iTGP:options

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General Setup

Admin Email Address

Email address to be used as the default sender address for all emails sent by iTGP.

Site Title

The title of your site. This title will be used for textlinks and in emails.

Date Format

The format to be used for dates generated by the script.
e.g.: Y/m/d
See Date and Time Settings for more information

Time Format

The format to be used for times generated by the script.
e.g.: h:i a
See Date and Time Settings for more information

Time Zone Offset

The time zone offset to use for date/time displays. If your server is in EST and you are in CST, this would be -1

important: after changing the offset you have to run "Update Post Info", otherwise the sorting order might be messed up.

Script URL

The absolute URL where all the PHP files of the script are located. Do not use a trailing slash ("/").

Metatag Keywords

Meta keywords might be used by search engines to index your site.

Metatag Description

Meta description might be used by search engines to index your site.

Custom Form Fields

Name of Custom Field

Allows you to collect additional information when people post a new gallery.
Note: Leave this field blank if you don't want to use it.

Require Custom Field

Makes sure that the Custom Field is a required form field when people post a new gallery.

Other Options

Check Duplicate URLs

Enabling this option will require unique URLs for each post, i.e. two posts may not use the same URL.

Require Description

Require a gallery description.

Require reciprocal URL

Require a reciprocal URL, i.e. the page that has a link going back to your site.

Check reciprocal URL

The script will automatically check if people have added your Link HTML to their reciprocal URL. Please note that this check will fail if people customize the provided HTML code.

Verify URL

Enabling this will check the HTTP status code of the submitted URL. The check will fail on any 4xx and 5xx error, e.g. 403, 404, 500, etc. See Status Code Definitions for more information about HTTP status code.

Notify admin on new posts

An email notification will be sent to your Admin Email Address when a new post is submitted.

Use GZIP to zip pages on-the-fly

Enabling this will GZIP the HTML output reducing your bandwidth usage.
Do not enable this if you are already using mod_gzip or mod_deflate on your server.

Build Directory

The absolute directory where files will be written

Build URL

The absolute URL of the directory above

Use AutoDelete

Enabling this will automatically delete old posts, i.e. posts that are no longer visible on your main and category pages. The behavior depends on Maximum Number of Pages and Maximum Number of Posts.

Send Confirmation Emails

Enabling this option new posts need to be activated by email, i.e. users have to click a link that is sent to them when they post.

Convert Descriptions

Allows you to

  • Leave descriptions as is
  • Make the description uppercase
  • Make the description lowercase
  • Make the description's first character uppercase
  • Uppercase the first character of each word in the description

Require Captcha On Signup

Users need to enter the text shown on a CAPTCHA image to post. This feature is designed to stop automated spam processes.

Require Captcha On Abuse Report

Users need to enter the text shown on a CAPTCHA image whenever they file an abuse report. This feature is designed to stop automated spam processes.

Require Captcha On Login

Users need to enter the text shown on a CAPTCHA image whenever they login to their account. This feature is designed to stop automated spam processes.

Session Timeout (in minutes)

Time in minutes a session can remain idle before it's terminated, i.e. the user needs to login again.

Use Login Strike System

Enabling this will make sure people won't be able to login at all for 15 minutes if they have entered a wrong password for the 5th time while trying to login.

This protection is IP based. So if they are on dynamic IPs and disconnect to get a new IP address they might be able to work around this.

Style Options

Show Template Comments

This feature might be helpful if you are about to customize your templates. It will add a HTML comment containing the template name at the beginning and end of every parsed template.

Show Page Generation Time

Enabling this will display the page generation time and the number of MySQL queries at the bottom of the page.

Main Page Settings

Maximum Description Length

The maximum number of characters allowed in a post's description. e.g.: 100

Color For Normal Posts

The font color to use for normal posts. e.g.: "black" or HTML-style "#000000"

Color For Partner Posts

The font color to use for partner posts. e.g.: "red" or HTML-style "#FF0000"

Size For Normal Posts

The font size to use for normal posts. e.g.: 2

Size For Partner Posts

The font size to use for partner posts. e.g.: 3

Maximum Posts Per General Submitter Per Day

The maximum number of posts that can be submitted by each person. e.g.: 2

Maximum Posts Per Partner Per Day

The maximum number of posts that can be submitted by each partner. e.g.: 3

Default Rating For Partner Posts

The default moderator rating assigned to all partner posts. e.g.: 2

Minimum Number of Pics

The minimum number of pics on a gallery page required in order to get listed. e.g.: 10

Sorting String For Main Pages

The string which will sort the main page posts. e.g.: time DESC

Maximum Number of Posts Displayed on Main Page(s)

The maximum number of posts that should be displayed on your main page(s). e.g.: 20

List Break Positions

Seperated by comma; allows you to "break" the list with advertisements (or basically any other custom HTML code) after X posts e.g.: 1,3,10

Filename of your mainpage

e.g. "index" - without extension!

Filename Extensions of your main and category pages

e.g. "shtml", "html" or "php"

Maximum Number of Pages

e.g.: 1 (will create one page per category, one main page) 3 (will create 3 pages per category, 3 main pages)

Datechange Breaks

This option allows you to add HTML code between your posts whenever a day ends/starts, e.g.

<br /><br />$date<br />

This example would add the appropriate date in front of each days posts.

Archive Settings

Sorting String For Archive/Category Pages

(required if you want to use archives)

The string which will sort the archive/category page posts, e.g.:

time DESC

See Sorting Settings for details.

Use Archives

Do you want to create categorized archive pages?

Maximum Number of Posts Displayed on Archive Pages

(required if you want to use archives) The maximum number of posts that should be displayed on your categorized archive pages. e.g.: 20

Thumbnail Options

Post and Generate Thumbnails

This feature will enable thumbnails for all posts.

Please make sure to create the subfolder "thumbs" and chmod it 777 if you enable the thumbnail feature!

Allowed File Extensions

Please enter all allowed file extensions separated by space here. e.g. "gif jpg png jpeg"

Maximum File Size In Bytes

This refers to the original full sized image. This source will be automatically thumbnailed using the Target Thumbnail Size below. e.g. 1 MB = 1048576

Maximum Image Width & Height in px

This refers to the original full sized image. This source will be automatically thumbnailed using the Target Thumbnail Size below. e.g. 3000

Target Thumbnail Size

the size of your thumbnail image in pixel e.g. 100

Thumbs Program

the script can currently either use the GD Graphics Library or ImageMagick to create the thumbnails

Thumbs URL

The absolute URL of your thumbs folder.

Thumbs Path

The absolute path of your thumbs folder.

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