Publisher review:PhotoPost script allows your users to be able to upload photos to galleries on your site and interact in photo discussions. This script allows your users to be able to upload photos to galleries on your site and interact in photo discussions.
User Features:
- Users can upload photos to a category or to their own gallery
- Users can create their own subcategories/subgalleries within their gallery
- Users can upload multiple photos within a zip file
- Users can upload more than one file at a time (can be disabled by admin)
- Post comments about photos
- Users can create personal albums
- Search by keyword
- Rate photos on a scale from 1 to 5
- Edit or delete user's own comments
- Edit the description of user's uploaded photos, or delete their photos
- Move their photos from one category to another
- Image manipulation: When using ImageMagick, users can rotate CCW, rotate CW, Flip and Flop an image after it has been uploaded (by editing a photo).
- Users can choose to be notified of new posts to their photos or photos to which they want to subscribe (email notification).
- Send a photo as an e-Card (greetings card / post card, etc)
- Choose how many thumbnail images to display per page
- Sort thumbnail display pages by alphabetical, most popular, most active, by date, and by number of views
- Uses time offset and 'posts per page' user preferences from vBulletin user DB (when in use)
- Member Galleries section displays disk space used by each user so they can keep track of their disk usage
- Private Personal Albums - Private Albums are assigned a unique URL which the person can share with friends and family for restricted access.
- New Comments/Photos indicator - for users who are logged in, the arrow for comments and posts will glow when new items have been posted since last visit to the category.
- View Recent Uploads - A link to show the posts in the past 1, 7 and 14 days.
- View All Uploads - can be viewed and then sorted (for example to see the most popular uploads in all groups)
- My Favorites - Users will have the ability to "tag" images for their own "My Favorites" feature. Viewing My Favorites shows the tagged images in a gallery format.
Registration System Features
- Supports user groups and admin editing of user groups to enable specific permissions for different users (disk space allowance, file upload size restrictions, uploads, comments) - this could be used to enable premium access such as more disk space for paying members
- User profiles
- Encrypted passwords
- Supports COPPA (can be disabled)
- Auto verify user email address
- Admin editing of user levels and profiles
- Ban users
- Allow/disallow new user registrations.
- Allow users to change passwords.
- An automated "I Forgot my password" feature.
- Delete a user and all of user's photos and comments
Admin Features
- Easy web-based setup
- Templates for all user-interface pages (allowing custom HTML throughout)
- Unlimited categories and sub categories
- Multiple image uploads via FTP with automatic thumbnail generation. Upload hundreds or thousands of images via FTP then import them into PhotoPost all at once.
- Approve/Reject uploads before they are viewable by users (can be disabled)
- Bandwidth/diskspace friendly: choose to save user uploads (of any size) as thumbnails only, turning off large images.
- Supports user groups and admin editing of user groups to enable specific permissions for different users (disk space allowance, file upload size restrictions, uploads, comments) - this could be used to enable premium access such as more disk space for paying members (this is functional with any user database - internal or forum integration)
- Set the size of thumbnail images
- Move photos from one category to another
- Set user disk space limits
- Set max file size (in bytes and in pixel width/height) of uploads
- Password protect categories
- Custom defined fields (6 custom fields to collect and display different information from the photo uploader besides description, title, etc, such as camera type, car engine size, etc - totally up to the admin)
- Stylesheets with GUI/Admin panel editor
- Sticky photos / photo sorting to allow admins to determine the order in which photos appear in a gallery
- Moderators are allowed to approve images but not modify admin panel settings
- Admin can email users
- Sticky photos - select certain photos to always appear at the top
- Exempt admins from diskspace/file size limits
- Exempt admins from upload approval process
- Option to email admin when there are new uploads
- Turn Off Boards. Will be able to "turn off" the boards for periods of maintainence or backup
- Font selection - ability to specify main font for use throughout program (includes use of SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE tags which can have sizes customized)
- Manage Albums. Gives the administrator the ability to edit/delete user Personal Albums
- Personal Albums can be turned OFF by admin
- Configure colors/fonts
- Specify header/headtags/footer include HTML files for all categories or individual categories
- Create and rename categories and category descriptions
- Ability to edit the config-inc.php file from the admin panel GUI interface. No notepad editing required.
