Changeset 3020 for trunk/language
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r2495 r3020 2 2 <h2>Help</h2> 3 3 4 <h3>Quick start</h3> 4 <div id="instructionPLoader" class="instructionBlock"> 5 <div 6 id="pLoader_header" 7 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 8 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('pLoader_header', 'pLoader_content')" 9 ><span> 10 Add photos, the pLoader way 11 </span></div> 12 <div 13 id="pLoader_content" 14 class="instructionBlockContent" 15 style="display:none" 16 > 17 <ol> 18 <li>Create a directory "upload" next to directory "galleries" in your Piwigo installation, with write access.</li> 19 <li>Install pLoader on your computer, start it and fill the connection settings : your gallery URL, your username and password.</li> 20 <li>Drag'n drop photos from your directory browser into pLoader photo selection.</li> 21 <li>Create a category and select it.</li> 22 <li>Select some photos.</li> 23 <li>Click on the green arrow to transfer photos in your gallery</li> 24 </ol> 25 Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo gallery. 26 </div> <!-- pLoader_content --> 27 </div> <!-- instructionPLoader --> 28 29 <div id="instructionFTP" class="instructionBlock"> 30 <div 31 id="FTP_header" 32 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 33 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('FTP_header', 'FTP_content')" 34 ><span> 35 Add photos, the FTP way 36 </span></div> 37 <div 38 id="FTP_content" 39 class="instructionBlockContent" 40 style="display:none" 41 > 42 43 <h3>Quick Start</h3> 5 44 6 45 <ol> 7 8 <li>Create a local directory "test_category".</li> 9 10 <li>Copy pictures in "test_category".</li> 11 12 <li>Open an FTP connection to this remote gallery.</li> 13 14 <li>Upload local directory "test_category" into your remote directory 15 names "galleries". Set authorizations to 777 on directory 16 "galleries/test_category".</li> 17 18 <li>Connect to your Piwigo as an admin.</li> 19 20 <li>Go to <span class="pwgScreen">Administration, Pictures, 21 Thumbnails</span>. Piwigo find the picture from "test_category" 22 without thumbnails. Ask to create thumbnails.</li> 23 24 <li>Go to <span class="pwgScreen">Administration, Categories, 25 Synchronize</span>. Check "directories + files" option, uncheck "only 26 perform a simulation" and submit the synchronization.</li> 27 28 <li>Job's done. You've created a category "test_category" at the root of 29 your gallery.</li> 30 46 <li>Create a directory on your computer.</li> 47 48 <li>Copy some photos inside this directory, resize them for web display. <em>Warning</em>: the name of directories and files must contain only letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, no accentuated characters.</li> 49 50 <li>With a FTP client, copy your directory in the "galleries" directory of your Piwigo installation.</li> 51 52 <li>Logon your gallery and go to <span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Pictures » Thumbnails</span> to create missing thumbnails.</li> 53 54 <li>Go to <span class="pwgScreen">Administration</span> and click on the big Synchronization button.</li> 31 55 </ol> 32 56 33 <h3>Adding elements</h3> 34 57 Congratulations! You have successfuly created the first category of your photo gallery. 58 59 <h3>Directories and files organization</h3> 35 60 <ul> 36 61 … … 38 63 39 64 <p>Category directories are in the Piwigo directory 40 "galleries". Here follow the directory tree of a very small gallery (but65 "galleries". Here follows the directory tree of a very small gallery (but 41 66 using many features) :</p> 42 67 … … 77 102 </li> 78 103 79 <li>Basically, a category is represented by a directory at any level in 80 Piwigo directory "galleries". Each category can contain as many 81 sub-level as you wish. In the example above, category-1.1.1.1 is at level 82 4 of deepness.</li> 104 <li>Each directory under "galleries" produces a category. There is no limit on deepness.</li> 83 105 84 106 <li>Basically, an element is represented by a file. A file can be a … … 93 115 94 116 <li>Picture elements can have a high quality file associated. As for 95 wedding.jpgin the example above. No prefix on the high quality picture is 96 required.</li> 117 wedding.jpg in the example above. No prefix on the high quality picture.</li> 97 118 98 119 <li>Non picture elements (video, sounds, file texts, what you want...) are … … 101 122 file (see video.avi in the example above).</li> 102 123 103 <li><em>Warning</em> : the name of directories and files must be composed 104 of letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, no accentuated 105 characters</li> 106 107 <li><em>Advise</em> : a category can contain elements and sub-categories 108 in the same time. Nerverthless, you are strongly advised for each category 109 to choose between category containing elements <strong>or</strong> category 110 containing sub-categories.</li> 124 <li><em>Warning</em>: the name of directories and files must contain only letters, figures, "-", "_" or ".". No blank space, no accentuated characters.</li> 111 125 112 126 <li>Once files, thumbnails and representatives are correctly placed in the 113 directories, go to : <span class="pwgScreen">Administration , Categories,127 directories, go to : <span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » 114 128 Synchronize</span></li> 115 129 … … 117 131 118 132 <h3>Thumbnails</h3> 119 120 <ul> 121 122 <li>As said earlier, each element of picture type must be associated with 123 a thumbnail.</li> 133 <ul> 134 135 <li>Each photo must have its thumbnail.