Title:Coppermine Photo Gallery
Description:Coppermine Photo Gallery project - Coppermine is an easily set-up, fast, feature-rich photo gallery script with mySQL database, user management, private galleries, automatic thumbnail creation, ecard feature and a template system for easy customization to match the rest of a site.
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News ::.
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Announcing Coppermine 1.5.3 Release Candidate
+ 5 March 2010
It is with great joy that we present Coppermine 1.5.3 [RC]. After over 2 years of work and thousands of lines of code we now have a superb and feature packed product. It has been a long and challenging journey but with the help of you, the community, and our team of dedicated supporters and developers we are almost there.
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cpg1.4.26 Security release - upgrade mandatory!
+ 1 February 2010
The Coppermine development team is releasing a security update for Coppermine in order to counter a recently discovered vulnerability. It is important that all users who run version cpg1.4.25 or older update to this latest version as soon as possible.
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Public release of cpg1.5.2 (beta)
+ 16 November 2009
The brand new cpg1.5.x series that comes with a lot of new features finally has reached the release stage: a first public beta release cpg1.5.2 has been released that is mainly aimed at translators, testers and community members that have contributed in the past. The beta release is not meant to be used in a production environment, but only on testbeds and for evaluation purposes. There is currently no support for cpg1.5.x yet!
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PMs disabled on coppermine forum
+ 17 August 2009
Caused by the massive abuse of the PM system in the past, the sending of personal messages has been disabled for all regular users on the Coppermine forum.
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Coppermine on twitter
+ 29 July 2009
For those who want to keep track of the news related to Coppermine the developer team has started a tweet on twitter that you're welcome to follow.
Plugin-Section on Coppermine homepage
+ 09 April 2009
To give end users an overview on all available plugins, we have added a separate plugins page to the navigation of the official coppermine homepage here at coppermine-gallery.net. Click on the menu items "plugins" at the top right of this screen's navigation bar to go directly to the list of plugins available.
The list of plugins can be filtered by Coppermine version and can be sorted by different criteria.
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Latest downloads ::.
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Maintenance release
+ 1 February 2010
download the brand new stable version of Coppermine cpg1.4.26
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Recent Blog Posts ::
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CPG 1.5.3 Released #8211; The future is bright.
+ 5 March 2010
Introducing the Coppermine 1.5.3 Release Candidate
It is with great joy that we present Coppermine 1.5.3 [RC]. After over 2 years of work and thousands of lines of code we now have a superb and feature packed product. It has been a long and challenging journey but with the help of you, the community, and our [...]
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Speeding up Coppermine with htaccess
+ 15 September 2009
Coppermine, being a photo gallery or infact a media gallery, as it can serve much more than just images, faces a daunting task of transfering a lot of data to browser with every single request. This is not just bandwidth eater but sometimes also frustrating to users when they have to keep waiting for the [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-07
+ 7 September 2009
CpmFetech #8211; Show your coppermine photos in non cpg sections on site #8211; http://bit.ly/10xLt3 #
Typo #8211; CpmFetch* #8211; http://bit.ly/10xLt3 #
#php devs working on #coppermine : please suggest plugin hooks for cpg1.5 http://bit.ly/2qo07w (not meant for non coders) #
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.:: Entry
01: Welcome to Coppermine Photo Gallery's homepage!
Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.
Coppermine is free software which you can download and install on your webspace. If you came here from a "Powered by Coppermine" link on a photo gallery, please read these Frequently-Asked Questions.
The default Coppermine front page
.:: Requirements
02: Web Server + PHP + MySQL + IM/GD = CPG!
Coppermine Photo Gallery has been tested to work well on IIS, Apache 1.3.24 onwards to the latest Apache 2, on Linux, UNIX, OSX, and Win32 systems. The following settings are required:
Good webserver (Apache recommended);
PHP (4.2.0 or better);
MySQL (3.23.23 or better; 4.x recommended);
either GD or ImageMagick (any version);
.:: Current features
03: Endless Features!
CPG is so fully featured it's not enough to fully list them here. Feel free to have a go with the demo - change the themes, add some comments, see it in Hungarian!
arrangement of pictures in categories and albums;
picture information stored in database;
users can upload pictures with web interface or ftp (and admin can batch-add to database);
full multimedia support
creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics;
search feature;
last added;
random picture;
user management (private galleries, groups);
integration of user management with various bbs (like phpBB, YaBB SE, SMF, Invisionboard, vbulletin);
caption, title, description and user defined fields for each picture (searchable);
easy install (installer provided);
multi-lingual: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (both Big-5 and GB), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (both quot;Du quot; and quot;Sie quot;), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian (both with and without diacritics), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Uighur, Vietnamese; if your language is not on the list, you can easily create a translation for your own language;
user comments;
e-card feature;
slideshow viewer;
all features customizable with web interface (admin section);
template system;
user membership in multiple groups;
upload approval notice for admin;
EXIF/IPTC support;
language selection option in template;
image rotation;
multi-pic upload;
separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template;
option to choose max height or width for thumbnails will help in creating nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols;
option to display a clickable filmstrip of thumbnails below the image display;
option to show first level albums of a category instead of just statistics of the category;
option of turning on OR off the showing of quot;Private quot; Icon to unlogged / unprivileged user;
title option to sort in albums;
online help feature for the admin pages;
plugin-API;
English as a fallback language for un-translated entries in language files;
password-protected albums;
more admin-settable user profile fields;
picture-resize on upload;
bbs integration settable with a wizard-like user interface;
advanced search (boolean operators);
Customize your frontpage through CSS, PHP or plain HTML!
Unlimited multiple albums and categories using MySQL.
Film strip for easy access.
.:: Future plans
04: What does the near future hold?
The developers are excited about releasing a new version which may include the following features (check out the forum):
integration of various hacks/user contributions into the release package;
advanced e-card feature (plain-text mails);
template-building tutorial;
optional dhtml navigation;
Permanent URLs for search engine friendliness (using PID instead of POS)
Rating on thumbnails page
Registration disclaimer optional
From thumbnail to Pop-Up option
Coppermine API
Comment approval
Comment and registration captcha class
Global password for registration
Watermarking
Thumb cropping and sharpening
Movie download option
Ecard flash support
Random album thumbnail
Tag cloud for keywords
Moderator for album pictures
.:: Credits
05: The inspirer
Coppermine was originally created by Grégory DEMAR.
Find out more about the dev team and the contributors on the team page.
Coppermine Photo Gallery Copyright 2003-2010.
Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) is an open source project released under the GNU/GPL terms.
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