What is Coppermine? #
Coppermine photo gallery is an open-source image gallery application and it is a multi-purpose, fully-featured, user-friendly, picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as an image library with a MySQL backend. It is free software that you can download and install on your webspace.
This application is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License GPL version 3. It’s all versions of released on 29 October 2006 under GNU -GPL version 3. Its latest version is 1.6.08, and 1.5.48. The installation size of this application is 20 MB
Coppermine photo gallery has been tasted to work well on IIS, Apache 1.3.24 onwards to the latest Apache 2, on Linux, UNIX, OSX, and win 32 system.
Top requirements of Coppermine #
- PHP (4.2.0 or better;full PHP 7 support with CPG 1.6.x)
- MySQL (3.23.23 or better; 4 x recommended)
- Good Webserver (Apache recommend)
- Either GD or ImageMagick (any version)
- An Image Library
Features of Coppermine #
- Arrangement of pictures in categories and albums;
- Picture information stored in the database;
- Users can upload pictures with the web interface or FTP (and admin can Batch-add to the database);
- Full multimedia support
- Creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics;
- User comments;
- e-card feature;
- Slideshow viewer;
- All features customizable with a web interface (admin section);
- Template system;
- User membership in multiple groups;
- Upload approval notice for admin;
- EXIF/IPTC support;
- Multi-lingual: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (both Big-5 and GB), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (both “Du” and “Sie”), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian (both with and without diacritics), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Uighur, Vietnamese; if your language is not on the list, you can easily create a translation for your own language;
- Language selection option in the template;
- Image rotation;
- Multi-pic upload;
- Separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template;
- Search feature;
- Last added;
- Random picture;
- User management (private galleries, groups);
- Integration of user management with various bbs (like phpBB, YaBB SE, SMF, Invisionboard, VBulletin);
- Caption, title, description, and user-defined fields for each picture (searchable);
- Easy install (installer provided);
- Option to choose max height or width for thumbnails will help in creating nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols;
- Option to display a clickable filmstrip of thumbnails below the image display;
- Option to show first level albums of a category instead of just statistics of the category;
- Option of turning on OR off the showing of “Private” Icon to unlogged/unprivileged user;
- Title option to sort in albums;
- Online help feature for the admin pages;
- Plugin-API;
- English as a fallback language for un-translated entries in language files;
- Password-protected albums;
- More admin-settable user profile fields;
- picture-resize on upload;
- BBS integration settable with a wizard-like user interface;
- Advanced search (boolean operators);
How to install Coppermine using Softaculous #
Step 1. Go to cPanel
Step 2. Under the software, section click on the “Softaculous App Installer” button
Step 3. On this window, you see a sidebar on the left side select “Image Galleries” then scroll down to the “Coppermine” click there
Step 4. After clicking open new interface here click on the “Install Now” button
Step 5. On the new window, you fill in the information
Step 6. First, choose the installation URL
Step 7. Next box choose Protocol
Step 8. Then next box Choose the Domain
Step 9. Then choose in a directory
Step 10. Then type Gallery name
Step 11. Next box write gallery description
Step 12. Then Create your administrator user name, password, then enter the real name
Step 13. Write Admin Email in the Email box.
Step 14. Click on the install button at the bottom of the page
Step 15. You will get confirmation of successful installation on the interface.
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