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ImageFolio Picture Post Mod User's Guide


VERSION: 1.4
LAST MODIFIED: 02/03/2001


What is the Picture Post Mod?
This is an add-on module for ImageFolio Professional Edition, that allows your users (or yourself) to post pictures to the category of their choice in any ImageFolio Gallery. The Picture Post Mod even generates thumbnail images, and resizes large images to your specifications -- including maximum dimensions, image quality, sharpness, and contrast. ImageFolio's Picture Post Mod offers support for up to 68 file types, including GIF, JPEG, TIF, PSD, PNG, BMP, WMF, MPEG, and many more! Installation takes about 5 minutes. Note: The Picture Post Mod requires ImageMagick, a freely available third party image editor available for Unix, Linux, and Windows servers.

Before you purchase the Picture Post Mod, you need to be aware of the requirements. The Picture Post Mod requires that you have a licensed copy of ImageFolio Professional Edition, and a software product called ImageMagick installed on your server. You need to check with your ISP or have your own server with ImageMagick already installed before you order the Picture Post mod. If you cannot install ImageMagick on your servers, you can order our Picture Post ASP Service or contact us for alterntatives.




Installation Instructions
  1. Unzip your 'PicturePost*.zip' file to a directory on your computer

    You should see the following files and directories:

    cgi-bin - this contains the scripts, your 'templates' directory and the configuration file, 'post_config.pl'

    README.txt - this file

  2. FTP (login) to your Web server.

  3. Upload all of the files in the 'cgi-bin' directory to the directory where you store imageFolio.cgi and imageSearch.cgi

    Unix Users: Set permissions on all '*.cgi' files to 755 and set permissions
    on 'post.db' to 666
    Make sure you transfer all files in ASCII TEXT mode!

  4. Upload the two files in the 'templates' directory to the directory where you store your ImageFolio templates.
    Make sure you transfer all files in ASCII TEXT mode!

  5. Open up all the "*.cgi" files in a text editor (such as EditPlus,
    Notepad, or BBEdit, and change the path to Perl at the top to match that of your system, unless yours is '/usr/bin/perl'

  6. Open 'post_config.pl' (from the 'cgi-bin' directory) and answer all of the
    questions. This is your configuration file and all variables regarding your server will need to be defined within this file.

  7. Save, then Upload all of the files you modified, back to your server.

  8. Open your Web browser and type in the URL to 'imagePost.cgi'. You should see a form that asks you to upload a picture. Go ahead and upload a picture to any category. If it works, you're in business, otherwise, try again.
     


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