workaround code. If it happens in future, I'll try the code to see if it fixes the problem then.

I just upgraded to the latest version of Gallery. I have been using your great hacks to show most viewed and latest images for a long time and really like them. However, now the link produces only the following:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: isalbumname() in /usr/www/users/bofus/bbbrown/gallery/stats.php on line 165

Is there an upgrade for your hacks? Has the upgrade to Gallery broken them? You can see my links at http://www.bbbrown.com/ where you can see "Latest Photos" and "Popular Photos" on the left.

Bob

Thanks very much Jeremy. That fixed it. The only problem is when I run my Latest Photos link I get the one new photo but also the following mesage:

Not sure what that means as i did upgrade to the latest release of Gallery. Any ideas?

Bob

ps. Love your gallery page. It is so clean and nice. What is that theme?

Nice job on the site. I really like the design and layout. Thanks for the help.

We need to have a serious talk about caching/performance..
What would be the easiest way to implement a caching set?

Tbone,
try this link: stats.php?type=date&period=0&sgr=1
the sgr=1 on the end will tell stats.php to "show grid" and you will have col and row settings (the default is 3 for each) See details in the readme or the top of the script.
and if you are using comments:
stats.php?type=comments&sgr=1
Full cusomizing with the hard codeded or URL variables.

Dave

Is there a way to exclude certain Albums and/or Sub-Albums?

If you're running Gallery embedded in PostNuke, here's how you can integrate this feature into your gallery:

Edit your index.php in modules/gallery/ and add "stats.php" into your list of permitted files to call.

From that point, you can call...

For most-recent additions:
www.yourdomain.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=stats.php&type=date

For most-viewed:
www.yourdomain.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Gallery&file=index&include=stats.php&type=views

And so forth, per the specific calls listed in the documentation.

Does anyone know how to do this exact same thing using Mambo?

Thanks,

Eric

Please could someone let this novice know how to open the stats.tar file which I downloaded. It seems to be openeing up in encrypted code. I have got a gallery up an running. Do take a look. http://www.twilightbridge.com/op/gallery/
Manaan

I would like to know how to add more than just 10 pages at the top of the page. I am talking about Pages: 1 2 3..... and so on, I have read the readme and I don't know if I just overlooked it or what, can someone please help me with this, thanks!

I just recently installed your stats code and at first it seemed to be working great. But suddenly I've been getting this error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 46 bytes) in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/modules/gallery/classes/Album.php on line 1462

I'm using Gallery embedded in PHP-Nuke.

I've tried a few times to read through all 17 pages of this thread to see if anyone else had this error and I couldn't find it. If I missed it then I apologize. I noticed in some of the earlier pages of this thread some different posts about memory limitations.

This error does NOT happen all the time. It seems to be random.

Thanks in advanced for all your hard work.

My Screen is blank.

I am using gallery and stats (2.00) as a postnuke-module.
Everything was fine. But now I see a blank screen. No error.
I have albums without any pictures. I use it as a placeholder, because my ISP gives me just 250 MB and I need more. I added all future galleries without any content.

max_execution_time = 50000
memory_limit = 40M
post_max_size = 8M
upload_max_filesize = 20M

$photosPerPage        = 10;
$totalPhotosToDisplay = -1;   // Set to -1 for all photos.

$showCaption          = 1;
$showAlbumLink        = 1;
$showDescription      = 1;
$showCaptureDate      = 1;
$showUploadDate       = 1;
$showViews            = 1;
$showVotes            = 0;    // Album.php and AlbumItem.php must be patched for this - see readme
$showRatings          = 0;    // Setting this to 1 may slow things down considerably...
$showComments         = 1;
$showAddComment       = 1;
$showAddVote          = 0;    // Album.php and AlbumItem.php must be patched for this - see readme
$showAlbumOwner       = 0;
$showGrid             = 0;
$newestCommentsFirst  = 1;
$numRows              = 3;
$numCols              = 3;

// Ideally date format should use the standard perl format string
// however the captureDate is stored in a non-standard format
// making it painful to support - hence this very simplified hack.
$captureDateFormat    = "D/M/Y";   // Only "M/D/Y" and "D/M/Y" supported

// Define the position where the Add Comment and Add Vote links are displayed.
// This can be any of the following:
//  'oncaptionline', 'abovestats', 'abovecomments', 'belowcomments'
$addLinksPos = 'belowcomments';

// To prevent an image with a small number of "excellent" votes being top rated,
// set the votesNeededToShowRating.
$votesNeededToShowRating = 5;

// Define the frame style.
// If this is undefined then the album's thumb framestyle is used.
// Valid values include all the styles supported by Gallery such as
// 'dots', 'solid', 'shadows', 'notebook'.
$frameStyle = 'solid';

// Define the pixel size of the image thumbs, for example $thumbSize = 72;
// If 'default' is specified, then the Gallery default thumbsize is used.
// This can also be overidden by the url variable, $tsz
$thumbSize = 'default';

// When displaying stats for a specific gallery using the $album url variable
// if $showNestedAlbums is set, then nested albums are included.
$showNestedAlbums = 1;

// Caching improves performance for a large gallery at the cost of potentially
// displaying photos that are out of order or with out of date rating information.
// There's a different cache for each stats type supported with the exception of random.
// A cache can be turned on by setting the 'On' variables below = 1.
// The caches can be refreshed by reloading the stats page and 
// specifying the url variable 'refreshcache'.
// Caches will also refresh themselves after they have expired.
// The expire time in seconds is specified for each cache below.
// If the expire time is set to -1 then the cache will not auto refresh.

$viewsCacheOn            = 0;
$viewsCacheExpireSecs    = 60;

$commentsCacheOn         = 0;
$commentsCacheExpireSecs = 600;

$dateCacheOn             = 0;
$dateCacheExpireSecs     = -1;  // cache does not expire.

$votesCacheOn            = 0;
$votesCacheExpireSecs    = 3600;

$ratingsCacheOn          = 0;
$ratingsCacheExpireSecs  = 3600;

$cDateCacheOn            = 0;
$cDateCacheExpireSecs    = -1;  // cache does not expire.

bificypdog - I don't think I've seen this problem before... some questions...

- are you aware of anything that changed about the time it stopped working?
- what's the direct link so that I can see stats.php without postnuke?
- does the gallery search still work?

Just thought - looking at the debug it could be running out of memory so it might be worth trying ini_set to increase memory - see above.

Regards,

Jeremy