Welcome to Gallery 2.0. This is the third
“Beta” release of Gallery 2, code named
“Bingo!”. Please read through this document
carefully before installing Gallery 2 and before asking for help. We
have taken care to try to answer as many of your questions here
as possible. If you don't read this and have problems, we may
refer you back to this document as a first resource.
Contents
If you’re impatient like us, you just want to get going.
The odds are that your system is all set to handle Gallery 2 so
just skip right to the installer and start clicking. It should
walk you through everything you need to get going. Before
you do that, you should really read the When to use Gallery 2 Beta and When not to use Gallery 2 Beta sections!
But if you hit a snag, please come back here and read
more before asking questions! Enjoy.
Gallery is a web based software product that lets you manage
your photos on your own website. You must have your own website
with PHP support in order to install and use it. With Gallery
you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an
intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic
thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering,
captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have
read, write, caption and other permissions per individual
authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. Give
accounts to your friends and family and let them upload and
manage their own photos on your website!
A Beta release is the second official round of releases of a
product. A Beta release can sometimes be unstable, contains
both known and unknown bugs. Generally, almost all of the
features of the final product will be present. We release it
early so that you can see what is coming and give us feedback
that will help us improve the final release.
You should install Gallery 2 Beta to try it out. You could
install it next to your production version of Gallery 1 in a
hidden directory. You could install it on a development server.
We want you to try it, test it, break it, and tell us all about
it. Get your friends and colleagues to poke around. You can
use the migration module to import some or all of your Gallery 1
albums into Gallery 2 for test purposes (this shouldn’t
affect your Gallery 1 installation at all).
Do not use it as the main repository for your data. Do not use
it for a production web site. Although we provide an upgrade
path we will not provide the same level of support for
Gallery 2 that we provide for Gallery 1 until we get to
release candidates. We know that Gallery 2 is much better than
Gallery 1, and it may be tempting to just replace your Gallery 1
with it. But we're still making plenty of changes and mistakes
happen so if you use it in production, be prepared to dig into
it yourself and fix things if they break.
Warning!
Gallery 2 has not yet been subjected to a rigorous security
audit! While we have taken great pains to make sure that it
is secure, there is still the chance that there are some big
security holes in it that might cause you trouble. If you
find a security flaw, do not hesitate to email us at:
security AT gallery.menalto.com
Gallery 2 has been redesigned from the ground up and is database
driven! It is secure, scalable, reliable, modular, customizable,
portable and intuitive. In short, we looked at all the things we
did wrong in Gallery 1 and we did them again the right way. Two
and a half years of design and development have gone into
Gallery 2. It’s got customizable themes and layouts using
XHTML compliant templates which makes it much easier for you to
personalize your Gallery 2 install. All the cool bells and
whistles are in modules that can be enabled separately for
maximum control.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 (Next Release)
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Multisite Support - The multisite system has been completely
redesigned and is now compatible with both URL Rewrite module and embedded G2.
Multisite G2 refers to multiple independent sites using a single codebase.
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Localization - The installer and upgrader can now be localized.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Beta 3 (Bingo!)
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New Modules
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New Quotas module allows limiting disk usage for users and groups.
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New Iconpack module adds icons for various links.
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New dcraw module adds support for the raw image format of many cameras.
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New Publish XP modules allows adding items directly from Windows XP.
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New Slideshow applet module shows images in a fullscreen slideshow using Java.
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Layouts
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Simplified the PHP code required for a layout. This makes
it easier to create a new layout that mostly involves
building the tpl files, but still allows use of additional
PHP code for more advanced layouts.
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Standard $user template variable now available in all views, which makes
it easier to customize content for guests, registered users or administrators.
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Hotlinked image protection
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URL Rewrite module now offers the ability to restrict item downloads from
external referers not on an approved list. This prevents other websites
from directly linking to images on your server.
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Watermark module offers an alternate rule in Rewrite module which can apply
a watermark on the fly to images for external referers.
