great it works I can see your thailand pic:) However like I was saying in another thread if you do a china search from my site it should display your picture but it does so I guess it needs to be corrected somewhere

It looks as if the search only goes to the network after it has found something on your own site. If you have nothing, then it fails without looking at the network.

That's better! Well done that man!

Sorry, still the same on download

I've just run another sandbox purchase and the Paypal side is running well. However, I've still got the download problem I mentioned at

http://www.microstockgroup.com/18740/18740/msg307539/#msg307539

3-4MB files process OK, but larger ones fail to resize for output at any size. I've just run a 19MB file through upload process and that's fine.

Any ideas?

I haven't seen anyone raise this one before...

I just uploaded a logo for the Paypal screen and made a test purchase to check it. When I clicked on the download link for the new file I got this...



It's a 13MB file. The smaller file is still available, and works fine.

Thanks! I've changed it in Paypal but for some reason it won't let me change it in the Symbiostock settings. It changes back to -child when I hit save. I'll disable the child theme and see if that works.

-edit, no dice. I'll keep trying...

It doesn't matter what it says in the Symbiostock settings, it's just a FYI, generated automatically. As long as it's correct in Paypal you're in business.

After a bit of a struggle I now have Paypal working in the sandbox and download is working.

For others still having problems, these are the things that tripped me up:

1. Leo's auto-generated IPN process address is not quite right if you're using the child theme.
I got http://photo.travelling-light.net/wp-content/themes/symbiostock-child/ipn/paypal_ipn.php and I think you need to get rid of the -child.

2. That address has to go into the profile of the virtual business account in the sandbox, not just your real one, and you get into that by logging into the front door of Paypal with your virtual username and password.

Having sorted that, when I returned to my site from Paypal, the shopping cart had changed and there was a download link under the thumbnail. I got my copy of the customer email. The actual customer email bounced because I had used a nonsense address for it.

Hope that helps somebody.

I've got image processing problems on my live site. The 'Process Uploads' page stalls at reload with only the title displayed, and the metadata for a processed image appears in an entry in 'All Images' without any thumbnail. This only happens with files over about 4MB, and I thought it might be caused by the post_max_size 8M limit in the php.ini, but my local test site works well with that setting.

Any ideas about other settings to check?

Doing a bit more poking about, turned display_errors on and this is the error message:

Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /var/www/vhosts/travelling-light.net/subdomains/images/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/symbiostock_image_processor.php on line 43

And indeed, my test site has safe_mode off. I'll see if I can get AussieHQ to turn safe mode off on the live site

Quote from: Travelling-light on March 30, 2013, 17:11

Any ideas about other settings to check?

Probably you have 64M memory limit for php. Read my posts above. Maybe Leo will finish new version today, with Imagick and it should resolve this problems. Meanwhile you can try to increase memory_limit in php.ini (if you are allowed to do it on your server).

Already at 128M, and the test site is fine with 64M. OK, I'll wait for the update.

The funny thing is, those images are supposed to be aspirational, and in one way they are, but not in the way that's intended. I don't in the least aspire to owning those products or living that lifestyle. The only thing  I would want is that photographer's talent
Having things is boring, it's only doing things that is interesting!

Wait - if you have a keyword "new zealand" it should work - case insensitive. If you have "new" "zealand" that should also work.

If not, I'll check into it.

Soon search results will display all title and description stuff excluding stopwords. It will be case-insensitive and get parts of words too. So if you have wonderbread as a keyword "bread" will show up. Easy stuff...just annoying and time consuming to write queries.

If you check out my site at www.clipartillustration.com thats how it works.

Have a look at Travelling Light. There are 3 images keyworded with 'New Zealand' and one of them has 'new' and 'zealand' as well. I can only get the Milford Sound one, searching with any form of 'new zealand'.

Clicking on a two-word keyword on an image display page searches on the slug, with a hyphen, so returns nothing.

It looks like keyword phrases don't work either. An image with a keyword phrase of "farmers market" does not get found when searching for "farmers", "market" or "farmers market". After updating that image with the single keywords of "farmers" and "market", it still does not get found when searching those keywords UNLESS you also remove the two word keyword phrase of "farmers market".

I haven't found quite that. If I search on new zealand I get images with the two separate keywords, whether or not they have the two word version. Putting double quotes round the words in the box gives a search on "\\\"new Zealand\\\"" which matches nothing!

Certainly we'll need some improvements to the search for the future.

I don't agree that it would be a good idea to take out the best of those submitted to SS for Offset. You only need to look at what happened with Vetta - one from a series would be accepted, the others would go to IS as normal, and you'd have very similar images at very different prices. The buyers didn't like it. Also IS exclusives are not allowed to send rejections to other agencies, so they have no option other that to leave it in the IS standard collection, or E+.

It would work even less well at SS, because, unlike with IS exclusives, indies have the option to place their files elsewhere. With the existing way Offset is planned to work, if you send something to Offset and it's not accepted, you can send it to other macro agencies.

If someone is willing to pay up to $500 for an image, how happy would they be to find others from the same series selling as subs?