hey, another NFSer huh? I've had some problems related to that choice of host (again to do with permissions), but me and steve (mostly steve) got it sorted out eventually, and they seem a pretty reliable host - and so cheap (especially if you have no traffic like me).

and their ethics look spot on to me, thats half the reason i chose them

Arionhawk, I have the same thing - new comics (even ones previously uploaded as drafts, scheduled to be published at a later date) come up fine as thumbnails, its the previous ones that won't work.

anyway, looks like steve figured it out (yay for steve! ), I'll wait for the update fix to save me horseing around with the php files.

happy drawing everybody

Good day,

Is there any rating system for comics pics plugin for this cms? Or maybee You can suggest something esle to use.
Thank You!

utf-8 and the fix of emptying translate() may help you. Open up lib/lib.php and, around line 140, find

Code:

function translate($inp) {
    if (is_array($inp)) {
        foreach ($inp as $key => $value) $inp[$key] = translate($value);
        return $inp;
    }
    if (!isset($GLOBALS['settings']['trans'])) {
        $table = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
        unset($table[' '],$table['"'],$table['<'],$table['>'],$table['&']);
        $GLOBALS['settings']['trans'] = $table;
    }
    return strtr($inp,get_config('trans'));
}

and replace it with:

Code:

function translate($inp) {
    return $inp;
}

Details: http://comiccms.com/forum/index.php?topic=705

Unfortunately ComicCMS works on an ID based system, not a date based system. So backdating a comic would not slot it between two others, only the order in which they are added would.

It may be possible to write a script which shifts comics to insert an ID, but I don't have time to write it right now. I'll put what I've got here and will hopefully get back to it during the week

Code:

<?php

$id = (int) $_GET['id'];
$comiccpu = load_cpu('comic');
$comics = $comiccpu->get();

$comics = array_reverse($comics);
foreach ($comics as $comic) {
    if ($comic['id'] >= $id) {
        $img = load_file('.../img/comic/'.$comic['id'].'.'.$comic['ext']);
        $img->rename(($comic['id']+1).$comic['ext']);
    }
    if ($comic['id'] == $id) {
        // Duplicate line
    }
    if ($comic['id'] > $id) {
        // Shift line
    }
}

// Empty admin/img/thumbs/, update msg2863 will fix regenerating broken thumbnails

That did it all right, thanks Steve!

Thank you Kazinsal for the reply. There had been a typo with my server and they fixed it. I don't know why the file got changed to 755, but I changed it back to 775. Thanks for letting me know the #! =)

Is there anyway to upload a new comic and BACKDATE it to a date in-between two already uploaded comics? Right now it won't let me set a date to before the last uploaded comic.
Since there's no easy way to mass-upload a whole archive, I spent a week uploading my 1000+ page archives one by one and as I figured I would, managed to miss a page or two. I would really like to be able to upload the missing pages without touching the other pages!!

I've found where the update has broken things, a misuse of a function that I didn't notice. Is what I get for not documenting it properly.

So if you change line 128 from lib/admin/comic.php and change it from:

Code:

$this->cpu('comic','admin_thumbnail',$comic['id'] , $comic['id'].'.jpg');

to

Code:

$this->cpu('comic','admin_thumbnail',$comic['id'] , $comic['id'].'.'.$comic['ext']);

That should sort it.

I'll package an update sometime soon so everyone else can benefit from the fix.

This still doesn't explain the original problems people had, but still, one step closer...

Ok, you can reverse the changes now. I'll look in to where the extension is getting lost.