- Unzip and untar your distribution package into a subdirectory of your
desire in the webdirectory (i.e. /divepix)
- Create a subdirectory under this directory. This will be your image
location. (i.e. images)
- Create another subdirectory, now located under the images directory. This
will be your thumbnails directory (i.e. thumbs)
- Configure dpconfig.txt in the config-directory according to the
directories you just created. See at the bottom an overview of the
directory structure with the associated variables.
Also at the bottom in it's own section you'll find a description about
the variables used in the configfile.
- Create a new theme for your website or modify the default theme accor-
ding to the look of your website.
- Upload your images to the images-directory and the thumbnails to the
thumbs-directory.
- Point your browser to http://location/divepix. Done
A SMALL NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGES:
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Beginning with the version 0.3 the thumbnails aren't anymore the reference.
Therefore the existing images in the directory are used.
So, now it is possible to view a default thumbnail if the corresponding
one to the image does not exist. And if even this default thumb does not
exist, a default text is shown therefore.
DIRECTORY TREE:
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$DOCUMENT_ROOT (f.e. /usr/local/httpd/htdocs or C:/apache/htdocs)
|
|---/divepix (DivePix root)
|
|--- /images (images directory)
| |
| |---/thumbs (thumbnail directory)
|
|---/inc (directoy where all classes used by DivePix are stored)
|---/config (configuration file)
|---/error (containing the text for different errors)
|---/themes (themes basedir)
|
|---/default (the default theme is used when installing the
first time)
CONFIGURING dpconfig.txt
------------------------
dpconfig.txt is the configuration file now used by DivePix. This should not
be changed!
It may look strange at the first look, but it is already prepared for the
next release. Now already included in DivePix 0.3 is a class called
dp.config.class.php which can read and write such configuration files
(well, to be honest, the writing is not fully tested yet, but the reading
works 100% ...).
So, find here now an overview about the variables you have to change:
path_abs (f.e. C:/Web/apache/htdocs or /usr/local/httpd/htdocs)
- The absolute path to your web enabled directory.
Ask your provider if you don't know.
path_www === /divepix/
- The path to the location where you extracted DivePix to and want to run
from.
Please note the trailing and the ending slash!
dir_images === images/
- Path to your images. Ending slash needed.
dir_thumbs === thumbs/
- Path to your thumbnails under images/. Ending slash needed.
gallery_name === Your gallery name
- Give your gallery a name, put it in here.
default_theme === default
- This is now new. The value in this variable is the theme you're going to
use. Please refer to the file HOW_TO_CREATE_THEMES for further infor-
mation.
domain_name === localhost (f.e. www.foobar.com or foo.bar.com)
- Instead of using the variable $SERVER_NAME I changed to this. It's better
and maybe safier since the variable does not work on every server
properly. No beginning http:// or ending slash! Also please insert only
letters in lower case.
cols === 4
- Value for columns per gallery page.
rows === 3
- Value for the rows per gallery page.
direct_access === 0
- This is now new. In v0.2 final only visitors coming directly from your
site were allowed to view images. Now you can dis-/enable this with this
parameter
sort_by_date === 1 (0 = no, 1 = yes)
- New. Do you want your images sorted by their creation date?
Note: may slow down the gallery view!
cr_line1 === <a href="http://divepix.sourceforget.net" target="_new"><img src="./divepix_small.gif" alt="DivePix" border="0">
cr_line2 === version 0.3</a>
cr_line3 === © 2002 Thomas Klinger
- This three lines allow you to insert copyright information as shown above
in the example.
meta_info1 ===
meta_info2 ===
meta_info3 ===
meta_info4 ===
meta_info5 ===
- Also you can now use up to five lines for additional meta informations.
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