Pixelpost version 1.5 Welcome to the PixelPost Version 1.5! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pixelpost www: http://www.pixelpost.org/ Version 1.5: Development Team: Ramin Mehran, Connie Mueller-Goedecke, Robert Prouse, Will Duncan, Joseph Spurling, GeoS Version 1.1 to Version 1.3: Linus Contact: thecrew@pixelpost.org Copyright © 2006 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: - Readme-File: for installation: ./doc/ReadMe_install.txt for upgrading: ./doc/ReadMe_upgrade.txt - A changelog - A list of all PixelPost-Tags - An instruction for upgrading from existing versions to Version 1.5 - in formation how to write admin-addons! - the GNU license information ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 these informations, ask your hoster to provide you with these informations ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRST INSTALL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the file "ReadMe_install.txt" in the directory /doc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPGRADE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please read the file "ReadMe_upgrade.txt" 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 ReadMe_upgrade.txt 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 ReadMe_upgrade.txt