Usage

From LinphaWiki

1 Import
- 1.1 Publishing images
  - 1.1.1 Detailed Usage Description (LinPHA V1)
  - 1.1.2 Other Notes (LinPHA V1)
- 1.2 Editing Images
2 Meta Fields

Import

Publishing images

Place your images in sub-directories of your albums directory, LinPHA will detect the images automatically and create the thumbnail etc.
You can either copy your image with the integrated filemanager, or copy them to your server with any external program you like (FTP,SCP,Windows Share,...)

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Detailed Usage Description (LinPHA V1)

LinPHA contains a subfolder /albums where you MUST store your photos, Example:
Let's say, you wish to create some folders containing your holiday photos.

You may create a subfolder named '/albums/holiday' in the LinPHA directory. And store all your photos there. This is ok, but not for many photos.
So you may create other subfolders named by country, like '/albums/holiday/france' and '/albums/holiday/italy' and store your photos there.
Since LinPHA features up to three subfolders you may also create something like: '/albums/holiday/france/bretagne', or '/albums/holiday/france/paris' and store the photos there...
LinPHA also is capable of handle mixed subfolders which means, that a folder may contain both! pictures and other subfolders.

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Other Notes (LinPHA V1)

Since the names of the subfolders are used to build up the LinPHA menu structure, you should name them the way you wish the album names to be displayed in the menu.

Now that we have some subfolders containing photos, you should point your browser to the LinPHA index.php (http://hostname/linpha/index.php) If everything went well, you should see all of your mainfolders created in '/albums' in the left menu.

You can now explore your pictures by navigate through the menu. Because there are no thumbnails yet, it may TAKE SOME TIME until your pictures occur. LinPHA has to create and store them in the SQL DB once.

Depending on your hardware it may now take several minutes to finish the thumbnail creation process (Celeron 400MHz ~1,5 thumbs/sec)

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Editing Images

You can edit images with an external program, but if you do that, you have to follow some rules:
While editing, do not rename your files!
If you do, you will loose:

Permissions set to this file
Thumbnail (will automatically be recreated)
Cached images (will automatically be recreated)
Album comments
Image comments
Meta Data
Statistics

After editing, use the "Admin" - "Import" - "Detect File Changes"-button```

Never rename a file or folder with an external program
If you do, you will loose:

Permissions set to this file
Thumbnail (will automatically be recreated)
Cached images (will automatically be recreated)
Album comments

But you will not loose:

Image comments
Meta Data
Statistics

To prevent this: Always rename files and folders with the integrated filemanager!

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Meta Fields

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EXIF/IPTC/XMP

Through the admin section you can define which EXIF/IPTC/XMP tags should be indexed.
After selecting them, you can search for this tags, and you can display this tag informations next to the image in image view, near the thumbnail, etc.

Pay attention: After adding/deleting EXIF/IPTC/XMP tags, all your images need to be re-indexed!!!

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Meta Data

You can either use IPTC which is a standard and saves the informations directly in the JPG file, or you can use the LinPHA internal meta data, which stores the data in the database. There are some predefined fields: Description, Category, Persons, Date, and you can define your own image fields.

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