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Tree view - Album Select module now offers a dynamic tree view
in addition to the simple select box for navigating to any album.
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Thumbnails - Expanded ability to override the album default thumbnail
size to any item or album, not just for photo thumbnails.
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IPTC - Support for reading IPTC data added to EXIF/IPTC module.
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Forgot Password - New system to reset the password for any Gallery 2 user with
an email address.
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Short URLs - More control in Site Admin over how short URLs are constructed.
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Owner Permissions - Permissions are now transferred to the new owner
when changing the owner of an album or item.
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Updated Albums - Modification date of albums now updated for item add,
move, delete in that album (so New Items module will show "Updated").
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Add From Web - Improved support for URLs where extension doesn't
match the actual mime type (like Gallery 2 URLs!).
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Email Test - Added ability to send a test email from Site Admin to
verify email settings are correct.
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System Maintenance - New maintenance tasks:
- Reset view counts for all albums and photos.
- Build all thumbnails and resizes at once.
- Display system information, useful for copy/paste to support forum.
- Rewrite module task to check for conflicts between short URLs
and actual Gallery files.
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Integrations - Improved support for integration with
external applications.
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Installer - Verify that the database user has the
correct permissions before installing.
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Many, many bugs fixed including several localization fixes.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Beta 2 (Holy Hand Grenade)
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Performance Improvements
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Automatic fast download code for publicly visible images.
We bypass most of the framework and render thumbnails and
resizes quickly on demand, while still preserving the
complete image firewall. This radically reduces server
load.
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Replaced the permissions table with access control lists.
This change isn't visible to the end user, but results in
a significant performance increase for large galleries.
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Themes/CSS
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We updated the CSS across the entire app to clean it up and
make building new themes a bit easier.
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Added new mblue theme.
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Layouts
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The main content no longer wraps below the sidebar in Matrix layout
when viewed with IE.
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Hybrid, slider and tile layouts are now themeable and have
improved cross browser compatibility.
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Added Nico Kaiser's siriux layout.
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New Modules
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New captcha module allows you to require that users have
to prove that they're human in order to log in or register
a new account.
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New mime management module allows you to control which
mime types Gallery understands.
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Localization
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Localized into Chinese (Simplified)
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6 localizations support 75% or more of Gallery.
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Embedding
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Considerable progress in the API and documentation.
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Xaraya, PHP-Nuke, Tikipro, Drupal and Mambo integrations available in CVS.
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Many, many bugs fixed.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Beta 1 (Dark Fibre)
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Rewrite - New module for creating compact, search
engine friendly URLs.
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Recursively Add Directories - You can now add an
entire hierarchy of images in directories at once. Gallery
will turn each sub-directory into an appropriate sub-album.
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Locking - New database locking system that allows
Gallery to run properly on NFS filesystems.
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Shutterfly - New module for printing photos with Shutterfly.com.
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Classic Layout - New layout similar to the Gallery 1
top level album. Shows thumbnails, item details and a tree of
links to subalbums.
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Origination Timestamp - New field to store the date normally
shown with items. The field is automatically set from EXIF data if
available but can also be changed manually.
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Resizes - Added support for both width and height bounds for
photo resizes and scaling the original image.
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Archive Upload - New module extracts files from uploaded
zip archives and adds each to the album. Implemented to allow
support for other archive formats to be added later.
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Size Limit - New module to define maximum dimensions or
file size of uploaded images.
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Custom Thumbnails - Thumbnail module now allows uploading a
custom jpeg thumbnail for any album or item.
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Rearrange - New module allows rearranging the order
of all items in an album at once.
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Album Select - New module adds a select box for jumping
directly to any album.
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EXIF - Added ability to set item summary/description from
EXIF description when new photos are uploaded.
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Symlink - Option to add items using symbolic links to
existing files on a unix server.
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Sort Order
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Two levels of sorting now supported.
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New sort to always show albums first.
