we are happy to announce that a new version of the Slider Home Plugin for OJS/OMP is available.
This plugin integrates an image slider with text-overlay option into the OJS/OMP home page.
New features include an improved image upload providing Alt-text and an option to add a copyright notice to the bottom of the slider pictures.
What a very interesting plugin! I have visited the journal homepage, and found the plugin working well.
As a showcase, I have a different usage of the pictures. In the galleys, we published some pictured-table of the full-text, but found it only able to download, not showed up. Here is the example.
Is this plugin able to extend its funtion in for image based galley?
as far as I understand you have an issue with you table 1 on the galley publication page.
I find your idea of a slider to show galley images generally appealing. However, this would be a completely different plugin. And I unfortunately donāt have the time to play around with things like that.
Apart from this, to me your issue with the table display seem to be related to an inconsistent way of putting an image into a table tag. Your HTML table doesnāt have any content, only a caption. I presume you generate the HTML from your XML. The XML contains a table-warp element with a graphics object. This then seems to get lost in the conversion process.
If you use an image for a table (for whatever reason) you also should tag it as an image in your XML but use āTableā as label for your image. It then should correctly be converted to HTML as an image and not as a table.
in which plugin folder need to be installed? I did it in Generic (ojs was blocked), in Block plugin (nothing happened). How and where the picture can be added? Could we received more information and instruction?
instructions on installation and usage can be found in the README.md file within the repo.
It is a generic plugin. If you install it by cloning the repo take care that you 1) checkout the correct branch and 2) run the lib/pkp/tools/installPluginVersion.php script.
Thanks for the plugin.
I tried it in OJS 3.3.0.8 version.
The plugin was successfully installed.
I activated it. The plugin āSlider Home Pluginā has been enabled.
When I come to the settings page (Appearance - Slider Plugin), the āLoadingā message returns and never ends.
Screenshot:
php error code:
[Sat Jun 11 19:51:10.289725 2022] [fcgid:warn] [pid 30605:tid 139923331966720] [client 88.239.141.122:54073] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table ā__________.sliderā doesnāt exist in ________lib/pkp/lib/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Driver/PDOConnection.php:78, referer: ___________index.php/dergi/management/settings/website
Iām very sorry it didnāt work. I simply forgot to put in the code for creating a new table. On top of a insufficient testing procedure I have to admit. On my systems the table always existed from earlier versions ā¦
Seems to be an issue with character encoding. Unfortunately, for this plugin this hasnāt been a use case for me up to now. But letās try to narrow it down.
When you reopen the edit dialogue in the backend, are the characters mixed up already?
Is the text in the database (table slider) ok or is it already saved with a wrong character encoding?
When you reopen the edit dialogue in the backend, are the characters mixed up already?
in the backend everything is ok
Is the text in the database (table slider) ok or is it already saved with a wrong character encoding?
Everything looks correct in the database (table slider).
from the screenshot you sent I can only have a rought guess on what might be the problem. Looking at your journal page it seems the red bar at the bottom of the screenshot originates from an image you present there.
That would suggest the slider image was not loaded at all by the browser. Please verify whether or not your browser actually downlaods the slider images. With Firefox: right click and then āInspect ā Networkā. Look for 404 Errors on images.
If they are not downloaded please verify your web server has access to the public files folder.
You could also have a look at the php error and/or access logs. If there is a php error please post it here.
supported file type are jpg, jpeg and png. Gif is not supported.
Your screenshot only show fonts that could not be downloaded. Does it mean your image are listed there with status ok? Can you hover with your mouse over the image link and see the slider images in your browser?
If they are not downloaded please verify your web server has access to the public files folder What do you mean? do you have an example?
The slider images are stored in your OJS public folder. Your web server should have access to this folder to serve the image to the browser. On my test system (where www-data is the Apache web server) it looks like this:
root@testjournal_3:/var/www/html# ls -l ojs/public/journals/1/
total 348
-rw-rār-- 1 www-data www-data 313924 Jun 22 08:14 slider_image_jpg3i1xI6.jpg
-rw-rār-- 1 www-data www-data 39072 Jun 22 08:14 slider_image_pnguXGyIb.png
However, if you can see the images in your browser as described above all should be fine and the problem must be somewhere else.
Did you have a look at the PHP error/access logs? Anything interesting there?
Stack trace: #0 {main}
thrown in /home/serverroot/public_html/api/v1/vocabs/index.php on line 16
[22-Jun-2022 16:40:05 UTC] ojs2: 404 Not Found
[22-Jun-2022 16:53:38 UTC] PHP Deprecated: Non-static method PKPApplication::getRequest() should not be called statically in /home/serverroot/public_html/plugins/generic/sliderHome/controllers/tab/SliderHomeSettingsTabFormHandler.inc.php on line 25
the error log seems to be ok. The deprecated warning is not important. I will update this line with the next version.
The slider settings are fine and the HTML code of the slider also is correctly inserted. If you hover your mouse over the underlined src-URL of the HTML code, do you see the image you expect to show for the slider?
If not your have an issue with your access privileges.
Please note that the names of all slider images start with āslider_image_ā followed by a random character key. In your example it is āslider_image_jpgynayuE.jpgā. This is the file you have to find on your server. It should be in the folder āpublic/journals/1/ā (replace ā1ā with the ID of your journal) and your web server should have access to these files.
The image file you show in the folder listing is not the file used by the plugin.
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