[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] NextGen and Safe Mode stupidity

  • traag1

    (@traag1)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    OK so despite the fact that no other plugin I’ve ever used ever has problems making directories with safe mode on, ever, I would contend that NextGen’s safe mode woes is not the most annoying thing about this plugin. EASILY the most annoying thing about using this plugin in safe mode is that, no matter what version of it you use, it will ask you to make the folders manually, THEN IT WON’T USE THEM!? SERIOUSLY!? Out of all the versions this thing has gone through this has never been fixed. There’s like 50 lines of code detecting safe mode and throwing up error messages, but never has it occurred to the developers that should someone actually use the advice given by their error code it still will not work!?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

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  • Alex Rabe

    (@alexrabe)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    If you have any idea how to handle safe mode settings in a better way, I’m happy for your input & code

    Thread Starter traag1

    (@traag1)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    This has absolutely nothing to do with the way your plugin handles safe mode. It has to do with the way the plugin detects an existing directory, say “my_gallery”, and so it attempts to create a directory called “my_gallery_1”. Usually this would be a good idea, but if a directory is not directly writable by the plugin it does more harm than good. When the plugin detects the directory is not writable it throws up an error message telling you to create “my_gallery” manually and chmod it to 777. When you do this it detects the “my_galley” directory, the one it just told you to create, and throws up an error asking you to manually create “my_gallery_1”. See the problem yet?

    So the problem is not the way the plugin handles safe mode, it’s that it refuses to use the existing directory it specifically asks you to create.

    Alex Rabe

    (@alexrabe)

    12 years, 10 months ago

    Ok, understand need to rework this,
    For safe mode I’ve added this fix http://code.google.com/p/nextgen-gallery/source/detail?r=921

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