Blade Services Photo Gallery V2
  
  Description  
  The Blade Services Photo Gallery is a fully customisable ASP photo gallery. 
It does not require the use of a DSN connection. 

Thumbnail images are displayed in a table, along with the title of the photo that is entered into an Access database. 

There is a web based administration section, which allows variation of the number of thumbnails displayed per page, alter the background colour of the gallery, width of the gallery etc.The Gallery is based on a series of ASP pages, and one include file for configuration.		  
  Platform  
  Windows NT4.0 Server with Internet Information Server 4.0.
Windows 2000 Server with Internet Information Server 5.0
Windows 2000 Professional with IIS option pack.
Windows XP Professional with IIS 5.1 option pack.
Personal Web Server (Windows 98 - NOT TESTED)		  
  Licence  
 

The Blade Services Photo Gallery is Freeware distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. 

Additional conditions :-

  1. You supply us with information regarding any changes made to the ASP code – you may have been able to have done something better.
  2. Removal/modification of the words contained in the file pagefoot.js, or excluding pagefoot.js from the viewed gallery displayed on any Internet/Intranet website is not acceptable, and will be deemed an infraction of this license.

By installing this distribution in whole or in part on any Webserver in any Domain you are accepting the terms of this license.

  
  Files included in the distribution  
 
gallery.asp The script which displays your images
pagefoot.js Please do not edit this file (see license)
topimage.jpg Banner image to display at the top of the gallery
adovbs.inc  Standard ADO constants library
admin.asp The administration login page
admin_galleryView.asp Main administration page
admin_galleryUpdate.asp Administration page for updating the gallery
constring.asp  This is the only major file that requires customisation
palette.htm A page to allow you to pick colours
overlib.js Third party script for admin page
gallery.mdb  The database
header.inc  Include file for the admin page
foot.inc    Include file for the admin page
ts.gif   Image for the admin page
del.gif   Image for the admin page
helppop.gif Image for the admin page
colorcube.gif Image for the admin page
spacer.gif Image for the admin page
topimage.gif Image for the admin page
help.gif Image for the admin page
colorcube.gif Image for the admin page
clear_dot.gof Image for the admin page
edit.gif      Image for the admin page
 
  Installation  
  Unzip all files to your local web site i.e. “Inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\gallery”
There must be a folder “images” with two sub folders “large” and “thumbs” in the same directory as gallery.asp. (unzipping the distribution will preserve the directory structure)

Put your full size images in “large”, thumbnail images in “thumbs”, it is best to use identical filenames to ease confusion – do not change the names of these folders		  
  Configuration  
 

Edit the file constring.asp in notepad or similar (this file is located in the include folder).

WARNING - Programs such as Front Page may rewrite ASP code and cause the gallery to fail

CHANGE THE ADMIN USERNAME AND PASSWORD

You may need to change the connection string – this depends on the location of your Access database.

In case you want to move your images to a different folder, change the value for ImageFolderName (eg if you have moved the thumbs and large folders to galleryimages, you would change this to “galleryimages”)

Do not move or delete any statements inside <% and %> unless you are familiar with ASP.

The database does not need accessing at this time

You can either finish setting up the gallery now on your local computer (see note below about NTFS permissions on gallery.mdb), or your webserver.

FTP it all up to your Webserver and ensure that the Internet User Guest account has read/write access to the database (you may need to contact your ISP for this).  

If you have to put the database in a different folder, ie /db on your server, you will need to change Server.Map.Path(“fpdb/gallery.mdb”) in constring.asp to the full relative path to the database. (There is a Brinkster style example in the constring.asp file)

  
  Finishing setup  
 

Access the file admin.asp in a browser via your webserver, enter the username and password that you placed in constring.asp. 

You will then be logged in.

Setting up your gallery parameters:
First of all, adjust the parameters in the “Gallery parameters” section.  Click the small link below the parameters section to display a colour picker – when you are happy, click “update parameters”
NOTE if you get an error messaging saying you must use an updateable query, the database does not have the correct permissions set - set note above in installation

Adding images to your gallery:
Now click “Add Picture” – the script will pick up the filenames of all your thumbnail and fullsize images on your server. 

Select the correct filenames, enter a photo title and any comments, then press “Add Page”. 

Repeat this for all the images you want to display.

To edit a photo record, click the small page icon “Edit this entry” on the left of the table displaying the records (below the heading “Action”).

To delete a photo record, click the small trash icon “Delete this entry” on the left of the table displaying the records (below the heading “Action”).

It should work and happily display your gallery – you can have another browser open on gallery.asp – refresh this window to see your changes as you make them.

For bug reports, email help@bladeservices.co.uk

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