TGPX Help

[Ramster]

This script is fantastic yet on the other hand it is really starting to piss me off.

I have it running several tgps but it doesn't want to seem to keep my pages full with galleries. I have it set up so it grabs the latest 10 galleries and posts them first. Then it is suppose to grab galleries from the pool of galleries I have in the script and show those.

So 10 galleries:
{* Load 10 new galleries *}
{galleries
var=$galleries
preview=true
format=movies
type=any
category=Pornstar
amount=10
getnew=true
allowused=true
order=date_displayed DESC, RAND()
reorder=date_displayed DESC, RAND()}

THEN:
{* Load 60 galleries *}
{galleries
var=$galleries
format=any
preview=true
type=any
category=Pornstar
amount=60
getnew=false
minage=1
maxage=30
order=clicks/build_counter DESC}

Should I have getnew=true?
Should I have a value: "allowused=true"?
I read the forum and copied that code from the forum yet every single page I have is not full of galleries.

Any help????

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Ramster

Should I have a value: "allowused=true"?

Yes, that should solve the problem.

[HowlingWulf]

I don't know, but doesn't jmbsoft have a support board? Or did you try there already and get no response? When I asked for support the author was usually quick responding.

[Ramster]

Toby I'll try that then, thanks.

HW, they do yes but I figured I'd get a much quicker response here. And that above code I got from the support board in the first place.

[Star Man]

Hey Ramster like Toby said adding allowused=true to your second set of code should do it.If not,just go and make sure that all your galleries in the pool your pulling from are set to approved.

[Ramster]

That is the thing that pisses me off about this script. Many of the galleries are set to "Holding". You import galleries to the script, then make thumbs for them and "Approving" them yet here I am with all these damn galleries now set to "Holding".

Very annoying! And I do not want to edit each gallery, I one TGP with 24 pages pulling from these galleries. Any way around this?

[Toby]

Approved = not yet displayed (only used where NEW galleries are required on a rebuild)
Holding = previously used but no longer displayed
Used = currently displayed

allowused = true will pull galleries from Holding and Used to fill as needed.


I think perhaps the confusion comes from the difference between the Approved status for TGPX and AutoGalleryPro.

Essentially the Used status in TGPX corresponds to the Approved status in AutoGalleryPro.

There is no corresponding AGP status for the Approved status in TGPX

[Star Man]

Originally Posted by Ramster

Very annoying! And I do not want to edit each gallery, I one TGP with 24 pages pulling from these galleries. Any way around this?

yeah theres 2 ways around this.

The first way (and safest) is to go to the search galleries page and put a checkmark in the master checkmark box so that every gallery you want to edit on the page has a checkmark.Now in the first gallery on that page,click on the 'Status' line,select approved from the drop down box and click the save button with the green checkmark.That will change every gallery to approved on that page.Go to the next page and repete the process.To speed things up,in the top search box change the number of galleries pulled per page from 20 to 60 or 80.

The second (and less safe due to the fact that it might change the gallery status of galleries you didn't want to edit.It's based on your configuration in the top search box) is to go to the top search box settings and set it up so that it ONLY pulls results from the specific galleries you want to change.Then scroll down to the bottom of the page,to the drop down boxes.Select 'approved' from the first box and 'all matching galleries' from the second box and click the execute button.This will change every single gallery that showed up in the search results on every single page to approved.

Sorry if these aren't the best instructions.It's sort of hard to explain this shit verbally.

[Ramster]

So Toby that should be pulling the holding and used but it is not.

I think I figured it out. The clicks.php thing is fucking it up somehow. I just changed that to "order=RAND()}" and it is loading the galleries. I'll change the other pages too. No need to bother with the clicks option.

Thanks, guys

[Nymph]

If you want your galleries to be pulled somewhat equal use
order=times_selected, RAND()}

this way it will randomly pull galleries for display, but all galleries will be pulled before it starts to repeat.