System Requirements

Operating System

Pixaria Gallery has been tested and runs successfully on Mac OS X and Linux and should work without modification on any Unix based operating system running Apache, PHP and MySQL.

Pixaria Gallery is not supported on Windows at this time though it is probably fairly easy to install and get it working.

The current release runs natively on Mac OS X 10.4 and all major Linux distributions which include all the required libraries.

PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

Pixaria Gallery is a collection of scripts that run on the server and are processed by a scripting engine called PHP. If you're not familiar with PHP, I recommend looking at the PHP homepage (http://php.net) for an introduction.

The script has been tested on PHP versions 4.1.0 to 5.0.3 and is fully qualified for use on systems where PHP 'register_globals' is off.

Pixaria Gallery will NOT operate correctly on systems operating in PHP safe mode. This is due to problems working with files and manipulating images on the server.

MySQL Database

You will need access to a MySQL database in order to use Pixaria Gallery . For best results, it is recommended that you look for a hosting provider who offers MySQL version 4 or above.

I also recommended that you use the excellent PHPMyAdmin to administer your database as the user manual does not go into command line database adminitration techniques. Most hosting providers offer access to a pre-installed, web based MySQL administration system through an online control panel.

Graphics Library (required)

The GD Graphics Library is a software library that can be used by other programs - in this case PHP - to manipulate image files. This library is required to use Pixaria Gallery as Pixaria performs image manipulation functions like resizing on the web server.

Pixaria Gallery requires that PHP on your server has built in support for the GD graphics library version 2.0.0 or above.

GD version 2.0.1 with Freetype support and Freetype linkage is required to use the built in e-cards functions. Users of earlier versions of GD will not be able to use live image uploading through the web browser or e-cards.

FreeType Library (required for e-cards)

Freetype support and Freetype linkage from PHP and GD are required by Pixaria Gallery in order to use the e-mail postcard functions.

Ming SWF Library (optional)

This library is not required by Pixaria 2.0

To use the image protection function in Macromedia Flash (SWF) format mode, requires that your server and installation of PHP include support for the Ming SWF library. The Ming module is included in some versions PHP by default these days so all you may need to do is install libming.so on your server.

Please note that SWF image output is not currently a supported feature because there has been no development of the Ming library for some time and because of this many ISPs and hosts are reluctant to enable it.

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Created: Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Last edited: Wednesday, October 24, 2007