Forum Activity for @beatrelease

iLoveHouseMusic:

I 2nd this. If there could be any change as to how it worked on the JR4 side, I'd say make it a subscribable feature. Meaning, if they subscribe to our site, the ad manager becomes available to them. Then they can upload ad images, which rotate on the site.

You can essentially have a separate quota for people who want to "buy" ad space.

I also had a customization on my old JR4 site that would also send a monthly email the ad manager statistics (impressions & clicks) to the email on the account. That was pretty neat I think Paul did that for me. What he did was create a separate field where I (site admin) would enter the profile ID and email next to the ad. So essentially people would pay me, then I would setup their ads (manually upload images, links, profile ID, email, etc), and they would be off and running.

If this was improved upon and more automated than the JR4 version I'd definitely buy this.

SteveX:
The reason is that it is still in a Private Release channel. I still have a few things to finish off on it, and I haven't decided a price yet.

If you need to use it/want to buy it let me know and I'll get something sorted to get you access to it. If you do want to do that, make sure you have installed one of the free modules so that you already exist within the license system and I should be able to get that into another channel and available to you via invite.

Codelizard:
Think a little outside the box. Nothing says that the zip process needs to happen as part of the php session. Just write a record into a JOB table, with information on what needs to be done. Then, write a cron that runs every minute or so and looks for jobs to be done. It sees the zip job, runs the commands as a shell process, and updates the job table that the job is done. you can even have it email the user and tell them that thier album is ready to be downloaded. User comes, downloads their waiting album, job well done with no resource issues. you can even write a cron to clean up zipped files after being around for x amount of time...

As far as ZIP goes, its a simple install of zip on any linux system. From my experience, all shared hosts I have ever used have had either zip or gzip installed, among others...

brian:
This is something I actually created for our FoxyCart module, but pulled it due to it being problematic. Zipping takes up a lot of memory, and if you have several large files, it is easy to "bomb" the PHP process.

I can revisit it and see if there's a way to make it work within a set amount of memory, but it may require we use the command line "zip" utility (which is not standard on linux installs).

michael:
I added it as a feature request:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/tracker/350/a-way-to-download-a-full-album

How would you want that full album of songs delivered? as a packaged zip file? would users know how to unzip it? (also thinking about smartphones here. can you un-zip on a smartphone?)