Dragonbyte Gallery Open Beta now available!

Dylan

Former Developer
Hi all,
I am happy to announce the open beta of Dragonbyte Gallery with the release of version 1.0.0b3. The closed beta testers gave lots of helpful info and I really appreciate the time they put into testing the product. We feel the product is stable enough to run as an open beta now.

While there will still be some additions before it goes gold, here is the feature list for the product.

Major Features

Multiple Instances You can run an unlimited number instances of the gallery on the same forum with same set of files! Each instance can have a different look and feel to it, and with enough work can have a completely different function because of the system we built it on.

AJAX integration We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads

Automatic resizing and thumbnail creation As long as your server can handle it, the users can upload whatever size pictures they want. The gallery will control the size displayed and stored, and will even create a thumbnail, all automatically. Users no longer have to worry about resizing their images to fit what your forum specifies. If you do not have a server with the power to resize images (GD image library can get pretty memory intensive) then you can set the gallery to reject images that do not fit into your size criteria.

User Albums Users can create their own image albums to organize and display sets of their images. Albums can also be set to hidden and/or password protected. So users who want to have images for only certain friends or not visible to anyone else at all can easily organize them.


Complete Feature List




  • Albums
    • Public or Hidden - Images in a hidden album will not be visible to users other then that owner
    • Password Protected - Only users with the password will be able to view the albums images. They can see the thumbnail view but will not be able to browse to the album view
    • Album icon will display latest image added to it
  • Images
    • Admin can select if images will be watermarked or not.
    • Watermark can be dynicamic or Etched. Dynamic for powerful servers will little space, Etched for less powerful servers and more space.
    • Watermark can be an image or text, located in several different locations over the image
    • Image paths are hidden through the php files, so it keeps users from browsing your image folder without going through your page
    • Camera images will be prepopulated with camera information from jpeg images
    • Images resized and thumbnails created automatically on upload
  • Comments and Rating
    • Users can comment on individual images
    • Users can rate images
    • Users can comment on user profiles
    • Easily add/remove images as your favorites
    • Easily integrates with Advanced Post Thanks/Likes mod
    • OOB integration for twitter, google+, pinterest and facebook!
  • Can upload multiple files with one selector (HTML5 browsers only)
  • Unique user profile per each gallery instance
  • Users can customize their profile display per instance
  • Can search by tags, title, description or owner
  • CMS widget to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
  • Forum sidebar block to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
  • Subscribe to users and receive notification when new images are added
  • A lot of AJAX integration to reduce page reloads

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  • Gallery Settings
    • Multiple gallery instances
    • Gallery Navigation Link Name
    • Modular layout so each instance can have it's own look and feel
    • Multiple layers of categories
    • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Can View Gallery
    • Can Add Album
    • Can Upload Images
    • Can Rate Images
    • Can Delete Images
    • Can Delete Others Images
    • Can Comment
    • Can Delete Comments
    • Can Delete Others Comments
    • # of Albums
    • # of Images
    • Max Image Width
    • Max Image Height
    • Max Thumb Width
    • Max Thumb Height
  • Gallery General Settings
    • Turn Gallery system on/off
    • CMS widget settings and number to display
    • Choose from two different styles of image views
    • Settings to change your gallery filename as well as ability to run it outside of the forum root directory!
  • Gallery Image Settings
    • Change location of gallery images
    • Choose to automatically resize images or force users to upload images within your set range
    • Image count settings
    • Enable/Disable twitter integration
    • Enable/Disable google+ integration
    • Enable/Disable pinterest integration
    • Enable/Disable facebook integration
  • Gallery Watermark Settings
    • Select if you want to use text, image or no watermark
    • Select if you want to have dynamic or etched watermarks
    • Several different text watermark and image watermark positions to choose from



The product is now available in the product info area

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