The current 5.5 download has a couple of options in it that aren't "advertised" per se, but I'd like to hear how they work in the real world before I release.
Anyone want to be a guinea pig?
- Added ``localized configuration'' which means that if you place album.cfg in any album, the settings in that file will override the global settings. This is a very powerful feature, which allows:
- Each album to have a custom ``look & feel'' including style sheets, templates, icons, photos per page, colums, thumbnail properties and sort options
- Permitted file types (one album can be used to view only photos, another for documents, etc)
- Features such as ratings, slideshows, jhead or ImageMagic integration can be turned on or off on a per album basis
- Each album can point to it's own album_strings.txt file, allowing customization of all text
- Local administrators can now administer the photos in their specific album(s), regardless of who uploaded them
- Albums can be individually password protected, or use a different authentication mechanism (UBB for one, YaBB for another; or use multiple flat file databases, one for each album)
- And I'm sure there's more that I'm just not thinking of!
- Added concurrent_uploads config item, which allows you to set the number of files a user can upload at once.
- Descriptions are now removed when photos or albums are deleted.
- Added ``Yes'' and ``No'' to album_strings.txt.
- Fixed a bug with admin username determination.
- Fixed up a problem where owners were wiped out when descriptions were edited.
- Fixed a bug with always_pic_resize sometimes enlarging pics when it shouldn't, and vice versa.
- Improved debugging info by adding more debug statements and indenting output from some subroutines.
I'm especially interested in the local config option. To use that, simply drop an album.cfg into a directory in your album, and customize it! Your customizations will show up for that directory (album) and no others.
I'd recommend deleting everything from it except those config items you want to change, but hey, your job is to break this, right!
Thanks guys