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Image Block Enhancements
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Picture/Album of the Day/Week/Month.
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Option to omit certain albums from image blocks.
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External image blocks using full size images.
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Scale external image blocks to a specified maximum size.
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Support for image frames around image blocks.
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User Album Options
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Create user albums when first accessed instead of
right when the user account is created.
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Show link to user album.
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Jump to user album after login.
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Embedding
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Further improvements in the API and documentation.
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Added support for search and image block.
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Xaraya, PHP-Nuke, Tikipro and Drupal integrations available in CVS.
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Multisite Support - The installer can now configure multiple
independent sites using a single codebase.
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Internationalization
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Added basic support for right-to-left languages.
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New MultiLanguage module adds ability to write captions
in multiple languages and display them based on the selected
language of each user.
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Error Handling - Improved handling and display of error messages.
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Bugs - Many, many bugs fixed.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Alpha 4 (Nice Commits)
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Upgradeable Core and Modules - At long last we
support upgrading from one version of Gallery 2 to the next.
Unfortunately, this may not work reliably for all version
before Alpha 4, so we recommend that you reinstall Alpha 4
from scratch just to be sure.
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Module Uninstall - You can now completely uninstall a
module and then delete it from your Gallery 2 installation.
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Installer Improvements
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The interface for installing modules is now much easier to
use. It shows you all the modules and lets you select the
ones you want to install, and lets you repeat the process
as often as you like.
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Added better instructions and examples for several steps
that were confusing (your user feedback at work!)
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The installer now works on browsers that don't allow
cookies.
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User Interface enhancements - Some changes in our
main layout place the most important system links on top of
every page (Site Admin, Login, Logout, ...). This gives you
easy access to these commands. The sidebar has some improved
functionality, like a direct login form and some more details
on your cart and members (if those modules are active). This
is another step towards a "block" system where modules can
provide any amount of blocks of information to be placed in
the sidebar.
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Navigation - It's now easier to navigate around Gallery.
Meaningful "back" links will bring you back to the last
visited pages, e.g. it's now possible to visit the Site Admin
while editing an album and have an easy way to return.
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Random Highlight - New module allows albums to
periodically change highlight, selecting randomly from
the album's items.
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WebCam - New module creates items that
periodically refresh the image from an external URL.
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Thumbnail Page - New module gives more control
over thumbnails for movies and documents. For multipage
documents (like PDF/Postscript) or images (like multiscene
TIFF) you can pick the page number for the thumbnail (Note:
PDF/Postscript require both ImageMagick and Ghostscript).
When used in conjunction with the Ffmpeg module you can
pick a time offset for generating thumbnails for movies.
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Graphics Toolkits -
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The ImageMagick and NetPBM toolkits have been optimized
to make fewer calls to external binaries when used for
multiple operations. For example, cropping and resizing
to make a thumbnail now requires only a single call to
"convert" with ImageMagick.
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We now preserve extra operations (like crop settings) on
thumbnails when moving an item between albums or
rebuilding thumbnails.
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Added ability to set toolkit priority. This means you
can activate multiple toolkits to support more mime types
but still select which toolkit is used in cases where
multiple toolkits support the same type.
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Added support for ImageMagick 6.1.x
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Sort Order - "Default sort order" and "Manual sort
order" are now separate choices, allowing albums to properly
inherit the site default for sort order; Ascending/descending
is disabled for these choices.
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New Items - New module shows "new" and "updated"
images next to appropriate images and albums, and adds a new
sort where new items are shown first followed by other items
sorted by view count.
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SMTP Authentication - We now support sending email
via a SMTP server that requires user authentication. Any
module that sends email (like the registration module) can
take advantage of this support.
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Embedding Gallery 2 - We've made great improvements in
embedding Gallery 2 into other applications. We've
successfully (though not completely) embedded it into Xaraya
and have begun working on other platforms. There's now a
rudimentary document to
explain how to do it.
