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1. Leah January 30, 2009 at 7:36 am

   Hello! I installed automatically your great plugin in my WordPress blog and it said successfully activated. But when I tried to activate it it gave me an error message:

   Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

   Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/content/l/e/t/lettya7/html/naive/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 28

   should i install it manually?

   Thank you!

   Leah
2. Paul January 30, 2009 at 8:36 am

   Leah,
   It looks like something is wrong with the main plugin file on your installation for some reason. I would definitely try a manual install first (just download it from here and use that zip to install). If that doesn’t work then if you could send me a copy of the fidgetr.php file that throws that error I’d appreciate it. (You can just copy/paste the whole file and put it on http://pastie.org/ and give me the link it provides.)
3. Rolando January 30, 2009 at 2:33 pm

   It’s a very cool plugin. When I use all the themes except for ‘gride’ I see an ‘undefined’ error at the bottom of the photo gallery. I had it set to show 6 Flickr pictures and right after the 6th one it said, ‘undefined’. When I used the normal view, then it had ‘undefined’ listed about 6 or so times underneath the last picture.

   Any idea what it could be?
4. Paul January 30, 2009 at 3:50 pm

   Rolando, it sounds like some of the javascript is failing on objects it can’t locate. Is there any way you can show me an example of this problem in action? If you add the widget, then save a copy of your homepage via your browser that should help me out quite a bit. The browser you’re running would also be helpful info!
5. Rolando January 30, 2009 at 11:09 pm

   Hi Paul,

   I just reactivated the plugin. You’ll see it on the right sidebar. I am currently using the latest version of FireFox. I get the same ‘undefined’ error using IE and Safari.

   Let know when you are done looking at it so I could disable the widget.

   Thanks,
   Rolando
6. Paul January 30, 2009 at 11:24 pm

   I just saw your comment and pulled down all the data I need from your site. At the moment I’m not sure what is causing it, but you can remove the plugin. Hopefully I can get an updated version out to correct the bug soon. Sorry about the issue you’re seeing!

   Edit: The issue is related to prototype attaching some other indexes into the object. I have a fix and I’ll be uploading/tagging 0.31 shortly.
7. Rolando January 30, 2009 at 11:38 pm

   Thanks for your quick reply Paul. Appreciate the help. I really like your plugin.
8. Paul January 30, 2009 at 11:54 pm

   Just committed up 0.31. Should appear soon! Changelog is in this post.
9. Rolando January 31, 2009 at 11:24 am

   Excellent, works like a charm Paul. Thank you! and thanks for the honorable mention.
10. Pedro Custódio February 4, 2009 at 2:26 am

    Hi Paul,

    I’ve just installed your Fidgetr plugin, and it was working fine, but all of the sudden I started getting this error:

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/.expresso/pedrocustodio/blog.pedrocustodio.com/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/flickrApi.class.php on line 67

    any idea on what might be causing it?
    my flickr user is pedrocustodio.

    thanks, I’ve already uninstalled and installed it again, but don’t seem to be able to locate the origin of this..

    thanks for any help.
11. Paul February 4, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Pedro,

    The bug is related to it trying to loop through a returned photo array from Flickr, but not getting any results. Fidgetr should have refused to do that, so I’ll have to investigate a bit on that end. However, it appears that your Flickr username is actually “pedro.custodio”. This should work around the issue and allow you to use the plugin.

