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02bfishn
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Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 11:20:13
I hope this is something simple I'm missing. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
I have a FP 2002 created car auction page I want to use on eBay:
http://beachnetservices.com/carauction.htm
What I have been doing is create the page in FP, publish it, go back and copy all the source to the clipboard, paste it into the eBay form (which accepts html) to create the auction, and all looks good except I can't get the photo gallery to come up.
I tried modifying my source for the gallery by adding the complete URL as follows:
http://www.beachnetservices.com/photogallery/photo24572/real_p.htm
The above loads fine in a browser by itself, but still won't load when the above is with the rest of the code and loaded into the eBay form.
Am I breaking some html rule here, or missing something simple? Is there simpler way to approach this? Again, thanks in advance for any help. Charlie
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caywind
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 13:45:43
how much of the gallery doesn't work? For the E-bay pictures to work they need to be stored on a server somewhere. The code for the picture would then need to be a "complete" URL, i.e. http://www.beachnetservices.com/photogallery/photo24572/cam_g.jpg. E-bay doesn't hold or validate the pictures, if it's wrong it's a red X. Also, since the pictures aren't being served from e-bay, you can go ahead and make them a little bigger.... at first I thought it was 'cuda
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Edited by - caywind on 05/18/2002 13:48:16
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02bfishn
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 14:25:51
Thanks for the response Caywind. None of the Gallery works. The whole page comes up fine in ebay except the Gallery portion is empty - nothing there. I understand that for pictures, it needs to point to a complete URL. The code in FP for the Gallery is below:
<!--webbot bot="PhotoAlbum" U-Include="photogallery/photo24572/real.htm" clientside TAG="BODY" -->
I don't understand it (obviously), but I guess all the files in the "photo..." subdir and the "_vti...." subdir are what make it all "work" as part of my regular FP Web, and not work when I break this page out of the web and try to use it stand alone on eBay.
I would like to be able to make the page in FP and use it's Gallery function, as it is super quick and easy, Grabs a bunch of photos, creates thumbs quick and easy, etc and works great in a stand alone web page. I just need to figure out how get the Gallery to work when I put it on eBay (if its possible???). I dunno...thoroughly confused and frustrated...
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Shirley
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 14:44:41
I seriously doubt ebay has FP server extensions. I think you need those for the gallery. you will have to use something other than a webbot.
Shirley
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caywind
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 15:04:42
that's it Shirley. the "webbot" thingy is a part of FP on an FrontPage enabled server. You can still do a gallery in FrontPage but you can't use the photogallery component. You may try to change a setting called compatibility and see what kind of code that generates. I think I remember reading that the gallery was one thing that needed an FP Server. Nonetheless, it will still be easier to use Frontpage than to set up a gallery from scratch...just the autothumbnail feature saves a lot of time.
The setting is in Tools-->Page Options-->Compatibility. uncheck the box that says "Enabled with Microsoft Front Page Extensions". after you do that see if you can still create a photogallery....
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 15:30:31
Tried changing that setting and could still make a Photo Gallery. I can do the insert pic, auto thumbnail command (its not quite as slick and fast as the gallery deal but it would work), but it gives me a relative link to the pics in my FP web. Is there an easy way to give all the pics (thumbs and biggies)an absolute, complete web URL (which is what eBay needs)?
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caywind
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 15:39:45
That's one I don't know, I'm off to a site, but I can do some checking from there
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 18:03:38
Hello all, the FP BOT you are refering to is the FP include bot. The FP photogallery does not reguire FP server extensions at all to run. The issue you are having probably has something to do with the include BOT. On ebay try pointing it directly to you "photogallery/photo24572/real.htm" page and see if that works. There may be other issues that occur however all the FP photogallery consists of is java and dhtml script. Hope this helps in some way.
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just a thought but if ebay allows html why dont you try possibly using a simple include page script and point it to the url of the photogallery page.
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caywind
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 18:27:31
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just a thought but if ebay allows html why dont you try possibly using a simple include page script and point it to the url of the photogallery page.
excellent solution, why didn't I think of that!
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 21:22:42
Everybody - thanks a bunch for all the replies - this is great. Skinart, your first suggestion of just pointing to it was what I though I was doing from the start that didn't work, by just using the html that FP created.
Your suggestion of using an include page script...that sounds good. If I follow that right, I would create a page with just the gallery, and then point to that page with the html I send to eBay?
To illustrate why I started this on the "Beginners" board ....maybe someone could go one step further and show me how to do that (the include page script)???
"Momma always the only stupid question is the one you don't ask"
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Skinnart
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RE: Trying to use FP2002 Photo Gallery on eBay - Help! - 5/18/2002 22:30:19
You almost had it right the first time. Here is what you said you were copying <!--webbot bot="PhotoAlbum" U-Include="photogallery/photo24572/real.htm" clientside TAG="BODY" --> the problem with that is you are trying to copy a frontpage BOT and use it on a server without FP server extensions. When you insert a photogallery on a page all you are doing is creating the gallery here "photogallery/photo24572/real.htm" the page you insert it on uses a FrontPage include BOT that points to "real.htm". ATM I cannot recall how to write an include tag but i'll look it up in a few once the kiddies go to bed. In the meantime this "http://www.your_URL/photogallery/photo24572/real.htm" is path directly to your photogallery.
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