SPGM - Simple Picture Gallery Manager ====================================== ChangeLog.txt v1.4.2 12-27-2004: v1.4.2 - Feature added: toggle-able drop shadows surrounding pictures and thumbnails - Feature added: toggle-able EXIF data screen - Bug fix: "XHTML 1.0 strict" compliance fixed - Bug fix: Javascript issue fixed when using filters with Opera, thanks to Herbert Neugebauer - Change: thumbnails can now reside in a subdirectory (see DIR_THUMBS constant, in spgm.php) 11-11-2004: v1.4.1 - Change: New default theme - Change: The special character in pic-desc.txt files has changed from '=' to '|'. Hyperlinks are now possible in picture captions. - Bug fix: Permission tests are now compatible with every host policies - Change: 1 language pack added (Slovak) 05-08-2004: v1.4 (PHP 3 compliance abandoned) - Feature added: auto-template mode - Change: configuration check improved) - Change: 1 language pack added (Russian) - Bug fix: undefined variables fixed - Bug fix: XHTML 1.0 compliance fixed 01-26-2004: v1.3.5 - Change: 1 language pack added (Chinese simplified) - Bug fix: When PopupFitPicture is disabled, controls are displayed correctly - Bug fix: Layout break fixed 12-28-2003: v1.3.4 - Feature added: Slideshow mode is now toggle-able - Change: Picture captioning mechanism more user-friendly (see pic-desc.txt) - Change: Gallery names can be extented in a gal-title.txt file to fix issues related to directory names (to support accentuated characters for instance) - Change: Resource files renamed (gal-sort.txt, gal-desc.txt, pic-sort.txt, pic-desc.txt) - Bug fix: Picture captions are now updated in slideshows - Bug fix: Undefined variables fixed - Bug fix: Layout does not blow anymore in slideshow mode - Bug fix: Javascript 'Object expected' bug fixed 11-02-2003: v1.3.3 - Feature added: javascript slideshow added - Feature added: pop-up frames can now fit picture dimensionsi - Feature added: toggle-able display of the picture's filename along with the thumbnails/pictures (introduction of a new CSS class : td-picture-filename) - Change: picture/thumbnail captions are now stored in one single filei - Change: added · between each thumbnail page number - Change: code cleanup: variables renamed - Bug fix: 2 undefined variables fixed - Bug fix: rowspan attribute fixed - Misc: 3 language packs added (Bulgarian, Persian "Farsi", Turkish) 07-27-2003: v1.3.2 - Feature added: pop-up pictures support - Feature added: users can now set the position of the gallery title and caption (BOTTOM or RIGHT) - Bug fix: picture/"thumbnail page" syncing fixed - Bug fix: filter 'all' is now displayed while filter 'new' is on - Bug fix: undefined variables fixed - Change: removed standalone mode - Change: generated code shifted to XHTML 1.0 strict compliance - Change: URL parameter and function names have been changed (namespace prefix) - Change: 'print' function usage improved for better performance - Change: icons initialization code is now done once for better performance - Change: post initialization check updated for better performance/error handling - Change: reporting mechanism recoded - Change: code cleanup: configuration variables re-organized (use of a global array) - Change: subgal_display_level (now $cfg['config']['subGalleryLeve'l]) does not use the INFINITE value anymore (0 instead) - Change: 2 language packs added (Czech, Estonian) 05-24-2003: v1.3.1 - Feature added: added *true* non-standalone mode (header/footer files deprecated) - Feature added: support for gallery-dedicated thumbnails (_thb_galleryname.extension located in the gallery directory level) - Feature added: Pictures themselves now link to the next picture - Change: filter management completely recoded > $display_thumbnails_with_pic deprecated (see $filters in spgm.conf) - Change: supported picture file extensions are now stored in an array for better extensibility - Change: when displaying a gallery, sub-galleries links are now displayed above the thumbnails navigation bar - Change: code generation clean-up - Change: replaced >/< sequences by »/« characters - Bug fix: $gallery_listing_column_number now works for the root gallery as well - Bug fix: removed captions within ALT tags to avoid layout blow-ups - Bug fix: display ASCII arrows whenever graphic resources are not specified in a theme file - Bug fix: Width and height tags are set for _all_ icons - Bug fix: minor bug fixes (undefined