iPAP 0.7

Published in the wee hours of June 14, 2004

The first public release of iPAP: Photo Album Publisher (formerly known as SPAM: Simple Photo Album Manager) is now ready for download. The zip contains a somewhat detailed documentation, and everything you need to know (for now) is there. The project page will be ready after several hours of sleep. :) Consider this version a “preview,” a prelude to greater things coming soon.

Do post comments, reactions, suggestions, and more importantly—links to your iPAP-powered photos section!

58 replies to “iPAP 0.7”

  1. 1 Pingback from Weblog Tools Collection » iPAP 0.7 [rebelpixel productions] 8PM of June 13, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  2. 2 Pingback from xergioLOG » iPAP 0.7 8PM of June 13, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  3. 3 MtDewVirus 3AM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    I took a quick look at some of the files and the changes I saw look good. Now I should be able to include the PHP I want in the templates so that my photos section looks like the rest of my site. I also like that the CSS has been moved out. I’ll be able to incorporate my style switcher also. I’ll upgrade to this version in the next few days and let you know how it goes.

  4. 4 Pingback from :: mathibus.com » archives » ch-check it out! 2PM of June 14, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  5. 5 Pingback from Schmierzettel.NET » Neue Photoblog-Software 7PM of June 14, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  6. 6 matthew 9PM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    fyi, I am getting ‘redirection limit exceeed’ warning when I try to look at your photos section. Perhaps this is due to some incorrect .htacess friendly url redirection?

  7. 7 Sassy 9PM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    I’ll try it! :)

  8. 8 MaThIbUs 10PM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    As matthew said, I now get an error on your photos section… Oops?

    But the new iPAP is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
    superduperextramegaultracoolawesome. Here’s my photo gallery — for the moment still powered by the first iPAP preview release.

    Congrats!

    MaThIbUs: I edited your super long word, it’s breaking the layout in WinIE! :)
    -Markku

  9. 9 Trackback from mathibus.com 10PM of June 14, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  10. 10 markku 11PM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    Matthew, MaThIbUs: Sorry for the errors earlier, I just did something stupid with the rewrite rules. :) I think the default rules included in the readme also needs some work to make it fool-proof.

  11. 11 MaThIbUs 11PM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    i had a quick look, and when trying to upload a test jpg it said file not support (or some such error).

  12. 12 MtDewVirus 11PM of June 14, 2004 [r]

    I just installed the new version over what you gave me before and it was a snap. Great piece of work Markku! Unfortunately though I think I’ve found something that fits my needs more at this point, but I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on your project. Thanks for letting me test it out!

  13. 13 abhi 12AM of June 15, 2004 [r]

    cool layout… :)

  14. 14 Trackback from iChris.ws 6PM of June 15, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  15. 15 devesh 6PM of June 15, 2004 [r]

    i have been eagerly awaiting this release. i think this is an excellent app :)

    just a quick suggestion, if i may…

    i noticed that even if you create more albums, all the pics are uploaded in 1 folder only.

    is there a way you can make a change that it creates that album’s respective folder everytime you create an album?

    looking forward for it

    cheers
    -D

  16. 16 markku 3AM of June 16, 2004 [r]

    MtDewVirus, no problem at all. I saw Pictorialis II and it looks good, I’m not sure if that’s the direction I want to take though.

    devesh, that can be done but would require a lot of work, and something I personally do not want to implement. I don’t think having multiple folders of albums with loose security (after CHMOD) can be safe. I actually did things that way before, but permissions can be very limiting, especially if your host does not allow you to perform CHMOD operations from within PHP.

    To summarize, it would require a lot of work for very little benefits. :)

  17. 17 Maureen 7AM of June 16, 2004 [r]

    I’ve been looking for something just like this. I love it. Easy to install and use. Thank you!

    http://maureen-lipsett.net/photos

  18. 18 onlygirl 6AM of June 17, 2004 [r]

    I love this! I am soo new to web blogs. I just set up my own for the first time and feel very new to the whole thing. I would love to put something like this on my site, but I have no clue how to do it. I love photography and would like a better organized way to display my pics. Like I said, I am a totally newbie to all this puter stuff. If anyone can help me out, I would greately appreciate it!

  19. 19 MaThIbUs 12AM of June 20, 2004 [r]

    Some thoughts/questions:

    • Are there any future plans of making iPAP work with a mySQL database?
    • I’d love to see the functions in ipap-functions.php having the ipap_ prefix (rather than the wp prefix, which some functions in there do)… Why? Because I’m including my site header and footer in every page of my iPAP gallery. That header already includes all WP files, so this whole thing would result in a “Cannot redeclare function” error.

  20. 20 Brian 2AM of June 20, 2004 [r]

    Dogtoe.com - Gallery

    Let me know what you think! I’m still working on it, too…

    I love this script.

  21. 21 markku 2AM of June 20, 2004 [r]

    MaThIbUs, I’m still thinking about mySQL integration. Not really sure yet.

