Hi can someone please help me. I am new at using Joomla. I have looked in the FAQ on this site, but i could not find any solution.
I have also looked in this forum, and i can see that other people have had the same problem. But nothing worked for mig.

My problem is that when i put in the text { gallery }test{ /gallery } in my page, i dont see thumbnails. I only see the text that i wrote.

Here is a link for my site/page:
dkphoto.dk/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=6&Itemid=57

My system:
I run it on my own server (Server 2003)


I have tried/done the following:

1. First of all it is a fresh install of Joomla 1.5 (With Danish language).
The only plugin i installed in the beginning was the Simple Image gallery Pro (plugin_jw_sigpro-j10-1.2)
2. I made sure that the newly installed plugin was activated.

3. I created a folder (test) under the default folder: /images/stories/test
After that i put two photos in the folder.

4. I put the following text into my page: { gallery }test{ /gallery }
When i tried to test it, then i only saw the text i just wrote.

5. I went to the forum and then tried the following:
a. I tried all the different popup engines (Neither of them worked)
b. I tried making some other folders with pictures (That did not work either)
c. I read that there could be problems with permissions with the files. I made sure that the permissions was set so it was possible to change the files.
d. I tried to uninstall the plugin an then install it again.
e. I tried making a new root folder and then put the test folder int that one.
f. I uninstalled the plugin.
g. I installed the free version of Simple image gallery
It did not work either. So i uninstalled it, and reinstalled the PRO plugin.
h. I installed a slimbox plugin, because i thought that i needed it if i chosed the Slimbox popup engine.
Id did not work. So i deactivated it.

I am REALLY stuck right now. Can someone please help me ? I really want this to work.

Kind regards

Claus

Had the same problem tried re-installing but still no show
Tried different Pop-up engines

what solved it in the end for me is reducing the size of the images (I went back to about 25% of original size you have to check your own) there seems to be a internal server limitation which does not allow SIG to process the images to thumbnails if the files are too large.

Hope this helps

Hi

Thanks for your quick respons.

I tried what you said. I removed all the "large" pictures, and uploaded a small picture (About 299 x 292 pixel and 16 kb).

But it does still not work.

I also tried to uninstall and reinstall the SIG.

Do i need to "refresh" the SIG somehow so it will make the thumbs? Did you do anything else after you uploaded the smaller pictures?

Or do you have any other sugestions ?

Kind regards

Claus

Have you checked if your server supports the GD 2 library

you can check if your server support the GD2 graphic library by creating in the root  a file named test.PHP with the following code\\

<?php
print_r(get_loaded_extensions());
print_r(var_dump(gd_info()));
?>

then in your browser put

www.oursite.com/test.php

it should return something like

Aray ( [0] => zip [1] => xml [2] => tokenizer [3] => standard [4] => sockets [5] => session [6] => posix [7] => overload [8] => mime_magic [9] => mhash [10] => mcrypt [11] => mbstring [12] => gettext [13] => gd [14] => ftp [15] => dba [16] => ctype [17] => bz2 [18] => zlib [19] => pcre [20] => openssl [21] => apache [22] => bcmath [23] => calendar [24] => curl [25] => dbase [26] => dbx [27] => domxml [28] => exif [29] => fileinfo [30] => filepro [31] => gmp [32] => iconv [33] => imap [34] => ldap [35] => mcal [36] => mnogosearch [37] => mysql [38] => ncurses [39] => odbc [40] => pcntl [41] => pdf [42] => pgsql [43] => pspell [44] => shmop [45] => sqlite [46] => sysvmsg [47] => sysvsem [48] => sysvshm [49] => xmlrpc [50] => xslt [51] => yp [52] => Zend Optimizer ) array(11) { ["GD Version"]=> string(27) "bundled (2.0.28 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(true) ["FreeType Linkage"]=> string(13) "with freetype" ["T1Lib Support"]=> bool(false) ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) }

look for the  ["GD Version"]=> string(27) "bundled (2.0.28 compatible)"

hope this helps

I have the exact same problem its just showing the text.

i tried the test.php and got

Array ( [0] => yp [1] => xslt [2] => xml [3] => wddx [4] => tokenizer [5] => sysvshm [6] => sysvsem [7] => standard [8] => sockets [9] => shmop [10] => session [11] => pspell [12] => posix [13] => overload [14] => mime_magic [15] => mcrypt [16] => iconv [17] => gmp [18] => gettext [19] => ftp [20] => exif [21] => dio [22] => dbx [23] => dba [24] => curl [25] => ctype [26] => calendar [27] => bz2 [28] => bcmath [29] => zlib [30] => pcre [31] => openssl [32] => domxml [33] => gd [34] => imap [35] => ldap [36] => mbstring [37] => mysql [38] => ncurses [39] => odbc [40] => sqlite [41] => xmlrpc [42] => ionCube Loader [43] => Zend Optimizer ) array(11) { ["GD Version"]=>  string(27) "bundled (2.0.28 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=>  bool(true) ["FreeType Linkage"]=>  string(13) "with freetype" ["T1Lib Support"]=>  bool(false) ["GIF Read Support"]=>  bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=>  bool(true) ["JPG Support"]=>  bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=>  bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=>  bool(true) ["XBM Support"]=>  bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=>  bool(false) }


so its compatible any other ideas guys

well this forum has been more then useless!!!

claus i think the problem is that you have spaces in your

{ gallery }test{ /gallery }


take away the spaces in the brackets like this:

{gallery}test{/gallery}

solved it for me

thanks for nothing!!!!

peace

Hi

Jokli: I tried what you said, but i get a HTTP 500 internal server error. What have i done wrong ?

www.dkphoto.dk/test.php

craigboy87: I tried what you said, but id did not work either. Maybe my problem is what Jokli mentioned.

What do i do now ?

Kind regards

Claus

Hi again

I got the test.php to work. I had to put the line extension=php_gd2.dll into the php.ini file.

So now i also get the following:

Array ( [0] => bcmath [1] => calendar [2] => com_dotnet [3] => ctype [4] => session [5] => filter [6] => ftp [7] => hash [8] => iconv [9] => json [10] => odbc [11] => pcre [12] => Reflection [13] => date [14] => libxml [15] => standard [16] => tokenizer [17] => zlib [18] => SimpleXML [19] => dom [20] => SPL [21] => wddx [22] => xml [23] => xmlreader [24] => xmlwriter [25] => cgi-fcgi [26] => mysql [27] => gd ) array(12) { ["GD Version"]=> string(27) "bundled (2.0.34 compatible)" ["FreeType Support"]=> bool(true) ["FreeType Linkage"]=> string(13) "with freetype" ["T1Lib Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Read Support"]=> bool(true) ["GIF Create Support"]=> bool(true) ["JPG Support"]=> bool(true) ["PNG Support"]=> bool(true) ["WBMP Support"]=> bool(true) ["XPM Support"]=> bool(false) ["XBM Support"]=> bool(true) ["JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support"]=> bool(false) }

Does it look okay?

Myy test page does still not show my gallery/photo.

Any other suggestions?

Kind regards

Claus

Ok - like me you probably just grabbed the { gallery } code out of an article - problem being that they have put in spaces so it is easier to read!

So you must have no spaces {gallery}test{/gallery} - Traps for non-coders!

Next issue for me was to create the temp folder for it to use (it gave a nice explanatory error message to tell me to do this and to chmod the folder to 644 or 777)  644 did not work, 777 did. (Do a google on how to chmod the folder permissions - will depend on your FTP client)

Hope this helps