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Dynamic Flash Gallery V1.0 Dynamic Flash Gallery V1.0 .................................................................................................1 About Dynamic Flash Gallery ..............................................................................................1 Using the extension ...............................................................................................................5 Managing your online gallery..............................................................................................8 Reference.............................................................................................................................15 FAQ.. .....................................................................................................................................16

About Dynamic Flash Gallery So you have delivered your perfect site to the customer with an amazing Flash Album and your customer loves it. Suddenly he wants to add or delete photo’s from the gallery, so what do you do? You add the Dynamic Flash Gallery to the site and give the customer full control to his photos!

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Manage your Flash Album Generator galleries online with Dynamic Flash Gallery! Turn your gallery in edit mode and you can add, replace or delete your photos and edit titles!

You edit what you see in the same Flash Gallery Viewer! No separate difficult admin pages for your users - just direct visual edit! Each gallery is password protected to provide an adequate security.

Note: this extension requires Flash Album Generator 2 and the Pure Upload and Smart Image Processor extensions in your server language. So if you are using PHP you’ll need Pure PHP Upload and Smart Image Processor PHP. Do you use ASP? Then you’ll need Pure ASP Upload and Smart Image Processor ASP.

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Features Update your gallery in two simple steps; add the manage functionality in Dreamweaver and

manage your photo’s in an online editor.

Strong Security with encryption.

Manage your gallery online! Move, delete and add your slides. Edit the text of your gallery and your slides.

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Advanced what you see is what you get editor. • All changes are immediately visible in your Flash Gallery viewer.

Multiple file upload. • Select as many files as you like and upload within a few clicks.

Order your photo’s using drag and drop functionality. • Select your photos by pressing the control button in your viewer and move them anywhere

you desire. Flash 8 Player support for your online editor.

• The editor uses the latest Flash Player. Flash version detection with auto Flash 8 player updater.

• Your Flash Player is automatically upgraded to the latest version.


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All the uploaded images are resized automatically server side. • No need for additional software to resize images.

Automatic server side thumbnail generation. • Thumbnails are automatically generated at your server.

Multiple language support of your Dynamic Flash Gallery editor. • Your users can manage their photos in the gallery with an interface in their native language!

Integrated in Dreamweaver; • Interactive dialog in Dreamweaver with all the options you’ll need;


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Using the extension Before you can use the extension make sure that you’ve created a Photo album with Flash Album Generator 2 and that you have Installed the latest version of Flash Album Generator 2.02 Furthermore you need to install the PHP or ASP versions of Pure Upload and Smart Image Processor depending on what server language you use. Open your Flash Album and open the extension by clicking on the Commands menu in Dreamweaver and choosing the Dynamic Flash Gallery (PHP or ASP) option. Or by pressing the icon in the object pallet in the Common bar.


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A new dialog will appear, we’ll start by filling in the Security options. Enter a Username and password that the user needs to enter to manage the online gallery.

Next we choose the File Upload Folder. You need to select the Folder that you’ve used in Flash Album Generator for you resized images (the Destination Folder in the Flash Album Generator 2 extension). In this case that a folder with the name “ img” . It is very important that you set the permissions of this folder on your server to read and write! For PHP users: please read the article about setting the folder security for your server for PHP For ASP users: please read this article about setting the folder security for your server for ASP . Note: for ASP users, make sure the also the ASPNET, IUSR_xxx and IWAM_xxx user accounts also have full permissions to the upload folder. See this FAQ and this one for more information. Also if you’re wondering how to make sure your server can do an image resize please read this FAQ for more information.


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Ok that’s it, press the OK button to create your Dynamic Flash Gallery. Depending on your previous actions you’ll get one or more dialogs. Be sure to read the dialogs carefully as they contain important information. The first dialog that appears states that an SWF and PHP or ASP file are created and that you need to upload these to your server.

When your XML file is not in the folder that contains your resized images you will get a message that the XML file is modified and is copied to the resized images folder.

If the support files (that are created by Pure Upload) are not in the general ScriptsLibrary folder yet you’ll get a dialog that states that these files are copied.

That’s it, the next chapter shows you how to manage your gallery online.


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Managing your online gallery Got to the internet page where your gallery resides. Click on your gallery and press @ (shift+2). An Authentication screen appears;

Enter the Password and Username that you’ve specified in Dreamweaver. Now your gallery is in edit mode.


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Edit a gallery title

Press the to change the title of the gallery. After pressing the icon, an edit gallery popup appears. Lets change the text in the Title field from “ Las Vegas” to “ Fabulous Las Vegas” .

Press Ok, as you can see the gallery title is changed to “Fabulous Las Vegas” .


