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[Wacsip-users] Wacs and Wacs-Php version 1.0.0 has been released and is available for download

[Wacs U. <wa...@be...>]

Hi Folks

I am so very pleased to announce that after fifteen years of development, Wacs has finally reached the 1.0.0 milestone.

Both wacs and wacs-php have been released - there are new applications, new features in existing applications and some new types and tags.  The installation guide and programming guide have both had significant re-writes.

Recently added features include a consolidation of the support for PostgreSQL in addition to Oracle, MySQL and MariaDB.  We've also got more features in the Dynamic Search tools; the icon handling has been further improved and there have been several schema changes to support future projects and to remove a few sticking points.

I invite you to visit our sourceforge site at http://wacsip.sf.net and our free demonstration site at www.pinkmetallic.com which is now running the 1.0.0 release.

Cheers, Beaky
July 1st, 2020

[Wacsip-users] Wacs-PHP 0.9.2 finally released - jQuery support, new app, bug fixes

[Beaky, T. W. M. <be...@be...>]

After a very long delay for which we sincerely apologise we have
finally got the re-write of Wacs-PHP for 0.9.2 released. This sees
support for Php 7 as well as Php 5, jQuery replaces XAJAX as our
dynamic content platform, and it includes both an improved version of
modelsel, and a new similar app allowing dynamic selection of sets by a
similar means. There are also other small adjustments and improvements
to the software.

Unfortunately we had to add one additional configuration file attribute
to tell our jQuery apps where the system installed version of the
library was, and since all our configuration is done in the Perl
version which had already been released, we were unable to automate it
for this release. The RELEASENOTES tell you how to add this. Please
rest assured that this will be all automatic in the next release of
Wacs and Wacs-PHP.

We hope you enjoy this software and find it useful. Please send us
feedback and bug reports. We do like hearing from our user community.

Cheers, Beaky
September 29th, 2017

[Wacsip-users] It's been over three years in the making but WACS 0.9.2 is OUT NOW!

[Wacs U. <wa...@be...>]

It's been what seems like an eternity in development, but WACS 0.9.2 is finally released.  It's been a long hard slog but finally the Web Administration interface can properly handle Video files.  This has always been one of our key plans before finally moving on to a 1.0 release which now looks likely to happen around our tenth anniversary in November of this year (2016).

We've also done a lot of cleaning up, bug fixing, documentation updates and improved download performance.  About the only thing that hasn't actually changed much is the user interface for users of the system - but hopefully they will appreciate the faster operation, better icons and smoother downloads.  The addition of proper support for streaming MP4 video files is also a new feature that should find a lot of favour with our user community.

As ever we wanted to get the main Perl version out there as soon as it had finished in the testing phase; the PHP version will follow now that the main release has been completed.

So please come and take a look at this new release - it really does take us very much closer to our original design goals for what WACS should be able to do.

Cheers,
Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] WACS Release 0.9.1 is now available

[Beaky, T. W. M. <be...@be...>]

I'm pleased to announce that WACS version 0.9.1 was finally released on
sourceforge yesterday.

This new release follows on from the big changes in WACS 0.9.x and
really focuses on performance and configuration flexibility issues -
apart from one significant new application for editing saved searches,
most of the new work is "under-the-hood".

On performance, we now have a new structure where you have the choice to
cache download files (zips and video files) for faster downloads with
much less processing load on your WACS server.  At present this requires
administrator intervention to prepare the cached file, otherwise it
continues to work as before, creating the zip file on demand from the
viewing copy of the files.

The icon system has been totally re-written with the usedirect system
now functional for all sizes of all types of icon, with scaled versions
being automatically cached after first use.  Once again the normal
actions are as they were, and usedirect needs to be enabled for the new
functionality to take effect.