    The username and URL path can be different in Flickr and it’s somewhat difficult to find your real username… In fact, the only 100% reliable way to find the Flickr username seems to be to load your own profile page. I will modify it to allow using your email address as well to reduce confusion.
12. matthew February 6, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Just installed this plug-in — love it. Thanks for building it! I would like to be able to resize the photos on the “default” viewing option, would I need to do that by editing the CSS? Any guides for this?
13. Paul February 6, 2009 at 11:52 pm

    You can change the size of the photos by altering the max-width CSS rule to be “width:xx%”. Bear in mind that if your sidebar is wider than 240px then it will size the photo beyond its native size. This CSS file is located in the fidgetr/themes/theme_includes/default/ directory.
14. Wibbler February 9, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    Here’s my error (WP 2.7, php 5):

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/xxxxxx.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 333
15. Paul February 10, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Wow, wibbler, could I get a copy of that file zipped and sent to my email? (paul at victoly dot com). Parse errors are obviously fatal, and absolutely shouldn’t be happening. The current release checked out from SVN has no parse errors on the PHP instances I have available to me!
16. Manuel Rivera February 16, 2009 at 3:44 am

    I tried installing your awesome plugin two different ways; once by installing it from the dashboard and again by uploading it FTP, but I get a fatal error message;

    “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 34″

    I hope this helps.

    thanks
17. Leah February 16, 2009 at 7:25 am

    Hi Paul!

    sorry it took me a few days to check this back. I downloaded it and installed it manually but I’m still getting the same error.

    here is the fidgetr.php file installed:

    http://pastie.org/390642

    Hope this helps
18. Leah February 16, 2009 at 7:26 am

    I forgot to add this is the message i got:

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 34
19. Manuel Rivera February 16, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Excellent!

    I’ve got everything working now.

    What file(s) do I tweak to adjust the width and the height?
20. K.Koay February 22, 2009 at 4:10 am

    Hi there, really nice plugin you have there…

    I installed it and it worked.

    But the only problem I encounter is the username will not change no matter what I do.

    It’s always Paul Kehrer instead of my username or my e-mail.

    Maybe I missed something? Please tell me what should I do.

    Tq.
21. Paul February 22, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    At the moment Fidgetr goes back to my name whenever the username or email does not return as valid from Flickr. The easiest way to get your “true” Flickr username is to look at your profile (http://flickr.com/people/paulkehrer/) and see what it says (in my case the first “Paul Kehrer” is my username).

    At some point soon I am going to improve the error handling so it will be more obvious!
22. Andrew Personette February 22, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    Hey, I really like your plugin, but when I tried to install it I got this error.

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c01/h02/mnt/33603/domains/treehouse-nyc.com/html/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 34

    Any suggestions?
23. Paul February 22, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    This is a PHP4 issue. Fidgetr unfortunately does not work with PHP < 5.0.
24. lupinehorror February 24, 2009 at 5:57 am

    nice plugin…simple but eye-catching.
    doesn’t work for me when “fetch comments” is set though.
    nothing appears on the page at all…no error message…nothing but the header.
    despite that i think it’s a great addition to my blog.
25. lupinehorror February 25, 2009 at 2:55 am

    paul…
    the updated version (v0.41) displays the comments correctly.
    cheers for the extremely fast fix.
26. Brian February 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    In the version just previous to this one I had the Parse error which I was able to get rid of by only removing the trailing space after the closing php tag. This version has the same error message and same trailing space but after removing the space the error remains only up one line from what it had been. Have not the time just yet to look into this further and find out where the issue is but the plugin ver. 0.5 does not work on WP ver 2.7.1
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/user/web/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 392
27. Brian February 28, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    Looks like that fixed it Paul. Works again
28. Bryan March 1, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    I am using your plugin and I get the following error, and no matter which user name I am using it tells me the user is invalid, my flickr user name is bryanbuchan
29. Paul Kehrer March 22, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Apologies to those whose comments have disappeared. I foolishly deleted 20 legitimate comments while pruning some spam. Sorry!
30. Margot March 28, 2009 at 2:35 am

    Is there a way to change the amount of time before the next picture is displayed in the crossfade theme?

    I tried changing the cache time setting but that didn’t change it. What does this setting do?

