Topic: album.pl Feature List

[Mike Bobbitt]

• Automatically displays directory tree of photos and movies as a web album heirarchy
• Integration with many forum software packages, including SMF, UBB, YaBB, YaBB SE, Ikonboard, UBB.Threads, phpbb2 and many more!
• Custom database integration (for authentication) for forums not listed above
• Automatic authentication using forum cookies, where possible
• Custom flatfile authentication, using cookies
• Users can be permitted to upload directly into the album
• Users can have their own individual albums, or upload into pre-defined albums
• Albums can be "hidden" based on regular expressions
• Photos and albums can have their own thumbnails
• Auto-size photo display for the current browser window
• Integration with ImageMagic and GD allows automatic thumbnail creation and permits photos to be resized to a standard size when uploaded
• Albums use "automatic" thumbnails based on first pic, or manually selected thumbnail
• Thumbnail fading
• Optional use of cookies to remember login
• Simple navigation through next/prev/up icons, breadcrumbs and jump station
• Albums can be password protected or blocked to non-members
• Photos can be viewed in 3 pre-defined sizes, full size or even as a fullscreen slideshow
• Number of views and date of last viewing tracked
• User ratings and comments of photos optionally allowed
• "E-Mail This Page" option
• Photo randomizer
• Search facility allows searching by filename, owner, title/description and user rating
• Recent uploads page
• Most popular photos/albums page
• Concurrent uploads
• Upload quotas and seperate file size limits for photos and movies
• Post upload processing allows for resizing, watermarking, image conversion and more
• SSI/PHP integration, allowing recent uploads, random photo etc to be inserted into any page on your site
• Can be configured as a binary file upload centre (.zip, .exe, etc)
• All text is contained in a string table (text file) for easy customization or translation
• Menu items can be image or text based
• Administration menu, giving defined admins these options:
• Create Album
• Update Titles & Descriptions
• Upload
• Configuration Management
• Check For Updates
• Delete Photos/Albums
• Move Photos/Albums
• Create a link to existing photos
• Set album thumbnails
• Users can edit titles/descriptions, delete  or move photos they upload
• Guests can browse album but not upload
• Photos can be displayed across multiple pages
• Completely template based for easy customization of HTML
• Templates allow insertion of dynamic info, such as username, quota, date/time, etc, even Perl code
• Local or "per album" templates can be used to give each album a unique look
• Uses a style sheet, simplifying integration into any site
• Can generate static HTML for the album, allowing it to be burned onto a CD
• Allows image "shrouding" to prevent images from being linked to by other sites
• Simple web based configuration management, including partial autoconfig on first install
• Config errors are displayed on the Configuration Management screen, along with help text
• List of permissible photo/movie types is easily modified
• Multiple sorting options
• JPEG 2000 support
• Single album.pl can manage multiple album installations
• Can collect list of e-mail addresses to notify when new photos are added
• Integration with jhead allows image header info to be displayed (camera settings, comments, etc)
• Local configuration files allow any of the above settings to be configured on a per-album basis
• Included diagnostic tool (album_test) allows for qiuck and simple troubleshooting

Updated as of V6.3