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IP.Board 3 was released on June 25, 2009 and through the various update cycles is now a stable, mature product with a version 3.1 release forthcoming.

So that we can focus all of our development, support, and service efforts on our new version 3 platform, we are announcing the end of support (sometimes called end of life or EOL) for the following IPS software versions (and earlier versions than those listed):

• IP.Board 2.3.6
  
• IP.Blog 1.4.2
  
• IP.Gallery 2.2.4
  
• IP.Downloads 1.2.2

Technical support, installations, and related services will end for these products on July 1, 2010. On that date all technical or service requests will be advised to simply upgrade to the most recent versions of the products. We will not force upgrades but will also not be able to diagnose issues or answer questions relating to the older software. Also, on that date, IPS will no longer address any new issues or bugs reported in the older software versions.

Security Updates

In the event an issue is discovered impacting the security of these older versions of the software, IPS will provide a patch posted in our announcements forum. We will continue to provide security updates until January 1, 2011.

Hello, well, since we pay 50 or 60 for Gallery, i think The Gallery should have MORE options, maybe make it more hmm,
1337'er! Professional!

Because the one IPb has now are so OLD, same view, same options etc etc etc!! same same! make some NEW stuff!

Thats my thought, i have to redesign the Image View so it got more attractive! but the codes are so, hmm ALL over the place, cant find anything!

Last 5+1 words:

Make It Attractive & Pro!

Some Options, I've found that look good for a future gallery release:

• arrangement of pictures in categories and albums; - already have
• picture information stored in database;
• users can upload pictures with web interface or ftp (and admin can batch-add to database);
• full multimedia support
• creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics;
• 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);
• multi-lingual:
• user comments;
• e-card feature;
• slideshow viewer;
• all features customizable with web interface (admin section);
• template system;
• user membership in multiple groups;
• upload approval notice for admin;
• EXIF/IPTC support;
• language selection option in template;
• image rotation;
• multi-pic upload;
• separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template;
• 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);

• hacks/user contributions
• advanced e-card feature (plain-text mails);
• template-building tutorial;
• optional dhtml navigation;
• Permanent URLs for search engine friendliness (using PID instead of POS)
• Rating on thumbnails page
• Registration disclaimer optional
• From thumbnail to Pop-Up option
• Gallery API
• Comment approval
• Comment and registration captcha class
• Global password for registration
• Watermarking -w/o a permanent stamp on photo
• Thumb cropping and sharpening
• Movie download option
• Ecard flash support
• Random album thumbnail
• Tag cloud for keywords
• Moderator for album pictures

also:

• Free online photo storage: Store Photos.
• Free online photo sharing: Your friends and family can view pictures you want to share without having to log in or sign up. They just click on a link in your email and instantly view a slideshow of your newest memories.
• Free photo software: easily organize, edit and share your growing picture collections directly from your desktop.
• Photo borders: Enhance your prints for free with more than 400 colorful, festive and seasonal borders that range from new baby to birthday, wedding to so much more. You can even add personalized captions.

also:

Wizard features

• Wizard-style interface
  Generate great-looking photo website pages in a few easy steps.
• Virtually no space limitations
  Create as many photo albums with as many photos as you wish.
• Basic image management
  Save time with fast and easy previewing and rotating of images and adjusting of thumbnail crops.
• Source image
  Include a copy of your high resolution source files (optional) to enable image enlargement and to provide images suitable for printing.
• Image and album captioning
  Tell your story by noting important people, places and dates. Batch caption images for even faster Web Gallery creation.
• Fun, creative themes
  Personalize your Web Gallery with your choice of many themes. We are continually adding new themes, available from our website.
• Album management
  Add new photos to existing albums, change captions, reorganize photos or swap themes with just a few mouse clicks.
• FTP upload*
  Integrated FTP functionality; easily update all your Web Gallery files (or just recently changed files) to your Web host.

Web Gallery features

• QuickView™ Navigation
  See albums, pages and photos at-a-glance. Scrolling is kept to a minimum and image viewing is a breeze.
• Image enlargement
  Click to see high resolution images suitable for printing (optional, enabled in the wizard).
• Slideshow
  View a self-running, photo-by-photo slideshow of your Web Gallery with the click of a button. Keep it running on your screen for an easy way to showcase and enjoy your photos.
• Complete control
  Retain control of your Web Gallery and keep intrusions to a minimum with no ads, no pop-ups and no spam. Your viewers don't need to register to see your Web Gallery.
• Safe and secure
  Rest assured knowing your Web Gallery is generated on your computer, not on a remote Web host. Easily archive, update and upload*, even if your Web host changes. No cumbersome image-by-image upload.
• Multiple sharing options
  Upload your Web Gallery to a Web host*, burn it to a CD or DVD, or email it to family and friends.