    Thanks.
31. Kurt April 7, 2009 at 5:02 am

    Very nice widget, does the job perfectly.
    I tried to figure out how to hide or omit the title of the image, placed in the upper left corner.
    Can you help on this?
32. Jane April 11, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    I really really really want this plugin, but when I tried to install, I got the following error message:
    Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in …janefancher/TheCaptainAndLime/wp-content/plugins/fidgetr/fidgetr.php on line 45

    Can you help? PLEEEEEase?
33. Paul Kehrer April 11, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Fixed Jane, apologies.
34. Jane April 11, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Hey, you’re quick! Thanks. It’s up and running beautifully. I love it!
35. Aaron Trout April 12, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    Hi Paul,

    Widget looks great, unfortunately I have the same problem as Bryan above; it says my username is incorrect – but it isn’t!

    http://flickr.com/trouter42 is my link, username is aaron465, but fidgetr tells me its wrong! (I have also tried my email for flickr)

    Any help appreciated

    Aaron
36. Jane April 13, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Hi, again!

    I just got feedback from a viewer that says the slideshow isn’t showing up in her sidebar. Of her system she says:

    “I’m using Firefox (the just superceded version, I keep getting a message to update) on an Intel Mac with OS 10.4″

    Is this to be expected? Should I put a message up to that effect?

    Thanks again!
37. Jane April 13, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Oh, I forgot. She does get the widget banner that says “New at Flicker”, just not the slideshow, if that helps.
38. chad April 27, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    Is there a way to pull the Fidgetr out of the sidebar and into a div into the main template file ( index.php)? Is so, what would the code be? I have tried somethings, pretty basic and I get error.

    Thanks in advance.
39. RJ Howard April 29, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    This is a great plugin. Seems to work perfectly on Linux/Apache. Not so sure about Windows/IIS.

    I moved this blog to client’s windoze server at their insistence. Bad idea.

    Now some of the fidgetr CSS’s are throwing 404 errors, which causes a minor hiccup in Chrome. I’m not good enough with PHP to debug it myself.

    Thanks for looking into this.

    RJ
40. Paul Kehrer April 30, 2009 at 12:05 am

    The issue is now resolved, thanks for reporting it RJ.
41. lupinehorror May 14, 2009 at 5:54 am

    just updated to the latest version…no longer expands when the mouse hovers over it
42. lupinehorror May 14, 2009 at 6:20 am

    actually scratch that…clearing firefox’s cache seemed to get it working…sorry for the above post.
    decided to give the theme you’re using a try…nice clean look. cheers,

    col
43. Margot May 15, 2009 at 10:47 pm

    I love fidgetr. If we could have a place in the settings to set the number of seconds the pictures display, my world would be complete. Okay, not really, but it sure would be great!
44. Matt May 26, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    I think this would work well for my blog if I could just get it to work. It doesn’t recognize my username, email, or ID as being valid. I have triple checked them and all are correct. Do you know what might be causing this?
45. Matt June 11, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Hey Paul.
    Thought I emailed a reply to your question but I’ve been so busy that I could have forgotten. My flickr id is lifeglance and I am over 18. Thanks.
46. Manuel June 11, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    im using fdgtr on one blog and it has a lightbox effect. but i cant get it to do lightbox on another blog. what should i check?
47. Gary Grant June 13, 2009 at 10:21 am

    I’ve installed the plugin and it shows up on plugins page, but there is no settings page anywhere. Where do I go to add my flickr info?
48. Trevor July 10, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Hi Paul,

    I’m wondering if it would be possible to have the flickr photo popup right from wordpress rather than leaving the site to goto flickr site. I would like to use lightbox or shadowbox to display the photo on the my wordpress site.

    Thanks for any thoughts and for the plugin!
49. miau August 24, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Hi, the Plugin works well!
    Is it possible to show the description of the Picture in the template?
50. Jim Grant September 4, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    I’m trying to resize the Figetr widget using the crossfade setting. I have tried changing the maxwidth in the css file but it doesn’t seem to effect the size. Any advice?

    Thanks,
    Jim Grant

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