Hi,

In the doc about image caption there is a great tutorial on how to make the image captions via labels.txt.
Problem is that it says:

Simply enable the related option "Default caption (label) handling" in the plugin parameters and the required labels.txt file for each gallery will be automatically generated with some sample text in.

But when i go to my options in the plugin i have:
- no captions
- show generic messages
- read contens of caption files

I can not find any

related option

. I have tried to set all 3 and looked at the gallery foldes on my server and I don't get any labels.txt anywere.

Can anyone help?

cheers,
Steffen

Hi Steffen,

I have been playing around with this option too, and had no problems at all. Works right out of the box here. And yes, the option you're looking to use is the one called "read contens of caption files".

It sounds a bit like a permission problem to me. Have you checked your folder permissions? Permissions on my image folders are set to "drwxr-xr-x" (755) and they're owned by me, not the webserver. I would check this and see if could be where the problem lies.

If you check "sigpro.engine.php" (found under: plugins/content/jw_sigpro) around line 44 you will see :

- which I assume means that you won't get a warning in case there is a permission problem. SIG simply won't create your labels.txt files for you.

Just a suggestion. I hope this helps.

Cheers,


Lt. Columbo

hi Lt. Columbo,

Thanks for the try, but all my images folders where already in 755 so it couldn't be the problem.

Would appriciate more help  :D

And the ownership?

Not sure what you mean by "ownership"?

Hi Steffen,

Well, it's difficult for me to explain as I don't know too much about it myself and the subject seems rather complex as a whole. But I mention it because I had problems earlier with using the Joomla media manager, as it seems to "act on behalf" of the webserver - i.e. giving ownership of files to the server rather than to you, the user. (on my installations anyway)

While you may not experience problems most of the time the subject is important to be aware of because, generally speaking, something owned by the web server is not controlled by you. And even setting permissions to 777 won't help. In turn this means that something controlled by you (such as a component or a plugin) also cannot access/change/write/overwrite files and foldes not belonging to you. The webserver's ownership of the item prevents that.

This is also why I have stopped using the media manager all together. Too many issues and FTP is much faster when you've got a good FTP application and the routine of doing it.

Depending on which hosting company you're with, you should be able to easily take ownership of any file or folder using their user interface. See the attached screenshot from my host's interface. (An ownership indicator marked in red)

Also you can read a lot more about server permissions / ownership here:

ZZEE.com
Elated.com
ServerFault.com
JodoHost.com
(this one I just stumbled upon. Not my host, but the exact same problem I once had)

Also try and google around a bit and find more information about this, as it all depends on server type, setup, etc. I hope this helps. If anyone have more info on these things, plase. I'm certainly not an expert in this field.
:)

Cheers,

Lt. Columbo.