I have created an ASP file which does return valid XML. It is here: www.inspirlink.com/client_custom_apps/esource/ourspace/flashalbum.asp

However, when I run the page, it is not loading the pictures: www.inspirlink.com/test.asp

Is there something I'm missing here? Can't this be done?

Thank you.

Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

Hi Phil,

I check the xml code that return your asp. (www.inspirlink.com/client_custom_apps/esource/ourspace/flashalbum.asp)

There is missing the information about the images that should be loaded in your gallery. For example:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;photo id="Bluehills_jpg" filename="Blue hills.jpg" thumbnail="thumbs/Blue hills.jpg"&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Blue hills.jpg&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta&gt;
&lt;entry name="imageWidth"&gt;450&lt;/entry&gt;
&lt;entry name="imageHeight"&gt;338&lt;/entry&gt;
&lt;entry name="thumbWidth"&gt;150&lt;/entry&gt;
&lt;entry name="thumbHeight"&gt;113&lt;/entry&gt;
&lt;entry name="fileSize"&gt;11868&lt;/entry&gt;
&lt;entry name="fileTime"&gt;Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:22:58 GMT&lt;/entry&gt;
&lt;/meta&gt;
&lt;/photo&gt;
</font id=code></pre id=code>

If there is no such information nothing will loaded into the Flash Album.
Check you code if it generate properly the photo information.

Regards,

Georgi Kralev

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Would you mind testing the XML again. I had deleted all the files when I was doing some testing. It now has that data in there.


Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

Hi Phil,

I have examined your xml again and it seem that it is not build properly.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found. Error processing resource 'www.inspirlink.c...
&lt;font face="Arial" size=2&gt;
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

Also, under Firefox it gives the following error:
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Usually, it give such error when there is a space before the xml opening tag &lt;?xml version="1.0"

I hope this will help you.

Regards,

Georgi Kralev

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Yeah, I"m working on this now. I don't know why it's not loading now. I'll let you know whenI have it pushing valid XML again.

Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

Ok, I now have Valid XML being returned.

can you check it again?


Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> Ok, I now have Valid XML being returned.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>
Yes, the Xml is valid. I believe the problem now is that Flash Album cannot find the images.

You could check the following path:
/Client_Custom_Apps/ESource/OurSpace/GroupData/1000/AlbumIMG_4402.JPG

There is missing slash after Album. The path should be
/Client_Custom_Apps/ESource/OurSpace/GroupData/1000/Album/IMG_4402.JPG

Regards,

Georgi Kralev

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Ok, I have made that change, but if we go to www.Inspirmedia.com/test.asp it still isn't working. Is there something else I'm missing? Thanks so much for all your help.

Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

Phil,

Try to replace . in your photo id with _
For example IMG_4406.JPG should become IMG_4406_JPG

If this does not help you just let me know.

Regards,

Georgi Kralev

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Getting closer. Take a look: www.inspirmedia.com/test.asp

It didn't used to load up the frames, but at least it does do that now.

Is there something else I'm missing?

Thanks.

Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

Hi Phil,

Try to remove the following part from the path: "/Client_Custom_Apps/ESource/OurSpace/"
For example the images path to become:
GroupData/1000/Album/IMG_4404.JPG
and
GroupData/1000/Album/thumbs/IMG_4405.JPG

I hope this will finally fix the problem.

Regards,

Georgi Kralev

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That did it George. Thanks! Do you think this may someday be fixed to allow absolute paths?

Thanks again!

Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

Hey, I really love this photo album. If you ever come up with a v3, it would be cool to have the option to let the show "auto-run" much like your SlideShow extension. Also, the ability to have multiple categories would really make it a sweet app. I'd replace all my photo albums <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Thanks for all your great work!

Phil Grimpo
Executive Director
Inspirmedia

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Hey, I really love this photo album. If you ever come up with a v3, it would be cool to have the option to let the show "auto-run" much like your SlideShow extension. Also, the ability to have multiple categories would really make it a sweet app. I'd replace all my photo albums <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

Hi Phil,

Thank you for your suggestion. We will see if this feature could be included in our future versions of the extension.

If you have any other ideas or feature requests do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,


Georgi Kralev

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