On configuration, we've totally revamped the way that the various WACS
web apps interact with each other.  They now look up the URL for every
single application they use from the configuration files.  This allows
for a wide range of new functionality - you can specify a URL with a
port number in it (ie :8080) to use non-standard port numbers (this
allows you to run a "secret" Wacs on a machine that is also a
conventional web server), you can use https:// addresses and you can
invoke the Wacs web apps on Web Hosting providers who do not support the
concept of cgi-bin directories.  For commercial sites this also lets you
divide up your main, download and search activities between different
web servers if you wish to.

To take advantage of the download cache and the like, the iconlink
function call in the API has been significantly expanded in capabilities
and it has two new siblings thumblink and contentlink which provide
similar features with relation to thumbnail images and link to download
files.

The PHP dialect files for Wacs 0.9.1 will be released in a few weeks
time when we've tracked down and solved issues with the XAJAX library
used for Web 2.0 active content.  If you need PHP support, it might be
advisable to wait deployment of WACS 0.9.1 until those are available.

Finally I would like to extend our thanks to Brian for his financial
contribution to the project - it was most helpful.

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Beaky

[Wacsip-users] WACS Release 0.9.0 is now available!

[Beaky <be...@be...>]

Wacs Release 0.9.0: new features included in this release have been in
planning and development for nearly three years now - but it is finally
ready. There are many changes but the most fundamental are new abilities
to handle relationships between sets and a completely configurable and
dynamic attribute system. The first major new feature is that there is
now good support for showing the relations between sets: links between
videos and photo sets, provisions for multiple resolution versions of
the same sets, provisions for multipart videos. The second major feature
is that all the attributes used to mark up sets are configurable and
dynamic - it's now possible to tailor search features to your specific
needs without resorting to code changes.

The Wacs demonstration site, www.pinkmetallic.com (CAUTION: Adult
Content) is now updated to wacs 0.9.0 and allows you to preview the new
features.

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] Wacs 0.8.6 is now out!

[Beaky <be...@be...>]

The new release of Wacs is now out. This release includes a few neat
cosmetic changes but the main point is to provide support for Ubuntu up
to Natty (11.04) and Fedora 14 & 15 and to pave the way for the upcoming
0.9.0 release. A new database schema update tool (wacsschema) paves the
way for this upgrade.

Download from http://wacsip.sourceforge.net/

Enjoy!

Cheers,
Beaky

[Wacsip-users] Issue with Apache mod_security package (on web hosting providers)

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

If you are seeing "406 Not Acceptable" errors from the last frame of
viewing a set, you've probably got this problem.....

It appears that the Apache mod_security package is having a bit of an
"issue" with the URL with which wacsframe is called, but only for the
LAST frame of the set.  For now the workaround seems to be to disable
the mod_security module in the apache (web server) config file or get
your hosting provider to do this.

My current guess is that it is the =159=159= (where there are 159 images
in the set) bit that makes it think it's an attack - ie an apparently
useless assignment.  I'm going to look at using a different separator
for the URL in wacsframe in the next release of Wacs and see if that
improves matters.

Cheers
Beaky

[Wacsip-users] Bug in wacs-php packages for Ubuntu Fixed

[Beaky <be...@be...>]

Hi Folks

I've managed to find and fix the problem with the wacs-php and
wacs-php-skins-simple packages on Ubuntu 9.10.  Revised packages which
fix the problems are now available for download - they are:

	wacs-php_0.8.5-2_all.deb
	wacs-php-skins-simple_0.8.5-2_all.deb

The problems lay entirely within the packaging scripts and it depended
on whether it was the wacs-php package that actually created
the /usr/local/pear directory or not.  If another package had already
created that directory, it would work fine; if the wacs-php package did
it, it messed up the permissions.

A revised version of the tarball has also been uploaded but the only
changes are to the debian packaging control files.  All other platforms
are totally unaffected.

Cheers,
Beaky

[Wacsip-users] Wacs-PHP Simple Skin now complete, FAQ updated

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

Just a few quick updates on the Wacs project...

