Pixaria Documentation

Welcome to the Pixaria documentation

If you're looking for help on a topic that isn't included in the documentation, please post your question in the public forums at Pixaria Central. I add new information to the documentation on a fairly regular basis and a forum posting is the most common source for new articles.

Before you begin

1. Frequently Asked Questions
2. System requirements
3. Multiple language support
4. Unicode support and accented characters

Basic setup and configuration

1. Configuring Pixaria for your server
2. Configure the MySQL database
3. Upload the PHP scripts to the sever
4. Set directory permissions
5. Test your installation
6. Change the default username and password

Basic security measures for your site

1. Secure your website against hackers and image thieves
2. Prevent users right clicking on images

Managing your images with Pixaria

1. How images are stored in Pixaria
2. Uploading image files to your library
3. Using the Java FTP upload applet
4. Configuring support for uploading very large images
5. Exporting images direct to Pixaria from Aperture
6. Importing images uploaded to your site
7. Searching, keywords and keyphrases

Customising Pixaria

1. Customising Pixaria with themes
2. Working with Smarty templates
3. Available image properties in the image detail view
4. Available image properties in the image thumbnail view
5. Locations of CSS files for changing styles
6. Search engine friendly URLs with Mod_Rewrite
7. Changing the image watermark
8. Replacing the default logo header graphic
9. Adding your own custom pages
10. HTML and CSS standards and conventions
    1. Text table layout specification
    2. Form table layout specification
    3. Listbox table layout specification

Getting the most out of Pixaria

1. Sell your photos and images with Pixaria
2. Setting up your site to work with 2Checkout
3. Techniques for improving search engine rankings
4. Providing high resolution downloads

Upgrading Pixaria

1. Introduction to upgrading Pixaria
2. Upgrading Pixaria Version 2.0 and above
3. Upgrading Pixaria 1.x to Pixaria 2.0
4. Upgrading Pixaria versions between 1.0 and 1.5.4

Troubleshooting

1. Temporary items directory is not writable by PHP
2. I can't see changes I've made to a template
3. I can't get the search tool to work
4. I get an empty e-mail when sending postcards
5. When I try to test my site, I get a blank page
6. I get errors when viewing the Pixies manager
7. Problems with watermarks
8. I get errors or a blank page when importing high-resolution images
9. When logging in I get a 'Not Acceptable' error message
10. I can't open the .tpl template files included with Pixaria

About Pixaria

1. Credits and acknowledgements

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Created: Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Last edited: Saturday, May 31, 2008