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Thumbnail Creation - We now let you create thumbnails
at upload time, which greatly improves performance the first
time you view an album. It's optional, but on by default.
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Improved Error Pages - We now show you a nice error
page when two simultaneous and conflicting changes happen.
This new page explains how to resolve the problem.
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Members - We now show a list of the recent
changes that a user has made, and let you page through the
entire list of changes.
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Removed IE7 - We were experimenting with IE7,
a compatibility layer in JavaScript reduces some of the
incompatibilities between IE6 and other browsers. However we
were not able to get the performance and reliability that we
needed so we've decided to abandon using it (at least for now).
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Localization - Gallery 2 is now translated into 18 languages, though only
German, Danish and Swedish are over 50% translated. We can
use your help!
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Bug fixes - Many bugs closed!
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Alpha 3 (Farva)
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Watermark Support - We now support image
watermarking. You can add a watermark to the thumbnail,
resize or full sized version of an image using a DHTML
drag-and-drop interface.
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Oracle Database Support - The installer now offers
Oracle (version 9i and higher) among the supported database types.
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Module Manifests - All modules now come with a
manifest file, and the installer checks to make sure that
you’ve got a complete set of files on the server.
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Auto Completion - the Site Admin user and groups
pages, and the permissions pages now perform appropriate
completion for you. Just type a few characters of the
username you’re searching for and it’ll give you up to 10
possible matches. Tested on Firefox, but not extensively
tested on IE yet.
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New version of IE7 - We’re experimenting with IE7,
a compatibility layer in JavaScript reduces some of the
incompatibilities between IE6 and other browsers. The older
version caused weird problems with images getting overlaid
with a red X, or IE6 crashing.
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Migration improvements -
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We now properly migrate item owners
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We now preserve the order of imported subalbums
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Gallery 1 summary and description fields are now
transposed on import so that the Gallery 1 "summary"
(which was shown inside the album itself) is now the
Gallery 2 "description" and vice versa.
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CMS Integration - Although this is not yet readily visible, a
great deal of work has been done on getting Gallery 2 ready to integrate into
external content management systems. We’ve successfully done partial
integrations with Xaraya and Drupal, with more on the way.
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Square Thumbnails - We fixed a noticeable bug where
the first time you viewed a square thumbnail it might appear
distorted (this was mentioned in the "known bugs" list of the
alpha-2 release).
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Zip Cart Plugin - You can now download the contents
of your cart as a zip file.
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User Albums - You can use the new User Albums module
to automatically create a new album for a user whenever you
create a new user.
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Installer - Many minor tweaks including adding more
install checks to make sure that your system is OK.
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Members - The members module now has privacy settings
so that you can prevent the unauthorized from seeing your list
of members, and/or their email addresses.
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Bug fixes - Many bugs closed!
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Alpha 2 (Grand Theft Photo)
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User Interface - Many small and large user interface
improvements. Made the XHTML more standards compliant and
used less divs in favor of more sensible tags (like h1, h2,
etc).
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Performance - Significant performance increases in
general, and especially for image views. This also reduces
the overall load on your system when (for example)
viewing a page with 9 thumbnails on it.
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Installer - The installer now installs the core
module for you, as well as allows you to optionally install
other modules right away instead of having to do it later via
the Site Admin.
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Custom Fields - New custom field module allows you to
define global and per-album custom fields for your item meta
data.
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Java Upload Applet - New upload option where you can
drag and drop files onto an applet and Gallery 2 will upload them for you.
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GD Graphics toolkit - Implemented GD based graphics toolkit. This enables
use of PHP’s built-in imaging functions for thumbnails, resizes,
cropping and rotating. Requires GD 2.0 or newer. No external binaries
needed.
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Square Thumbnails - New module that allows you to
specify that all gallery thumbnails have a 1:1 aspect ratio
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Imageframe module - This module allows you to apply
frames to your photos and albums in the Matrix and Hybrid layouts.
