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» FEATURES
• Visually appealing photo gallery system
• XHTML/CSS theme based system
• Optional slideshow
• Optional background music for slideshow (.mp3)
• Optional comments
• Option to approve comments and/or enable e-mail verification
• Optional cart system to sell pictures
• Optional watermark feature for masking actual pictures
• Batch add images in admin area for quickness
• Watermarks, comments, slideshows & slideshow music category specific
• Watermarks compatible with slideshow
• Support for search engine friendly urls via mod_rewrite
• Meta descriptions and keywords for categories/images
• Optional auto thumbnail creation.
• Paypal IPN integration for payment processing
• SMTP settings
• RSS Feeds
• Option to enable theme switching
• Contact me about picture function.
• Contact form for general site messages
• Option to view verified e-mail addresses
• Option to import verified e-mail addresses to CSV
• Optional captcha code for forms to help prevent spam
• Group images into categories/sub categories
• Batch update sale items per category for quickness
• Search sales and images in admin area
• Public search engine to search picture database
• Optional ip and e-mail banning
• Easy to install via auto installer
• Licence and about pages updateable via settings
• Manage gallery via clean admin interface
• Easily editable e-mail templates
• Utilises the Savant2 template engine
» SAVANT2 TEMPLATE ENGINE
Maian Gallery uses the awesome template engine Savant2, written by Paul M. Jones. This IMO, is a more powerful and easy to understand template system than Smarty. v2 is written for PHP4, but runs ok under PHP5 as I have used it. ie, without the need for E_STRICT. To view some of the more advanced features of Savant2, see the documentation.

My thanks to Paul for contributing this software to the community.
» CODING/TESTING ENVIRONMENT
This script was designed and coded using the following applications:

PSPad (Programming)
Photo Impact XL (Graphics)
AAA Logo: (Graphics)

Musical inspiration provided by:

Scandinavian Music Group
Koda Kumi
Ayumi Hamasaki
Landy Wen

Script Version: v2.0
Released: 24 Nov 2007
Written by: David Ian Bennett
Originally Released: 2 September 2006
Browser Testing: IE7, Opera 9.24, Firefox 2.0.0.9
Local Server Testing: Apache server (2.2.4) running PHP v5.2.4, MySQL v5.0.45-nt
Production Server Testing: Apache server running PHP v4.4.7, MySQL 4.1.22-standard
Error Reporting Level for Development: E_ALL
HTML Tidy: 0 Errors, 0 Warnings

Note that where a browser descrepancy occured, I favoured the look in Firefox.
» ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to the following companies/individuals who`s free or open source code helped during the creation of this script:

Erik Bosrup (Overlib)
Hasin Hayder (Watermark Class)
Sylvain Brison (Cryptographp)
Jonathan Schemoul (Slideshow)
Brady Vercher (Pagination Class)
freecsstemplates.org (Free CSS Templates)
Paul M. Jones (Savant 2)
Julian Robichaux (Date Picker Calendar)
Amir Salihefendic (GreyBox)
Brent R. Matzelle (PHP Mailer)
» LICENCE
Released for FREE under the 'Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Licence'. For more information, click here.

If you wish to remove the copyright information, please view the following url:

http://www.maianscriptworld.co.uk/copyright-removal.html
» HISTORY
Please see the 'docs/history.txt' file.
» LANGUAGE PACKS
If you would like to send me a translation of this script, please e-mail it to me at: support@maianscriptworld.co.uk

To view or download available language packs for Maian Gallery v2.0 visit:

http://www.maianscriptworld.co.uk/free-php-scripts/maian-gallery/free-photo-gallery-system/index.html
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