Dizkus

First of all, great thanks for your beautiful module.
It is core of my project - small independent literature site.
My users post their poetry, photos, etc. via v4bJournal.

But (oh, really, it would be better just to say "THANKS A LOT" instead
of "but", but... All of strange things in life starting with damned
"but".)

I have some image upload issues, problems and suggestions.
Some of my users has non-latin nicknames/usernames (like this:P

P4P:P0).
Well, abbr title="The former name of Zikula">PostNuke allows to have usernames in different
languages. So, v4bJournal creates image folder for each user and name
of the folder is the same as username. User then posts something and make image upload. After that, then user browse to his post via Internet
Explorer, he can't view uploaded image! When I, as website administrator, goes to same post via FireFox, image is in place and all working fine.

I can't force all my users to use FireFox Also, I can't directly tell
B. Gates about IE bug with show non-latin named folders at Linux hosting.
So, how can I fix this problem? My suggestion and question is to use "owner_uid" as a folder name, because it is a digit, not letter, and IE has no problem to show digit-name folders. And if replace in upload function $uname to $owner_uid, it, may be a right and correct decision for
new-registered users. But this decision ruins existed journals. May be
use autorenaming script to batch rename folder "unames" to
"owner_uids"?
Second part of the upload problem I saw in Apache error_log:
"[Sun May 8 08:40:58 2005] [info] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (32)Broken pipe: client stopped connection before send mmap completed
[Sun May 8 08:40:58 2005] [info] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (32)Broken pipe: client stopped connection before rwrite completed"

I think it happens than user try to upload a non-latin named picture
(example: P:P0Q.jpg). I haven't any ideas about how to tell users to rename their pictures before uploading. And may be it possible to rename pictures on-the-fly, via upload function too?

But I'm not an advanced PHP-specialist (in fact, I'm not a programmer at all), so I would be very grateful for any help and advice.

Hi,

sorry that I didn't reply sooner; I was away ...

Anyhow, your problem is one I never considered when writing v4bJournal. It's clear that this would cause problems.

I think the proper solution is to use the userid as the directory name. Since this will always be numeric, it shouldn't cause any problems. I guess it would be possible to write a script to rename the existing directories from <name> to <userid>.

As for the upload problem, we'll have to test that once we've fixed the above issue.

I'm currently in the process of re-writing v4bJournal so that it runs under pnRender (about 80% done). Once I push out a release based on that code, I'll try to take care of your file naming issue. Hopefully this will happen in 1-2 weeks.

In the meantime though, if you wish to convert the directories from username to userid, you'll have to write a script for that yourself; I currently don't have the time to write this for you.

Greetings
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