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Self Registration module - Allows guests to register
for their own account in your Gallery 2.
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Language selection - There’s a new box in the sidebar
where guests can choose their preferred language
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Nokia Mobile Phone Uploader Module - Upload images to
your Gallery 2 from your mobile phone!
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Migration module - We now import Gallery 1
permissions, and allow you to choose the source encoding
(character set) of your Gallery 1 so that we can convert it to
UTF-8 as part of the migration. We now also track where your
Gallery 1 albums wound up in Gallery 2 so that you can create
an .htaccess file in your Gallery 1 to redirect Gallery 1 URLs
to Gallery 2, for ease of migration.
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Gallery Remote - GR now supports creating new Gallery 2 albums.
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PHP5 Support Gallery 2 has been tested on PHP 5.0.1 on
FreeBSD and Linux.
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Bugs - More than 31 bugs closed since Alpha 1.
Highlight of changes in Gallery 2 Alpha 1 (Cowbell)
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First Release of Gallery 2!
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Latest Version -
There are three ways to get the code.
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Tarball - You can download a prepackaged file as a
tarball or a zip file from SourceForge.
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Nightly Snapshot - You can download a tarball or zip file with
a snapshot of the most recent code. Find links to these on the
Gallery Download Page.
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CVS - This is a better way to get the latest code,
but it’s for advanced users. Follow the CVS instructions to obtain the latest Gallery 2
code. It’s easier to stay up to date with this method since
you can run one command and get the latest code at any time.
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Storage - Create a directory for gallery to store
photos. This must be writeable by the web server, but for
security reasons we suggest that you do not put it in the web
root. If you put it in the web root, then anybody can get
directly to your images with their web browser which
circumvents Gallery 2’s security.
Unix Example
$ cd $HOME
$ mkdir g2data
$ chmod 777 g2data
Windows Example
C:\> mkdir g2data
In the Unix example, you may note that modes of 777 on your
g2data directory are not all that secure. However, making it
more secure depends on how your system is configured. Talk
with your system administrator about ways to change the
permissions on that directory to make it so that Gallery can
still write to the files but that others can’t.
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Database - Right now we support MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle. MySQL is generally faster than
PostgreSQL. We require you to create the database yourself.
In our examples below, we’ll be creating a database called
gallery2. You can use any database name that you
choose.
Grant all required privileges to your database user. This includes but
is not confined to: CREATE TABLE, ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE in the gallery2 database;
SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE on all (gallery2) tables in the gallery2 database;
CREATE INDEX and some other privileges that are specific to the different database
management systems. CREATE/DROP DATABASE and the ability to GRANT privileges to other
database users are not required.
MySQL
$ mysqladmin -uroot create gallery2
$ mysql gallery2 -uroot -e"GRANT ALL ON gallery2.* TO
username@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password'"
- Choose your own username and
password
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If MySQL denies you access, try adding "-p" right before the "-e "
PostgreSQL
$ createdb gallery2 -E UNICODE
If it complains that UNICODE is not a valid encoding name, then try:
$ createdb gallery2 -E SQL_ASCII
If it complains about that, too then try:
$ createdb gallery2
Oracle
$ create database gallery2 {additional parameters};
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Graphics Toolkits - Gallery 2 works with NetPBM, ImageMagick or GD. They’re all equally good,
though some say that NetPBM has slightly better quality and
that ImageMagick is slightly faster than NetPBM. GD can be
very fast, but it will also use a lot of memory so it may
cause you to run into predefined server limits. It is also
compiled into PHP by default if your PHP is 4.3.0 or more
recent, however it may not have support for all image types
(e.g. it might not have JPEG support). If the binaries for
NetPBM and ImageMagick are installed in default, or standard,
locations then Gallery 2 will auto-detect them during Gallery 2
installation. It won’t cause any harm to enable all of
these toolkits—in fact you’ll get the widest file
type support if you do so.
