FreeGallery

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: freegallery-0.5.1

Notes:
VERSION: 0.5.1


INTRODUCTION

Many PHP based gallery systems currently exist.  However, many require setting file
permissions as writable for the webserver or a connection to a database.  Often it is not
possible or practical to do this, especially if you do not need advanced functionality.
FreeGallery is designed to fit into the gap this category, simple copy the necessary files to
the webserver, no further setup is needed.  This allows for very portable gallery systems to
be created, and even distributed with a small webserver on image CDs or in .zip/.tar files.


REQUIREMENTS

1. PHP (Tested using version 4.3.11) compiled with gd (2.0 or greater for best results)
   PHP with EXIF will allow for more complete image data and use of EXIF thumbnails, but is not required
   http://www.php.net


INSTALLATION/SETUP

1. Copy all files included in this directory to a PHP capable webserver directory.
2. Copy all image files to a directory on the webserver.
2. Edit includes/config.php to set your preferences, including the root image directory.


EMBEDDED IMAGE CAPTIONS

You can use standard programs to add captions to your images that will appear
on the web.  JPEG and PNG comments are supported.

1. Imagemagick
convert -comment "my comment string" in.jpg out.jpg

2. MaPiVi
Add comment using interface.


Changes:
VERSION 0.5.1
- Bugfix, some JPEG images had comments that were extracted incorrectly (not actually comments)

VERSION 0.5
- Can now read embedded JPEG and PNG comments
- Added security checks for input (GET) data

VERSION 0.4.1
- Bugfix for resize quality
- Resized images are no longer aliased (more CPU intensive)
- Byte calculation done by 1024 instead of 1000

VERSION 0.4
- Improved Gallery support
  - can now read image captions
  - only displays albums with the Everyone group assigned
  - can now use thumbnails already generated by Gallery for faster page loads
- Thumbnails can now be generated and saved on the fly for reuse (see config.php)

VERSION 0.3
- Added support to read Title/Description data from Gallery album.dat files.
- Added image for albums
- W3C HTML 4.01 Transitional Compliant
- Creative Commons License Support
- Improved GIF support

VERSION 0.2
- Added support for GIF and PNG full size images
- Added EXIF read support
 - EXIF thumbnails will be used if available and PHP is compiled with EXIF, this is a performance increase for larger images
 - EXIF data can be shown when viewing info.php

VERSION 0.1
- This is the inital release.