    I’ll fix the function names for the next release, whenever it’s ready. Can’t promise when that’ll be though.

  22. 22 Trackback from Strobelit 3AM of June 22, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  23. 23 MaThIbUs 4AM of June 22, 2004 [r]

    [rant] Aargh! My iPAP just crashed twice (problems with the db files): We Want MySQL! [/rant]

    Oh and I’ve got another question. In the readme file, it says:

    However, if you have other rewrite rules in your root’s .htaccess file, you might need to add modified rules to that file instead:

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

    RewriteRule ^photos_url/(.*)/(.*)/$ photos_path/index.php?a=$1&i=$2 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^photos_url/(.*)/$ photos_path/index.php?a=$1 [QSA]

    Where photos_url is the “nice path” you intend to use, and photos_path is the real path to to your iPAP install.

    I think this is not 100% correct — please let me know if I’m wrong. To make this kind of thing work, there should be an extra $real_path variable (in ipap-config.php, containing the real path of the iPAP install. (Thanks to the file name prefixes, you can easily install iPAP in your site’s root folder; in that case, $real_path would contain "/".) It’s a bit like the WordPress Address (URI) being different from the Blog Address (URI) (check the options panel in your WP admin section): If you want your blog homepage to be different than the directory you installed WordPress in, enter that address here. You get my point?

  24. 24 markku 4AM of June 22, 2004 [r]

    Mathibus, I get the idea about the address variables. :) Maybe on the next release, I think I have to get back to coding it soon.

    Regarding your crash, what happened exactly? The db files were corrupted? They were unreadable? I’ve encountered this a long time ago, maybe we should really go MySQL. Decisions, decisions…

  25. 25 sps 3PM of June 22, 2004 [r]

    I really like the way you set up your photo gallery, but there’s only one thing keeping me from using this script instead of “Gallery”: user ability to leave comments. If this is there and I’ve made an oversight, then woops, sorry, but if not, it’d be a great addition to an already great script. I’ll also throw in a ‘me too’ for the MySQL support. Definitely worth it.

  26. 26 MaThIbUs 2AM of June 23, 2004 [r]

    Markku: Yeah, the files got corrupted somehow (?), resulting in about 79 error messages on every page of my photo album, and… no photos. :) MySQL implementation has got my vote.

    And you see, if there already was MySQL implementation, there would probably already be a comments feature, and a view counter, and a random photo thingy — since even I can code these things.

  27. 27 ichris 6PM of June 24, 2004 [r]

    http://ichris.ws/photos

    works great! I love it :)

  28. 28 dss 3PM of June 26, 2004 [r]

    Markku!!!!

    Thank You!!!!

    you are a genius! i am so deeply loving this… i knew if i just kept my mouth shut and waited that you would come through. you make my blog worth blogging on!

    thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

  29. 29 Pingback from Just a quick update [rebelpixel productions] 8PM of June 28, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  30. 30 Poonam 5AM of July 7, 2004 [r]

    Hello - I was wondering if iPAP has a slideshow function? I would like to implement a slideshow photo gallery on my website.

    Thanks!

  31. 31 markus 3AM of July 12, 2004 [r]

    Markku,

    many many thanx for this great peace of software - I really like it.

    I’m still working on the layout, but everybody is invited to have a look already at my photo site.

    But I must agree with MaThIbUs: MySQL would be great! My second wish would be be the possibility of sub-albums. But even if iPAP stays like it is: it’s the photo-publishing-software of my choice. Many thanx again!!!

  32. 32 Danmeister 9AM of July 29, 2004 [r]

    Dunno if anyone cares, but theres some discussion about Photoblog software in general.

    http://www.danmeister.net/archives/2004/photoblog-software-missing/

  33. 33 markku 1AM of July 30, 2004 [r]

    Danmeister, thanks for the heads up. I’ll try to consider your suggestions, maybe iPAP can use them. :)

  34. 34 Pingback from Not For Ambition or Bread » Photo Gallery Thoughts 1PM of July 31, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  35. 35 Chris 5AM of August 8, 2004 [r]

    Markku: I’ve had this installed for a couple of weeks now (here) and I must say that I love the flexibility of the application. The code is quite clean and simple.

    As for suggestions, I’d say that I agree on the mySQL storage for album and photo information to make the output and options that much more flexible. Also, about the one needed function that I don’t see is the option to upload a full image, have it sized down to a definied dimension (for page output) and the ability to link to the full image in another window. So, you would really have three copies per image: the full-size, the display size and the thumbnail. Seems fairly easy to do, to create another file after upload using a defined width setting.

    Anywho, that’s just my two cents. Glad to see this project has come along. Good work!

