PicLens Problem: RSS not always generated

[jwatlu]

Perhaps I have not been adding galleries correctly. But here is my problem. I have 12 galleries on my site. But, the PicLens feature only works on 1 of the 12. As a side note, the parameters are all enabled, and the logos are present on all 12 pages. The problem seems to be that on 11 of the 12 no RSS file was created so PicLens will not load. Any thoughts on this, how it happened, or how I should fix it?

Links to my galleries can be found at http://www.pabc-lcs.org/joomla15/index. ... &Itemid=59. The galleries are linked to the menu to the left that lists country names sorted by year.

[Jan]

Hi,
did you created the RSS after creating and filling all categories?

[jwatlu]

My follow-up here may show how much of a newbie I really am, but here's what I did.

I used my file management software and simply moved my picture folders into the phocagallery folder. Then, in the backend interface, I clicked Add Multiple. Then, I clicked the folder that I had moved over, and clicked Save. Then, the thumbnails were automatically created. That's all I remember doing.

So, is the RSS file not automatically created when the images are placed into the categories? Am I missing something?

[zubo]

Yes, there is one more step.

You have to select Galleries tab, then tick the category you need - or all of them.
Look at top right hand menu - see Piclens? click on that and when the RSS feeds have been generated you will see the message RSS feeds generated.

George

[jwatlu]

Thanks! That was the missing step. Funny thing is that I must've done that on the very first gallery I made and then neglected to do it on the rest. Thanks. I knew it was a user error thing.

Jonathan

[karpana]

Sorry for posting to an "older" post-entry, but couldn't find anything close to what I was looking for...

In any case, I too was having the same problem, although I did figure out the "piclens" button in the admin console.

Here's the problem I am having. My photo galleries on the site that I admin, are maintained by a variety of people (typically 6 or 7), although that number is expected to climb soon. None of the maintainers are admin, though they do have access to manage the galleries. The problem I have is that I have to physically login daily to update the piclens rss files. I'm on a fairly slow connection, so the process of actually logging in to the admin console, navigating to phocagallery, selecting all the galleries and clicking "piclens", and then verifying that it worked, can take upwards of 30 minutes.

Are there any tools to automate this process?

Thanks in advance,
Paul .

[Jan]

Hi, there isn't ... the reason why the piclens rss file should be added by user not automatically by system is the speed, ram and cpu of the server... by adding (changing) the file after every adding of image will slow down the server and takes a lot of memory and cpu ... now it takes a lot of time to create thumbnail by gd and every next function will make worse it ...

Jan

[karpana]

I'm not really proposing that this be done with every edit. I'd be happy with this task being performed once per day. If somebody would be able to direct me to the location of the server-side code that is executed when the piclens admin button is pressed, I'd like to see if there was anything that I could automate.

Paul.

[Jan]

administrator\components\com_phocagallery\controllers\phocagalleryc.php
administrator\components\com_phocagallery\models\phocagalleryc.php

piclens methods

Jan