Coppermine Photo Gallery Tutorial - Gallery Structure

The Coppermine gallery structure

 

The Coppermine Photo Gallery works in the following way:

 

-> Files are stored in albums
-> Albums are organised in categories
-> Categories can be nested (into subcategories)

 

If you don't plan to have many albums, you really won't need to use the categories feature. If this applies to you, simply do not create any categories and all your albums will automatically appear on the main page of the script.

 

There is, however, a special category named "User galleries". This category can't be deleted. If a user belongs to the group "can have a personal gallery" and this is set to YES, he will have the right to create his own albums and his gallery will be a sub-category of "User galleries". This link is not visible to visitors of your site, however, if you do not allow users to upload pics and have their own albums.

 

The administrator can create albums in any category. Non-administrative users can only create albums in the "User galleries/Their_username".

 

You can, however rename the "User Galleries". To rename the "User galleries" category and description, simply go to your category control panel and change the name there (e.g. to translate the words "User galleries" into your language).

 

 

 

 

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