Muffin, do you get any error messages? What is your $captions_directory set to?

I don't get any error message.

I set it to 'pcaptions'. The directory is empty.

Muffin, my only two suggestions would be to ensure that you included the trailing slash ($captions_directory = "pcaptions/";) and making sure you've set the permissions on the directory to at least 755.

I looked over the code again, but can't see anything that should cause problems.

My template_settings.php has no <#fbcaption#> listed. Could that be the reason?

It also has no <#fbdate#> listed. (my date also does not appear)

Nope. The tagging seems to be fine, it's just an issue of getting the captions to post. Not sure why it's not working, as commenting seems to be doing okay.

Try creating a PHP file with this content and putting it in your folderblog directory:

 
<?php 
$file = fopen("pcaptions/blah.txt"); 
fwrite("folder\nblog"); 
fclose($file); 
?>

This should create a file called "blah.txt" in your captions folder. Let me know if it works.

I created a new php file (is this right?) called create.php. It's here: http://nadyne.moved.in/create.php

Error messages:
Warning: fopen() expects at least 2 parameters, 1 given in /home/nadyne/public_html/create.php on line 2

Warning: Wrong parameter count for fwrite() in /home/nadyne/public_html/create.php on line 3

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/nadyne/public_html/create.php on line 4

blah.txt was not created.

Whoops, I messed that one up. Replace the old create.php content with:

<?php 
$file = fopen("pcaptions/blah.txt", "w"); 
fwrite($file, "folder\nblog"); 
fclose($file); 
?>

Sorry for the trouble.

Yey blah.txt was created. But, my captions don't appear still.... :(

Muffin, I'm just trying to diagnose the problem — we'll work it out.

Can you add the following code to the very start of your template_main.php?

<?php
if ((get("doPost"))) {
    echo "$captions_directory$image.txt<br />'";
    echo "{$_POST["title"]} ($title)'<br />'";
    echo "{$_POST["caption"]} ($caption)'<br />";
}
?>

After you've done that and saved it, attempt to post a caption and then copy/paste the output here.

I did that. No error messages; the picture uploaded appeared, but without the caption.

Contents of blah.txt:
folder
blog

hi donald, thanks alot for being helpful.

I tried something. I uploaded a freshly downloaded version (straight from folderblog website) of template_main.php and uploaded it. Now there is an error message:

Notice: Undefined variable: emptylink in /home/nadyne/public_html/index.php(493) : eval()'d codeon line 21

Notice: Undefined variable: emptylink in /home/nadyne/public_html/index.php(493) : eval()'d codeon line 22

Muffin, you need to add the $emptylink variable (and a couple others) to your fb_settings.php with the newest version.

You can't upload a new file and post a caption in the same action — can you try just adding a caption to one of your images and paste the output from the abvoe post? It should spit out a few lines of text right at the top of your file.

Doesn't work. Last night I downloaded fb3b15 and uploaded those files, replacing my template and css styles, everything. Yet the caption does not appear, even with these default templates.

Muffin, is there any output from the above code (if you add it to the start of your template files)?

I inserted <?php
if ((get("doPost"))) {
echo "$captions_directory$image.txt
echo "{$_POST["title"]} ($title)'
'";
echo "{$_POST["caption"]} ($caption)'
";
}
?>
at the very beginning of template_main.php, but it does not seem to have any effect - no output, nor error messages.

Donald, is this what you mean...

I ran this:
http://nadyne.moved.in/template_main.php

Message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get() in /home/nadyne/public_html/template_main.php on line 2

Muffin, try to post a new caption via the /post/ page — there should be a few lines of text that show up at the top of your page immediately after you've posted.

Nope, I posted a new picture with a caption, but once posted, the page refreshes to show the image that was uploaded. Caption not found, no lines of text anywhere.

Muffin, you can't upload a new picture and edit a caption at the same time. Try just updating the caption of an existing image without uploading any image.

hey it works. thanks so so so much donald!

I didn't know I couldn't upload a new picture and edit caption at the same time. *sheepish*

No worries. It's a bit counter-intuitive, but it's the best system I could come up with. I really need to write better documentation.