Installation stalls after Step #2

I am trying to install 1.11 but after I enter the database and connection information and click Next, I am getting a blank page. When I view the page source, there is no code.
I have removed the entire Power Gallery directory, deleted the database and started from scratch - same results.

Any ideas?? Thanks

is it install/2.php that displays blank, or install/3.php?


add the following code to the page that displays blank at line 1:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors','on');

?>

this will turn error reporting on to help us figure out what is going wrong.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_set_charset() in /home/dreams/public_www/CMS/Photos/Connections/powergallery.php on line 10

what version of MySQL are you trying to install on?

It's version 5. What I don't understand is that the Power CMS is also installed and working on this account so why would the Gallery not work?

what version of php?

the mysql_set_charset command wasn't introduced until version 5.2.3.

We updated power gallery to force the db to use the UTF8 character set to address a problem people where having when trying to store special characters in the image description.

you can get around the error by going to Connections/powergallery.php and Install/scripts/connection.php and changing line 10:

mysql_set_charset('utf8',$powergallery);

to:

//mysql_set_charset('utf8',$powergallery);

but if you try to use special characters in the image description, you will run into issues.