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If you want to change the 'Email' input box to a 'Tel' input box, then please try the following:

(1) Change input box label
Open the 'showkase/_themes/base/pagetypes/contact.tpl' file in a plain text editor and change line 70 from:

<label for="email">Email <span class="required">*</span></label>

... to:

<label for="email">Tel <span class="required">*</span></label>

(2) Prevent 'Tel' input from being validated as an email address
Part #1:
Open the 'showkase/_themes/base/pagetypes/contact.tpl' file in a plain text editor and change line 71 from:

<input type="email" name="email" required="true" class="input-field">

... to:

<input type="text" name="email" required="true" class="input-field">

Part #2:
Open the 'showkase/admin/plugins/contact/master/contactcore/contact.js' file in a plain text editor and comment out lines 21 to 24 inclusive as follows:

// if($(this).attr("type")==="email" && !emailRegEx.test($.trim($(this).val()))) {
        // $(this).addClass('invalid');   
        // valid = false;                
// }

Part #3:
Open the 'showkase/admin/plugins/contact/master/contactcore/contact.php' file in a plain text editor and comment out lines 81 to 83 inclusive as follows:

// if(!PHPMailer::validateAddress($userEmail)) {
      // throw new Exception ('Please enter a valid email');
// }

(3) Change full email body text for clarity
Open the 'showkase/admin/plugins/contact/master/contactcore/contact.php' file in a plain text editor and change lines 95 to 100 inclusive from:

$mailer->Body =
    $userMessage
    ."\r\n\r\n"
    .$userName
    ."\r\n\r\n"
    .$userEmail;

... to:

$mailer->Body =
    "Name: " . $userName
    . "\r\n\r\n"
    . "Tel: " . $userEmail
    . "\r\n\r\n"
    . "Message: " . $userMessage;

(4) Hardcode a specific user email address
Open the 'showkase/admin/plugins/contact/master/contactcore/contact.php' file in a plain text editor and change line 92 from:

$mailer->addReplyTo($userEmail, $userName);

... to:

$mailer->addReplyTo('email@address.com', $userName);

... changing 'email@address.com' to whatever email address you would like to use. (This is where the email address entered in an unmodified contact form would be used.)

(5) Hide the site email address
On the contact form settings page, scroll down to and expand 'Spam Prevention' and select the 'Hide email address' checkbox. This will obfuscate the site email address in the contact form page.

(6) Republish site
Update the files within your site with the modified versions by clicking the 'Publish' button.

I've tested this myself and it works fine.

Please note that the line numbers noted above refer to the current version of Showkase (v1.7.4).

It sounds like a server configuration issue or a PHP mail restriction of some kind.

As I mentioned yesterday in this forum post, I checked exactly this functionality (a regular Contact Form without any modification using a Gmail address) and it worked fine for me (on my own server).

Showkase uses PHPMailer internally to send the Contact Form mail.
Here are PHPMailer's own notes on the "Could not instantiate mail function" message.

Please confirm with your web host that PHP mail functionality is enabled on your hosting account.
Please also check that the sendmail_path is configured correctly in your PHP settings. (Your web host should be able to help you with this.)

There could also be a restriction in place whereby mail is not being sent on your server due to the email address you use not matching the domain of your website. (Your web host should be able to confirm this.)
If this is the case, then please try the following:

(1) Open the 'showkase/admin/plugins/contact/master/contactcore/contact.php' file in a plain text editor.

(2) Change line 91 from:

$mailer->setFrom('mailer'.strstr($siteEmail, '@'), $userName);

... to:

$mailer->setFrom('mailer'.strstr($siteEmail, '@'), $userName, false);

I cannot be sure that this will make a difference but it is certainly a quick and easy thing to try.

Please note that the line number above refers to the current version of Showkase (v1.7.4).

I'm sorry to hear that my suggestion does not work.
Unfortunately, the code I posted above came straight from the PHPMailer Gmail example here so I'm not sure what else to suggest.

As I mentioned previously, the Contact Form within Showkase requires PHP mail support on the server and this is the only method that is officially supported.

The best thing to do might be to ask your web host if they could enable PHP mail support on your hosting account and you could then use Showkase's Contact Form without modification.

I realise that this is not a direct solution to your problem but it might be the best course of action.

In a Juicebox gallery page, the body content includes both the body text and the gallery.
Also, in Maribo (the theme you are currently using), the body text appears above the gallery.
If you want to swap the positions of the body text and the gallery and insert the footer between the body text and the gallery, then this would probably involve modification to several Showkase source files.

This would me much easier to achieve than swapping the position of the blocks (and sections within blocks).
The easiest way to do this would be to edit the page in question and clear the 'Page title' and the editor's input text area.
If you really want to remove the 'page-body' container from a specific page, then please try the following:

(1) Find the number of the page in question. View the page's source in a browser, scroll down to the opening <body> tag and you'll find something like this:

<body class="light type-juicebox page-7 group-0  body-open-sans headings-open-sans ">

(The page number in this example is 7.)

(2) In your theme's 'custom.js' file (for example, in Maribo, use '_themes/maribo/js/custom.js'), add the following code:

$('.page-7 .page-title').remove(); // To delete the page title only

... or:

$('.page-7 .body-content').remove(); // To delete the body text only

... or:

$('.page-7 .page-body').remove(); // To delete the page title and the body text

... changing the page number as necessary.
(There is no need to republish your site after modifying a 'custom.js' file but you may need to clear your browser's cache before reloading your page.)

Your site's Juicebox gallery page looks OK to me in Mobile Safari on my iPod Touch 6 (iOS 12.1).
Please let me know what you see and what you expect to see and maybe I can help further.