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Adding an image

Let’s add a new image to our gallery by pressing the icon. Select the image(s) you want to add and press Open. Tip: You can select multiple images by holding the control (or the apple key for Mac users) or the shift button while selecting images.


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A new popup appears while you’re uploading the images. The upper bar displays the progress of the current file and the lower bar is the total progress.

And another popup will show when your upload is successful.

Edit the description of your slide and add a link Select the slide where you want to change your text, we’ve selected the Barbary Coast image. As you can

see now, the text of the main image is Barbary Coast. Let’s edit the description by pressing the icon.

A new popup appears. First we edit the text by changing the Title field, we change it to “The lights of Barbary Coast”. We also decide to link the text to http://www.barbarycoastcasino.com/main.html by entering the Web link field. We set the target to _blank in the Link target field. You can set the target to;

• _blank • _self • _top • _parent • a frame name


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Press OK. A new popup appears while you changes are being processed. As you can see the text is edited. When the user clicks the text the website of Barbary Coast will open in a blank window.


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Changing the order of your images To change the order of your images, hold the control button (the apple button for Mac users) and select the images you want to move. The images you select turn blue. Hold the control (or apple) button and select a blue images to deselect it (if necessary). Now move your mouse where you want to move the images (in the area between two thumbnails), a vertical bar appears at the area.


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Click at the location at the bar to place the images. A loading screen appears while the images are moved. As you can see the images are moved to the specified location.

Removing an image

Let’s select an image that we want to remove. Click the icon. A new popup appears that asks if you are sure you want to remove the image. Press OK to remove the image.


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Reference

In this paragraph we give a short overview of the features of the Dynamic Flash Gallery extension;

• Username: Set the username that is required to login in the online gallery to manage your photos • Password: Enter the password that is required to login in the online gallery to manage your photos • Server Language: specify the server language that is to be used. • File Upload Folder: select the folder where you want your files to be uploaded. • Image Width: Select the maximum width of your images. • Image Heigth: Select the maximum height of your images. • Thumbnail Width: Select the maximum width of your thumbnails. • Thumbnail Heigth: Select the maximum height of your thumbnails.


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FAQ Q: My viewer gives an error that is unable to load the XML file A: Make sure that you test the gallery on your server as a local gallery will not work. Q: After refreshing, my album doesn’t display my changes.

A: Make sure you’ve uploaded your gallery XML file and the files from your Scriptlibrary Folder to your server and that you’ve deleted your browser cache.

Here is a link that shows you how to do this for internet explorer 6. Here is a link that shows you how to do this for other browsers. Q: My photo album says it is missing a file A: You need to upload the dmxFlashGallery2.swf, the XML file and the files in your Scriptlibrary files to the folder that you’ve specified for your photos to your server Q: My album doesn’t display my photos A: Please make sure that the page of your Flash Album is saved in the site that is defined in Dreamweaver to prevent path problems. You can also change the path to your images in the XML file. Q: Where can I find more information on Dynamic Flash Gallery? A: You can find more information on Dynamic Flash Gallery ASP at this page and the PHP version at this page. Q: How do I change the language of my interface of my Dynamic Flash Gallery Editor in the browser? A: Copy the language file, for instance dmxFlashGallery2_editor_en.xml for English, to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\shared\DMXzone\Dynamic Flash Gallery PHP or ASP\localization Q: How can I reduce upload time when uploading many images? A: Resize your images before uploading them reduces the upload time. If your customers don’t have software to resize their images to reduce the file upload size, they can use this free tool from Microsoft. Go to the directory containing your photos. Right click on the photo you wish to resize and select ‘Resize Pictures’. Select the new image size and click ‘OK’.


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Q: I get the following error message; not enough permissions. Folder can not be created. What should I do? A: It is very important that you set the permissions of this folder on your server to read and write. For PHP users: please read the article about setting the folder security for your server for PHP For ASP users: please read this article about setting the folder security for your server for ASP . Note: Make sure the also the ASPNET, IUSR_xxx and IWAM_xxx user accounts also have full permissions to the upload folder. See this FAQ and this one for more information. Also if you’re wondering how to make sure your server can do an image resize please read this FAQ for more information. Q: I get the following error message; the file does not have a valid extension. What should I do? A: The extension supports JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG. Additionally the ASP version also supports BMP files. Q: I made a large selection of images in my online editor how can I deselect them A: Hold ctrl+shift to deselect multiple images and click the left mouse button. Q: If have questions about Smart Image Processor ASP A: Please read this FAQ. Q: If have questions about Pure ASP Upload A: Please read this FAQ. Q: If have questions about Smart Image Processor PHP A: Please read this FAQ. Q: If have questions about Pure PHP Upload A: Please read this FAQ.


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