phTagr

2.1.1 phTagr is released! It has a simplified upload function which is enabled by default and replaces the advance file browser. Users have now an upload menu entry where uploaded files are stored in a daily upload directory. ZIP archives are extracted automatically. Uploaded and extracted files are imported and are shown immediately. Therefore, users can upload their media within three clicks and the upload form has now five upload field instead of one.

The next big improvement is the quick search which covers sub word. The quick search of ‘ice‘ returns also media with tags of ‘slice‘ or ‘rice‘.

phTagr is build on top of the MVC framework CakePHP and uses now CakePHP 1.3 instead of CakePHP 1.2. You have to upgrade your CakePHP if you use SVN trunk. See How To Migrate Phtagr for more details.

An admin user can now see the access level of other users and can change these. This feature was requested to handle private or malicious media.

phTagr supports now Dutch as new language – Thanks to Remy Wetzels. See also How To Translate.

Following Tickets where closed since 2.1.1

• #14 – Automatic media import on upload
• #63 – Multiple inputs for HTML upload
• #90 – Wish: search on part of a tag
• #110 – Admin rights: Change access level of others
• #89 – Wish: change “Welcome to phTagr” via system preferences
• #83 – Wrong import of files with UTF-8 multi-byte characters
• #86 – PEAR path is missing in include_path variable
• #85 – User with 0 quota, file uploaded shows up in “My Files” even it said “Could not upload”
• #87 – User can see root of filesystem in “My Files”
• #91 – Search on unknown string returns “Array” as search key
• #93 – Shorten the user authentication keys
• #112 – Broken Unzip functionality

I’m happy to announce phTagr 2.1.1 which simplifies the setup and adds multi-language support. As first language German was submitted. You can submit your language to translation [AT] phtagr.org. See How To Translate for further information.

Further, the geo tagging was improved and some minor bugs were fixed.

You can download it from SourceForge (ca. 2.9 MB). Please do not hesitate to report any success story, bugs or feature request. See How To Help for further details.

Following Tickets where solved since 2.1

Setup and Requirements:

• Fix #6 (Minimum setup requirements)
• Fix #74 (Automatic setup redirection)
• Fix #13 (Customizable gallery title)
• Fix #64 (Add multi-language support (internationalization))
• Fix #66 (Fallback of getId3 at ImageFilter if exiftool is not available)
• Fix #67 (Fallback of getId3 at VideoFilter if ffmpeg is not available)
• Fix #68 (Include required PEAR files to vendor directory)

Explorer: Geotagging

• Fix #78 (Resizeable Google Map)
• Fix #79 (Goto address input for geo map)
• Fix #25 (Current media selection in map)

General:

• Fix #80 (Show user of random media at home)
• Fix #81 (User information is droped on date links)
• Fix #69 (Incorrect import of south and west geo location in ImageFilter)
• Fix #82 (Place cakeDebug output into html layout)

I am proud to release version 2.1. The new version comes with lots of features, improvements and bug fixes. It looks better, is more sexy and it rocks!

New since v2.0:

• User comments with email notifications
• Geo Tagging (via Google Maps)
• HTML upload with extracting zip archives
• Build in slideshow via PicLens light
• RSS, mediaRSS, RSS for comments
• Technical image info like shutter speed, aperture, ISO, camera model
• Anonymous user registration
• Improved Homepage with recent media and comments
• New database schema with splitted media and files (see merged-branch-phtagr-media-schema)
• Quick Search (thanks to martin)
• Authenticated links for users and guests
• Improved file browser
• Tabbed input
• New FilterManager to handle different media like images, videos and GPS logs
• New Pagination component with exclusions
• Static Logger
• Updated Flowplayer to 3.1.4
• Media view count
• Much much more and of course lots of bug fixes

Also:

• First Plugin DupFinder is available to find and merge duplicate media
• Since version 2.0 we have also a documentation and ticket system at http://trac.phtagr.org

It is recommended to upgrade to version 2.1 since you don’t want to miss the new features! Please upgrade your database schema with the provided shell script upgradeMediaSchema.

In the last couple of months, phTagr was completely rewritten from scratch using the great framework cakePHP. The new version called phTagr 2.0 is much better and faster! phTagr 2.0 supports so far the basic functionality like image uploading via WebDAV, multiple tagging, group based access control, guest account creation.

Short (and maybe incomplete) installation procedure is (on Ubuntu 8.04):

Install required tools (apart from apache2 with rewrite module, php, and mysql):

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg flvtool2 imagemagick exif php-pear
$ sudo pear update-channels
$ sudo pear install HTTP_WebDAV_Server-1.0.0RC4

Download the code

$ cd /var/www
$ sudo svn co https://svn.cakephp.org/repo/branches/1.2.x.x cake
$ sudo chown -R `whoami` cake
$ cd cake
$ svn co https://svn.phtagr.org/phtagr/trunk phtagr
$ cd phtagr
$ sudo chown -R www-data tmp users

Now open http://localhost/cake/phtagr/setup in your browser and follow the installation procedure.