</li> 124 136 125 137 <li>Thumbnails are stored in the sub-directory "thumbnail" of the category 126 directory. The thumbnail is a picture (same filename extensions possible 127 than picture files) which filename is prefixed by the configured 128 "Thumbnail prefix" (see admin panel, Configuration, General).</li> 129 130 <li>Thumbnails don't need to have the same extension as their associated 131 picture (a picture with .jpg extension can have a thumbnail in .GIF 132 extention for instance).</li> 133 134 <li>Advise: use an external module for thumbnails creation.</li> 135 136 <li>You can also use the thumbnail creation page (<span 137 class="pwgScreen">Administration, Pictures, Thumbnails</span>), but it is 138 not recommended. Indeed, thumbnail quality may be poor and it uses a high 139 CPU load which can be a problem if you use free web hosting.</li> 140 141 <li>If you choose to use your hosting provider to create thumbnails, you 142 must give write rights on all category directories and sub-directories 143 "thumbnail" for ugo (user, group, other).</li> 144 145 </ul> 146 147 <h3>Access authorization</h3> 148 149 <ul> 150 151 <li>You can forbid access to categories. Categories can be "public" or 152 "private". Permissions (for groups and users) can be set only if the 153 category is private.</li> 138 directory. The thumbnail has the same filename as the corresponding photo, with <em>TN-</em> as prefix.</li> 139 140 <li><em>Advise</em>: use an external module for thumbnails creation.</li> 141 142 <li>Even if it is not recommended (image quality, web server resource load), you can use <span 143 class="pwgScreen">Administration » Pictures » Thumbnails</span> page to create thumbnails.</li> 144 145 <li>Give write access on all category directories.</li> 146 147 </ul> 148 149 </div> <!-- FTP_content --> 150 </div> <!-- instructionFTP --> 151 152 <div id="instructionPermissions" class="instructionBlock"> 153 <div 154 id="permissions_header" 155 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 156 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('permissions_header', 'permissions_content')" 157 ><span> 158 Permissions 159 </span></div> 160 <div 161 id="permissions_content" 162 class="instructionBlockContent" 163 style="display:none" 164 > 165 <ul> 166 167 <li>You can forbid access to categories. Switch the category access type to "private" if you want to manage permissions.</li> 154 168 155 169 <li>You can set a category to private by editing a single category (<span 156 class="pwgScreen">Administration , Categories, Manage,edit</span>) or by170 class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » Manage » edit</span>) or by 157 171 setting options to your whole category tree (<span 158 class="pwgScreen">Administration , Categories, Properties,Public / Private</span>).</li>172 class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » Properties » Public / Private</span>).</li> 159 173 160 174 <li> 161 175 162 176 <p>Once the category is private, you can manage permissions for groups 163 and users through 3 screens:</p>177 and users with 3 screens:</p> 164 178 165 179 <ul> 166 180 167 <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration , Identification, Users,168 permissions action (one link per user)</span></li>169 170 <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration , Identification, Groups,171 permissions action (one link per group)</span></li>172 173 <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration , Categories, Manage,edit174 category permissions action (one link per category)</span></li>181 <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Identification » Users » 182 permissions action</span> (one link per user)</li> 183 184 <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Identification » Groups » 185 permissions action</span> (one link per group)</li> 186 187 <li><span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » Manage » edit 188 category permissions action</span> (one link per category)</li> 175 189 176 190 </ul> … … 179 193 180 194 </ul> 181 182 <h3>Users Groups</h3> 183 184 <ul> 185 186 <li>Piwigo is able to manage groups of users. It can be very useful 187 to have common permission access for private categories.</li> 188 189 <li>You can create groups in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration, 190 Identification, Groups</span> and associate users to this group in <span 191 class="pwgScreen">Administration, Identication, Users</span>.</li> 192 193 <li>A user can belong to several groups. The authorization is stronger 194 than prohibition : if user "jack" belongs to groups "family" and 195 "friends", and that only group "family" can see category "Christmas 2003", 195 </div> <!-- permissions_content --> 196 </div> <!-- instructionPermissions --> 197 198 <div id="instructionGroups" class="instructionBlock"> 199 <div 200 id="groups_header" 201 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 202 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('groups_header', 'groups_content')" 203 ><span> 204 Groups 205 </span></div> 206 <div 207 id="groups_content" 208 class="instructionBlockContent" 209 style="display:none" 210 > 211 <ul> 212 213 <li>Groups is a convenient way to set permissions for a list of users.</li> 214 215 <li>Create groups in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration » 216 Identification » Groups</span> and associate users to this group in <span 217 class="pwgScreen">Administration » Identication » Users</span>.</li> 218 219 <li>A user can belong to several groups. Authorization is stronger 220 than forbiddance : if user "jack" belongs to groups "family" and 221 "friends", and that only group "family" can see category "Christmas 2003" category then 196 222 "jack" will be able to see "Christmas 2003".