SPGM (Simple Picture Gallery Manager) / News: Recent posts

Those 2 revisions fixed some packaging issues (impacting slideshow and language packs).

Releasing a new version of SPGM for Christmas seems to become a new habit of mine. This one brings various bug fixes and features.

This Christmas release, which celebrates 100,000 downloads so far, corrects a link bug (IE users), provides the Serbian language pack, and eventually adds the ability to set the orientation of thumbnails/picture blocks.

Ten months and Halloween have been necessary to release SPGM 1.4.3, which comes with a bunch of new features. Enjoy.

Christmas release. 2 small features have been added, they bring SPGM to another level of tuning though. Those are EXIF support and toggle-able drop shadows surrounding pictures and thumbnails. See http://spgm.sourceforge.net/?lg=us&id=changelog for all details.

This is mostly a maintenance release. The new default theme makes the standalone use of SPGM smoother...

Changelog :
- Change: New default theme
- Change: The special character in pic-desc.txt files has changed from '='
to '|'. Hyperlinks are now possible in picture captions.
- Bug fix: Permission tests are now compatible with every host policies
- Change: 1 language pack added (Slovak)

For this brand new release, PHP3 compliance has been abandoned. PHP4 full support has made possible the addition of an auto-template mode, so SPGM is now trivial to integrate into any CMS (just require("spgm.php"); wherever in the code).

This release also comes with the latest bug fixes.

This a a bug fix release. It also includes the Chinese simplified language pack...

This is mostly a bug fix release. I also decided to freeze new features integration, since I am now working on a complete redesign of the program.

This release probably sets the final features (amongst which a javascript slideshow) before the script gets redesigned. It has also been performed the last code cleanups so developers can hack into it more easily.

SPGM has been performed important code cleanups resulting in performance improvements and better readability.
This release introduce the major changes that are conducted until v1.4.0 comes out, by also including the pop-up picture support and XHTML 1.0 Strict compliance.

This release includes 2 very important features (support for non-standalone mode and gallery-dedicated thumbnails) and a complete re-write of the filter system.
See changelog for more details:
http://spgm.sourceforge.net/?lg=us&id=changelog

Here comes SPGM 1.3.
This new release includes several new features that makes the script more interesting than it has ever been. Moreover, a bottleneck has been fixed, which makes the gallery introspection and rendering quicker.
Quite a valuable revision !

This revision fixes a bug whose consequence is to always display the "unknown picture" error message.
Everyone who encountered this issue should update the package...

This new release includes two new important features that have been lacking for a while (gallery previews using thumbnails, explicit pictures sort) and fixes a few bugs.

This release includes several new features and enhancements (multi-language support, client-side picture scaling...).
SPGM users should upgrade to this version...

This revision fixes a bug that causes the navigator to keep displaying the same page, whatever you try to do. Whereas the script works fine with IE, this bug has only been reported for some User Agents.

This a minor update that fixes a few bugs (that appear on some configurations) and improves performance.
You should update your distribution from lesser versions releases.

This a minor update that fixes a few bugs.
You should update your distribution from the 1.0b release to avoid undesirable warning messages (PHP4 users).

SPGM is a PHP script that displays picture galleries on the web... It is massively configurable and includes several features (such as new pictures highlighting), which makes galleries very easy to set up and integrate into your website.

This is the first beta version of SPGM. No major bugs are expected, but feedback and/or suggestions are welcomed :)

Since I decided not to commit an alpha version first, I am working on a code review so a beta may be available in the next few days...