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VERSION UPDATE: 3.00
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PhotoPost Classifieds 3.0 is a major update with new features our users have requested as well any bug fixes to date. As always this is a work in progress but figured I would throw this out there for you all to test. I will be looking at the suggestions forum for other ideas so please limit posting in the beta forum to issues.

New features:

. Ability to upload Quantities of Ads
. Message Board (for stand-alone systems to use as a mini-forum)
. Private Messaging (PMs, notices for activity on ads, new ads from buddies,
message board activity)
. Built-in RSS (per category basis)
. Usergroup optimization resulting in significant reductions in memory usage for medium-large sites
. Invites System for users to invite and track invitiations
. Buddy Lists
. Who’s Online page
. Internal Registration - Avatars, Titles and Signatures
. Redesigned minor areas of showproduct page
. Redesigned global sidebar element to include all pages not just showcat or showproduct like earlier versions when you elect to show the sidebar globally
. Redesigned profile page - buddy lists, more stats, bio pages
. combined usergroup queries into 1 query versus multiple for each usergroup membership
. CAPTCHA image verification for new registrations
. Use of icons versus text on showphoto page (famfam icons)
. Addition of french and german languages which are current as of 2.61.
. Added updated myBB forum integration to correct changes made in 1.2 update of that forum.
. Added support for phpBB3
. Ability to Buy Quantities of Ads
. Ability to specify an external image for a category avatar instead of tagging an ad.
. Subscription Capability using Paypal and IPN added. You can add/edit subscriptions and list subscribers all from admin. They are bumped into whatever new group you set the subscription to use and you can assign permissions accordingly
. Payment and Buy It portions moved to use the new payment verification system.
. Ability to set the a logo to use on the paypal cart
. Ability to specify your paypal email if you allow users to buy your ad on ad upload instead of having to set your user account email to the paypal account email.
. Ability to relist an ad and be prompted for payment if usergroup is set to have to pay.
. All tables changed to utf collation to assist in proper support for all foreign languages.
. Ability to set a number of free ads per group to override payment till that limit is reached.

Below is a short tutorial on how to set your site cookies especially when using a forum integration. Over the years working in support this has to be the most comment mistake when people set things up and can lead to alot of headaches.

You should always set your cookies as follows below,

Cookie Path: This setting should always be set in both your forum and photopost products to / nothing else. Basically this will make a cookie work on any directory on the site provided the domain name is the same in the cookie so this is a must.

Cookie Prefix: Some important things to consider when settings cookies is which forum you are integrating with and what prefix the cookie uses as without setting this correct you will not be able to login correctly. Examples would be that if you are integrating with phpbb2 this is normally phpbb2mysql or with vbulletin the cookie prefix is bb. Now to be sure you can check in phpbb2 in your global admin configuration or in vbulletin all pertinent info is found in the config.php file in your forum includes directory.

Cookie Domain: Okay the following I can not stress enough. You must always unless you run your forum under your forum directory which most people do not do set the cookie domain on your site to something like this.

.yourdomain.com

This does not include www or photos etc as those are subdomains. Setting it to a period then your base domain name will make the cookie read over all domains on your site and prevent all cookie issues.

Cookie Name: The following is only set when running install but is a necessary when running SMF, WOWBB or PHPBB3 integrations. You must set the forum cookie name or you will never be allowed to login to your Photopost Products. This is because none of these products use cookie prefix to make unique cookie names instead they use an absolute cookie name you make up either defined in the config file or admin area. Your cookie names must match between the forum and photopost product so this must be entered correctly on install.

I hope the following assists you when setting up your photopost product and saves you some time having to post for assistance.

There have been some new profile enhancements introduced.
- UserCP integration and control with the members
- 9 locations in the profile for image block
- user table added to store personal information per user. (image count, comment count, last upload, last post, more …)
- Statistics Tab * added gallery field (image count, comment count, last upload with link, last post with link) 
- There will also be a list of bugs and performance fixes added.