All Showkase pages (under the Boma, Kosel and Maribo themes) always show the navigation menu.
This is by design (so that visitors can easily navigate throughout the site).

The only way to have a full-page gallery within Showkase is to use the Gallery Manager theme.
However, the Gallery Manager theme supports only Juicebox and ListViewer Gallery pages (not About, Basic or Contact pages) and does not display the navigation menu on any pages.

If you really want to have a full-page gallery within your website, you could perhaps set up two separate Showkase sites (one using the Kosel theme and the other using the Gallery Manager theme). Next, create a Juicebox gallery page in the Gallery Manager site and then use a Navigation Link page type within the Kosel site to link directly to the Juicebox gallery page in the Gallery Manager site. You could include a Back Button in your Juicebox gallery to allow visitors to seamlessly return to a chosen page within your Kosel site.

Please note that the imageScaleMode configuration option (in the Main Image section) in the Multi-Size demo gallery is set to FILL so that the images always fill the gallery's image area no matter the size or shape of the user's browser window. (Cropping will occur if the aspect ratio of the image does not match that of the browser viewport.)

Showkase supports only two levels in its menu system. Gallery Index pages are always top level pages and the Gallery pages listed on a Gallery Index page are always second level pages.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to nest Gallery Index pages under other Gallery Index pages.

The bug noted above (regarding a PHP memory_limit value of -1) has now been fixed in Showkase v1.7.4 which has just been released.
Please see the Version History page for a full list of changes between versions. (The Version History page will be updated very soon in the next website refresh.)
Full instructions for downloading the latest version and upgrading a Showkase site can be found in the Upgrading Showkase support page.

Upgrades are free within the same major version number so if you purchased Showkase v1.0.0 (for example), then you can download all v1.x.x releases at no further cost.
Download links always point towards the most recent version that you are entitled to (rather than the version you purchased), so you can use your original download link from your purchase email to download the latest version.

Upgrading a Showkase site should be a quick and easy process (instructions in the link above) but please be sure to make a full backup of your site first, just in case anything goes wrong and you need to reinstate your original files at a later date.

I'm sorry to hear that my suggestions did not help.

Showkase should work fine out-of-the box on most web servers but it sounds like there may be something unique to your own web server which is causing your problem.
It sounds like there may be a problem storing PHP session variables but the Showkase Server Compatibility Test should pick this up.

I'd be happy to help further but I'd really need access to your web server and Showkase site in order to investigate further.
If you are agreeable to this, then please email me your FTP login details (host, username and password) and Showkase login details (URL, username and password). (I have sent you an email. Please check your messages.)
I'll not change or delete any existing files on your web server but I'll need access to upload a test Showkase site (which I'll delete after I have completed my tests), check the functionality of your own Showkase site (so that I can see the problem for myself) and also check your web hosting account's PHP settings (in case they are somehow relevant to the problem).
Thank you.

(1) First of all, please check that the 'admin/index.php' file is present on your web server. It sounds like the file might not be there.

(2) Next, check the permissions of the 'admin/index.php' file (and the permissions of the 'admin' folder and all other parent folders). Default permissions of 644 for files and 755 for folders should be fine. You should be able to check and change file and folder permissions using an FTP program such as Filezilla or via your web hosting account's online control panel.

(3) Try visiting your admin section by going to 'admin/index.php' (stating the index page's filename) instead of just 'admin/' in case your web server is not set up to find and go to the 'index.php' file automatically.

(1) If things were working fine and you did not change anything yourself but things are no longer working as they should, then this suggests that something may have changed on your web server.
Please ask your web host if they have made any changes to your hosting account recently which might somehow be contributing to your problem. Maybe they have changed some PHP settings or the PHP version.

(2) Also, please try installing and running the Showkase Server Compatibility Test.
Even if you ran the test before initially installing Showkase, please try again in case your web host has made any changes recently and any of the tests currently fail.
The results of the tests may point us in the right direction.

(3) Try upgrading to the current version of Showkase (v1.7.3) to see if this helps.
I have sent you a new download link for your Showkase purchase.
For reference, instructions for Upgrading Showkase can be found here.

Hopefully my notes above will help to resolve your problem (or at least point us in the right direction).
Please let me know how you get on and if I can be of any further assistance.

I'm glad you've got things working again until the official fix in the next version.
Thank you for letting me know.

The code that sets the widths of the contact form input fields in the Kosel theme can be found on line 611 of the '_themes/kosel/css/styles.css' file:

@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  input[type=text],
  input[type=email] {
    width: 200px;
  }
  textarea {
    width: 700px;
  }
}

You can either change the values there or override the values by adding the code below (with your own values) to your '_themes/kosel/css/custom.css' file, e.g.:

@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  input[type=text] {
    width: 300px;
  }
  input[type=email] {
    width: 400px;
  }
  textarea {
    width: 700px;
  }
}

Please note that the line number above refers to the current version of Showkase (v1.7.3).

I hope this helps.

@nuvisions

Thank you very much for allowing me access to your web server.
It was very helpful in confirming the bug.

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Just a quick follow up for anyone following this thread...

The problem was, indeed, caused by a PHP memory_limit of -1.

The memory_limit of 128M in the user's case above was for the root directory only (not inherited by subdirectories) and the memory_limit for the Showkase site's 'admin' directory (and all its subdirectories) was reported as -1.

This bug will be fixed in the next version of Showkase and the workaround I posted above (to modify the 'thumbnail.php' file) should work fine as a temporary measure for anyone experiencing similar symptoms.