Gallery 2 is a web application and must be installed on your web
server in order for you to use it. If you've unpacked it on
your desktop, you will have to upload it to your server as part
of the install process, then you can configure it using your web
browser.
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Upload - Copy the Gallery 2 files to a directory on your webserver. There are
several alternatives for this step:
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Ideally, you can use cvs to install and update your Gallery 2 installation directly
on the server. But this option is only available if you have command line access to
the server (ssh/telnet).
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The next best alternative is to upload the gallery2.tar.gz or gallery2.zip archive via
FTP or another method. Then unarchive / extract the archive in the command line
(ssh/telnet) or with a miniature PHP script with the command ’tar -xzf
gallery2.tar.gz’ for the .tar.gz archive or ’unzip gallery2.zip’ for
the .zip archive. Some webhosting companies offer a control panel with a web
file-browser which is capable of extracting / unarchiving archive files. It’s
worth a try to check if this option is available.
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If you have neither of these options, you have to upload the complete contents of the
Gallery 2 archive to the webserver with an FTP program. This will take a lot of time
and is error-prone. In this case, pay special attention to the ’System
Checks’ step of the installer and make sure that there are no missing or modified
files.
Note: After uploading, you should close this version
of the README and browse to the version that you just
uploaded. That way all the links in this document will point
to the right places in your Gallery 2 install.
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Begin Installing - Open up your web browser and
browse to the install directory. Gallery 2 will walk
you through the process of validating that your system is
properly configured and will set everything up for you.
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Authenticate - You will be asked to create and save a
small text file in order to authenticate. You may not proceed
until you do this. That’s how Gallery 2 knows that you’re authorized
to use the installer.
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System Checks - The installer checks your system to
make sure that it will support Gallery 2. Make sure that all
checks are successful!
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Multisite Setup - Gallery can support multiple independent sites with
a single installation of the code. Here you will select a standard single install
or the location of a new multisite install.
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Admin User Setup - You are prompted for an
administrator username and password. In this beta release the
default Admin username is set to admin and
cannot be changed during the install process (though you can
change it to something else later on). Type in a password and
type it again to validate it. Then click ’Create’ to create
the admin user for this installation of Gallery 2.
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Storage Setup - Read the instructions on the
installer to set up a storage location for Gallery 2. This is
where Gallery 2 will store all of your images, as well as other cache
information.
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Database Setup - Select your database type and enter
your database authentication information.
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Create Config File - Gallery 2 will create the
config.php file in your Gallery 2 directory. This contains
all the answers you’ve provided in the installer and is
necessary for Gallery 2 to function properly.
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Install the Core module - Here’s where we create all
the database tables and initial users and albums to get you
started. Unless something goes wrong, there’s nothing for you
to do here.
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Install other modules - Gallery 2 has lots of different
modules that provide useful functionality. Choose which ones
you want to use. You can always go to the Site
Admin page later on to install, activate, deactivate or
uninstall modules, so it’s ok to experiment here.
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Check Security - Gallery 2 walks you through the process of
locking down your new config.php.
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Finished! - Congratulations! You have successfully
installed Gallery 2 Beta!
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Log in - Once you’ve successfully got Gallery 2 Beta installed, you should
start by logging
in as the admin user that was created for you at install
time. The admin user has special privileges that you’ll need
in order to administer your new Gallery 2.
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Activate Graphics Toolkits - Click on the Site
Admin link then the Modules link to see the module list.
Install, configure and activate one of the NetPBM,
ImageMagick, or GD modules. You can activate as many of them
as you want (more is better, here).
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Add photos - Browse back to the top of your new Gallery 2
and click on the Add Items link. This will bring up a
page with a few different upload options (at least 3, more if
you have other upload modules installed). Select the one you
want and try adding a new photo to your album. If all goes
well, you should see the new photos in your Gallery!.
