Panda Image Gallery – Installation

Before beginning please confirm that your webserver is running at least php 5.2 with the GD Imaging Library enabled.

    1 ) Download the PANDA Gallery archive, Decompress and upload the “panda_image_gallery” directory and all of its contents.
    2 ) Set permissions on “panda_image_gallery/galleries” to 777
    3 ) Set permissions on “panda_image_gallery/galleries/logs” to 777
    4 ) Set permissions on ‘users/’ and ‘users/users.inc.php’ to 777
    5 ) Open “config.php.sample” and choose a unique session name. Session name must start with a letter. Review other options in ‘config.php.sample’ and change as desired.
    6 ) Rename ‘config.php.sample’ to ‘config.php’.
    7 ) You may enable user registration and register a new account via the web interface (enabled by default).
    If you do not want to enable public user registrations you can manually add users.
    See ‘users/users.inc.php’ for details on manually adding users.
    8 ) If you need to make changes to the rows/columns of galleries and images you will have to modify the themes settings which are found on the file “themes/THEME_NAME/options.php”. Some themes may not render properly if settings in this file are changed. The default TEMPLATE_NAME is “coolblue”.
    9 ) If you have a custom end user agreement you would like displayed and agreed to during user registration please enter it in the file ‘useragreement.txt’.
    10 ) Login and begin creating and populating galleries!