I will have a public version soon.
I thought I would “try”  to blog. ^ blog n00b - haha !  :D
I took some screen shots !!

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What’s New ?

• Over all performance increased with less overhead on CPU and RAM.
• Gallery Link in Navbar (AdminCP option on/off)
• Time cutoff options for random and new image on gallery home.
• Active users online with option to list only gallery pages. This is on the gallery home page (link to forums WOL and AdminCP on/off)
• Image count in postbit (AdminCP on/off)
• Added total gallery statistics to FORUMHOME (AdminCP on/off)
• Expanded on gallery statistics to display uploads, comments, ecards per day with cutoff date
• Added gallery statistics link in “What’s Popular” dropdown menu.
• Image, comment count, and a link to uploaded gallery files in member profile.
• Querry Reduction: (4) Gallery Index, Browseimages, (2) Edit Image, Slideshow
• Added Tracking for slideshow views
• $vba_options => $ppg_options - This is a script wide variable change. All hacks will need to be updated. (file and template usage)
• Hook added: ppgal_construct_image_url

More

Do you have vBGallery 2.3 installed ?
Do you have the need to syndicate your gallery ?

This add-on (hack) will create external data feeds for
Photopost vBGallery.

• Image title
• Image: thumbnail, large, original
• Image description

Tested with:
vBulletin 3.6x, vBGallery 2.3, FeedCreator v1.7.2

Valid format strings are:
RSS0.91, RSS1.0, RSS2.0, PIE0.1, MBOX, OPML, ATOM0.3, HTML, JS

Download -
must be a Photopost Verified Customer

Having been developed over the past 6 years, PhotoPost is a very feature-packed and stable photo gallery.  We’re constantly working to develop new features, improve performance, and keep PhotoPost updated with the latest changes to vBulletin and other forum apps, but we want to know what’s most important to you.  Is there a specific feature that you’d like to see added?  Is maximizing performance most important?  Would you like to see further enhanced integrations with vBulletin either for Pro or vBGallery?   Feel free to comment here or drop us a line via the contact form.

PhotoPost Pro 6.01 includes a number of bug fixes that were newly introduced into 6.00.  Be sure to see the announcements thread for a complete list of updated/changed files in 6.01.

• It’s easy to show random photo uploads from your PhotoPost gallery anywhere on your site. This thread has the details, skip to the end for the latest, and the PHP code snippet for random photos is:

<?php
$host   = 'localhost';
$dbUser = 'root';
$dbPass = 'database-password';
$db = 'database-name';
mysql_connect("$host", "$dbUser", "$dbPass") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("$db") or die(mysql_error());

$result = mysql_query("SELECT id,cat,bigimage FROM pp_photos order by rand() LIMIT 1" ) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
print "<a href="/photos/showphoto.php/photo/" . $row['id'] . ""><img src="/photos/data/" . $row['cat'] . "/thumbs/" .  $row['bigimage'] . ""></a>";
}
?>

PhotoPost Developer Chuck S. has written a vBGallery to PhotoPost Pro import script. Please be sure to backup your gallery database before performing the import.

There is also a PhotoPost Pro to vBGallery import script available, written by developer Zachariah.

PhotoPost 6.0 has been released. It is packed full of some very cool features and is an excellent upgrade. Here are some of the new features and changes:

• Message Board (for stand-alone systems to use as a mini-forum)
• Built-in RSS (per category basis)
• Private Messaging (PMs, notices for activity on photos and ratings, new photos from buddies, message board activity)
• Usergroup optimization resulting in significant reductions in memory usage for medium-large sites.
• Invites System for users to invite and track invitiations
• Mature Content flag to “hide” mature images from unregistered users (or users who select to not see mature pictures)
• Buddy Lists
• Redesigned data area for showphoto, more AJAX/JavaScript features
• Slideshow Pause/Resume
• Use of icons versus text on showphoto page (famfam icons)

Complete details and upgrade info for PhotoPost v6.0 can be found in the upgrade thread.