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Add an album - You don't want to put all of your
images into the top level of your Gallery 2, so you should try
creating a new album. Browse back to the top of your new Gallery 2 and click on the
add sub-album link from the left side of
the page. This will give you a form where you can enter
information about the new album you want to create. Fill it
out and click the Create button. Now try adding images
to that album instead, or select the Move Photo link
from under any of the images you added earlier and move them
into this new album.
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Import Gallery 1 albums - you can easily import
albums from Gallery 1. It won’t cause any harm
to your Gallery 1. Just go to the Migration Page and enter the path to your
Gallery 1 albums directory and then follow the instructions.
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Explore the different Site Admin options and tune your Gallery 2
the way that you want it.
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You can activate different layouts and then
experiment with layouts and themes. You can use different
layouts and themes on each album!
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You can search your Gallery 2 and view the members list if these modules are active.
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Activate the Icons module and select the fun icons
from Paul Armstrong Designs.
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If the Ffmpeg module is activated, you can upload movies
and it will automatically create thumbnails of them for
you.
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Activate the Panorama module and then try uploading
really wide images and then edit them to put them in
Panorama mode to activate the panorama viewer.
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Activate the Cart and Photoaccess modules,
add all the photos from an album to the cart and try
printing them all at once (you can cancel the print job at
the last second so it’s ok to play around with this)
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Activate the Cart and Zip Download modules, add
all the photos from an album to the cart and then download
them all at once as a zip file!
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Create some new users then create some new groups and then try
adding users to groups. You can assign permissions to
entire groups instead of individual users, which makes
permission management much easier.
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Try uploading a Shockwave or a Director file. You can
view them in-line.
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Activate the Thumbnail Manager module then try uploading an
MP3 and see that it’s got a custom thumbnail. Use the thumbnail manager to upload your own
custom thumbnails for different file types. Gallery 2 lets you
upload files of any type!
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Activate the ImageBlock module and see random
images appear in the sidebar when you browse through your
Gallery 2.
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Play around with the other modules and see what they do!
There are over 40 different cool modules that do all kinds
of neat stuff. If you decide that you don't want a module
any more, just deactivate and uninstall it and it goes away.
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Take a look at the list of User
Contributions to find even more modules, layouts, themes, utilities, mods and more.
If you have problems, you should start by looking in the Gallery 2 Support Forum on the Gallery
Website. Search the forum to see if somebody else has
posted a similar problem and maybe there’s an answer
there, otherwise start a new topic to get help. If the problem
seems like a bug in the Gallery 2 software you can file a bug in our bug tracker on
SourceForge. Please read our tracker guidelines before filing a bug so
that we can cut down on the number of spurious reports. If
you're unsure whether to file a bug you can always post in the
forums first and we'll ask you to file a bug if needed. If you
want to talk about development issues, you can you can try to
catch one of the Gallery 2 developers on our irc channel, #gallery-support on
irc.freenode.net. Our developers use this IRC channel as
our primary means of communication, so if they ask you to post
in the forums please respect their request. If we spend all of
our time doing tech support, we won't have time to write Gallery 2.
Remember – reporting bugs is good. Even if you think
it’s silly, go ahead and report it. We can always close the bug
or refile it (please don’t be offended in this case) but it’s
harder to find bugs than it is to fix them so we’re counting on
you to help us with the finding part.
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Login Problems - There are known login problems where Gallery 2 seems to ignore
a login request. In a first attempt to fix the problem most scenarios have been
fixed, but we are still working on the complete solution. As a consequence of our
changes you'll have to delete the GALLERYSID cookie(s) in your browser after an
upgrade from version beta-2 (or prior) to beta-3 (or later).
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Layouts/Themes - The current layout and theme
architecture is going to change sometime during the beta
cycle. We are still considering several different approaches
to make creating new themes, layouts and modules easier.
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Performance - This beta release is faster than the previous alphas/betas.
There are still some tweaks that we have planned that will make it even faster.
We’ve still focused on features and reliability before performance, and
will be continually optimizing during the beta cycle.
