Фотоблоги России

До версии 1.5 обновился популярный движок для фотоблога - Pixelpost (скачать, 360 Кб). Изменений достаточно много, особое внимание уделено борьбе со спамом. Полный список изменений (англ.) - под катом.

Changelog from Version 1.4 to Version 1.5
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the big changes:

+ Admin Interface is completely language driven
+ more options to fight SPAM
+ Addons are now possible also in Admin-Area: new pages and customized functionality possible
+ Fixed version 1.4.x problems with PHP 5 and MySQL 5
+ Admin/index.php is split into thematic include-files (new_image.php, categories.php etc.)

- Admin Area:
- now complete ADMIN area is language-file driven as well
fix program output is converted into variables
admin-language-files are set like this:
- if admin-lang-XXX.php exist, when lang-XXX.php is choosen, this admin-language-file
is activated
- if this admin-lang-XXX.php does not exist, admin-lang-english.php is activated
- if admin-lang-english.php does not exist, error message is printed out

- Admin/Options/General: only one UPDATE button for all options
- external links from Admin-section will open in new window

- more information in GENERAL INFO section:
added info about file_uploads setting
added info about PP installation URL
added CHMOD info about image and thumb dirs

- image path is ../images/ by default
- new image can be posted to EXIF-date of the image
- time stamps ON/OFF switch added

- Image posting:
- - added info with current time
- - if EXIF is not available post to EXIF Date will post the current time
- - added opening MARKDOWN links in new window
- - “edit link” added after uploading image for fast editing
- - 12cropImage is now compatible with php5
- - default category is selected only when user is inside the new_image (upload new image) page
- - when posting to the future and you are logged in as admin, PixelPost will show you
the new image, non-admin users will see the actual image
This is added as kind of “preview” for admins

- images edit:
- now categories can be assigned or unassigned to selected images (more than one)
- images can be re-uploaded
- preview-option (especially for posting into future)
- all in the comments page now have alt atribute
- bigger input fields for image-description
- when image is deleted, the comments of that image will be deleted as well

- comments: new: comment moderation + batch operations on comments
- delete selected comments
- publish selected comments
- view moderation queue
- add to moderation queue
- Report comment as SPAM
- edit the comment text
- redirection to comment after entering comment automatically
- changed email-handling: no email is sent, if no comment is inserted to DB
error massage is visible after unsuccessful adding adding of comment
- added commenter URL to HTML notify
- now people can delete/moderate comments with compare to the black/moderation list
- if no http:// or https://, the comment-url will not be echoed
- only one email-adress can be entered in comment-form

- templates:
- new template: “simple”
- all links to referer template are taken off, because Referer-List is not supported anymore
- a descriptive splash page (splash_page.html) will show up in case the server/photoblog is not functioning well

- RSS:
- corrected atom-url for autodetect
- RSS and ATOM Feed working / validating with apostrophes and special characters
- beside , which created the “href-part” of the autodetection-link in the
header-section of image_template.html, we have now 2 new AUTODETECT-Tags:
for RSS + Atom, implemented in the templates which come with Pixelpost
( +
just include the following in the header of your image_template.html:

- Security / SPAM :
- no hijacking of the script possible
- index.php shows 404-message when image number is not numeric or “x=ref” is called
no “index.php?x=foo” can be passed to a pixelpost photoblog unless “foo” is a valid argument
- “Fight Spam” added to options
Moderation and black list for comments + referer ban list for referers
added spam report to admin >> comments page.
People can report spams and log their IPs in both black list and referer banned list
- comment spam moderation and ban list is added.
- Fight against Referer-SPAM:
- Admin / General Info shows the most referers of last 7days in the Options >> Fight Spam
This will make finding bad IPs easy to add them to the ban list.
- .htaccess code generation for preventing ref spams from hitting Pixelpost’s webistes is added.
- comment spam security hole is fixed.
Noone can send spams with use of pixelpost comment form.
only one email-adress can be entered in comment-form
- visitors booking can turned OFF/ON

- admin_ping.php allows to ping RPC services for automatic pinging
the pinglist can be expanded or edited by the Admin

- new tags and more:
will show the complete URL of the site
, set in the header of a template, allows to set all links relative to the Site-URI
- splash page is added to the template directory

- AddOns:
- Admin-addons are introduced.
- - You can have costumize admin section with additional addons.
- - Admin area can have new pages with costum functionalities.
- existing AddOns can be switched on/off by the admin
- page archive tags are listed in the addons page
- CopyFolder AddOn now can publish using exif capture date
- - upload sorted files according to their exif info or their filename.
- - the date of the posts is set as the actual date, if not set to use the exif date
- - supports clean url
- - added one second sleep before each post
- - can set multi categories at upload
- - Calendar AddOn is corrected, not it supports languages like chinese or farsi where letters are double-bytes
so now you can use month- and weekday-names from the corresponding language file
be aware to use language files which are encoded in UTF-8!

- Development:
- first steps to clear URL support (next and prev datetime variables)
- options now have a workspace. People can write addons that adds submenu to options page!
- updated paths - should work with
- avoiding maximum execution time reached in thumb generation!
- categories_as_list now a function inside functions.php
- lists categories as a table, included from includes/admin_category_table_as_list.inc.php
- some variables re-defined
- login mechanism using sessions
- small SQL optimisation
- PixelPost is compatible with PHP 5.0

- Installation:
- Install will prompt that it will create addons table
- no buttons / icons are packed to the release anymore

many minor changes + bugfixes :
- fixed that double quotes in broke the layout in IE
- fixed a bug that prevent deleting the comments with banned words
or refs with names in the banned list
- bugfix for comment save
- corrected the information about creating thumbnails
- corrected typos
- admin_index.css extended and corrected
- added the “category-title” to all Admin-sections
- fixed title encoding problems in image section preview at admin panel
- fixed warnings problem in new addons “installation” function
- corrected wrong select-value for year 2009 (posting possible from 2002 to 2009)
- \\N to \\n
- MJS code formated in a cool way
- exposure time of 350d was not showing for images on images with shutter time more than 1s
- cleared CSS and HTML in templates
- updated the version of markdown to Version 1.0.1c - Fri 9 Dec 2005
- …

known bug(s):
- re-upload of files does not accept the filename of the new file, it keeps the old file