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[dhavalmistry]

Hey Melting Ice...I uploaded 2 images yesterday and they haven't showed up in the gallery yet....I was wondering.....are the renderings moderated???

[MeltingIce]

Hmm... you must not be doing something right.  When you upload the picture, it immediately appears in the gallery since there is no moderation.  What format and filesize are the images you are trying to upload?  The gallery might not be accepting the images you are uploading.

[littlecannon]

Hi MeltingIce, I just uploaded a couple of pics to your gallery. It's building up nicely. cheers, Simon. (I had no problem uploading)

[MeltingIce]

Hi MeltingIce, I just uploaded a couple of pics to your gallery. It's building up nicely. cheers, Simon. (I had no problem uploading)

Awesome, thanks for sharing your work.  Good to hear that you didn't have any problems uploading 

[dhavalmistry]

Hmm... you must not be doing something right.  When you upload the picture, it immediately appears in the gallery since there is no moderation.  What format and filesize are the images you are trying to upload?  The gallery might not be accepting the images you are uploading.

I uploaded 2 (800x600) jpg's

[lollynada]

ello there -  am trying to add some of my first TG2 piccies too... was trying to add smallish bitmap files,
as this is the file type that TG2 has been spitting out onto my PC.  However, 'it' said 'wrong file type'
- so should we load jpgs instead please?   ta v muchly    

[lollynada]

me again - answered me own question re: which file types...

converted all the .bmp pics to jpg pics in PS and sorted 

cheers! 

[Will]

I would just like to say that all the work i've seen on the gallery are great, the new ones with the skeleton as well as the sun rises are neat keep it up gang

Regards,

Will

[MeltingIce]

I would just like to say that all the work i've seen on the gallery are great, the new ones with the skeleton as well as the sun rises are neat keep it up gang

Regards,

Will

What Will said    Excellent work everyone, looks like we are starting to get the hang of this program

[MeltingIce]

It seems that the gallery is becoming a little too popular and my MySQL database can't take so many hits at once.  I'll see if theres anything I can do about it.

[Dark Fire]

Your gallery really is amazing...

It seems that the gallery is becoming a little too popular and my MySQL database can't take so many hits at once.  I'll see if theres anything I can do about it.

Perhaps you could stop using the MySQL database and swtich to a file-based database. I've always used a files to store data that would normally go in a database for several reasons:
1. It's easier to write to and read from files in PHP than to write to and read from MySQL.
2. It's easier to wipe out any spam that accumulates - all you have to do is delete the offending file(s).
3. Using the database requires more things to be working at the same time, and thus reduces the reliability of the website.

My blog is based on files containing the post and comment data, and it has always worked brilliantly!

[MeltingIce]

That is a good idea, except how would people be able to have a username so that they could identify each picture to be their own?

[old_blaggard]

When I write my gallery script, I'm going to have a gallery table that will store the data for the images (size, comments, user, etc) and have a PHP script dynamically generate the file and store the path in the table.

[Dark Fire]

That is a good idea, except how would people be able to have a username so that they could identify each picture to be their own?

I'm still working on the security problems posed by having a user system powered by a file-based database. There are a number of potential solutions, but I'm not yet sure which is best.

[MeltingIce]

What about just using .htaccess rules?