4images Image Gallery Management System description
Supports extensive, password protected adminstration to configure and control a whole gallery system

4images is a useful and powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and mangagement, password protected administration area with browser-based upload and HTML templates for page layout and design.

More features are: RSS feeds, search engine, automatic thumbnail generation, extensive user administration, upload function for users, showing IPTC and EXIF data of images, rating of images, spam protection, protection against hotlinking, newsletter function, e-cards, integrated database backup function, etc.

Here are some key features of "4images Image Gallery Management System":

General functions
· extensive, password protected adminstration are to configure and control the whole gallery system
· database backup function
· multi language support
· easy to use installer for 4images
· RSS-Feeds (latest images of the gallery, latest images of a category, latest comments of an image)

Categories
· unlimited categories and subcategories
· logging and statistics of clicks for each category or subcategory
· title and description (optional) for every category
· number of visible subcategories below categories can be defined

Images
· pre-configured for the following image- and file formats:
· jpg, gif, png, aif, au, avi, mid, mov, mp3, mpg, swf, wav, ra, rm, zip, pdf
· extendable for every file format (3gp, psd, smil, etc.)
· upload through browser, through admin panel or via FTP
· automatic thumbnail generation (requires: ImageMagick, GD or NetPBM)
· automatic resizing of images (requires: ImageMagick, GD or NetPBM)
· showing IPTC and EXIF data of images
· ratings by users for every image
· individual to activate comment function for every image
· download function for every image, including counter
· download selected files as zip-archive
· description and keywords for every image
· easy to customize e-cards (colors, font)
· protection against hotlinking

Comments
· individual to activate comment function for every image
· support of bb-codes like bold, italic, etc.
· HTML-code in comment field can be disabled
· spam control
· badword function
· automatic wrapping of long words

User
· extensive user administration including registration (double opt-in)
· extensive permission management for users and usergroups
· lightbox for registered users
· upload function for registered users
· "Who is online" function
· Newsletter function
· encryped storage of passwords in the database

Templates
· easy to customizable layout via templates to fit the own web layout
· templates can be edited using a general HTML editor or via the administration area
· standard template is included
· many more templates avaible to download


Requirements:

· A webserver or web hosting account (Linux/Apache recommended)
· PHP Version 4.0.5 or higher (we recommend to use always the latest stable version).
· To ensure that 4images is functioning properly, safe_mode should be disabled (safe_mode = off in your php.ini).
· MySQL Version 3.23 or higher (MySQL Version 3.23.33 recommended)
· optional: ImageMagick, GD or NetPBM


NOTE: Free for private use ONLY