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4 <head>
5  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"  />
6  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
7  <title>PhpWebGallery :: presentation</title>
8  <link rel="stylesheet" href="../layout.css" type="text/css" />
9 </head>
10 <body>
11
12  <h1><a name="top"></a>PhpWebGallery</h1>
13
14  <p>Last release : <span class="important">1.6.2</span> - November 9th, 2006</p>
15
16  <p class="menu">
17   <a href="../index.html">Homepage</a>
18   <a href="http://demo.phpwebgallery.net">Demo</a>
19   <a href="http://phpwebgallery.net/doc">Wiki</a>
20   <a href="http://download.gna.org/phpwebgallery">Downloads</a>
21   <a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net">Forum</a>
22   <a href="http://bugs.phpwebgallery.net">Bugs</a>
23   <a href="http://phpwebgallery.net/ext">Extensions</a>
24   <a href="http://stats.gna.org/download.gna.org/phpwebgallery">Statistics</a>
25   <a href="https://gna.org/projects/phpwebgallery">Gna!</a>
26  </p>
27
28  <div class="category">
29
30   <h2>Introduction</h2>
31
32   <p>PhpWebGallery is a web application that enables you to create images
33gallery online easily. It also provides many advanced features which will
34make advanced webmasters happy. A proverb that applies well to PhpWebGallery
35would be <em>"making easy things easy and hard things possible"</em>
36(inspired from Perl programming language).</p>
37
38   <h3>Pre-requisites</h3>
39
40   <ul>
41    <li>web server enabling PHP scripts (such as Apache)</li>
42    <li>MySQL database</li>
43   </ul>
44
45   <p>But don't panic, if you don't have this available on your personnal
46   computer, you can install PhpWebGallery on many internet hosting
47   providers, you simply need PHP and MySQL.</p>
48
49  </div>
50
51  <div class="category">
52
53   <h2><a name="features"></a>Features</h2>
54
55   <ul>
56
57    <li>under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL</a>
58    (General Public License)</li>
59
60    <li>complies with W3C specifications, HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.</li>
61
62    <li>automatic image imports through filesystem (a directory equals a
63    category, simple and easy)</li>
64
65    <li>image import through upload</li>
66
67    <li>classification by hierarchical categories and by tags</li>
68
69    <li>each image can be linked to several categories</li>
70
71    <li>easy administration of images, comments, users, groups,
72    categories, tags</li>
73
74    <li>easy installation (unzip &amp; install.php)</li>
75
76    <li>possibility to make thumbnails</li>
77
78    <li>special sections: new pictures, most seen, best rated, favorites,
79    random, new categories, calendar</li>
80
81    <li>RSS and mail notification</li>
82
83    <li>nice URLs</li>
84
85    <li>(automatic) slideshow</li>
86
87    <li>multiple languages</li>
88
89    <li>multi storage server management</li>
90
91    <li>ability to make some categorie private and manage permissions per
92    user</li>
93
94    <li>handle any type of file, not only picture</li>
95
96    <li>manage EXIF and IPTC metadata</li>
97
98    <li>html templates</li>
99
100    <li>advanced search tool</li>
101
102    <li>photographs batch management</li>
103
104    <li>user comments</li>
105
106    <li>chronological display for any set of images</li>
107
108    <li>external authentication available. Share your users list with your
109forum.</li>
110
111    <li>contextual help</li>
112
113   </ul>
114
115   <p>You can take a look at the <a href="http://phpwebgallery.net/doc/doku.php?id=en:releases_history">detailed history of PhpWebGallery releases</a>.</p>
116
117  </div>
118
119  <div class="category">
120
121   <h2><a name="download"></a>Downloads</h2>
122
123   <p>All releases and builds are downloadable in the <a
124   href="http://download.gna.org/phpwebgallery">dedicated download
125   area</a>. In addition to archives listed below, you'll find MD5 sums of
126   archives, letting you control whether your download succeeded or not.</p>
127
128   <ul>
129
130    <li>
131     release 1.6.2
132     [<a href="http://download.gna.org/phpwebgallery/release/1.6/1.6.2/phpwebgallery-1.6.2.zip" title="download" class="download">zip</a>
133     | <a href="http://download.gna.org/phpwebgallery/release/1.6/1.6.2/phpwebgallery-1.6.2.tar.gz" title="download" class="download">tar.gz</a>
134     | <a href="http://download.gna.org/phpwebgallery/release/1.6/1.6.2/phpwebgallery-1.6.2.tar.bz2" title="download" class="download">tar.bz2</a>]
135    </li>
136
137    <li>
138      <a href="http://download.gna.org/phpwebgallery/build">development builds</a>
139    </li>
140
141    <li>The <a href="http://phpwebgallery.net/ext">extension manager</a> gathers additional languages, MODs, templates/themes, tools.</li> 
142
143  </div>
144
145  <div class="category">
146
147   <h2><a name="bugs"></a>Bug Tracker and Wish list</h2>
148
149   <p>A bug tracker system is available at <a
150   href="http://bugs.phpwebgallery.net">bugs.phpwebgallery.net</a>. The bug
151   tracking system uses another free software tools : <a
