Can somebody please explain...

[KevC]

... how this works? I'm sorry, I hope I'm in the right place. I've been looking around and I haven't found a page that explains what this Exhibit Engine is or does. I'm *assuming* it's a way to organise and display your gallery? I have a website, it's completely bare. I was planning on coding some sort of table to put my stuff up there.

Does Exhibit Engine help me? I'm a complete newbie at programming, and I don't even know how to write HTML well ... let alone PHP.

Or is it simple to use? I used to have a forum running on PHP, and all I had to do was install it and use the HTML control panel. No writing code at all....

Help?

//edit: Okay I spoke too soon :( I never visit any other parts of POTN, just the forum. I went back to the home site and found the EE part. Now I have tons of reading to do http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif

[shaun3000]

This is EE: http://photography-on-the.net/gallery/

Simply, it is a program that makes online photo albums. After you install it, which is the most difficult part, all you have to do is upload your photos and tell EE where to put them. It will do the rest for you. You can, of course, customize everything to your liking.

EE is the same as your PHP forum, you just install it and use the PHP control panel. One thing EE requires that your forum probably didn't is ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/ yes, ck) If your host doesn't have it installed, you will have to do it. If your host runs Linux or another Unix-type OS, that can be the hardest part but there are instructions available online that make it very simple.

[wkitty42]

One thing EE requires that your forum probably didn't is ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/ yes, ck) If your host doesn't have it installed, you will have to do it. If your host runs Linux or another Unix-type OS, that can be the hardest part but there are instructions available online that make it very simple.

slight correction... imagemagick is /not/ required... the php built-in GD works just fine for the basic operations... my OS doesn't have a version of imagemagick available for it so i'm stuck with having to use GD for all my processing or i have to do it manually...