The installation ins
Posted: 26 Apr 2008, 20:15
The installation instructions say . . .
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Installation:
* Standard Joomla!1.5 component installation (Extensions - Install/Uninstall - Upload Package File & Install).
* Installation script creates 'image/phocagallery/' folder - here you can upload your images via Joomla! Media Manager or FTP.
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There is an assumption here (oh how I hate assumptions in instructions) that the path is obvious. But it's not.
I got a "successful installation" message from Joomla. But when I open the site in FTP, I do not find any folder named "image/phocagallery/"
In fact there is nothing in either the mod or com folders on my server to show that the PhocoGallery package exists at all. Just to make sure, I refreshed, I disconnected. I reconnected. Nothing. So it's simply not there.
Somewhere there are many assumptions. Somewhere there are installation and activation instructions that are glossed over.
I sound ingrateful I know. But if you are standing on this side of the information canyon, you will appreciate my wonder why such an apparently good and excellent program is left unfinished by omittting the important final steps and substituting assumptions for them.
If those missing instructions are (only) in the manual, common sense and an interest in having the program widely implemented would suggest that this be said so in the alleged instructions.
My experience with comments such as mine is they only generate resentment by the programmer. They do not incite a fresh look at the issue and correction. Maybe this time will be an exception.
QUOTE
Installation:
* Standard Joomla!1.5 component installation (Extensions - Install/Uninstall - Upload Package File & Install).
* Installation script creates 'image/phocagallery/' folder - here you can upload your images via Joomla! Media Manager or FTP.
END QUOTE
There is an assumption here (oh how I hate assumptions in instructions) that the path is obvious. But it's not.
I got a "successful installation" message from Joomla. But when I open the site in FTP, I do not find any folder named "image/phocagallery/"
In fact there is nothing in either the mod or com folders on my server to show that the PhocoGallery package exists at all. Just to make sure, I refreshed, I disconnected. I reconnected. Nothing. So it's simply not there.
Somewhere there are many assumptions. Somewhere there are installation and activation instructions that are glossed over.
I sound ingrateful I know. But if you are standing on this side of the information canyon, you will appreciate my wonder why such an apparently good and excellent program is left unfinished by omittting the important final steps and substituting assumptions for them.
If those missing instructions are (only) in the manual, common sense and an interest in having the program widely implemented would suggest that this be said so in the alleged instructions.
My experience with comments such as mine is they only generate resentment by the programmer. They do not incite a fresh look at the issue and correction. Maybe this time will be an exception.