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pnCPG version 5.00 released
+ 14 December 2008
On the edge of 2008, a new version of pnCPG get's released. The goal was to allow different independant galleries within one Postnuke/Zikula site. pnCPG5.00 is driven by config files which means that you can support unlimited instances of Coppermine.
This also valid for each block. So each block can be added multiple times for different galleries.
Cas Nuy, the author of the Port pnCPG has released version 5.00 of his port.
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Feature freeze stage for cpg1.5.x
+ 20 December 2008
The Coppermine dev team has decided to let the feature freeze stage for cpg1.5.x start on 2008-12-15. This means that from that date on there will be no new features added to cpg1.5.x. Instead, the bugs will be hunted and fixed, and the preparation of an initial release for testers and translators will start.
If you're looking forward to become a tester for the new version, please make sure to review this page frequently - there will be an announcement soon when the actual alpha package will be released. Please do not clutter the support board yet with questions on the upcoming release.
Theme contest
+ 01 December 2008
The coppermine group has started a theme design contest to come up with a fresh new design for the upcoming release of cpg1.5.x.
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Developer blog started
+ 19 November 2008
We started this blog to put forward our experience, knowledge and views on technology, programming and opensource. This blog will highlight coppermine project, its development and features. But hold on, this blog will not be entirely about coppermine and will have topics including php, other opensource applications, world wide web, anything related to technology and sometimes developers and their life.
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Spammers wanted
+ 11 November 2008
The staff of the coppermine support board would like to say a big "thank you" to all the spammers out there. You manage to register and drop your crap (online pharmacy, porn links, affiliate programs) by the dozen each and every day. Yet your postings have an average time to live of less than 10 minutes before they get caught by moderators and deleted and your accounts get suspended. You really need a lot of luck to have the google spider visit within that short 10 minutes period. Your postings have an average hit counter of 1.1 - that's usually one hit by the moderator who deletes you and only a very small chance of a user to click your links. Why don't you stop wasting precious efforts? Go play somewhere else. Or get a decent job. Anyway, you probably won't, so let's continue to play. I wonder who will get tired first. There are thousands of you, but only a few of us, yet we win each day. Yeah, I know - you probably won't read this news record and continue dumping your lame spam. I wonder what you tell your wives when you get home in the evening, after having molested millions of people - do you continue lying? Or do you tell your sweetie "honey,I had a hard time posting all that crap"? You probably don't have wives... Nor do you have friends, at least none who know what you're doing for a living. Have a nice life! I would hate myself if I were you...
A real "thank you" goes to all the volunteer moderators who keep this board free of spam. 
Joachim Müller
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Security release cpg1.4.19 - upgrade mandatory
+ 5 August 2008
The development team is releasing a security update for Coppermine in order to counter a recently discovered injection vulnerability. It is important that all users who run version cpg1.4.18 or older update to this latest version as soon as possible.
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Maintenance release
+ 5 August 2008
download the brand new stable version of coppermine cpg1.4.19
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All new upload interface
+ 5 January 2009
Continuing the series to highlight the new exciting features of cpg15x, today lets take a look at all new upload interface. The new interface uses the popular open source tool SwfUpload which uses flash to upload files. The great thing about this tool is that it shows file upload progress bar. Whats better than a [...]
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Happy New Year 2009
+ 2 January 2009
Well i am late on this but nevertheless - Coppermine Dev Team wishes all users of cpg a very Happy New Year 2009. We look forward to having a rocking time in 2009.
This new year will also bring the new coppermine release i.e. cpg1.5.x (lets keep our fingers crossed). We are working hard to make [...]
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Creating plugins was never this easy
+ 1 January 2009
While I have been working on CPG 1.5, I recently started recoding some plugins and writing new ones. One of the major things that have been coded is the addition of quite a lot plugin hooks. While sometimes it is easier to create a mod (modifying the core code) then a plugin (no changes needed in the [...]
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GSoC Mentor Summit 2008
+ 2 December 2008
This year Coppermine participated in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for the second time. Since our students and mentors did a great job, 2 devs were invited to attend the Mentor Summit at Google HQ in Mountain View on October 25th and 26st. Thu and myself were the lucky chosen ones to represent Coppermine over [...]
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What’s cooking in cpg1.5
+ 21 November 2008
The next major release of coppermine i.e. cpg1.5 will have number of new features which all of you will most definitely adore however In this post I have highlighted only a few of them.
