First release in years, so forgive me if I missed something; I'm rusty. This release adds the long-awaited image support. You can attach images to items and see them alongside shopping lists. Item and user comments now pop up thanks to overlib support. A setup script facilitates user and family creation for new users. If you're a happy 1.5.x user, unpack the new files over top -- except for db.php and config.php -- and diff the changes in. You'll need to provide a webserver-writeable directory for image uploads. (I don't know how this is going to work for hosted setups.) If you have any comments -- this *is* beta software -- please send them to me. We've been running this version for months, and it's apparently rock-solid, but different users always have different experiences! Thank you, Ryan Walberg
I think it's stable!
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I'm not but I'm willing to give it a try. (I intended to back in June but never got around to it.)
When you say 'diff the changes in', can you be more… well, can you spell it out? I know the diff command but honestly I'm not sure if I've ever used it (or if I did, it was copying and pasting from instructions).
/Kevin
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I admit I wasn't very clear up there. Diffing the changes only applies to config.php and db.php. Just back up those two files into another directory, unpack the archive, then use a diff tool to override the stock settings with yours. Gdiff is good, IIRC. Have fun!
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Okay, I went ahead and upgraded. Seems fine to me. A silly question with probably an obvious answer, but.. how do users add images to their items? I edited an existing item and didn't see anything new. I thought maybe it only applied to newly-added items, so I went to add something but didn't see anything new there, either (although I didn't proceed with adding it completely).
Where's the image add function?
/Kevin
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You can add images to existing items by editing the item in question. Then the image will display by hovering over the image link in most views showing that item. Right now I'm using overlib to show the image but I'll be switching that because I'm not happy with it.
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Definitely no new section. The date on my item.php file is 3/11/2009. What else could be wrong? (I did a clean install for testing purposes, didn't even overwrite any files or anything… no old files present at all.)
In my config.php file, I see "$OPT = 1;" (and the comment shows that 1 means yes, as expected) and it also has a valid path which I verified is writeable.
Not sure what I could have done wrong, but clearly I did something!
/Kevin
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Aaaaaaaaaand just like that, I found it. Completely idiotic error on my part. Virtual host file changed in one place but not another, so it was pointing to - you guessed it - the old version. So I had the new version installed, but wasn't using it.
Whoops.
Sorry 'bout that! I'll test it out for real now. ;)
/Kevin
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So far, so good! (For real this time! hehe) I didn't think the images feature would be that big a deal, but now that it's there, I love it. I see what you mean about overlib, though. Do you know what you'll replace that with? Have you seen qTip? It seems like the same idea but with a better implementation. Might be worth looking into, but what do I know?
/Kevin
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Is there a changelog for version 1.6.0 to show what's new? :) How stable is it?
/Kevin
From the release notes:
First release in years, so forgive me if I missed something; I'm rusty. This release adds the long-awaited image support. You can attach images to items and see them alongside shopping lists. Item and user comments now pop up thanks to overlib support. A setup script facilitates user and family creation for new users. If you're a happy 1.5.x user, unpack the new files over top -- except for db.php and config.php -- and diff the changes in. You'll need to provide a webserver-writeable directory for image uploads. (I don't know how this is going to work for hosted setups.) If you have any comments -- this *is* beta software -- please send them to me. We've been running this version for months, and it's apparently rock-solid, but different users always have different experiences! Thank you, Ryan Walberg
I think it's stable!
Has anybody used the 1.6.0 beta? Let me know!
I'm not but I'm willing to give it a try. (I intended to back in June but never got around to it.)
When you say 'diff the changes in', can you be more… well, can you spell it out? I know the diff command but honestly I'm not sure if I've ever used it (or if I did, it was copying and pasting from instructions).
/Kevin
I admit I wasn't very clear up there. Diffing the changes only applies to config.php and db.php. Just back up those two files into another directory, unpack the archive, then use a diff tool to override the stock settings with yours. Gdiff is good, IIRC. Have fun!
Okay, I went ahead and upgraded. Seems fine to me. A silly question with probably an obvious answer, but.. how do users add images to their items? I edited an existing item and didn't see anything new. I thought maybe it only applied to newly-added items, so I went to add something but didn't see anything new there, either (although I didn't proceed with adding it completely).
Where's the image add function?
/Kevin
You can add images to existing items by editing the item in question. Then the image will display by hovering over the image link in most views showing that item. Right now I'm using overlib to show the image but I'll be switching that because I'm not happy with it.
Alright, I edited an existing item and I see:
Description, category, price, store/retailer, ranking, quantity, url (optional), and description (optional).
Where does the image go or where do I put it? Do I just…. do the HTML code (img src= etc etc) in the description somewhere, or..?
/Kevin
If you're not seeing an entire section where you can upload a picture, you haven't upgraded. item.php should be new and show a date from 3/11/2009.
Definitely no new section. The date on my item.php file is 3/11/2009. What else could be wrong? (I did a clean install for testing purposes, didn't even overwrite any files or anything… no old files present at all.)
In my config.php file, I see "$OPT = 1;" (and the comment shows that 1 means yes, as expected) and it also has a valid path which I verified is writeable.
Not sure what I could have done wrong, but clearly I did something!
/Kevin
Aaaaaaaaaand just like that, I found it. Completely idiotic error on my part. Virtual host file changed in one place but not another, so it was pointing to - you guessed it - the old version. So I had the new version installed, but wasn't using it.
Whoops.
Sorry 'bout that! I'll test it out for real now. ;)
/Kevin
So far, so good! (For real this time! hehe) I didn't think the images feature would be that big a deal, but now that it's there, I love it. I see what you mean about overlib, though. Do you know what you'll replace that with? Have you seen qTip? It seems like the same idea but with a better implementation. Might be worth looking into, but what do I know?
/Kevin
Glad to hear it's working for you! I'll look into qTip. I was thinking of using a jQuery dialog.
jQuery looks awesome! Forget qTip. :) jQuery looks much more modern. I love it.
/Kevin