Read Me

Welcome to Illustrated, a web picture gallery.

Illustrated is aiming to provide a way to share picture and photos in
a structured way. Therefore just like most other web gallery, a title
and a description can be added to each photo. But pictures can also be
presented as groups within chapters, where they illustrate the text.


Installation
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Illustrated should work on any system as long as PHP, MySQL and
ImageMagick are present. Since it is still at an early development
stage, it does not include yet a guided installation, so will have to
set it up by hand. This is quite simple though.

Edit the connect.php file, then just upload all php files in a
directory of your web space, and create a directory called "pictures"
with permissions for writing..

Create the database. To do so, if you have access to a command line,
just run the following line with your MySQL login and password.
mysql -ulogin -ppassword < illustrated.sql

If you have access to a phpMyAdmin interface, you can use it to import
the file. Just pay attention to the maximum file size.

At last, if you do not have other option left, you can write a php
script to build the database. I will write one later.


How to use it
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Once correctly installated, go to the page new_album.php. Pages
allowing to do modifications are not referenced while you are not
logged, therefore you will have to type it in the address bar.

Once your album is created, you can add chapters, parts, and pictures
in those parts. Just try playing arround: much is still to be
implemented but it should be quite simple to use. Illustrated is just
a new born so pleased be soft with its unfinished-ness. ;-)