</li> 197 223 198 224 </ul> 199 200 <h3>Files upload by users</h3> 201 202 <p>Piwigo offers the possibility for users to upload images. in 203 order to do it:</p> 225 </div> <!-- groups_content --> 226 </div> <!-- instructionGroups --> 227 228 <div id="instructionUpload" class="instructionBlock"> 229 <div 230 id="upload_header" 231 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 232 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('upload_header', 'upload_content')" 233 ><span> 234 Upload by users 235 </span></div> 236 <div 237 id="upload_content" 238 class="instructionBlockContent" 239 style="display:none" 240 > 241 <p>Users can upload their photos too.</p> 204 242 205 243 <ol> 206 244 207 <li> authorize upload on anycategories (<span208 class="pwgScreen">Administration , Categories, Manage,edit</span> or <span209 class="pwgScreen">Administration panel, Categories, Properties, Upload</span>)</li>210 211 <li> give write rights on directories for ugo (user, group, other)</li>245 <li>Authorize upload on any physical categories (<span 246 class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » Manage » edit</span> or <span 247 class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » Properties » Upload</span>). Virtual categories can't receive any upload.</li> 248 249 <li>Give write access on corresponding directories.</li> 212 250 213 251 </ol> 214 252 215 <p>Files uploaded by users are not directly visible on the website, they 216 must be validated by an administrator. For that purpose, an administrator 217 must go in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration, Pictures, Waiting</span> 218 in order to validate or to refuse the files proposed, then to synchronize 219 filesystem with database.</p> 220 221 222 <h3>Links between elements and categories, virtual categories</h3> 223 224 <ul> 225 226 <li>Piwigo dissociates categories where elements are stored and 227 categories where they are shown.</li> 228 229 <li>By default, elements are shown only in their real categories : the 230 ones corresponding to directories on the web server.</li> 231 232 <li>To link an element to a category, you just have to make the 233 association on the page of element edition (link to this screen on 234 picture.php logged as an administrator) or on the informations of all 235 elements of a category.</li> 236 237 <li>Using this principle, it is possible to create virtual categories : no 238 directory coresponds to this category. You can create virtual categories 239 in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration, Categories, Manage</span>.</li> 240 241 </ul> 242 243 <h3>Miscellanous informations</h3> 244 253 <p>Photos uploaded by users are not directly visible on the website. An administrator 254 must validate uploaded photos in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Pictures » Waiting</span>.</p> 255 </div> <!-- upload_content --> 256 </div> <!-- instructionUpload --> 257 258 <div id="instructionCategoryLinks" class="instructionBlock"> 259 <div 260 id="categoryLinks_header" 261 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 262 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('categoryLinks_header', 'categoryLinks_content')" 263 ><span> 264 Links between elements and categories, virtual categories 265 </span></div> 266 <div 267 id="categoryLinks_content" 268 class="instructionBlockContent" 269 style="display:none" 270 > 271 <ul> 272 273 <li>Photos are displayed in the category corresponding to the file directory.</li> 274 275 <li>You can also display a picture in several categories, without duplicating the file on your web server. Associate the photo to any category from the photo editing screen (that any administrator can reach from the photo page on the gallery side).</li> 276 277 <li>Virtual categories are based on this concept: they have no corresponding directory. Create virtual categories from <span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Categories » Manage</span>.</li> 278 279 </ul> 280 </div> <!-- categoryLinks_content --> 281 </div> <!-- instructionCategoryLinks --> 282 283 <div id="instructionMisc" class="instructionBlock"> 284 <div 285 id="misc_header" 286 class="instructionBlockHeaderCollapsed" 287 onclick="blockToggleDisplay('misc_header', 'misc_content')" 288 ><span> 289 Miscellanous informations 290 </span></div> 291 <div 292 id="misc_content" 293 class="instructionBlockContent" 294 style="display:none" 295 > 245 296 <ul> 246 297 247 298 <li>As soon as you created your gallery, modify default display properties 248 in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration panel, Configuration, 249 Default</span>. Indeed, every new registered user will have by default the 250 same display properties.</li> 251 252 <li>If you have any question, do not hesitate to take a look at the forum 253 or ask a question there. The <a 254 href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net">forum</a> (message board) is 255 available on the presentation site of Piwigo. Check the <a 256 href="http://phpwebgallery.net/doc/">official Piwigo 257 documentation</a> for further reading.</li> 258 259 </ul> 299 in <span class="pwgScreen">Administration » Configuration » 300 Default</span>. Every new registered user will use these default configuration settings.</li> 301 302 <li>If you have any question, Piwigo community will welcome you on <a 303 href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net">its forum</a>.</li> 304 305 </ul> 306 </div> <!-- misc_content --> 307 </div> <!-- instructionMisc --> 308 260 309 </div>
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