- Admin statistics page including size of data directory, users, albums, who's online, admin log, etc.
- Tell-a-Friend feature to let your users spread the word about your galleries.
- Change the display order of categories
- Enable/disable user editing of photos and posts.
- Allow/disallow unregistered users to upload photos and post comments
- Set number of comments per page
- Set number of thumbnail columns in the thumbnail display screens
- Specify unique header/headtags/footer files for each category/subcategory.
- Allow only administrators to upload to a category/subcategory.
- Purge Photos feature - allows admin to remove files that exceed a specified age.
- Admin password can be changed using install.php installation script if it is ever lost or forgotten.
- Allow unregistered users to send ecards.
- New easy upgrade script to help navigate the upgrade process.
- Unzip functionality now built into code, no external application needed
- Fix thumbnails/database. A "scan database" admin function which will fix images with no thumbnails (creating new thumbnails), remove database entries with no image and fix the username associated with an image (in case a BB has allowed a user to change their ID).
- Watermark tracking tracks which images have watermarks added to them
- User Views - tracking the number of images a user views (displayed in User admin)
- Scan DB will also add watermarks to all your images if selected
- Bulk Move. The ability to move all of the images from one group to another.
- Mass Move/Delete.
- Deleting a category deletes all photos and comments within that category and all of its subcategories, simultaneously.
- Option to turn OFF rating of photos (turns off display, too)
Other Features
- MySQL database driven
- Can integrate with vbPortal
- Can use vBulletin 2.0.3 (and all newer versions) user database
- Can use UBB Threads v6.x user database
- Can use InvisionBoard 1.X, InvisionBoard 2.X, PostNuke, Nuke, phpBB2, IkonBoard and DCForums and SMF 1.0 User Database
- Supports database prefixes to allow the use of one MySQL database when table names would otherwise clash.
- Globals-inc file to facilitate Hacks
- Multi-language support via template files. Packaged with English, German, French, Swedish, Dutch languages.
- ZLIB compression support to speed page loading, reduce bandwidth
- Option to require users be registered to view images
- Optional integration with BotBuster to protect bandwidth
- UBB/VB Code (linkify, bold, etc) for Descriptions and Comments
- Traffic tested on sites with over 14M monthly page views
- Dynamic titles for pages to improve search engine indexing
- Slideshow display of images in condensed format
- New Help system. Popup windows with help topics. Topics will be in HTML format in a help directory and editable by the administrator
- Configurable date formats and time offsets per user
- GD2 support for image resizing, watermarks and on-the-fly watermarks (or use ImageMagick for all but on-the-fly)
- ImageMagick support for image resizing and watermarks (or use GD2)
- Video Uploads. Support for multimedia files. When PhotoPost detects the upload is a multimedia file (.mpg, .avi, .asf, .wmv, and .mov), it will prompt the user for a thumbnail to be uploaded or use a default image.
- Support for Jpegtran to remove XML data from jpegs created by PhotoShop 7 (to fix the Adobe/ImageMagick broken image browser problem)
- Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIF file formats when using ImageMagick, or JPG and PNG formats when using GD
- Automatic thumbnail creation
- Thumbnail display pages show details for each photo such as filesize, user name, date, number of times viewed, and number of comments.
- Images stored on disk in a directory rather than in the database, which allows them to be cached by browsers, saving bandwidth.
- Number of photos and comments limited only by your server's diskspace and MySQL's record limits
- Support for short URL's for photos to make them easy to email and copy/paste (i.e. http://www.photopost.com/gallery/?1299)
- Tested in Unix/Apache environments
- Tested in Windows 2000 and NT w/ IIS and Apache
- Tested on OS X servers.
- IP caching
- prevents multiple views and voting in a configurable timeframe
- Known to work on RaQ 3/4 systems
PhotoPost 6.01 is a PHP script for Image Galleries scripts design by All Enthusiast, Inc..
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
PhotoPost script allows your users to be able to upload photos to galleries on your site and interact in photo discussions.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
PhotoPost 6.01 script details 