also:

User Features

• Users can upload photos to a category or to their own gallery
• Users can create their own subcategories/subgalleries within their gallery
• Users can upload multiple photos within a zip file
• Users can upload more than one file at a time (can be disabled by admin)
• Post comments about photos
• Users can create personal albums
• Search by keyword
• Rate photos on a scale from 1 to 5
• Edit or delete user's own comments
• Edit the description of user's uploaded photos, or delete their photos
• Move their photos from one category to another
• Image manipulation: When using ImageMagick, users can rotate CCW, rotate CW, Flip and Flop an image after it has been uploaded (by editing a photo).
• Users can choose to be notified of new posts to their photos or photos to which they want to subscribe (email notification).
• Send a photo as an e-Card (greetings card / post card, etc)
• Choose how many thumbnail images to display per page
• Sort thumbnail display pages by alphabetical, most popular, most active, by date, and by number of views
• Uses time offset and 'posts per page' user preferences from vBulletin user DB (when in use)
• Member Galleries section displays disk space used by each user so they can keep track of their disk usage
• Private Personal Albums - Private Albums are assigned a unique URL which the person can share with friends and family for restricted access.
• New Comments/Photos indicator - for users who are logged in, the arrow for comments and posts will glow when new items have been posted since last visit to the category.
• View Recent Uploads - A link to show the posts in the past 1, 7 and 14 days.
• View All Uploads - can be viewed and then sorted (for example to see the most popular uploads in all groups)
• My Favorites - Users will have the ability to "tag" images for their own "My Favorites" feature. Viewing My Favorites shows the tagged images in a gallery format.

Registration System Features (Standalone installs)

• Supports user groups and admin editing of user groups to enable specific permissions for different users (disk space allowance, file upload size restrictions, uploads, comments) - this could be used to enable premium access such as more disk space for paying members
• User profiles
• Encrypted passwords
• Supports COPPA (can be disabled)
• Auto verify user email address
• Admin editing of user levels and profiles
• Ban users
• Allow/disallow new user registrations.
• Allow users to change passwords.
• An automated "I Forgot my password" feature.
• Delete a user and all of user's photos and comments

Other Features

• MySQL database driven
• Can integrate with vbPortal
• Integrates with an existing forum (for one user database, stylesheets)
• Supports database prefixes to allow the use of one MySQL database when table names would otherwise clash.
• Globals-inc file to facilitate Mods
• Multi-language support via template files. Packaged with English, German, French, Swedish, Dutch languages.
• ZLIB compression support to speed page loading, reduce bandwidth
• Option to require users be registered to view images
• Traffic tested on sites with over 14M monthly page views
• Optional integration with BotBuster to protect bandwidth
• UBB/VB Code (linkify, bold, etc) for Descriptions and Comments
• Dynamic titles for pages to improve SEO
• Slideshow display of images in condensed format
• New Help system. Popup windows with help topics. Topics will be in HTML format in a help directory and editable by the administrator
• Configurable date formats and time offsets per user
• GD2 support for image resizing, watermarks and on-the-fly watermarks (or use ImageMagick for all but on-the-fly)
• Automatic thumbnail creation
• ImageMagick support for image resizing and watermarks (or use GD2)
• Video Uploads. Support for multimedia files. When PhotoPost detects the upload is a multimedia file (.mpg, .avi, .asf, .wmv, and .mov), it will prompt the user for a thumbnail to be uploaded or use a default image.
• Support for Jpegtran to remove XML data from jpegs created by PhotoShop 7 (to fix the Adobe/ImageMagick broken image browser problem)
• Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIF file formats when using ImageMagick, or JPG and PNG formats when using GD
• Thumbnail display pages show details for each photo such as filesize, user name, date, number of times viewed, and number of comments.
• Images stored on disk in a directory rather than in the database, which allows them to be cached by browsers, saving bandwidth.
• Number of photos and comments limited only by your server's diskspace and MySQL's record limits
• Support for short URL's for photos to make them easy to email and copy/paste
• Tested in *nix/Apache environments
• Tested in Windows 2000 and NT w/ IIS and Apache
• Tested on OS X servers.
• IP caching prevents multiple views and voting in a configurable timeframe
• Known to work on RaQ 3/4 systems
  
