What’s New in Beta Two

Plogger Beta 2 has officially been released and can be downloaded at Plogger.org! We’ve put a lot of work into this one and we hope you enjoy using it. I can honestly say that I am glad to have gotten this out of the way, the self-imposed pressure was starting to get to me. Here’s all the new stuff you’ll find in Plogger Beta 2:

• Mod_rewrite Support — Plogger now supports pretty URI’s through the use of Apache’s mod_rewrite module. ex: http://www.solanosystems.com/plogger/travel/rome/ instead of http://www.solanosystems.com/plogger/gallery.php?level=album&id=45
• File System Based Organization — All images put into your gallery are automatically sorted into a neat /collection/album/ organization.
• Selectable Thumbnails — You can now specify which image you want to be the representative thumbnails of your collections and albums. If you have no preference, Plogger will continue to automatically choose thumbnails for you.
• Improved Importing — You can now upload pictures into the /uploads/ directory using individual folders filled with image. You can work with each folder seperately or all images at once through the new and improved import interface. The new import also determines new album names based on your folder structure and naming.
• RSS support — Each level of organization can now generate it’s own RSS feed. You can subscribe to feeds for a single album, collection, or the entire gallery. Additionally, you can subscribe to a custom set of search terms to keep you updated on your chosen keywords.
• User Configurable Sort Order — You can now choose how your galleries are sorted by default.
• Remote Access — You can now remotely update your gallery from any peice of software that supports the Gallery Protocol.
• Improved Recursive Downloading — Plogger now generates zip files instead of tar.gz files. Also, the compression is done on the fly instead of through exec() so it will work with PHP in safe_mode.
• Patched Security Vulnerabilities — Several XSS vulnerabilities have been patched for this release.
• Massive Code Overhaul — The entire code base has been reworked and reorganized resulting in leaner, cleaner and faster code execution.
• International Character Code Support — Plogger now uses UTF-8 for international usage.
• Square Thumbnails — Plogger now has the option to generate square thumbnails regardless of portrait or landscape orientation.

So what are you waiting for? Get over there and get it!