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Control panel

From this page you can administrate your WEBalbum.

Available configuration tools:

• Main settings
• Users management
• Groups management
• Categories management
• Photos moderation
• Categories moderation
• Comments
• Photos importer
• Backup

Main settings

Main settings are a basic configuration tool in WEBalbum.


Available options:

• page title
  Page title in a navigator window (TITLE tag in HTML).
• system e-mail
  This e-mail address will be in e-mail to users.
• administrator name
  
• administrator e-mail
  
• show administrator name in footer
• show administrator e-mail in footer
  
  
• login panel
  Show login panel on the page.
• newest photos panel
  Show newest photos panel.
• max number of photos in the newest photos panel
  You can set limit for display the newest photos.
  
  
• let language change by user
  
• default language
  Default language on your page.
• let skin change by user
  
• default skin
  Default skin on your page.
  
  
• category moderation
  Moderation mode for new categories added by users. Added categories will be available after administrator (root) accepts these categories.
• notify by e-mail about new categories
  
• notify by e-mail about new photos
  
  
  
• open photos in a new window
  
• show navigation with thumbnails
  Show thumbnails (next/previous) in the navigation in photo's view.
• add the text in photos.
  Add a caption on photos, for example the page title. Leave empty if you don't want any caption.
• add the text in photos (photo name)
  Add the caption on photos with a photo name.
• add the text in photos (photo description)
  Add the caption on photos with a photo description
• add the text in photos (photo author)
  Add the caption on photos with a photo author
  
  
• show user's login by a comment
  
• number of shown comments
  You can set limit of shown comments. The newest comments will be displayed first.

Users management

From this page you can add, edit and delete users.

Add users

You must fill fields: login, password and retype password. Additionally you can fill a name and an e-mail. Only when you fill an e-mail address user will be able to use "remind password" option. You must also select user group (details below). Available checkbox enabled/disabled the account for this user.


Below basic data are privileges list. For each categories of photos you can set privileges for user:

• view photos
• add photos
• add comments

Edit user’s detail

Every user's account you can edit and change privileges. The account edit form is the same like the add user form. You can't change user's login and password.

Delete user

Delete user from the database.

Groups management

Every user belongs to some group. In group options you can set users privileges. You can assign to a group several users.

Adding/Editing users groups

Available options:

• name
  Group name.
• quota
  Limit of maximum size of all added photos by user who belong to this group (in kB). 0 – no limits.
• adding own categories
  
• deleting own categories
  
• editing own categories
  
• deleting photos (in own category)
  
• editing photos (in own category)
  
• deleting comments (in own category)
  

Below you can select displayed information for users belong to this group.

Delete groups

Delete group from database. All users who belong to this group automatically will be assigned to anonymous group.

Categories management

From this page you can administrate categories in your gallery. Access for this page has also users they who has one of privileges:

• adding categories
  
• deleting categories (own) – if user is owner least one category
  
• editing categories (own) – if user is owner least one category
  

Adding/Editing category

Available options:

• category name
  Required.
• description
  
• owner
  Category owner (with his privileges).
• change photos resolution
  New photos added to this category will be resized to selected resolution. You can also define your own resize mode in $resize_mode array in inc/config.php file.
• available
  Enabled/disabled category.

Below it is user list. For each user you can set privilege.

Deleting category

Delete category from the database.

Photos moderation

If in main settings you check photos moderation every photos added by users, before will be available on the page, administrator (root) must accepted. On this page will be all of added and unmoderated photos.

Available options for each photos:

• edit
  You can change a photo's name, description, author or category for the photo.
• delete
  
• publish
  Publish photo on the page.

Categories moderation

Category moderation is like photos moderation.

Comments

Here you can view and delete selected comments to photos.

Photos importer

This is very useful tool if you want to add a lot of photos. If you want use it you must first upload photo's files to the import directory (default is import) in the server. You can use FTP or SCP. After this in the importer page you will see a number of files to import.

Available fields in the import's form:

• category
  Select category to imported photos.
• photo added by
  Select login who added photos.
• author
  
• prefix of photos names
  Leave empty if you want original files names.
• delete imported files from import directory
  After import files will be deleting from import directory.

To import any photo must exists least one category. Imported photos will have resolution like selected in category options.

Backup

You can make database backup. This option is very helpful if you want to move your gallery to another server.

Export database

This option makes database backup to file.

Import database

It restores database from the backup file. This operation overwrites all data in database. After this operation you must copy all files to the photos directory from previous backup.