Zenphoto

We have opened a group for translators to inform you if we for example plan a new release so that the translations need to be updated or similar things regarding translations. Please sign in here: http://groups.google.com/group/zenphoto-translate

We've finally managed to implement localization for Zenphoto! Translation capability is now available in the 1.1.6 release. The current implementation requires the native gettext extension installed in the PHP on your server. We hope later to add a workaround for those without native gettext. But we believe (and hope) most servers will have gettext installed by default. There may be still some glitches, so we are dependend on you to report problems on our forums.

The first language available is German, since one of our developers is German. German will be a standard language and will be developer maintained. But of course any feedback about typos or other errors is appreciated.

Note to our German users: Die Ãœbersetzung verwendet als Anrede das förmlichere "Sie", welches mir passender auch für den professionellen Einsatz erschien, da ich es vorziehe, wenn mir Software mit einer gewissen Distanz begegnet. Wer hingegen das freundlichere "Du" (...)

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Note 1: This tutorial refers mainly to the development build of Zenphoto since localization/translation is a work in progress. Zenphoto includes a file "zp-core/functions-l18n.php" that contains a prefdefined list of languages and their related locales. Check this list to be sure your language is included. If it is not there, let us know and we will add it.

Note 2: On some servers translations do not work because of a bug in Apache's mod_perl. It concerns Apache version 2.4.46 and maybe earlier versions. Since Zenphoto does not require mod_perl you may disable it to make translations work again.
If you use MAMP (MacOS) for local development go to /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf and comment the line: LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so by prepending the line with a hash (#). If you don't have control over the server, contact your host. (...)

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• Localization (beta) [acrylian, aitf311, sbillard]
• German translation [acrylian]
• Full size image protection improvements [sbillard]
• Plugin sytem including several default plugins [sbillard, acrylian]
• Slideshow (plugin) [acrylian, sbillard, special thanks to djdevine for the IE CSS positioning fix]
• Album themes (replace the Supergallery feature) [sbillard]
• Comment system improvements [sbillard, ulfben]
• Setup improvements [sbillard]
• RSS improvements [acrylian, fogoh]
• Tag improvements [sbillard]
• Support for MP3 and MP4 (video/audio) [sbillard, acrylian]
• Dynamic album improvements [sbillard]
• Watermark scaling [sbillard]
• Admin backend JS moved from prototype to jQuery [aitf311]
• Numerous bugfixes
• See full list on trac

We finally managed to finish a new theming tutorial. Actually it is a largely updated version of the old and now defunc tutorial that GameDudeX wrote way back then. Please note that the tutorial refers to the nightly build foreshadowing the next official release. We hope it will help you all to make your own custom galleries.

Sadly the update to Wordpress 2.5 broke the poll plugin we had installed to see what features gain the most interesst by you, our users. Additionally the author of that plugin does not support it anymore. We haven't found a replacement yet. So for the time being the poll is removed.

Here are the last known poll results:

1. Move/Copy/Rename images and albums: 166
   
2. Internationalization & localization: 122
   
3. Automatic Image Rotating base on EXIF: 89
   
4. Automatic creation of Video thumbs (#331): 57
   
5. Visually select album thumbnails: 34
   
6. Edit Theme Files Within Admin (#133): 32
   
7. Create individual thumb crops for each image: 30
   
8. Geotag googlemap popup: 28
   
9. Select image size to view: 24
   
10. Support ImageMagick conversion: 22
    
11. Support Windows XMP in addition to the standard EXIF/IPTC metadata (#351): 9 (...)

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