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Coppermine Photo CMS Documentation

This documentation is intended to help you use this photo script, Coppermine. Depending on whether you are logged in as admin or member or anonymous you will see something different on this page. If you have a question that is not answered here please check the forum at dragonflycms.org
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Categories, albums and pictures

The script works in the following way :

  • Pictures are stored in albums
  • Albums may be organised in categories
  • Categories can be nested (subcategories)

If you don't have many albums, you don't need to use categories. In that case you don't create any category and all your albums will appear on the main page of the script.
There is a special category named "User galleries". This category can't be deleted. If a user belongs to a group where "can have a personal gallery" is set to YES, he will have the right to create his own albums and his gallery will be a sub-category of "User galleries".
The administrator can create albums in any category. Regular users can only create albums in "User galleries/Their_username".

Album List

This goes to the page that lists all the categories, the gallery home page

My gallery

View your user gallery

Upload your Photo

As a Register User/Member you may upload photos to albums allowed by the administrator, and your user gallery. To upload just click the upload link when logged in. After clicking the upload link choose a category from the list box, click on the Browse button next to the "Picture" field and find the image you want to upload from your computer. Fill out the rest of the fields in the form and click "upload Picture"

Last uploads :: Last comments :: Most viewed :: Top rated

These links go to the "meta albums" Last uploads - Last comments - Most viewed - Top rated. These albums are made of pictures from the category/album that you are in at the time that you click them, and if not in a category/album the pictures shown with be from all the categories/albums

My Favorites

This is a temporary album that lasts as long as your cookie from us. Use the link below the pictures to add picture to this album.

Searching the gallery

When you click the search link you can search for photos by keyword.

ADMIN MENU

The following are functions you are able to do while in admin mode, using the admin menu

Upload approval

This is where you can approve photos for posting, as well as edit their descriptions.

Batch add pictures

Click this link to add pictures you have uploaded to the albums directory via ftp. You must have already created the categories and albums that you want to put them in. If you create folders via ftp you will need to change the permissions on them to 777 before using this link. You may the edit the picinfo of each picture in an album using the Edit Pics link next to the album thumb in album list view or the link under the bigger photo in displayimage. You may want to set the albums properties visibility to admin only while you batch add and add descriptions

Review Posted Comments

Read, modify and delete comments posted regarding pictures

The group control panel

This is where you define what members of a group can and can't do.
The disk quota applies only for groups where "Can have a personal" gallery has been set to "YES". Only pictures uploaded by a user in his personal gallery are included in the quota.
Use the anonymous group to define what non-registered users can and can't do. Quota and "Can have a personal gallery" are meaningless for anonymous users.
Bear in mind that if a user is a member of a group where "can rate pictures", "can post comments" or "can upload pictures" is set YES, he will have the right to perform these operations only in albums where they are allowed, ie. uploading pictures will only be possible in albums where "Visitors can upload pictures" has been set to YES.
If "can have a personal gallery" is set to YES, the members of the group will have their own gallery in the "User galleries" category where they will be able to create their own albums. If you allow member to upload photos but not have user galleries the user album folders(albums/userpics/10001-?) will still be used to store their uploaded photos.
If "priv. upl. approval" is set to NO, pictures uploaded by members of the group in albums created in their own gallery won't need to be approved by the admin. You may add addition groups but you will need to add users to this group manually by going to the user manager.

Users

Here you change a specific user's group, view their the amount of their quota that is being used as well as make change to the pictures they are able to see though groups checkboxes. For more information see the Permissions part of the document.

Album Management

This is where you can create, delete or change the order of albums. If you want a personal album this is the first stop otherwise create the category that you want your new album in if any. At this time this is a javascript feature so make sure it is on before accessing this page. Click the new button first. Then type the name in the input area below the order album section, and save you modification. This is also where you can delete albums click on the album name and click delete. To change the order of your albums click on the album name you want to move and click on the up or down button. To change the name of an album click on the name and edit the text below,and click Apply modifications.

Modifying albums/picture

This menu is adjacent to each albums description in the category or album list view.
Delete allows you to delete the album and all pictures it contains.
Properties allows you to modify the name, description and permissions of the album, see more about this feature in the Album properties section below
Edit pics allows you to modify the title/caption/keywords etc... of the pictures in the album

Album properties


The "Album" drop down list at the top right allows you move between albums to set preferences. The "Album category" drop down list allows you to move an album between categories. If you set this to "* No category *" then the album will be displayed on your main page.
The "Album description" field is shown next the albums thumbnail in the album list. Coppermine understands the following bbCodes (the same bbCodes that are used by phpBB) in image and album description

  • [b]bold[/b]
  • [i]italic[/i]
  • [url=http://url]URL text[/url]
  • [email]user@domain.tld[/email]
The thumbnail is the picture that will represent the album in the album list.
Who can see this?You can define who can view the pictures of this album.
When "visitors can upload picture" is set to YES, it is possible to upload pictures in this album. Note that a visitor will have the right to upload pictures into an album where this option is set to YES only if he is a member of a group for which "Can upload pictures" is set to YES. Non registered users are members of the "Anonymous" group.
The same rules as above apply for "Visitors can post comments" and "Visitors can rate pictures".

Permissions

This gallery comes with a complex set of permissions. Users can be part of Anonymous, Members or any other group you create in the user group control panel. Registered users are by default part of the registered users group. You can add a group to an users groups click on the Users link in the menu and find the user in the list or enter their name in the edit user box the select the main group they are part of, then using the checkboxes add other group you want them to be part of ( check boxes only give permission to see pictures of that group).
Using the album properties link next to each album. You can set which group can see a particular album. You can then set in your config page whether anonymous can see the icons for the private albums, if this is set to off and a category only has albums that a user can't see the category won't be shown either. Test using separate browser with different logins(member types) that you have set these permissions right. To summarize you must set: user groups,user's group,album properties,anon can see private in config to have it all work.


Copyleft 2003-4
written by gtroll and moorey of the Coppermine Dev Crew