1. User album in admin allowed categories
This was one long standing feature awaiting to get its way into coppermine. From 15x onwards [...]
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.:: Coppermine Photo Gallery is looking for new style
Coppermine Theme Contest has started!
After all these years, it is time to retire the default theme that ships with Coppermine. To this end, the Development Team would like to invite everyone to design a new theme for Coppermine. The winning theme will be the first theme new users see after installing Coppermine! Detailed information about the contest can be found on the forum by clicking here.
Of course, a contest without prizes wouldn't be a proper contest, so this is what you can win if you submit a great theme:
- 1 year Business hosting plan valued at $179.80 sponsored by Hostgator.com (1 prize)
- 1 year Baby hosting plan valued at $119.40 sponsored by Hostgator.com (2 prizes)
- An exclusive Coppermine T-shirt
- More to come!!!
In addition, we even created a special promocode for anyone who wants to rent webspace at Hostgator.com.
Place your order and enter the coupon code 'cpgtheme' to save $9.94 off your first invoice!
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01: Welcome to Coppermine Photo Gallery's homepage!
Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.
Coppermine is free software which you can download and install on your webspace. If you came here from a "Powered by Coppermine" link on a photo gallery, please read these Frequently-Asked Questions.
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The default CPG theme's front page.
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.:: Requirements
02: Web Server + PHP + MySQL + IM/GD = CPG!
Coppermine Photo Gallery has been tested working well on IIS, Apache 1.3.24 onwards to the latest Apache 2, on Linux, UNIX, OSX, and Win32 systems. The following settings are required:
- Good webserver (Apache recommended);
- PHP (4.2.0 or better);
- MySQL (3.23.23 or better; 4.x recommended);
- either GD or ImageMagick (any version);
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.:: Current features
03: Endless Features!
CPG is so fully featured it's not enough to fully list them here. Feel free to have a go with the demo - change the themes, add some comments, see it in Hungarian!
- 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;
- search feature;
- last added;
- random picture;
- user management (private galleries, groups);
- integration of user management with various bbs (like phpBB, YaBB SE, SMF, Invisionboard, vbulletin);
- caption, title, description and user defined fields for each picture (searchable);
- easy install (installer provided);
- multi-lingual: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (both Big-5 and GB), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (both "Du" and "Sie"), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian (both with and without diacritics), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Uighur, Vietnamese; if your language is not on the list, you can easily create a translation for your own language;
- user comments;
- e-card feature;
- slideshow viewer;
- all features customizable with web interface (admin section);
- template system;
- user membership in multiple groups;
- upload approval notice for admin;
- EXIF/IPTC support;
- language selection option in template;
- image rotation;
- multi-pic upload;
- separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template;
- option to choose max height or width for thumbnails will help in creating nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols;
- option to display a clickable flimstrip of thumbnails below the image display;
- option to show first level albums of a category instead of just statistics of the category;
- option of turning on OR off the showing of "Private" Icon to unlogged / unprivileged user;
- title option to sort in albums;
- online help feature for the admin pages;
- plugin-API;
- English as a fallback language for un-translated entries in language files;
- password-protected albums;
- more admin-settable user profile fields;
- picture-resize on upload;
- bbs integration settable with a wizard-like user interface;
- advanced search (boolean operators);
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Customise your frontpage through CSS, PHP or plain HTML!
Unlimited multiple albums and categories using MySQL.
Film strip for that easy access.
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.:: Future plans
04: What does the near future hold?
The developers are excited about releasing a new version which may include the following features (check out the forum):
- integration of various hacks/user contributions into the release package;
- advanced e-card feature (plain-text mails);
- template-building tutorial;
- optional dhtml navigation;
- Permanent URLs for search engine friendliness (using PID instead of POS)
- Rating on thumbnails page
- Registration disclaimer optional
- From thumbnail to Pop-Up option
- Coppermine API
- Comment approval
- Comment and registration captcha class
- Global password for registration
- Watermarking
- Thumb cropping and sharpening
- Movie download option
- Ecard flash support
- Random album thumbnail
- Tag cloud for keywords
- Moderator for album pictures
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.:: Credits
05: The inspirer
Coppermine was originally created by Grégory DEMAR.
Find out more about the dev team and the contributors on the team page.
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Coppermine Photo Gallery Copyright 2003-2008.
Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) is an open source project released under the GNU/GPL terms.
Other trademarks are properties of their respective companies.