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As of today, I spent the last... 5 hours(It is 5AM now so yea, probably 5 hours)... completely re-writing the view.php script. It is now faster, won't cause your browser to reload all thumbnails each time you view the page, and even has (beta) multiple-dir support.

The only downside is that any bookmarks/links of certain images made with the old script won't work - They will bring you to the first image, just like if you went to http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds/view.php

The main upside is that now all links are static, and will not change no matter how many files are added to the directory(However if the one you linked gets removed, it will still shunt you back to the beginning page).
Also, all settings are saved in the URL - current position in the archive, size of thumbnails, so you never have to worry about losing your place or settings again!

The beta-multi-folder support is as follows:
It supports a "dir" directory, relative to the view.php. It will however go to the default folder if it finds any '..'(go up one level), so you can't access any image on the server with it(Only stuff in subfolders of, in this case, /twokinds/).

Other folder: http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... r=./other/
Alternate: http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... alternate/
Other/filler: http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... er/FILLER/

So, yea, go play with it, PM me or post here if you manage to break it.

Hope you all like it!

-RobbieThe1st

There is a small problem with the URL's...
First I went to:
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... alternate/

I changed settings and got to (notice how "/" got changed to "%2F"):
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... &size=200&

I wanted to go to a different folder, so I changed "alternate" to "other":
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... &size=200&

I wanted to see more per page:
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... &submit=Go

Here you can begin to see the issue. Allthough the correct images are still displayed (now), I am not in the folder "./other/" but what I assume to be ".%2Fother%2F" or something. Oddly, this works.

Next time I change the nb of images on the page (through your form, not editing the URL):
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... &submit=Go
Which brings me to the folder ".%25252Fother%25252F" which breaks (as it doesn't exist) and brings me back to the main "./" dir. And which gave me 200 large thumbnails to download, which during the load may partially have clogged your CPU xD ...


And I didn't even start trying to break it yet *sob* ... I love the gallery like this, but darn, my bandwidth will go easily xD (no unlimited in Belgium). I'm not sure how you make the thumbnails, but lowering the quality a bit would be possible, unless it's (horridly) CPU intensive. Caching spares bandwidth; generating saves computer space O o. Hard choise (well, unlike the rest of the forumers, I am almost out of space, I need to go write DVD's again >.> ).



Seeing all those (fan-)art images makes me smile again :D .



EDIT: A suggestion, align the content of any cell (those that contain thumbnails) in the center, vertically too.

Whoops, I managed to break it too.

When viewing the thumbnails (small), I have the "Per Page" setting set to 256, and when I select page 2, instead of displaying 257 - "<last comic number>", it displays 2 - 257.

This applies to all per page settings. Instead of displaying the next multiple of the per page setting, it displayed the "page number" to "page number + per page setting"

EX. "Per Page": 32 "Page": 1 Displaying 1-32 Images

"Per Page": 32 "Page": 3 Displaying 3-35 Images


What It Should Be:

EX. "Per Page": 32 "Page": 1 Displaying 1-32 Images

"Per Page": 32 "Page": 3 Displaying 65-96 Images

Note: This applies to all thumbnails


DOY

I missed something so obivous O o, I mustv' been sleeping all day xD . Nice catch.

Found the same some hours ago and PM'd it. The navigation buttons still work though, but scanning through 227 pages one-by-one? Not a chance.

I don't think I'm really capable of breaking it on purpose... >.>
Oh well. Robbie wins.

Any reason we have to view them by [power of 2] to a page? Site restriction or something? I was used to seeing 100 at a time. :? Not a big deal, I'll adjust.

I would look up the Ascii equivalent of '2F' hex.

In short, %2F *should* be there, however... %2f25 should *not*.

Well, I fixed the issue of it adding on stuff in the DIR box, it was a urlencode issue.


Well, it is caching them(see the thumbs###.db file?) anyways.

I changed the thumbnails from being PNG to JPEG at 80% quality. Simple.


Changed. I actually used to have it like that, then thought it would look better top aligned.. ah well, back it goes.



Fixed. This is why I put my stuff up, even though its beta - I would never have noticed it on what I had been testing it on - I had just 17 images in the folder, so it "worked" properly.


Well, I did that for convenience - At 50 thumb size, you have 16 thumbnails. At 100, 8 thumbs, and at 200, you have 4.

So, it makes nice even numbers, and barring running into the end of the list, makes full rows. I actually have it set up so I set any sets of values - I just chose those because I thought it would look better. If you have better numbers, post em!


-RobbieThe1st

Aha!.
Did not think of that. And now that you mention it, I figure it makes more sense.


So... yeah. .____.
I'll be on my way now.

Actually, it was bottom aligned for me, not top. =\ .


I think I misplaced that file somewhere. Can't find it in my Docs & Users/Name/Applic Data/Temp nor Temp Internet Files folder. (nor Content.IE5).

No...
Like this one: http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds/thumbs50.db

It never gets downloaded as such, as that file has thumbnails(at size 50) for every single file anyone has loaded in the DIR(one copy per file).

When you request a thumbnail, it looks through that file, if it finds the thumbnail in the thumbs.db file, it then sends that data to your browser(with appropriate header info).
If it can't find it, it creates the thumbnail, saves it, and sends the data to your browser.

As such, even if it can't create the thumbs.db file, it will still work - just not cache the thumbs.


The format is:

In plain text, I am using the Ascii character 31(decimal) as a unit-separator, and the Ascii character 30(decimal) as a line-separator.

An enterprising sort ought to be able to get the data out of this file easily enough(Hint: explode(), chr(), base64_decode(). Look those functions up.)

Also, in case you want a copy yourself: http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/files/view.rar


-RobbieThe1st

If you are on any Archive Index; for example:
http://robbiethe1st.afraid.org/twokinds ... er/&mode=2

There are links called "Small Thumbs" through "Extra Large Thumbs". The Extra Large ones should definetly be enough to see difference between two and more images; even the "Large" ones. :)

I changed things a little, updated the rar with the new version.

Suggestions/comments?


-RobbieThe1st

Would it be possible to add links to the pages so you can jump to the different sections like from Comics to Alternate or to Filler/Other?

Oh, and thanks for fixing the per page thing. I've already been able to grill someone else's opinion with your new archive's help. :P