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Started 2 years ago by Scorgit
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Scorgit
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Hi,

I don't know whether it is a bug, or that I'm doing something wrong, but I can't get the ftp import function to work. That is, I check the option:
FTP Upload: Allow importing of photos from the following directory on the server
and provide a full path (d:\someDir\anotherDir\andSomeMoreDirs\)
The options are saved correctly.

When I try to import the files inside the ftp dir (by following the sequence: add photos to queue -> Import from FTP directory) it states:
The directory /d:/someDir/anotherDir/andSomeMoreDirs/ does not exist on your server.

I'm very sure (triple and more checked) that the directory does exist, and have tried forward and back slashes, path inside and outside the wp-content directory, enabled and disabled batch upload, changing the permissions, even tried escaping the forward slashes myself, but to no avail. Also tried relative paths, but still no luck...

Could it be the first forward slash (before the d:/ I see a forward slash) is messing things up?

By the way:
WP version: 2.7.1
PhotoQ version: 1.6.5
webserver: IIS 7
OS: Windows Server 2008
Obviously, I've changed the actual path of the ftp directory in this topic :-)

Thanks in advance for your answer!

Regards,

Tom

Posted 2 years ago #
Scorgit
Member

Hi,

just to let you know that the first forward slash indeed was the problem.
I removed it from PhotoQOptionController.php, line 506, function getFtpDir(), and now it seems to work!

Could be that something else just collapsed, in that case I will let you know :-)

Greetz,

Tom

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

thanks a lot. bug confirmed. only occurs if the path to your ftp directory does not start with '/' which means it only occurs on windows where absolute paths may start with e.g. 'd:'.

your fix will work if the path does not start with '/' so in your case you should be safe. however, with your fix it will not work for paths that start with '/' anymore. i thus have to find something else.

Posted 2 years ago #
Scorgit
Member

Glad I could help a bit. Any chance this will be implemented in a next release? (for reasons of upgrading and finding ourselves hacking your code again :-) )

And while I'm typing... maybe a suggestion to implement in a future release:
You already have built in the possibility of importing files inside an FTP-directory. Why not provide a simple utility to build or provide a standard user form, by which an anonymous user can upload his or her contribution to the photoQ blog? And to make things even better... automatically resizing to the dimensions specified in photoQ.
Could be that I overlooked this option, if it is already there...

By the way: really two thumbs up for this amazing plugin!!

Tom

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

having anonymous users submit photos was not yet on my to-do-list. thanks for the idea. i will put it to the things to be evaluated. guess if you want something right now, you can already achieve it to some extent by having users upload via anonymous ftp.

automatically resizing??? unless i get you wrong, this is one of the main things photoq does, no?

Posted 2 years ago #
whoismanu
Key Master

This bug has been fixed in PhotoQ 1.7

Posted 2 years ago #

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