Wow - another success. I didn't bother with sandbox testing. I just put in my Paypal email, went to the Paypal site and added my IPN as described above, changed the price of one of my files to $0.02 and bought it.

I noticed that I wasn't auto returned to the site (I clicked on return to BackyardSilver) and was then taken to the download area where my file was now ready for download.

I got two emails from Paypal - one from the merchant account and one from my own account. No download links - although perhaps that isn't part of the story? Maybe I will check that out next as I didn't see any of the email letters. At least someone can buy from me, albeit a bit coldly with no "warm cuddles"!

Finally, I noticed that if you click "End user license agreement" in the "customer License and download area", the URL it jumps to is the one you are actually on. It should be pointed at the License page I think. Anyone know where that link is set up in the files?

Steve

...Finally, I noticed that if you click "End user license agreement" in the "customer License and download area", the URL it jumps to is the one you are actually on. It should be pointed at the License page I think. Anyone know where that link is set up in the files?

This issue had been fixed in a previous version. I had the exact same problem and the product (image) page didn't refer to the license agreement page.
Make sure you are running the latest version of Symbiostock.

1. Make sure you saved your license agreement text in the default license agreement page that comes with Symbiostock
2. In the admin area, goto "Symbiostock" then "Settings" and scroll all the way down. The second last setting allows you to verify the location of your page that contains the license agreement text, which by default is: www.yourwebsite.com/end-user-license-agreement/

Clear you browser's cache (which is imperative to do!!!).

Then try it again.

If it still doesn't work you could create a new custom page, add your license agreement text and change the URL in the Symbiostock settings and check if that works.

That's all the support I can provide!

Good luck!

Thanks for the update. I think I know what is happening now.

Everytime you activate Symbiostock (because you have uploaded a new version for example), it creates a new version of the end user license agreement page. Mine is now numbered -4 at the end of the page name. When you look in settings, that is the file that is referenced. If you delete that reference to point it back to your original license, that change won't save.

The workaround seems to be that everytime you activate, you need to add your license text to the new page that has just been created as it seems to be impossible to point back to the original one.

Anyone else see the same - just activate Sybiostock and then go back to activate child and look in your Pages - is there a new license page?

Steve

Wow, you're bringing up an interesting issue!

I do NOT have this problem with the license agreement. I've updated and activated Symbiostock 5 times now and my license agreement URL is still "normal".

BUT, I do have this issues with the categories! After an update I accidentally deleted custom categories and created them again. Then Symbiostock created a "-2" slug at the end of SOME (not all) of the newly created categories.

Weird behavior or user error?

I have to redo my licence page and delete the new one AND delete all those extra categories every time I install a new version, I keep meaning to ask Leo to delete most of them especially that "Eduction" one

I was at that point as well but I don't think Leo would recommend doing what you propose as many photographers appreciate all those categories in the first place without having to create them.

I have a specialized site and therefore do not need one of the categories that come with Symbiostock but after reinstalling it 5 times now I'm, getting tired of re-creating categories and re-categorizing every single image again.

Is there a bulk operation for that btw?

Click click, I dont have to recategorise the images each time, the ones I have added stay there

I couldn't resolve the issues with my host so I've bit the bullet and bought a new domain over at BlueHost since it seems to be the most user friendly and has the best amounts of space for the price. I'll have the new site up and running shortly, and the new url is: http://photominingstock.com/earth/. I'll leave photomining.com/q/ up for the time being but will eventually take that one down. Thanks for everyone's help!

Success!! My cart now works at photominingstock.com/earth. So my issue was definitely with my (soon to be former) webhost. My test image sold correctly and downloaded correctly.

Here's a question for the future. How do you set up multiple Paypal IPN's with one account? I'll eventually set up another stock site with a different url so it would be handy to know.

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?

Hosting thread updated. Now to thoroughly test purchasing of all sizes of images on the site, plus the networking side of things. Have we decided on a standard keyword to use across all the sites so we can test this?

"graphic" is generic and safe enough.

Also the problem you guys were having with theruchos is that they changed their link structure. Network results rely on search-images/keyword whereas they changed it to stock-photos/keyword

However, I've still got the download problem I mentioned at

This prompted me to check the purchase process for a large file. I've had no issues recently with uploading and processing, but I bought one of my larger files (6276 x 2556 px). The purchase was fine and a file appeared in my customer download area and also referenced in the email I received. But when I click the jpg-Large button, all I get is a 261 byte "jpg" that has the following inside it:



Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6276 bytes) in /home1/backyay9/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/TrueColorImage.php on line 53


Looks to me like some sort of memory issue with BlueHost. Anyone know what parameter is being called here?

I tried to download it 3 times with the same result.

Steve

my cmsaccount site works without activating IPN.. I just entered my paypal email and out of the box, it was fully functional..

CIDEPIX YOU ARE AWESOME. When you guys help me solve a problem your doing me a HUGE service.

Despite looking for it, I could never find any guidance on a "notify paypal of the notification url" but since you tipped me off that it is possible, Kenny from www.ClipArtof.com gave me this:

<input name="notify_url" value="http://yourdomain.com/notify_url.php" type="hidden">
Thats a huge leap forward in making launches simple. Still doesn't solve traveling-light's problem though, but this is still very good.

Looks like despite my determination to be free of this today, I have one more update to do tonight. I do think this will solve remaining issues. Its frustration to still be glued to this, but the least that can be expected is this should be a functioning package with only minor quirks. These are important so I can't leave them.

Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6276 bytes) in /home1/backyay9/public_html/wp-content/themes/symbiostock/inc/classes/image-processor/wideimage/lib/TrueColorImage.php on line 53

Hey, I've got one very like that! Some of my failed downloads were 0 byte files, but one had a similar error message inside.