Jeff Dyke - 2004-02-21

A lot was updated in this release.  Many updates to the admin page, which is now protected by authentication.  The Content Management pages are also protected by login. 

Please check out the change log for a bit more detail. Also full documentation is in the release and available from the INSTALL_ROOT/about/ folder.  There is a link from the default home page.

Added some simple security measures that will ensure the code fails on all pages if passed bad data.

Little navigational extras were added around the code.
1. Next Previous links on thumbnail pages were updated to better scroll through a user created folder.
2. Full size images are split into an image map, left half links to the previous image, right half to the next image. If there is no image, the link is not created.

Added ability to input data about your images and directories but not have it seen by all. 
(will most likely add a quick update page to update/publish multiple images in a folder at once.)

Added a caching engine that can create static html files and place them at the INSTALL_ROOT so search engines can index everything on the page.  If people find these pages via a seach, all links lead back to your dynamic site.

Added three includes for user defined data. One defines the home page content, one the header, and another for META tags.

Next Steps are:
1. Metric Reports (email me any ideas)
2. Multi Image Updates

I highly suggest updating to this code level.  Its been installed and tested on Linux and Windows, both running apache(1.3 and 2.0). 

Updating from an old copy is as easy as extracting over the existing.  All image folders are delivered empty with the exception of a file to ensure that WinZip picks up the empty folder.

Thanks for trying it out.  Please email me any ideas.

Jeff
jeff@theimages.org