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URL Redirection - Rewrite module and Gallery 1-»Gallery 2 URL redirection
do not work together in the same .htaccess file (Gallery 2 is installed where
Gallery 1 used to be). In future these will be compatible.
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Multisite config.php - The multisite system has changed and old style
multisite config.php files are no longer supported. Follow these steps to move
your sites to the new system:
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Replace any symlinks created for multisite support with real directories
and/or remove any .htaccess files that were setup to redirect requests
from a multisite directory to the G2 codebase.
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Examine your config.php file and learn the basics of its structure. You
will find multiple complete single configurations that each start with
<?php and end with ?>, with some additional content
above, below and between these sections.
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Copy each configuration in the combined file into separate single files.
Each new file should have <?php as the very first line and
?> as the very last line with no extra spaces or blank lines
at the top or bottom, and there should be only one of each of these tags.
Place each new single config.php in the multisite directory for that site.
The case 'domain/path': line just above each configuration in the
combined file will help you determine which config.php goes in which
multisite directory. Note that this "case" line does not go in the new
config.php file. The last configuration in the combined file has
default: just above it instead of "case". Rename the combined
file to something else and put this last configuration in place as the
config.php in this directory.
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Now access the primary site and run through the upgrader. Make sure
everything is working correctly with this site.
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For each additional site follow this process: browse to install/index.php
of the primary site. In step 3 enter the path to the multisite directory
to update. After this step you should see some new files in the multisite
directory, including upgrade/index.php. At this point stop
using the installer and browse to upgrade/index.php for this site
(not the primary site). Step through the upgrader to the upgrade core module
step. After the core upgrade completes manually edit the config.php for this
site. At the bottom you will find a galleryBaseUrl setting.
Enter the URL for the primary site here, ending with a /. For example,
http://mydomain.com/gallery2/ or http://photos.mydomain.com/.
Note this is the URL for the primary site, not the site you are currently
upgrading. Save this change and finish the remaining steps of the upgrader.
Make sure this site now works correctly.
Updating is quick and easy and should not lose any of your data.
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Get the latest code and
unpack it over your existing copy of Gallery 2. Keep your existing config.php in place,
and don't touch your (g2data) data folder or the database.
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If you use a PHP accelerator / cache (e.g. Turk mmCache,
Ioncube PHPA, eaccelerator, Zend Studio, etc.), flush (clear)
the cache of the accelerator. Omitting this step can
sometimes lead to errors during and after the upgrade process.
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Browse to the upgrader and follow the
instructions there. Make a backup of your data (g2data folder and the database)
when it tells you to! Should you lose your data due to a bug in the
upgrader, the first thing we're going to tell you to do is to
restore from your backups! (Then we'll probably ask you to
help us reproduce the bug.)
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Enjoy your new version of Gallery 2.
Unit Tests - Gallery 2 was designed using Extreme
Programming methodologies. This means that we have a ton of unit
tests that help us make sure that the code is behaving as it should. If
you want to help us out, you can try running the unit tests and report back
to us if any of them fail. Note - these tests
shouldn’t change your Gallery 2 settings at all, but if they fail, they
may leave things in a weird state. Be warned that you might
have to ditch your Gallery 2 data and start over if something
catastrophic happens.
Test Harness - We also have an older test harness that
we use to do some load testing type tasks that might be fun to
experiment with. Try creating 1000 users or a random tree of
5,000 photos to see what it’s like.
Localization - If you’re interested in localizing
Gallery 2 into another language, you can review the current state of localization
and then read the
localization how-to and get started. Submit your localizations early and often -
no need to wait until you’re entirely done.
For Developers - We've gotten started on some developer documentation
that you should read if you want to start hacking on Gallery 2. Some of the
information is a little bit out of date or in early drafts, but it's a start.
Embedding - See this forum topic
for the status of the integration modules to embed Gallery 2 in various applications.
This documentation explains how to setup an integrated
environment or build the integration module for a new application.
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