variables, is_gallery() fixed) - Misc.: 6 language packs added (Korean, Croatian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian) 02-23-2003: v1.3 - Feature added: new picture highlighting can now be disabled - Feature added: introduction of thumbnail-sized gallery icons for graphically improved gallery listing (themes designer have to add one more icon) - Feature added: you can now set the number of displayed columns within gallery listings - Feature added: ability to display pictures without the thumbnail navigation bar - Feature added: picture information display (right below the thumbnails) can now be disabled - Feature added: pictures can now be sorted against creation date (WARNING: the name of the text file used to explicitely sort pictures has changed: picture.sort) - Feature added: galleries can now be explicitely sorted using the same principles than pictures (i.e. against filenames, creation date or explicitely sorted using a simple text file: gallery.sort) - Feature added: introduction of two sort criteria (available for both galleries and pictures): ascending or descending. Those are not available when explicit sort is used. - Bug fix: thumbnails' width-height ratio is now correctly preserved for thumbnailed galleries - Bug fix: width and height attributes for the img tag are now declared as to gallery icons - Bug fix: while browsing new pictures, switching between pages now keeps the filter status to 'new' - Bug fix: only directories possibly return true from is_gallery. - Bug fix: classes are now CSS 2.0 compliant - Code improvements - Introduction of a new class for the wrapper table ("table_wrapper") - Danish and Hungarian language packs added 01-10-2003: v1.2.1 - Critical bug fix as to URL parameter handling (noticeable on some server configurations). This bug's consequence is to always display the "unknown picture" error message. Everyone who encountered this issue should update the package... 01-04-2003: v1.2 - Bug fix: the 'new' icon (right above the thumbnails) is no longer displayed from the first new picture found - Bug fix as to the use of subgal_display_level (0 value is now invalid). Its value corresponds to the deepest level of the galleries to be displayed - Bug fix as to multi-language support - Error handling: a warning message is now displayed for each picture that has no associated thumbnail - Error handling: meaningless error messages updated - Better ALT tags for pictures/thumbnails: the caption is now displayed when possible. - Feature added: thumbnails can serve as gallery icons - Feature added: explicit sort of pictures against a text file (one picture per line) - Quick start guide added 07-31-2002: v1.1 - Bug fix as for the use of $PHP_SELF (this should be the last attempt to get it to work on every server configuration) - Gallery caption filename changed because of Windows filename issues and Linux default behavior as to .* files: .gal_msg -> gallery.msg - Picture filter visual improvement. Minor mistake fixed: Ko -> KB - Feature added: toggle-able display of the picture captions along with the thumbnails - Feature added: client side picture scaling for big pictures galleries (using javascript) - Feature added: toggle-able lexicographical sort on galleries names - Feature added: multi-language support 07-11-2002: v1.0.3b - Bug fix as to the use of $PHP_SELF (which caused problems with some versions of UAs like mozilla) - new CSS class introduced for the link to SPGM (CLASS_A_SPGM_LINK) -> modification of the default stylesheet also (remember you can set this class up the way you want as long as it is _visible_ on each page) 07-08-2002: v1.0.2b - Added code to handle register_globals (php.ini), whatever its value is (either ON or OFF) - Initialization of _all_ the variables to avoid "Undefined variable" error messages that appear on some configurations - is_picture: check filename patterns first and in a more restrictive manner for performance improvement - README.txt fixed (my email was wrong :), and updated (tips about thumbnails generation) - batch file for thumbnails generation included in the distribution (tools directory) 04-07-2002: v1.0.1b - bug fix for header/footer inclusion - disabled warning messages for filemtime unsuccessful calls - code generation cleanup - a few modifications in the spgm.conf comments - README.txt completed - ChangeLog.txt added 02-07-2002: v1.0b Initial release.