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I think Tom was onto this a long time ago, but the Userland weblogs.com update notification system is now not only not working for us, but actually causing posts to time out (if your page is set to notify userland when you post.) So I have removed that function (even though it's still listed as an option on [editpage].)
When I'm done with the media library projects I have open now I will look into this. I know a lot has happened in this space since I last looked. If we want to be doing this sort of thing then technorati is maybe a better place to be pinging. And there are others too.
One thing at a time though.
/editpic now gives you a fully formed img tag so you can cut and paste. This is helpful if you are replacing old instances of /getpic/ with the new img tags. Just [edit] the post. Copy the /getpic/xxxx number, and put it onto the end of /editpic/?pid=xxxx. Then the editpic screen will give you the full img tag you can copy and paste back into the post to replace the img src=/getpic/ tag.
Note, there is no need to do this to old /getpic tags. They will still work. But the new way is slightly (noticeable though) faster. So it is probably a good idea to replace often loaded images (like images that load every time your page loads) with the new form. At least if you want your page to load a little faster.
I've done this for a few pages that are (relatively for us) high traffic. Hopefully nobody minds me taking that liberty.
Mark was onto this potential problem already, with his previous suggestion that I include the picture ID numbers as a custom argument to the img tag. The problem is that given an image in a post, there is no way to get to the editpic page for that image (without looking up the picture in your complete list of [images] to get the ID number to pass to editpic/?pid=xxxx.)
But instead of doing that I made it so editpic understands image paths. So now you can pass editpic the image location in the URL, like this:
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/editpic/library/image/5/example.jpg
You can also still pass the ID number as ?pid=xxxx.
A little esoteric, but this situation will probably come up.
Sometimes it all goes wrong.
Well, actually, I've seen worse. I mean, nothing big came unravelled. But I've spent all of today so far working on one problem with thumbnails that turns out to be unsolvable under my installation of PHP and GD.
And the answer is merely to use image imagejpeg() even when it really really seems like you should use imagegif(). Okay, fair enough, I just wish it didn't take me 5 1/2 hours to figure that out.
Scripting quagmire; I want my cakewalk.
But I believe my client side uploading scripts are now on their way to being finished. At least 90% done, which means I only have about 300% of the time so far invested remaining until they are done. Go figure. Must be that new math.