Hello to everybody!

I just would like to let you know, that we will have some new Language packs available in phpAlbum in next version.
I already have an Dutch, German, Russian, Lithuanian and Spanish translation and will probably have Danish translation too.

If you have the time and would like to have phpAlbum in your own language, i would be very pleased if you send me the translation.

Currently you can find the english file en_utf8.php in lanugage/ subdirectory. If you take this file and translate it into your own language, you can send it to me and i would post it in the next version.

Please send all your work at email support[at]phpalbum.net. And if you like I can later display your name on this site as a translator of that specific language.

I played yesterday a little bit with drupal.org which I am using for this site. I installed new module in it, named Subscriptions. From now, users are able to subscribe the content on this site. So if something new comes the subscriber will get a notification email.
Obviously this functionality is available only for registered users.

You can subscribe some of categories in My Subscriptions. You can also subscribe separate Forum threads, so if somebody puts new comment on it, you’ll get an email about it.

The E-Mails are sent to your email address in your account and are sent every hour. It can take up to one hour from new Content to the point you get your email.

Fixed the problem with antispam pictures.
It was a bug in phpAlbum which caused sending of wrong headers for these pictures. Some web servers displayed then internal server error instead of the picture.

Only changed file is main.php

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Many of you are using the phpAlbum.net script for your photo galleries. Maybe you were unaware, but there is a new version of this script, 0.4.1.14 which is no longer in beta phase. It has many more features than the older 0.3.x versions, including:

User Management | IPTC-support | E-Cards | Improved Setup section | Faster and more secure

You can download the new version here

http://phpAlbum.net/dw

This is the first 0.4.1 Release with no BETA status, I think the most important bugs are not there and so this is quite usable and very easily updateable version.

Fixed several bugs, no new features.

And you can now use our web installer, which now installs and updates 0.4.x Version.

The version 0.3.x is not more supported.

As you probably know, you can put audio and video files in your album.

The problem with this is that you can not automatically generate thumbnails for these files. At least there is no easy way to do it.

If you do nothing but put the files in directories, they will be displayed in album with generic video and audio thumbnail. But you can change this behaviour of phpAlbum.

Let say you have video file MOV_0001.AVI in your album. You can very easy create a screenshot locally on your computer. For example with playing the video and taking a screenshot of it and saving this as an image (PNG or JPG).

FIXED:

• Several bugs caused some error messages in error log.
• 3GP and MP4 Video files support
• fixed sorting issues when sorting after names.

So, what are the basic functions an online Photo Album / Gallery should have?

• possibility to upload pictures or photos
• adding this pictures to the album

So let us begin with the first and most important feature:

Uploading pictures and photos

Basically there are two variants in phpAlbum how you can upload new pictures on your server.

The first one is to use your preferred FTP or SFTP Client. Just put the photos to your PHOTO_DIR (This is the Photos directory which you have to setup in Setup->Main Setup).
For new photos you can freely create new directories or subdirectories. These will be displayed as Albums in your PHP Photo Album.

Installation of phpAlbum v0.4.x is very easy but you should know how to use an FTP client and how to change attributes (rights) on directories on your hosting system. If you do not know this you will have to wait until the automatic installer (which is now available only for the stable version) is available for this version.

From now you can report new bugs and requests in our new installed tracking system. Currently exists only one Project "phpAlbum Beta".

You can use the link "Report Bug" on the top right side of this page. Or you can navigate trough the "phpAlbum beta" menu point ond the left side and there post any issue you have.

This is much better for me an also for you. I have now always actual list of not fixed bugs and issues. And you can every time check the status of your or of any other bugs you are interested in. You can see if it will be fixed, if it was already fixed and so on.

You can also subscribe your own bugs or all bugs so you get emails when any change to this reports happens.