minishowcase blog

Finally i got some time to add some automated thumbnail creation.

To do so, open the /galleries/index.php file and set $thumbnail_creation to true. Then go to http://your-gallery/galleries/?thumbnails and voilà! you can create thumbnails for every gallery. Please remember to set $thumbnail_creation back to false in order to avoid other people recreating all your thumbnails!

Thumbnails are created with the size set in /config/settings.php under $settings['cache_thumb_size']. If you want them to be created in a different size, just change the setting’s value.

Useful the first time you install minishowcase and when you change thumbnails to respect real aspect ratio (when you change the value of $settings['square_thumbnails']). NOTE: In some cases, you might have to delete the thumbnails manually through FTP since the script might not be able to delete the thumbnails due to PHP strict file handling permissions.

Please bear with me as this is the first release and it might be buggy. If you run into trouble, post it in the “community”:http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/community/ and I’ll be glad to help you.

A week ago or so, I was honored with the first donation ever. It really made my day.

It will be invested in a program called “PackRat”:http://infinitenil.com/packrat/, which is a local interface to the fabulous “Backpack”:http://www.backpackit.com/ service, an online service I intensely use to keep track of all my project’s development, including of course minishowcase.

The reason it is not invested in something that regards minishowcase more directly is that I just bought all software that I needed. “CSSEdit”:http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/ (for CSS writing/editing) and “TextMate”:http://macromates.com/ (for code writing/editing) were the last ones and the most needed.

Thanks a lot to Kevin Cornwell and, if you feel like giving a hand to the project, you’ll find a nifty “PayPal”:http://www.apypal.com/ button on the main “minishowcase”:http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/ page.