Simple Dynamic Gallery - Documentation

SDG is designed primarily for web developers and designers, and requires some knowledge of HTML and CSS, advanced and intemediate web developers will also find the PHP code easy to understand and modify if necessary.

A brief how to is included in the download package.

Set up

• Insatlation is easy

  Simply unzip the files to a directory on your web site or development server.

  At the root of the unzipped files there are two pages; multiview.php and singleview.php. These pages are working examples of a typical instalation.

  You will also find the README directory, wich includes more information about installing and using Simple Dynamic Gallery on your web site

• Configuration

  Parameters are set in the view layer multiview.php and singleview.php in the samples. In parameters, set the directory where your images are located. You can also set several optional parameters and defaults.

• Adding titles to images

  Because SDG does not use a data base or external data objects, you need to assign image titles in the images exif data. There are several free exif editors available online, and most photo editing software packages have some kind of exif editor built in. When assigning an image title to the images exif data it is important to remembr that SDG will use the Description(IFD0.Description) feild for the image title.

• Sorting Images

  SDG will sort your photos in alpha numeric order, I have found it best to name my image files starting with the date taken ex.(DATE-TIME-name.jpg). In PARAMETES you can set ascending or descending order.

• Adding Images

  To add images simply save or upload the images to the directories specified in the configuration parameters.