External Image Block only work with local IP address and not Domain Name
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derickson
Joined: 2006-04-13
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Posted: Thu, 2007-05-17 00:55
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We have a web server with gallery 2.2.1 installed. Our school website and the photo gallery are on the same server. For many months I used the External Image Block of:
But at some point, not sure when this stopped working. The page loads extremely slow, about 40 to 60 seconds. Then displays the page content without the image block. I tried using the local IP address in place of the domain name, like so:
The page loads slow, about 10 to 15 seconds but at least the image block works. I tried using a relative path and that did not work. I have search the forum for a similar problem with not luck. I did find this code and it did work:
<?php
/* You'll have to change the /gallery2/ thing in the following 2 lines probably */
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/gallery/embed.php');
$ret = GalleryEmbed::init(array('fullInit' => true, 'embedUri' => '/', 'g2Uri' => '/gallery/main.php'));
if ($ret) {
print 'GalleryEmbed::init failed, here is the error message: ' . $ret->getAsHtml();
exit;
}
/*
* See "Site admin" -> "image block" for all available options. the parameters are the same
* as for the external imageblock
*/
list ($ret, $bodyHtml, $headHtml) = GalleryEmbed::getImageBlock(array('blocks' => 'randomImage',
'show' => 'title|date'));
if ($ret) {
print 'GalleryEmbed::getImageBlock failed, here is the error message: ' . $ret->getAsHtml();
exit;
}
/* $bodyHtml contains the image block. print it somewhere on your website */
print $bodyHtml;
/*
* $headHtml is not required. if you use imageframes for your imageblocks, you need to print
* $headHtml in the <head> section of your web page
*/
?>
But I am not sure how to manipulate it. Can someone please advise me on the problem? The instructions for setting up the external image block are fairly straight forward, and like I said it have been working for some time. Thank you in advance, |
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Posts: 8339
Perhaps your server admin disabled readfile.
When I navigate to: http://www.evangelacademy.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&g2_show=title your imageblock does indeed show.
You could try my XML miniSlideShow.
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery
Posts: 32
How when I check to see if readfile is disabled and enable it?
Or is there another PHP function that I should use?
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Suprsidr,
I think I will use your XML miniSlideShow it looks great.
Also, how do I get the E2_Player? We have a bunch of flash video that I am trying to put on our site in a nice player.
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I am trying to set this up. I copied the minislideshow.swf and the 3 .php files to my gallery folder, called galley. This folder is located on in the root of the website. I edited line 5 of the 3 files from gallery2 to gallery. When I placed the embeded code onto one of my pages and loaded the page I just got the spinning wheel saying "Loading XML Feed"
I tried the following code:
When I tried this:
When I changed the .php line 5 from this:
'embedUri' => '/gallery/main.php', 'g2Uri' => '/gallery/'));to this:
'embedUri' => '../../../../../gallery/main.php', 'g2Uri' => '../../../../../gallery/'));I got the spinning wheel and it said loading 1 of 50 pictures. It never loaded.
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Sorry, been at work.
those need to be URLs, not paths.
try
'embedUri' => 'http://www.evangelacademy.com/gallery/main.php', 'g2Uri' => 'http://www.evangelacademy.com/gallery/'));IF you must use full URLs.
As for the E2_Player, its not quite ready for PrimeTime. But we built a nice flashVideo player into G2 already
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery
Posts: 32
Where is the flashVideom player for G2?
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ok, That change worked.
1. I am using xml_dynamic.php random album, the pictures are random but they are in the same order everytime I refresh the page. If there any way to fix that?
2. How do I put the drop shadow on the pictures?
Thanks for this great solution
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If I use xml_all.php it doesn't seem to load pictures and I get a message that says "Loading 1/D"
When I use xml_dynamic.php it will say "Loading 1/50" and just takes a second.
I am note sure what the issue is but when I use:
The pictures displayed are not all from the albumID I enter, if I use g2_itemID the problem is the same.
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the flashvideo module
admin->plugins->flashvideo
just install it, upload your flv movies, and the flashvideo module/player will render it.
yoursite has 14,000 images right?
really not a good idea to use xml_all.php - it would take a long time to render that xml feed each time.
Ok, the xml_dynamic.php is for use with dynamic albums only. so you would add the view(g2_view=dynamicalbum.RandomAlbum) only, not the g2_albumId.
If you want to display the items in a specific album use xml.php?g2_itemId=629 where 629 is the g2_itemId of the album you want to display.
I tried to use the same terminology as gallery2 itself to (hopefully) keep the confusion down.
I'm just adding that now, it will be out with the next release, along with a few more options, like delay.
Hopefully in the future I will combine all the xml.phps into one, and write a script to aid in embedding.
Did I get them all?
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FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery
Posts: 32
Ok, got it thank you.
When I pasted this link in to the address line of a abrowser it seems to honor the album variable?
http://www.evangelacademy.com/gallery/xml_dynamic.php?g2_view=dynamicalbum.RandomAlbum&g2_albumId=629&shuffle=trueAlso, in the I can use the dynamic album link to view random images from a specific album and subalbums, like so:
Thank you so much for your help.