  Admin Features
  • Easy web-based setup
  • Templates for all user-interface pages (allowing custom HTML throughout)
  • Unlimited categories and sub categories
  • Multiple image uploads via FTP with automatic thumbnail generation. Upload hundreds or thousands of images via FTP then import them into PhotoPost all at once.
  • Approve/Reject uploads before they are viewable by users (can be disabled)
  • Bandwidth/diskspace friendly: choose to save user uploads (of any size) as thumbnails only, turning off large images.
  • Supports user groups and admin editing of user groups to enable specific permissions for different users (disk space allowance, file upload size restrictions, uploads, comments) - this could be used to enable premium access such as more disk space for paying members (this is functional with any user database - internal or forum integration)
  • Set the size of thumbnail images
  • Move photos from one category to another
  • Set user disk space limits
  • Set max file size (in bytes and in pixel width/height) of uploads
  • Password protect categories
  • Show More Features
  • Custom defined fields (6 custom fields to collect and display different information from the photo uploader besides description, title, etc, such as camera type, car engine size, etc - totally up to the admin)
  • Stylesheets with GUI/Admin panel editor
  • Sticky photos / photo sorting to allow admins to determine the order in which photos appear in a gallery
  • Moderators are allowed to approve images but not modify admin panel settings
  • Admin can email users
  • Sticky photos - select certain photos to always appear at the top
  • Exempt admins from diskspace/file size limits
  • Exempt admins from upload approval process
  • Option to email admin when there are new uploads
  • Turn Off Boards. Will be able to "turn off" the boards for periods of maintainence or backup
  • Font selection - ability to specify main font for use throughout program (includes use of SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE tags which can have sizes customized)
  • Manage Albums. Gives the administrator the ability to edit/delete user Personal Albums
  • Personal Albums can be turned OFF by admin
  • Configure colors/fonts
  • Specify header/headtags/footer include HTML files for all categories or individual categories
  • Create and rename categories and category descriptions
  • Ability to edit the config-inc.php file from the admin panel GUI interface. No notepad editing required.
  • Admin statistics page including size of data directory, users, albums, who's online, admin log, etc.
  • Tell-a-Friend feature to let your users spread the word about your galleries.
  • Change the display order of categories
  • Enable/disable user editing of photos and posts.
  • Allow/disallow unregistered users to upload photos and post comments
  • Set number of comments per page
  • Set number of thumbnail columns in the thumbnail display screens
  • Specify unique header/headtags/footer files for each category/subcategory.
  • Allow only administrators to upload to a category/subcategory.
  • Purge Photos feature - allows admin to remove files that exceed a specified age.
  • Admin password can be changed using install.php installation script if it is ever lost or forgotten.
  • Allow unregistered users to send ecards.
  • New easy upgrade script to help navigate the upgrade process.
  • Unzip functionality now built into code, no external application needed
  • Fix thumbnails/database. A "scan database" admin function which will fix images with no thumbnails (creating new thumbnails), remove database entries with no image and fix the username associated with an image (in case a BB has allowed a user to change their ID).
  • Watermark tracking tracks which images have watermarks added to them
  • User Views - tracking the number of images a user views (displayed in User admin)
  • Scan DB will also add watermarks to all your images if selected
  • Bulk Move. The ability to move all of the images from one group to another.
  • Mass Move/Delete.
  • Deleting a category deletes all photos and comments within that category and all of its subcategories, simultaneously.
  • Option to turn OFF rating of photos (turns off display, too)
  .... a lot of features are in the gallery already, but it would be nice to have a new 'feature packed' release.

The holy grail of community-centric CMS systems is the total integration of community and content. Poorly integrated systems like Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal with IPS/Vbulletin etc is inevitably a technological dead-end. I have wasted my time with many iterations of these integrations and inevitably every one of them gets abandonded.

CCS will probably be thin on features in the short term but ultimately it will be the only solution that makes sense over the long term - a fully integrated CMS/forum.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on Joomla too. What a POS that is. The admin is a nightmare and when I worked with it last year I found that it had a lot of bugs. Drupal is really a better CMS and I've been using Expression Engine which is very nice for certain kinds of sites.

Some customers are reporting various functionality in IP.Board not working since upgrading to version 3.0.2. We have narrowed down most of these causes to one root issue which came up as we tightened security for certain functions. If you are experiencing issues with 3.0.2, please download the attached file and upload the new files. If you are not experiencing any issues (or you have not already upgraded to 3.0.2) there is no need to upload these files. Also, if you download version 3.0.2 after the time of this post you already have the updates in your download zip file.

Our apologies for the frustration this has caused some customers. We do quality assurance testing before releasing maintenance versions but these specific issues do not present themselves except under special circumstances.

Apply new files if you see any of these issues in 3.0.2:

• Emoticons and some other JavaScript functions not functioning
  
• Rich text editor disabled in some browsers
  
• Spam service database table not being created properly
  
• Error when deleting a post
  
• Users with certain character sets seeing debug information on upgrade

If you experience any other issues or need help feel free to submit a support ticket for assistance.