Images Display, But do not Change Even When Different Values are Entered.

Anime-Addict · January 14, 2008, 05:04:37 AM

About Me & My Setup:

Skill Level: Somewhat Knowledgeable. I usually reverse engineer other examples to brute force my way to a result.
Hosting: A mishmash of free DNS from zoneedit, a domain registered by iPower, and a semi-dedicated server provided by a friend that serves as a proxy for his web development project.
Root Page:http://www.ecchi-haven.net
Page In Question: http://www.ecchi-haven.net/wordpress_experiment/
Test cpmfetch Page: http://www.ecchi-haven.net/wordpress_experiment/cpmfetch.php
Example of how the theme SHOULD look: http://www.ecchi-haven.net/wordpress_experiment/category/gallery-updates/
The plugin that makes PHP possible in a wordpress blog entry: http://blog.codexpress.cn/php/wordpress-plugin-inline-php/

Okay so now down to the nitty gritty. My problems are as follows, listed in decreasing priority, with the most important at the top of the list.

cpgfetch displays images, yet they do not change upon sucessive pageviews or refreshes. Even more disturbing is that the images do not change even when the

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$objCpm->cpm_viewRandomMediaFrom("album=129", $options);

When inserting cpmfetch into a blog post it somehow breaks the theme, causing everything below cpmfetch to not display.

For the first issue: If you follow the link http://www.ecchi-haven.net/wordpress_experiment/cpmfetch.php you get the quick and dirty php page I set up to test what I was doing outside of the wordpress environment.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
  include_once "../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch.php";
  $objCpm = new cpm("../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch_config.php");
  $options = array("subtitle" => "Views: {{pHits}}");
  $objCpm->cpm_viewLastAddedMedia(1, 4, $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_viewRandomMediaFrom("album=130", $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_close(); 
?>
</body>
</html>

Yet if you look at the example that breaks my wordpress theme http://www.ecchi-haven.net/wordpress_experiment/ You will see the same identical images, yet from the code below, the album referenced is #129, not #130. The "exec" tags are the containers for the inline PHP plugin.

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[exec]
include_once "../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch.php";
  $objCpm = new cpm("../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch_config.php");
  $options = array("subtitle" => "Views: {{pHits}}");
  $objCpm->cpm_viewLastAddedMedia(1, 4, $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_viewRandomMediaFrom("album=130", $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_close(); 
[/exec]

Anime-Addict · January 14, 2008, 05:36:32 AM

OOOkay, well This is a lesson learned in reverse engineering. As you can tell from the "Page In Question" I fixed the problem. What wast it? Well look at my old block of code:

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  include_once "../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch.php";
  $objCpm = new cpm("../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch_config.php");
  $options = array("subtitle" => "<font style:"font-size: 8pt;"><b>Views:</b> {{pHits}}</font>");
  $objCpm->cpm_viewLastAddedMedia(1, 4, $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_viewRandomMediaFrom("album=129", $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_close();

Line 4&5 is where the problem is, I believe that they are complimentary instructions. First it wants last added media. Okay easy enough I suppose. But wait! Line 5 refines the parameters further! Now within the last added media, cpmfetch must select the ones only from album#129. Well That cannot happen since the last added media was album 130! Or something. Anyhow the resultant code that actually works is this:

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  include_once "../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch.php";
  $objCpm = new cpm("../coppermine/cpmfetch/cpmfetch_config.php");
  $options = array("subtitle" => "Views: {{pHits}}");
  $objCpm->cpm_viewRandomMediaFrom("album=129", 1, 3, $options);
  $objCpm->cpm_close();

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