* The Wacs-PHP Simple Skin is now complete

  Started in 2007, our project to build a demonstration web site
  prototype using Wacs-PHP has now reached a complete and tested
  state.  This will of course be part of the Wacs 0.8.5 release
  but you can try it out now as it is the new Member's Area on 
  our demonstration site, www.pinkmetallic.com - it is also in
  the subversion repository if you want to check it out...

* FAQ totally updated

  We've totally re-written the Project FAQ to be (hopefully) a lot
  more helpful.  Please take a look.

We're on course for a new release of Wacs (0.8.5) hopefully either at
the end of February or early March.  This is shaping up to be a pretty
big release with a lot of new features.

Cheers
Beaky

[Wacsip-users] WACS Demonstration website launched - try WACS without installing...

[Beaky <be...@be...>]

We've finally built the WACS demonstration web site we've been
promising. So you can now finally see WACS live in action on the
internet without having to install it. Additionally you can view and
download all those photo sets we've been tantalizingly featuring in our
documentation. And true to our open source beliefs, the content is all
free and released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Click on over to http://www.pinkmetallic.com and try out WACS for
yourself (WARNING: contains adult content!).

Cheers
Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] New release out - 0.8.4 of Wacs released today

[Beaky <be...@be...>]

The new version of Wacs, 0.8.4, has been released today.

It includes a brand new web-based first time setup tool called wacssetup
which finally removes the need to use the command line to get a working
Wacs environment.

There's a web version of the add association tool, and our first venture
into Web 2.0 dynamic content with a model selection tool written in AJAX
and PHP, showing just what you can do with the WACS API.

Additionally there is a huge long list of bug fixes and small upgrades.

We've also launched our demonstration web site, but more about that in a
moment.

Cheers
Beaky.

Re: [Wacsip-users] CentOS Install Crashes at the Populate stage of install

[Beaky <wa...@be...>]

James

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 14:30 +1000, Jams Young wrote:
> I got through to the same point in the install with your suggested changes
> however there are 2 additional issues:
> 
>  In vendors.xml the end tag needs to be changed
> <vimgpage>http://members.karupspc.com/refstat.php?lid=#SETKEY#&amp;sid=29</v
> mpage>  
> 
> needs to be changed to
> <vimgpage>http://members.karupspc.com/refstat.php?lid=#SETKEY#&amp;sid=29</v
> imgpage>
> 
> Line 157

Yup.  I found that one recently and it's now fixed in the Sub-version
repository and will be in the 0.8.4 release.  I'm hoping to have that
out shortly.

> For the later versions of cpan easyinstall.pl needs to have install deleted
> $cpaninstaller="cpan install ";
> 
> $cpaninstaller="cpan";
> 
> Line 30

Yes, very annoying - I can't fix it for one platform without breaking it
on others.  However, I think you're right that I should change it so it
works with contemporary OSes rather than historic ones.

> Once this is done, easy install completes and the system seems loaded, but I
> can't for the life of me login. (I have checked the shadow file for
> permissions)

You are using the 0.8.3 release, right?  These instructions aren't
applicable to significantly earlier releases.

The cornerstone of logging in is a program called pam_auth which should
be installed in either /usr/local/bin/pam_auth or /usr/bin/pam_auth.
Which it is depends on whether Wacs has been installed as a package by
the package manager (/usr/bin) or installed manually (/usr/local/bin).

This program (taken from the squid web cache system) uses whatever
authentication methods your machine normally uses via PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules).  I've checked it with passwd/shadow, NIS, LDAP
and Active Directory.

If you get up a terminal window and run:

% /usr/local/bin/pam_auth

and then type to it your username, a space and then your password, it
should reply with "OK".

