Support Manual - Coppermine Photo Gallery

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Coppermine

A Professional Photo Gallery Tool See a photo gallery sample!

Coppermine is a multi-purpose, fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as the image library with a MySQL database backend. With Coppermine, you can crop, edit, and turn your photos into albums and much more.
An abbreviated list of features follows. For more details, refer to the Coppermine web site at http://coppermine-gallery.net.

• Arrangement of pictures in categories and albums;
• Picture information stored in database;
• Users can upload pictures with web interface of ftp (and admin can batch-add to database);
• Full multimedia support;
• Creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics;
• Advanced search (boolean operators);
• Random picture;
• User management (private galleries, groups);
• Caption, title, description and user defined fields for each picture (searchable);
• Multi-lingual support;
• User comments;
• E-card feature;
• Slideshow viewer;
• Image rotation

How to use Coppermine:

Login with your control panel user name and password. Once you do, you'll see the admin tools:

Click the "Categories" button to add your first category. In our example, we added two categories: Design Portfolio and HostingCT at Work.

Then click the "Albums" button to choose a category and add albums to it. In our example, our Albums under Design Portfolio are 2007, 2006, etc.

Use the "Config" button to give your photo gallery a name, change the colors/look of your photo gallery, set up user registration, etc.

To link to your photo gallery from your website, link to http://www.yoursite.com/coppermine

Don't have Coppermine installed on your site?

Add Coppermine to your account by clicking the "Fantastico" icon in your control panel and choosing Coppermine and installing it. You must have an available mysql database on your account.