Pixelpost version 1.7.3 SVN file version: $Id: ReadMe.txt 520 2008-01-16 20:32:24Z d3designs $ Welcome to the Pixelpost version 1.7! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pixelpost www: http://www.pixelpost.org/ Pixelpost wiki: http://wiki.pixelpost.org/ Pixelpost forum: http://forum.pixelpost.org Version 1.7: Development Team: Ramin Mehran, Will Duncan, Joseph Spurling, Piotr "GeoS" Galas, Dennis Mooibroek, Karin Uhlig, Jay Williams, David Kozikowski Former members of the Development Team: Connie Mueller-Goedecke Version 1.1 to Version 1.3: Linus Contact: thecrew (at) pixelpost (dot) org Copyright 2007 Pixelpost.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find information about Pixelpost, the installation and configuration, read the files in the directory: /doc !!!!!! There you will find all information: Entrance and Overview: ./doc/index.html Installation: ./doc/install.html Upgrading: ./doc/upgrade.html Changelog: ./doc/changelog.html All Pixelpost-Tags: ./doc/tags.html How to write admin-addons: ./doc/creating_admin_addons/admin_addons_Instruction.htm GNU license information: ./docs/license.txt Do read the ReadMe-Files!! You may also find information here: Pixelpost wiki: http://wiki.pixelpost.org/ Pixelpost forum: http://forum.pixelpost.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are the requirements for Pixelpost: - sufficient Webspace: not for Pixelpost (around 400 KB), but for your images ;=) - Apache Webserver or Windows IIS - PHP, version 4.3.0 or higher - PHP with GD-lib (with JPG-support), required for thumbnailing - MySQL version 3.24.58 or higher - a MySQL database already working. If you have no MySQL Database running, create a database first (or ask your hoster to do it for you) To install Pixelpost, you will need the following MySQL-database-informations before you start to install: - name of the database-host, often "localhost" - database username - database user password - database name If you don't have this information, contact your web host. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST INSTALL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the file "install.html" in the directory /doc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPGRADE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the file "upgrade.html" in the directory /doc Please note that Pixelpost now does not use anymore CSS-classes with "_", so check your templates and change "_" to "-" more information on that is found in the upgrade.html Please note as well that Pixelpost is fully UTF-compliant, so you might change your CSS-codepage-meta information as well. More information on that is found in the upgrade.html