Eg:

% /usr/local/bin/pam_auth
username password
OK
<CTRL>-D
%

If you do something that isn't your password:

% /usr/local/bin/pam_auth
username fibble
ERR
<CTRL>-D
% 

If you've discovered that pam_auth isn't there, the source code is in
the security sub-directory of the WACS distribution and can be compiled
with:

gcc -o pam_auth pam_auth.c -lpam -ldl

You then need to become root and copy it into /usr/local/bin/pam_auth:

cp pam_auth /usr/local/bin

And then set the permissions to be setuid root:

chown root /usr/local/bin/pam_auth
chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/pam_auth

The permissions on pam_auth should look like:

-rwsrwxr-t 1 root root 12256 2009-11-08 18:08 /usr/local/bin/pam_auth

The alternative way to verify that everything is working is to add a
permanent permission for one of your client workstations using the
access control list.  Then a password won't be required for accessing
Wacs.

You do this by editing /etc/wacs.d/wacs.acl and adding a block something
like:

 <ipv4-192.168.200.13>
  <user>beaky</user>
  <type>permanent</type>
  <date></date>
  <role>power</role>
  <prefexcl>F,D</prefexcl>
 </ipv4-192.168.200.13>

There is some discussion of the access control lists and how they work
in Chapter 2 - First Steps of the Administration Guide.  It's probably
not as detailed as it should be, so I'll try and update it.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
Beaky.

Re: [Wacsip-users] CentOS Install Crashes at the Populate stage of install

[Jams Y. <ja...@ca...>]

Hi Beaky,

I have managed to get the system installed via both the manual and easy
install methods. I tried both because I found what was causing errors and
because I couldn't login after the manual method.

I got through to the same point in the install with your suggested changes
however there are 2 additional issues:

 In vendors.xml the end tag needs to be changed
<vimgpage>http://members.karupspc.com/refstat.php?lid=#SETKEY#&amp;sid=29</v
mpage>  

needs to be changed to
<vimgpage>http://members.karupspc.com/refstat.php?lid=#SETKEY#&amp;sid=29</v
imgpage>

Line 157

For the later versions of cpan easyinstall.pl needs to have install deleted
$cpaninstaller="cpan install ";

$cpaninstaller="cpan";

Line 30

Once this is done, easy install completes and the system seems loaded, but I
can't for the life of me login. (I have checked the shadow file for
permissions)

Any suggestions.

Thanks
James

-----Original Message-----
From: Beaky [mailto:be...@be...] 
Sent: Monday, 9 November 2009 8:51 AM
To: User and general help list for the WACS system
Subject: Re: [Wacsip-users] CentOS Install Crashes at the Populate stage of
install

James

Basically it is the access control on MySQL that is causing the problem.

Best I can read this error message, you're trying to access a database
on 'www.domain.com', but the actual host is actually being looked up in
the DNS as "xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com" and MySQL is throwing that out
as not being 'www.domain.com'.

If you do the following, you should be able to rectify this:

% mysql -u root -p
Password: ********

mysql> create user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com'
     > identified by 'password';

mysql> GRANT ALL ON wacs.* TO wacs;

mysql> commit;

mysql> flush privileges;

mysql> quit;
%

You will then need to complete the installation manually.  A step by
step guide is given in Chapter 6 of the Installation Guide.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers
Beaky



On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 00:29 +1000, James wrote:
> Thanks in advance if you can offer any help or ideas.
> 
> The system almost completes install then errors at the end:
> 
> Now attempting to populate the vendor database table...
> DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for
user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at
./vendpop line 38
> Can't connect to database
> Reason given was Access denied for user
'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
> Now attempting to populate the photographer database table...
> DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for
user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at
./photpop line 38
> Can't connect to database
> Reason given was Access denied for user
'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
> Now attempting to populate the keyword database table...
> DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for
user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at
./keywordpop line 38
> Can't connect to database
> Reason given was Access denied for user
'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
> Completed.
> 
> Note that the xx is the rest of the ip and the domains have been changed.
> 
> Please help me get past this stage.
> 
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[Wacsip-users] Some thoughts on download mechanisms

[Beaky <wa...@be...>]

I thought I'd just let you guys know that there's some significant new
work just added into the SVN repository related to downloads.  The
existing Wacs download mechanism is getting a bit long in the tooth but
we're not quite ready to tackle a big re-write of that just yet.

