Installing PixelPost

   PixelPost: Installing PixelPost

Guide to Installing PixelPost including Custom Configuration and Fixes.

Software Install
Installation notes for version 1.6.0 updated August 2007.
 * 1) Upload   and decompress where you want it to live.
 * 2) Create two additional directories and change File Permissions to 777:
 * 3) * images
 * 4) * thumbnails
 * 5) Create a MySQL Database
 * 6) Insert Database details into the Configuration file  :
 * 7) * db_host, db_user, db_pass, db_pixelpost (name), db_prefix
 * 8) Browse to   to install.

Addons and Code Modifications
Additional customisation (see below for instructions).
 * 1) Fix  Temporary Files Problem if necessary (see below).
 * 2) Insert   Admin CSS style sheet with Dan's Version.
 * 3) Do  PixelPost Addons: TinyMCE Hack on   to add TinyMCE WYSIWYG edtior to image description.
 * 4) Install Dead Simple Fixed template & edit for Scalable Images.
 * 5) Install  PixelPost Addons: Scalable Images by Dan Salmon.
 * 6) Install  PixelPost Addons: Auto Resize.
 * 7) Install  PixelPost Addons: Custom Fields and configure required fields.
 * 8) Install  PixelPost Addons: Fast Edit Link (modified  by Dan Salmon) and fix sub-folder link if necessary.
 * 9) Install  PixelPost Addons: MiniCMS (modified by Dan Salmon) with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. Edit Admin Link path.
 * 10) Install  PixelPost Addons: Pop3 Post (modified by Dan Salmon), if required. Note: This is buggy with some email clients.
 * 1) Install  PixelPost Addons: MiniCMS (modified by Dan Salmon) with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. Edit Admin Link path.
 * 2) Install  PixelPost Addons: Pop3 Post (modified by Dan Salmon), if required. Note: This is buggy with some email clients.

Addons Extras
Install these for better search, etc.
 * 1) Install  PixelPost Addons: Google Sitemap Creator.
 * 2) Install  PixelPost Addons: Google Sitempa Ping.

Custom Admin Settings
Extra things to change within the Admin Panel
 * 1) Changed date to — l jS F Y g:ia — Friday 16th August 2007 11:00pm

Comments Management
Tips and tricks to using comments
 * Forum: Disabling Comments — how disable comments which seems really quite difficult!

Date Reset
Default date setting — Y-m-d H:i:s — 2007-08-16 23:06:07 Changed to — l jS F Y g:ia — Friday 16th August 2007 11:00pm

Index.php Fix
Add to line 372 of index.php to remove linefeed from : $image_notes = substr($image_notes,0,strlen($image_notes)-1);   (new) $image_title = htmlspecialchars($image_title,ENT_QUOTES);       (existing)

See Forum: Using &lt;IMAGE_NOTES&gt; with overlib for more info. For some reason this only happens on some web servers. Odd...

Temporary Files Problem Fix
When viewing the Admin > General Info page, get the warning:
 * Session save path is empty

Problem is caused by PixelPost being unable to write to temporary directory as it's located outside  folder.

To fix, edit files  and , adding the following line to the start of PHP script: session_save_path("/home/yourhome/tmp/"); See Forum: Session save path is empty.