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Hi Al,  it looks like your server is configured to display Notices.  These are a type of 'error' that are output for informative reasons and usually safe to ignore. Of course, being displayed in the page itself makes them impossible to ignore.

Depending on your hosting environment, you'll need to change the error reporting setting, specifically to this value: E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE.  You'll probably need to contact your host's technical support about this.

I see that you're hosting is on a Windows server.  This could be a deal-breaker, especially for the Publisher  We don't test against or support installations on Windows servers.  It may or may not work for you and there's usually not much we can advise if you encounter problems.  If you're able to switch from Windows to Linux hosting then I recommend you do so.

Hi Kris,  Fosters is a strange one.  It's promoted around the world as the beer of Australia, yet we don't drink it.  I can't think of a single pub that has it on tap.
The search operates on captions, titles, keywords and filenames.  I asked about keywords because by their nature they're better at finding exact matches.  Keywords are discrete terms so it's straightforward to find an exact match between search terms and keywords.  Other searches are based on partial matches, i.e. does the search term exist somewhere in the field.  That's where things break down, as users will be able to search for partial matches such as the '34' of '123456', with results including photos from multiple pupils.
The algorithm could be changed to only return matches that are complete items, 'complete' being a series of characters with a separating character such as spaces, hyphens, underscores at each end of the found term.  With that, a search for '123456' would match again photo_pupil_123456.jpg but not photo_pupil_12345678.jpg, and a search for '34' wouldn't match against either.

Hi Arnd,  the CE4 Publisher instance should point to an API URL ending in ttg-be/publisher/.  Try setting the API URL for CE4 to
http://www.lichttraum.net/ttg-be/publisher/

I can see that the message is confusing.  As far as the plugin is concerned, the CE3 API URL of http://www.lichttraum.net/publisher/api/ 'matches' with the CE4 API URL of http://www.lichttraum.net/ttg-be/publisher/

Hi Kris, you're right on the last point, that this is above the ce4 intended usage .  Much of what you're looking for should be doable in a feature release. 

Are the school ID and pupil IDs stored as keywords?  If so, this would be more straightforward - the publisher code has provision for a keyword-only search.  So with a form to match and some extra search settings (e.g. search type of full-text or keyword-only, all-matches-required to be yes and no, and partial-matches to be yes or no (no in your case)) that should cover most of it.

Hi, please see a minor update to Publisher for this and one other issue: http://theturninggate.net/2014/07/ce4-u … y-18-2014/

Thanks Xevi, that was a great help.  Publisher scans all files within the Watermarks folder.  The hidden .DS_Store file was causing the scanning to crash.  I have a fix in the plugin on my side, which I hope to update later today.  In the mean time, can you try to remove the .DS_Store file from the Watermarks directory?

Are you by chance also using a plugin called NextGen Gallery?

Hi Mark,  we don't have plans to add captcha support.  The contact form does include a spam prevention mechanism and we'd be interested to get feedback on how well that mechanism prevents spam.

I've been learning iOS development for a while now, and have a couple of ideas for Publisher-related iOS apps in the pipeline.  Priority is on finishing up the CE4 plugins before focussing on these.

Some 5.2 PHP code does not work on 5.3 or above due to changes in the PHP language.  However, our products do not use the language features that have changed.  If you do find any issues running TTG products on PHP 5.4 then please let us know so that we can fix them.

The CE3 Gallery is not yet compatible with the Cart.  It will be compatible with the CE3 Cart which will be out shortly.

Bluehost is the most dependable hosting service I have used.  Personally, I won't be shifting unless there is a very good reason to do so.
I don't know how they compare for price, but Hostgator also offers a pretty decent service (though not as good as Bluehost).

Avoid Network Solutions. 
1. Their service throws errors with Publisher even before the request has reached our script, and their support has not been helpful in looking into or revealing the cause.  You can't reply to support tickets, so dealing with them is like being stuck in Groundhog Day.
2. Performance is poor.  Publishing takes several times longer per photo compared to Bluehost