  36. 36 Pingback from Gabriel Serafini » iPAP 0.7 [rebelpixel productions] 6AM of August 10, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  37. 37 Pingback from Baboonworld » Blog Archive » i want images! 8PM of September 14, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  38. 39 fernando 5AM of October 13, 2004 [r]

    Markku,

    what’s the staus of iPAP?

    i tell you it’s the best gallery i have used. i just love it. everyone does. the single drawbacks have proven to be needing to resize the images before upload (not everyone has an application to do that) but i’ve solved this by inviting my less equipped friends to join something like Flickr! where it can be done (and stored) on the web for free.

    the other being having to scroll down to view the next image… i’ve done a little work on that for myself, in my own layout, but not enough to solve the problem of people not being willing to repeatedly scroll down. poor babies.

    But it’s these compelling categories, and the potential of captions which has be checking your projects page daily…

    any thoughts about your picking this up?

    or, would it be possible to find out what you changed from 07 to what you are currently doing now here at rebelpixel?

    either way, i remain, devoted.

    Fernando

  39. 40 Pingback from fernando_graphicos Fernando_Graphicos: iPAP in a single frame 7AM of October 13, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  40. 41 markku 9AM of October 13, 2004 [r]

    Fernando, I’m really glad you’re very much into iPAP. I do try to work on iPAP once in a while, because my schedule is really tight right now. Currently, I’m in the process of moving the code to use MySQL, using ezSQL — so using other databases should be no pain in the butt. The current file storage class has shown its weaknesses, especially in opening a photo album with several photos (around 40 or more). So finally we’ll go with a real database solution.

    The current code now has a resize option upon uploading, that’s the good news. :) It was contributed by another user but I can’t remember his name right now.

    Regarding viewing next images and scrolling down, that is just a layout problem that we could easily solve. Maybe you’d like to have a go at it. ;)

    Labels (categories?) will definitely be there, and I’m still thinking of other features to include. For now, the priority is the move to MySQL.

  41. 42 fernando 11AM of October 13, 2004 [r]

    Thank you for the update!

    I will take a crack at the layout of the gallery. i love your design, so it was hard enough to do anything to the css at all. But i shall, and i’ll return and point out my work to you.

    : )

    thanks again.

  42. 43 fernando 3PM of October 13, 2004 [r]

    ok,

    fingers shaking and everything…

    here is a 2nd example with write up i did for you.

    hope you like it.

    ps: pay no attention to the actual “style” of this gallery, just the structure…

    : )

  43. 44 fernando 6AM of October 14, 2004 [r]

    Ok,

    i’ve abandoned the idea of a single window. your solution is the best (if the selectable sets of 10 thumbs at a time won’t work.)

    but here’s another idea

    : )

    f.

  44. 45 fernando 7AM of October 14, 2004 [r]

    here is a return to the idea of the album and image in the same window:
    3 ideas written up in this entry.

    lemme know what you think!

    : )

  45. 46 Martin 10AM of November 14, 2004 [r]

    I like iPAP how it is: simple, easy and light. A few (!) more options and functions would be nice, but no must. An RSS for the album would be helpfull.. :)
    Check my gallery.

  46. 47 Trackback from The Dave Today 6AM of November 24, 2004 Excerpt ↓

  47. 48 Glacial 3AM of January 4, 2005 {subscribed to comments} [r]

    Perfect! My gallery
    Just one question … Comments on albums???

  48. 49 Kevin 4AM of January 16, 2005 [r]

    So, for clarification, the cause of the URL redirection limit errors has something to do with .htaccess? Exactly what in .htaccess is the problem?

  49. 50 markku 11AM of January 16, 2005 [r]

    Kevin, there was a problem with the old rewrite rules, but using these rules works for me and many others.

  50. 51 Kevin 8AM of January 17, 2005 [r]

    I’m not quite sure what to do with that. I add the variable $real_path to ipap-config (which would be ‘/photography/’ for me)? Do I have to modify the .htaccess?

  51. 52 markku 3PM of January 18, 2005 [r]

    Kevin you only need to edit your .htaccess file, no need to add a new variable. The necessary variables are already in ipap-config.php by default.

  52. 53 Jon 4AM of February 13, 2005 {subscribed to comments} [r]

    great gallery, it’s just what i’ve been looking for. aside from the current lack of mysql support, the only compliant i have is that it isn’t integrated into a CMS/blog package like textpattern or expression engine. can’t wait to see further iterations of ipap. thanks.

  53. 54 Ozguru 6PM of February 23, 2005 [r]

    I am giving it a try as a way of storing the photos on my blog. The actual albums are at this url. I want to try and find a way of putting random thumbnails on my sidebar.

  54. 55 courtney 6AM of March 17, 2005 [r]

    just wondering if this can be integrated with wordpress…thanks for any info!

  55. 56 Stu Schaff 5AM of April 6, 2005 [r]

    I was also wondering if it could be integrated with WordPress. Instead of waiting for an answer, though, I’m gonna go ahead and do it. (Better than rolling my own.) I’ll let y’all know how it turns out.

  56. 57 Stu Schaff 1PM of May 16, 2005 [r]

    Okay, I rolled my own. Sorry, if anyone was waiting.

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