However the "download experience" has been decaying quite a bit of late
with the major sites adding various new techniques like image capture to
foil automatic download solutions.  Additionally, Firefox have stopped
keeping a text-version of the cookies cache available for us to read,
which makes things harder too.

The thing is that Wacs sits on the fence between being a collection
management tool for private individuals and a content management system
for adult content providers.  We know from a providers point of view
what a pain (and expense) it can be if someone really hammers your
download servers pulling loads of material they'll never be able to use.
At the same time, we also understand how important it is to collectors
to check that they have everything which is available by a favourite
model, and have an easy way to check up on and download any new material
that has been added recently.

The new tools we've added, which will be included in Wacs 0.8.4, try to
assist in the downloading of new content by working co-operatively with
a web browser rather than trying to engage with the remote website
directly.  You can save a model's main index page and have it parsed
direct from the saved version; you can view a download "To Do" list and
click on the relevant link in order to do the actual download, and you
can have Wacs check up on the files you've ticked as having been just
downloaded.

We hope these tools will work better with a wider range of sites, help
the collectors to build and manage their collections and at the same
time respect the content providers concerns about their servers and
bandwidth being excessively consumed.  Although we've always stayed away
from completely automatic downloading, we feel this web browser
assistance model of download sits better with our twin objectives of
helping both collector and content provider.  It also puts users of Wacs
even further from accusations of using techniques banned by many sites
terms of service.

Cheers
Beaky.

Re: [Wacsip-users] CentOS Install Crashes at the Populate stage of install

[Beaky <be...@be...>]

James

Basically it is the access control on MySQL that is causing the problem.

Best I can read this error message, you're trying to access a database
on 'www.domain.com', but the actual host is actually being looked up in
the DNS as "xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com" and MySQL is throwing that out
as not being 'www.domain.com'.

If you do the following, you should be able to rectify this:

% mysql -u root -p
Password: ********

mysql> create user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com'
     > identified by 'password';

mysql> GRANT ALL ON wacs.* TO wacs;

mysql> commit;

mysql> flush privileges;

mysql> quit;
%

You will then need to complete the installation manually.  A step by
step guide is given in Chapter 6 of the Installation Guide.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers
Beaky



On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 00:29 +1000, James wrote:
> Thanks in advance if you can offer any help or ideas.
> 
> The system almost completes install then errors at the end:
> 
> Now attempting to populate the vendor database table...
> DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at ./vendpop line 38
> Can't connect to database
> Reason given was Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
> Now attempting to populate the photographer database table...
> DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at ./photpop line 38
> Can't connect to database
> Reason given was Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
> Now attempting to populate the keyword database table...
> DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at ./keywordpop line 38
> Can't connect to database
> Reason given was Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
> Completed.
> 
> Note that the xx is the rest of the ip and the domains have been changed.
> 
> Please help me get past this stage.
> 
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[Wacsip-users] CentOS Install Crashes at the Populate stage of install

[James <ja...@ca...>]

Thanks in advance if you can offer any help or ideas.

The system almost completes install then errors at the end:

Now attempting to populate the vendor database table...
DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at ./vendpop line 38
Can't connect to database
Reason given was Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
Now attempting to populate the photographer database table...
DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at ./photpop line 38
Can't connect to database
Reason given was Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
Now attempting to populate the keyword database table...
DBI connect('wacs:www.domain.com','wacs',...) failed: Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES) at ./keywordpop line 38
Can't connect to database
Reason given was Access denied for user 'wacs'@'xx-242-14-84.static.Blah.com' (using password: YES)
Completed.

Note that the xx is the rest of the ip and the domains have been changed.

Please help me get past this stage.

