Supports extensive, password protected adminstration to configure and control a whole gallery system
4images is a useful and powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and mangagement, password protected administration area with browser-based upload and HTML templates for page layout and design.
More features are: RSS feeds, search engine, automatic thumbnail generation, extensive user administration, upload function for users, showing IPTC and EXIF data of images, rating of images, spam protection, protection against hotlinking, newsletter function, e-cards, integrated database backup function, etc.
NOTE: Free for private use ONLY
Main features of 4images:
General functions:
extensive, password protected adminstration are to configure and control the whole gallery system
database backup function
multi language support
easy to use installer for 4images
RSS-Feeds (latest images of the gallery, latest images of a category, latest comments of an image)
Categories:
unlimited categories and subcategories
logging and statistics of clicks for each category or subcategory
title and description (optional) for every category
number of visible subcategories below categories can be defined
Images:
pre-configured for the following image- and file formats:
jpg, gif, png, aif, au, avi, mid, mov, mp3, mpg, swf, wav, ra, rm, zip, pdf
extendable for every file format (3gp, psd, smil, etc.)
upload through browser, through admin panel or via FTP
automatic thumbnail generation (requires: ImageMagick, GD or NetPBM)
automatic resizing of images (requires: ImageMagick, GD or NetPBM)
showing IPTC and EXIF data of images
ratings by users for every image
individual to activate comment function for every image
download function for every image, including counter
download selected files as zip-archive
description and keywords for every image
easy to customize e-cards (colors, font)
protection against hotlinking
Comments:
individual to activate comment function for every image
support of bb-codes like bold, italic, etc.
HTML-code in comment field can be disabled
spam control
badword function
automatic wrapping of long words
User:
extensive user administration including registration (double opt-in)
extensive permission management for users and usergroups
lightbox for registered users
upload function for registered users
"Who is online" function
Newsletter function
encryped storage of passwords in the database
Templates:
easy to customizable layout via templates to fit the own web layout
templates can be edited using a general HTML editor or via the administration area
standard template is included
many more templates avaible to download
Requirements of 4images:
A webserver or web hosting account (Linux/Apache recommended)
PHP Version 4.0.5 or higher (we recommend to use always the latest stable version).
To ensure that 4images is functioning properly, safe_mode should be disabled (safe_mode = off in your php.ini).
MySQL Version 3.23 or higher (MySQL Version 3.23.33 recommended)
optional: ImageMagick, GD or NetPBM
What's New in This Release:
Fixed bugs reported
Added success message after posting a comment
Disabled download button in lightbox if there are no download permissions for all images in the lightbox
"Delete lightbox" link is now hidden if the lightbox is empty
Added possibility to sort by filenames in CP image search form
Added onchange javascript for "per page" dropdown
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