152   href="http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net">Mantis</a>.</p>
153
154   <p>You can also use the bugtracker to add feature requests : you simply
155   have to report a bug with a severity set to "feature".</p>
156
157  </div>
158
159  <div class="category">
160
161   <h2><a name="help"></a>Getting help</h2>
162
163   <h3>Installation</h3>
164
165   <p>PhpWebGallery installation is simplified to the maximum in order to be
166   possible for a maximum of webmasters without needing to understand
167   PHP.</p>
168
169   <ul style='list-style-type:decimal;'>
170
171    <li>extract files with <a href="http://www.7-zip.org">7-zip</a> or with
172    tar command (<span class="command">tar -xvzf
173    phpwebgallery-x.y.z.tar.gz</span>)</li>
174
175    <li>place source files on your website in the directory of your choice
176    (<span class="directory">gallery</span> for example).</li>
177
178    <li>go to the URL [<span class="file">http://your.domain/<span
179    class="directory">gallery</span>/install.php</span>]</li>
180
181    <li>follow the instructions of installation</li>
182
183   </ul>
184
185   <h3>Online Documentation</h3>
186
187   <p>Instructions available in each PhpWebGallery installation are
188   completed by an <a href="http://phpwebgallery.net/doc">online wiki
189   documentation</a>. Wiki purpose is to let anyone modify existing pages or
190   create new ones. Everyone is encouraged to participate.</p>
191
192   <h3>Need assistance</h3>
193
194   <p>A <a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net">forum</a> is available
195   and recommended for any question (installation, discussions)</p>
196
197   <p>Before asking any question on the forum, do not hesitate to [<a
198   href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/search.php">search</a>] for related
199   topics... other users may have found same bugs, had same requests.</p>
200
201   <p>PhpWebGallery forum is a place open to every one. Please be always
202   respectful in this place. Consider also that clear messages (with simple
203   and direct subjects) are always prefered. It is forbidden (and useless)
204   to say that your question is "urgent", you won't be answered in
205   priority.</p>
206
207  </div>
208
209  <div class="category">
210
211   <h2><a name="newsletter"></a>Newsletter</h2>
212
213   <p>Subscribe to "phpwebgallery-announce" mailing list on <a
214   href="https://gna.org/mail/?group=phpwebgallery">gna.org</a>. Subscribe
215   to be informed of the future version or found (and probably corrected)
216   bugs.</p>
217
218   <p><em>No spam, no commercial use.</em></p>
219
220  </div>
221
222  <div class="category">
223
224  <h2>Project</h2>
225
226  <h3>Constribute</h3>
227
228  <p>If you are interested in participating, tel us so on
229  the [<a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/viewtopic.php?t=1304"
230  class="forum">official forum topic</a>] or send an email to the project
231team on team [AT] phpwebgallery.net..</p>
232
233  <h3>Team</h3>
234
235  <ul>
236
237   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=2">z0rglub
238   (Pierrick LE GALL)</a> (French) project initiator, developer,
239   webmaster. <a href="http://le-gall.net/pierrick/blog">personnal
240   blog</a></li>
241
242   <li><a
243   href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=974">Volcom (Julien
244C)</a> (French) developer, forum administrator.</li>
245
246   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=865">Sephi
247   (Sylvain)</a> (Swiss) is in charge of extension manager.</li>
248
249   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=1227">VDigital
250   (Vincent)</a> (French) support and forum moderator.</li>
251
252   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=1442">chrisaga
253   (Christophe Agathon)</a> (French) manages HTML template.</li>
254
255   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=1476">rub
256   (Ruben ARNAUD)</a> (French) developer.</li>
257
258   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=913">nicolas</a>
259(French) developer.</li>
260
261   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=1771">rvelices
262(Radu)</a> (French/Rumanian) developer.</li>
263
264   <li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=1877">mathiasm
265(Mathias MICHEL)</a> (French) webmaster.</li>
266
267<li><a href="http://forum.phpwebgallery.net/profile.php?id=669">laurent.duretz
268(Laurent DURETZ)</a> (French) developer.</li>
269  </ul>
270
271  <p>Template authors, MOD developers, translators... are all listed in the
272  <span style="text-style:italic;">extension</span> manager.</p>
273
274  </div>
275
276  <div class="category">
277
278   <h3><a name="vote"></a>Vote</h3>
279
280   <ul>
281
282    <li><a href="http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/15190.html">@HotScripts.com</a></li>
283
284    <li><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebgallery">@Freshmeat</a></li>
285
286   </ul>
287
288  </div>
289
290  <p>$Revision: 1.19 $ $Date: 2006/07/26 15:45:10 $</p>
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