[Wacsip-users] WACS 0.8.0 Released - WACS Goes Beta - New User Guide

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

Hey Folks

WACS release 0.8.0 is now available. With this release WACS goes Beta...
We've been polishing like crazy this last four months, and we're very
proud of the result - the user experience is massively improved - much
speedier browsing, better menus, new search options - just take a look
at our new 63-page User Guide book with over 70 illustrations and you'll
see just how much we've changed. WACS site managers will find things
hugely changed too with XML-based configurable menus, significant
enhancements to the collection management tools, and a much more
flexible structure.

Come on over and take a look!

http://wacsip.sourceforge.net/

http://launchpad.net/wacs

Enjoy!

Cheers, Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] Wacs-PHP version 0.7.4 now released

[Beaky <wa...@be...>]

The matching release of wacs-php to go with the 0.7.4 release of Wacs
released on Friday has now been released. The big news for this release
is a much more "real world" worked example program called newsets.php to
demonstrate how to use the WacsUI module to aid in the rapid development
of good looking functional web sites. Other changes include some
additional tips on installation methods, a few bug fixes and updates to
track upstream changes in Wacs brought in at 0.7.4. 
 
Enjoy! 
Cheers, Beaky. 
February 25th, 2008.

[Wacsip-users] FIXED: Re: [Wacsip-devel] Odd behaviour of Image Set Search with MySQL

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

Hi Guys

I wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 10:30 +0200, Beaky, The WACS Man wrote:
> I'm currently investigating problems with the image set search screen
> with the Wacs installation on my laptop (using MySQL) 

OK, I've found the bug and fixed it.  The modified version has been
uploaded to the subversion repository at sourceforge.  Let me know if
anyone wants me to put out a patch release for the distribution version
of 0.7.3 to fix this and the wacssetmgr bug.

It turned out to be a tag placement issue with the <label></label>
directives added by the perl CGI module and how these affected the table
layout directives they became intermixed with.  The effect was only
happening in the later columns of the table layout of the search screen.

Enjoy.
Cheers, Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] Wacs-PHP 0.7.3 Released - Massively improved version

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

Massive new release of Wacs-PHP; the PHP5 interface to the Web-based
Adult Content Server, WACS.  This release includes a COMPLETE
implementation of the new Wacs User Interface toolkit, wacsui - the
first time the PHP variant has offered the presentation utility
functions available in the perl API.

In addition to this, several more of the significant configuration query
functions from the Core API are now implemented: getvaluename and
geticonlist in particular.  This release is compatible with Wacs release
0.7.3, released earlier this month.

RELEASENOTES:
Wacs-PHP release notes
----------------------

NB: 0.7.3 will be the last GPLv2 licensed version; the next will be GPLv3

New Features in Release 0.7.3
-----------------------------
- comment placeholders added for all wacs.pm functions
- new implementations of wacs.pm functions in wacs.php
  - getvaluename - returns the long name for a short value for specified object
  - geticonlist - returns all the same hashes (as arrays) as the perl version
- added extra data structures so geticonlist provides all same answers as perl
- new module wacsui.php - the wacs user interface components module created
  - aims to support same calls as perl equivalent
  - iconlink function moves there from wacs.php
  - describeher function now implmented in PHP
  - new version of whatshedoes (named parameters) now implemented in PHP
  - addkeyicons and doicon now implemented in PHP
- added debug mode support as per perl version 
- added layout-style attribute to show how filesystem is organised
- new tests directory added with a sample data conversion tester and a
  wacsui module tester.

Bugs fixed in 0.7.3
-------------------
- added check for existance of initially requested attribute before attempting
  an assign to $result of it in conf_get_attr() - removes spurious warning

[Wacsip-users] BUG NOTIFICATION: bug in wacssetmgr when used with MySQL

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

I've discovered a bug in wacssetmgr when used with MySQL.  The popup
menu of locations is not populated and any location guessed by the
updateinfo command is overwritten with an empty string.

The problem is with the embedded SQL command:

	select unique( slocation )

The select unique() function is only available in the Oracle dialect of
SQL; the correct portable SQL statement for this is:

	select distinct( slocation )

To fix this simply change the select unique( slocation ) line in the
code to select distinct( slocation ) - it only appears in one place in
the wacssetmgr code - or download the updated version for the SVN
repository.  If anyone is uncomfortable with doing this, please just let
me know and I'll issue a patched version of 0.7.3 with this fix in
place.

