minishowcase blog

Hi all,

minishowcase goes to v09b136, adding minor cosmetic fixes for some ugly lines in the menu items, and a nice yet underdeveloped and undocumented hack: now you can navigate the images by clicking the left and right arrows! To go forward you can also use the Space bar.

The navigation behaves identical as the image arrows, so when it arrives to the end of a thumbnail block it automatically loads the next one.

Hope you like it. There are minor things I still have to check, and my most important milestone is the creation of subgalleries and updating the documentation.

Thanks again for all your support, without which all this improvements would just not be possible.

Finally, minishowcase got password protection for individual galleries.

The script is rather simle, so please don’t use it to protect sensitive data. It relies on a file which name you can change in $settings['password_filename'] inside /config/settings.php. The defualt name is ‘password.php’. It is highly recommended that you change the setting before using passwords, as failing to do so might render the password vulnerable.

So, after changing the name (for example to ’security’), add a file ’security.php’ inside the gallery folder you want to protect and voilà, your gallery will be protected! Users will then be prompted for the password when clicking on the menu link. Unfortunately they’ll be prompted every time they visited the same gallery.

I’m working in a more stable version where you can control how long the password is valid, so not to annoy the users with constant password request.

For the moment, I hope you enjoy the new protected minishowcase.

I just installed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and that has delayed all work on minishowcase. Soon I’ll be back with some improvements and bug fixes. Thanks for the patience and thanks for the support.