Robert Heller

So, is anyone home in HeadSpace2-land? Is HeadSpace2 a *dead* plugin. It seems like a very nice plugin, but maybe I should be looking for another plugin to manage my meta tags…

(Actually, you’ll need to echo or print the results of shortcode methods).

@pricerank: ‘What I meant about the template is the short code works inside posts, but if you want to use the plugin out side of a post or widget you need to call the program with a php.’

Nothing is stopping you from using:

<?php GAN_Widget::shortcode (array('orientation' => 'vertical',
            'maxads' => 4,
            'ifwidth' => '',
            'ifheight' => '',
            'target' => 'same',
            'merchid' => '')); ?>

or

<?php GAN_ImageWidget::shortcode (array(
            'orientation' => 'vertical',
            'maxads' => 4,
            'width' => 120,
            'height' => 60,
            'ifwidth' => '',
            'ifheight' => '',
            'target' => 'same',
            'merchid' => '')); ?>

“Use the source, Luke”…

@pricerank: ‘you might want to change the type of file required from GAN as it will only upload a TXT file. the CSV they offer does not upload!’

Did you read the documentation? It is specificallu documented that only the TXT (Tab Separated Value) file can be uploaded.

I am not sure what you mean by template.

OK, 4.9.2 fixes this problem, which seems to relate to misbehaviour of MySQL / WP with table names with upper case letters on a MS-Windows server.

I just released Version 4.9 of the plugin. This version *may* solve the problems with WIMP/WAMP servers or else it should display useful error messages that should help with debuging this problem. If you are using a WIMP or WAMP server and are having troubles, please upgrade and let me know if this version fixes the problem or if not, please post any MySQL error messages that show up.

Wondering if this: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/identifier-case-sensitivity.html has anything to do with anything. The pluging DOES use table names with uppercase letters. Would this be a problem under MS-Windows?

OK, for some reason, the plugin cannot create the database tables it needs. This seems like a problem with the MySQL setup — speficicly, it is necessary to GRANT the privs needed to CREATE TABLE.

FYI: The server is a Microsoft-IIS/7.5 server, with PHP 5.2.13 (according to the headers returned for a HEAD request).

Wondering: could something be fishy with either the MySQL install or setup on the MS-Windows Server?

I will be devising some debug patches to find out what is going on in MySQL land…

Bugzilla URL:

https://bugzilla.deepsoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3

If you have this problem, please refer to the above URL. Updates, patches, etc. will be posted there.

OK, I’ve found your blog, and it appears you do in fact have a properly setup GAN_Image_Widget. What you need to do now is insert some ads.

What steps have you taken to insert ads? And what sorts of messages have you gotten?

I don’t believe there is a problem with plugin code — it has been working fine for me for over a year now and for a number of other people for like the past 5 months.

If there really is a problem other than the warning relating to the debug code, I need to know about it so I can fix it. The warning only occured (and it has been commented out as of the 4.8 release) on the stats pages and even if it was in fact breaking the stats page (it does not appear to be, since the screen shot you sent shows output from later in the code), it would have no effect on bulk uploading ads or manually inserting single ads.

Those sorts of comments are in fact spam. Some are inserted by scripts (some of which are in fact buggy) and some manually. Some of what is going on is testing to see if the spammer can in fact post random junk to your site and some of what is happening is the spammer checking to see what sort of meta characters work. The use of square brackets is an attempt to see if your blog comment entry form accepts a certian sort of markup (WordPress doesn’t, but other blogs, wikis and formum systems do.)

You should just spam these posts. You might want to consider some sort of human testing plugins and/or spam detection plugins to deal with this.

*Exactly* what errors/messages (if any) are you getting when you bulk upload ads and/or manually add a link? When you bulk upload ads, you are using a file you downloaded from the new (“Beta”) version of the Links tab Google Affiliate Network page and are using the ‘Export as Tab Separated Value (TXT)’ menu item there and are doing this for *approved* advertisers and are getting links of the sizes and types you have configured your widgets and shortcodes for (see below).

The *warning* messages should not effect uploading or displaying ads, and should be gone as of the just released version 4.8.

When you say you can’t see anything do you mean you don’t see ads on your blog or don’t see them listed in the database (admin pages)? In order for ads to show up on your blog, you need to either configure widgets (in “sidebars”) or insert shortcodes into your pages or posts.

*Please* read all of the documentation, *carefully*.

*I* still think it is *wrong* for the subversion commit messages to be sent as pure-HTML messages. *Every* *other* E-Mail generated by either WordPress sites or by the www.remarpro.com website are either plain text or include a plain text alternitive: from new user registrations, comment moderation notices, to E-Mails about replys to www.remarpro.com support formums. *Only* the svn commit messages are pure-HTML. This is just plain wrong and it is a *glaring* inconsistency.

And *I* would be willing to fix it.

<blockquote>I totally understand you can't read the email, but if you get an email, the SUBJECT line will be useful to know that you edited a plugin. Or not. </blockquote>Ugly.