Cheers.
Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] NEW RELEASE OF WACS OUT - 0.7.3 with samples, set meta data tools and more

[Beaky <wa...@be...>]

Just in time for the Christmas Holidays, it gives us great pleasure to
announce the biggest and best release of Wacs yet! For those dark and
cold winters nights, tidy up that hard drive p**n collection so you can
find all your favourite sets and models once again! With this release,
just about all of the image set collection management code is web based
with a smooth enough workflow that even those of us used to the command
line interface have switched over to it! 
 
For the first time, we've included a couple of sample model records to
give you an idea how they should look. The import/export routines for
model details are now joined by matching tools for sets, so data
interchange between wacs sites is now easier than ever. But that doesn't
even begin to scratch the surface on the changes we've made to Wacs
itself. There are numerous little things that we've fixed, improved and
added that while not revolutionary, should vastly improve the browsing
experience. We've also done some usability testing and taken note of
first time users comments; those have been noted and small changes made
to make things a little more obvious and easier to use. 
 
While the video side of things works great for retrieval and on the
command line, the web-based management tools aren't quite there yet and
early in the new year there'll be a 0.7.4 release to address those
issues. We've also got very exciting plans for a shared meta-data
project for the new year - tell us the details of a model on one site
and we'll tell you where else her work has been seen. 
 
Anyway, Enjoy!  
 
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all the Wacs developers. 
Cheers, Beaky. 
December 14th, 2007.

Re: [Wacsip-users] is there a demo site?

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

Lexx

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 15:53 -0500, Lexx wrote:
> is there a demo site?

No, not a present, although I do have some photo sets I could release
under a suitable Creative Commons license if someone can offer hosting
facilities.  Unfortunately I didn't get the 18 USC 2257 documentation
for the first shoot, but did for the second.... so a US-based site could
only host the photos from the second shoot, unless they hold
documentation for the same model from another source (least I think
that's how it works, not rightly sure.)

> or URLs to any test sites?

Again, no, unfortunately my ISP forbids it and to be honest with an
extremely busy 256Kbps uplink ADSL, you really wouldn't want to use it
anyway....

> or URLs to any production sites? 

Not aware of anyone using it in production yet, although we have done
some proof of concept stuff which shows it can exactly mimic at least
one of the "real" sites out there.

There was a guy in Calgary, Canada who was going to make up some sample
"skins" using the PHP interface which we could ship out with the php
interface package, but he's gone quiet on me so I don't know if those
will be forthcoming.  If someone else cares to volunteer, I'm happy to
provide advice and assistance off-list to get that project up and
running.

Officially, I'm still calling the application "alpha software" probably
through year end.  That said the work currently in the SVN repository
for 0.7.3 is getting pretty close to where I think it should be for a
status change to "beta".  The collection management web-based toolset is
definitely getting to where I want it to be, at least as regards image
sets.  The video clip handling is less polished at this time, but
definitely on the short-term "To Do" list.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.
Beaky.

Re: [Wacsip-users] wacs.cfg file for redhat/centos - mySQL

[Beaky, T. W. M. <wa...@be...>]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 13:46 -0500, WACSip wrote:
> would someone send me a copy of a wacs.cfg file for redhat/centos and mySQL
> (for reference) 

This is the one (doctored to remove real passwords and URLs of course)
that I use on the main development host for wacs - it's running on
Fedora Core 5 which is pretty close to Centos/RHEL5 - major difference
is it that it's running Oracle 10g rather than MySQL.

That shouldn't make a difference outside the database and tables
sections.

Hope this helps....

Cheers.
Beaky.

[Wacsip-users] is there a demo site?

[Lexx <wac...@ra...>]

is there a demo site?
or URLs to any test sites?
or URLs to any production sites? 

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