From the looks of things, it is very likely the track-back control plugin. It had the "delayed trackbacks" option enabled. Interestingly, I only use the plugin for the "disable the global use of trackbacks" option, so I figured the other options didn't matter. From looking at the plugin's code, it o...

In the 5-minute window, the only request (according to the apache access log) was for the atom feed. There had been several requests for the atom feed between when I published the entry and when the category disappeared, so that doesn't seem to be the cause. My active event plugins are: markup emoti...

I noticed recently that all of my posts seem to be losing their categories. Here's the situation: 1) Create a new post. Write the text. Assign it a category. Set it to "publish" and save. 2) Check it on my blog's frontpage. Category is correctly displayed. 3) Come back later. Post is there with no c...

I remember having this sometimes in special functions in event plugins too and I solved it adding a if (!is_object($serendipity['smarty'])) { serendipity_smarty_init(); // if not set to avoid member function assign() on a non-object error, start Smarty templating } just at the start of that functio...

Nope, no caches that I'm aware of. Just a stock php5/apache server. It's very low-traffic, so I've never given a second thought to performance.

Hi, I am occasionally getting an error in my s9y installation. The error log says: [Sun Jan 23 14:50:13 2011] [error] [client 1.2.3.4] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function assign() on a non-object in /var/www/htdocs/vhost/mydomain/serendipity/plugins/serendipity_event_picasa/serendipity_event_...

I have fixed various bugs over the last few months in the picasa plugin, and here's a patch. It fixes bugs if there are special characters (such as spaces) in the path to the album, and it fixes bad html if the caption for an image contains any special html characters, such as a quote. Let me know i...

Hi, My suspicion is that the mini-browser in picasa is not trying to upload the images like it should. When I hit the final upload on my computer, even if I only have a handful of images I am uploading, a little docked window-thingy shows up on the right-hand side that says "preparing for uploa...

Hi, Were you able to check any of the things in the link in my last post? Specifically, make sure your php settings allow uploads, and that the size limits are large enough, and there is enough disk space in your /tmp directory. Is there any output in your server logfiles related to this? When you c...

Ok, that helps. I'm surprised the page is blank; It should have said "Missing files". But the URL tells me the needed information. In PHP-speak, that means that $_FILES is empty, which is what PHP is giving this script as the set of files that were uploaded. I don't know enough about PHP t...

Hi, The plugin doesn't keep any extra logs of its own. I don't think there is any s9y log, just the server log. How far did you get in the upload process? Did the upload button appear in picasa? Did you see the login window in the mini-browser in Picasa? Did you fill in the name and description? greg

Hi,

I found the beginning of the answer in the error log on the server, which combined with a bit of searching yielded this page:

http://zdp.us/blog/view/id/88

So I'll need to talk to my server administrator. Thanks for the help.

greg

I recently ran into a problem with my plugin: I tried uploading quite a few pictures, and I noticed that it seemed to have a cap of 50 files being uploaded in one POST. Any idea what might be setting that limit? I figure it could be PHP, apache, or Picasa. When I try to upload more, it behaves like ...

Sometime while developing the upload code, I broke the uploading of captions with images. I fixed it, and put the new version in the usual place: http://www.wreck.org/~greg/serendipity_event_picasa.php.txt Hopefully this will be the last change I need to make to this plugin for awhile. thanks, greg

My webmaster just upgraded from php4 to php5, and the picasa plugin started failing because it couldn't load the domxml extension. I did some research, and it appears the domxml extension was experimental in php4, and was not carried forward to php5. So to fix my blog, I rewrote all of the xml parsi...