Thx again sooo much… see my speed result on wifi here: http://www.speedtest.net/iphone/15797384.png

its amazing how fast a phone can become :)

Beacon: 100
RTS: 2305
Fragmentation: 2304
Dtim: 1
Protocol: b+g (didn’ try b only)

Here’s an updated installation guide with steps I figured out via trial/error.

Let me know if you still need more details. Perhaps together we can all create a better document.

I’ll post an update once I figure out how to do the paypal integration.

Stuart L. Riley

INSTALLATION GUIDE

Updated by Stuart L. Riley (slriley@ymail.com)
July 27, 2009

1. “upload” directory contains all the files and folders required for installation. Copy this directory or the contents of this directory to your desired location, usually root (/).

1.a Be sure to do steps 2-5 first, beford uploading. It’s easier to edit files locally on your pc, then upload.

1.b By “upload”, this means all files & folders UNDER the “upload” folder, not the upload folder itself.

1.c “Usually root…” is not very descriptive, so I’ll elaborate…. In ZenPhoto, you can create individual galleries by installing ZenPhoto in individual folders under your “public_html” folder. I have 2 folders so far: Private and Public. In the ZenPhoto admin screen, under “edit”, I see these folders as 2 separate galleries. If I want to add paypal capability to either gallery, I’ll upload these files & folders to the folder with that gallery name. But first, backup your gallery folder contents (no need to backup the album) before you upload the edited files (per steps 2-5) to the gallery folder.

2. Create a Database and Import “db.sql” to the database.

2.a For hosted web sites, you will need to create the database through them. Consult your host site administrator, if you don’t know how to do this.

2.b Your hosted site should have a way to run SQLs. I use Hostmonster, so I’m familiar with how they handle it. I can run this SQL via PHPMyAdmin.

3. Update database details (user, pass and db name) in the following files:
- upload/zp-core/zp-config.php
- upload/shop/db/access.inc.php

3.a Do this editing BEFORE uploading to your web site. It’s easier to do the editing on your local pc.

3.b This is pretty much self-explainatory. If you don’t know the syntax for your database name, user name, etc., you should consult your host site’s administrator. This took me awhile to decode, but once I understood it, I got it to work.

4. Update RewriteBase path in upload/.htaccess.

4.a Same as 3.

5. All Done!

5.a Well, not quite. You still need to do the setup via the admin screens. Links are listed below.

5.b If you are not familiar with the syntax, you can access the eZenPhoto admin screen by typing the following in the url field at the top of your browser: http://www.websitename.com/shop/admin/, where “websitename” is the name of your website, and I’m assuming “com”, but you may replace this with whatever you use: net, org, etc.

5.c This is as far as I got up to now. I still need to connect this all to paypal itself. I’ll add more to this as I figure it out.

Zenphoto Admin: /zp-core/admin.php (Default User:Password = admin:admin)
Shop Admin: /shop/admin/ (Default User:Password = admin:admin)

If you’ve any questions regarding Zenphoto, please post on Zenphoto Forums. For feedback & suggestions regarding eZenphoto, please email info@ezenphoto.com.

Installation instructions say to edit line 43. Ok, so I looked through the messages and found that this is line 43 in images.php. Where is this file?

Also, themes that don’t work correctly — with no feedback on reported issues.

Don’t get me wrong, I like ZenPhoto for personal photos.

But I’m not sure if anyone who is trying to develop a serious commercial site would want to use this.

The support and documentation is very thin on this product.

I’ll continue looking into this, but I’m starting to look elsewhere, and I may add these comments to the ratings sites.

I didn’t have to change the channel number though (channel 2 works fine). I didn’t even have to restart the router (NB9WMAXX).

The suggestions of switching from 802.11-N or G to B is unfortunately ridiculous for people not resiging in development nations.

I’ve got a 100MBit symmetric connection to the internet and naturally don’t want to cap my network to 1/10th of that speed. Even if I was living in an undeveloped country, I’d still not want to have my entire network capped to a lousy megabyte per second, especially not when transferring files between computers (a typical HD video at 1.5 GB would take 19 minutes to transfer. Assuming it’s 40 minutes in length, it would not even be possible to watch it by streaming either.

On The iPhone 3G overall as a product..
I forked out ~ $900 for an iPhone 3G 16GB and I’ll definitely be returning it first thing monday, since it’s a real shitty piece of hardware and software offering. Some of the reasons include:

- Unacceptable Battery capacity / power management which means the device can’t even be used for a day (like phones in the mid -80ies)
- piss-poor connectivity (slow, horrible latency)
- useless GPS (no offline storage for maps == unusable in many parts where cell coverage is not available)
- No way to sync calendars using standardized calendar formats (e.g. sync with lotus notes calendar not possible).
- Copy-Paste not implemented which means I can’t copy text from an app / web page / mail / SMS etc. and use it in another, or even within the same app to avoid having to re-type the entire thing by hand.
- Shitty camera, useless for capturing white board drawings.
- Can’t play standard video formats without jail-breaking (AVI, Matroska containers with H264, DIVX or XVID video or Microsoft video) and no way to add extensions for formats not provided by Apple.

I won’t put the dependency on ITunes as a con since most phone manufacturers are idiots, requiring proprietary programs instead of open standards to move data to and fro the device.

Next I’ll have to see what Nokia or SonyEricsson has to offer. At least on their products I can add TomTom or similar off-line GPS mapping software, which makes the GPS feature more than just a marketing gimmick.

PS. Yes, I’m obviously very disappointed by the iPhone 3G product, especially since it was the most expensive phone I ever bought. It doesn’t incorporate *a single standard phone feature* (as of 2007) correctly, except for the browser which works surprisingly well on such as small device. It is beautiful though, at least until you you’ve used it for 5 minutes (hint: finger prints), but for me a Phone my second most important tool for work (after laptop) and it *must* survive for more than a day, be quick and reliable for calling with and have a calendar synchronized with standard corporate calendar infrastructure. All else is just gravy for fun or “nice to have”.