Installing PixelPost

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PixelPost: Installing PixelPost

Guide to Installing PixelPost including Custom Configuration and Fixes.

Contents 1 PixelPost Installation & Setup 1.1 Software Install 1.2 Addons and Code Modifications 1.3 Addons Extras 1.4 Custom Admin Settings 2 Custom Configuration and Fixes 2.1 Comments Management 2.2 Date Reset 2.3 Index.php Fix 2.4 Temporary Files Problem Fix 3 PixelPost Resources 3.1 Official PixelPost Resources 3.2 Unofficial PixelPost Resources 3.3 PixelPost Forum Queries

PixelPost Installation & Setup

Software Install

Installation notes for version 1.6.0 updated August 2007.

1. Upload pixelpost_v1.6.0.zip and decompress where you want it to live.
2. Create two additional directories and change File Permissions to 777:
   • images
   • thumbnails
3. Create a MySQL Database
4. Insert Database details into the Configuration file includes/pixelpost.php:
   • db_host, db_user, db_pass, db_pixelpost (name), db_prefix
5. Browse to www.yourdomain/pixelpost/admin/install.php to install.

Addons and Code Modifications

Additional customisation (see below for instructions).

1. Fix Temporary Files Problem if necessary (see below).
2. Insert /admin/admin-index.css Admin CSS style sheet with Dan's Version.
3. Do PixelPost Addons: TinyMCE Hack on admin/index.php to add TinyMCE WYSIWYG edtior to image description.

4. Install Dead Simple Fixed template & edit for Scalable Images.
5. Install PixelPost Addons: Scalable Images by Dan Salmon.

6. Install PixelPost Addons: Auto Resize.
7. Install PixelPost Addons: Custom Fields and configure required fields.
8. Install PixelPost Addons: Fast Edit Link (modified by Dan Salmon) and fix sub-folder link if necessary.
9. Install PixelPost Addons: MiniCMS (modified by Dan Salmon) with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. Edit Admin Link path.
10. Install PixelPost Addons: Pop3 Post (modified by Dan Salmon), if required. Note: This is buggy with some email clients.

Addons Extras

Install these for better search, etc.

1. Install PixelPost Addons: Google Sitemap Creator.
2. Install PixelPost Addons: Google Sitempa Ping.

Custom Admin Settings

Extra things to change within the Admin Panel

1. Changed date to — l jS F Y g:ia — Friday 16th August 2007 11:00pm

Custom Configuration and Fixes

Comments Management

Tips and tricks to using comments

• Forum: Disabling Comments — how disable comments which seems really quite difficult!

Date Reset

Default date setting — Y-m-d H:i:s — 2007-08-16 23:06:07
Changed to — l jS F Y g:ia — Friday 16th August 2007 11:00pm

Index.php Fix

Add to line 372 of index.php to remove linefeed from <IMAGE_NOTES_CLEAN>:

$image_notes = substr($image_notes,0,strlen($image_notes)-1);    (new)
$image_title = htmlspecialchars($image_title,ENT_QUOTES);        (existing)

See Forum: Using <IMAGE_NOTES> with overlib for more info. For some reason this only happens on some web servers. Odd...

Temporary Files Problem Fix

When viewing the Admin > General Info page, get the warning:

• Session save path is empty

Problem is caused by PixelPost being unable to write to temporary directory as it's located outside public_html folder.

To fix, edit files index.php and admin/index.php, adding the following line to the start of PHP script:

session_save_path("/home/yourhome/tmp/");

See Forum: Session save path is empty.

PixelPost Resources

Official PixelPost Resources

• www.pixelpost.org — official PixelPost website
• www.pixelpost.org — PixelPost Downloads for Templates, Add-Ons and Code Modifications.
• www.pixelpost.org/forum — PixelPost Forum for help and advice.
• wiki.pixelpost.org — PixelPost Wiki for user and developer guides.
• wiki.pixelpost.org — PixelPost Wiki Template Tags full list.

Unofficial PixelPost Resources

• Eleven2 — official hosting sponsors.
• PhotoBlogs.org – register to increase the visibility of your photoblog.

PixelPost Forum Queries

• Forum: Google Search Addon — posted for help on Tue 21/08/07.