Unzip the downloaded file and copy the index.php in a directory with pictures (supported formats: JPG, PNG, GIF) to your server. Open the URL to the script to run the gallery. For example: http://your-domain.com/my-gallery/index.php
Be sure that the directory is not write protected. Change write (and maybe also read) permissions for the script with a FTP program. if you need more information about FTP and file permissions, please take a look at the known resources.
Open the MOSAIC MINI file (index.php) in a ASCII editor (e.g. Notepad or TextEdit) and see section “SETTINGS”. By changing the values of these variables you can configure most of the features in MOSAIC MINI like gallery title, path to images, standard sizes … and more.
MOSAIC MINI can cache the thumbnails to load them faster. Be sure that the directory is not write protected. Otherwise the script can not write these thumbnails. Read more about this in “Installation”.
Yes, since version 1.6.7 you can embed the gallery in your HTML page by configuring the script as described in “Configuration” and changing $page_mode from “normal” to “embedded”. This will strip off MOSAIC MINI’s self HTML page header and output the gallery as pure HTML content without own page settings and CSS, so you can style MOSAIC MINI by your own.
If you want to keep the CSS, go to line 249 – 268 and copy these styles into the head tags of your HTML page.
Be sure that you are using web compatible image formats: JPG, GIF and PNG.
Check the filenames for illegal characters: Spaces or maybe special characters in some languages (like umlaut). Also filenames should not be longer than 8 characters.
Check the system requirements. Maybe your webhosting don’t support image rendering (GD-LIB).
Check file permissions with your FTP program. Maybe some files or the whole directory is not readable or writeable.
This directory is created by the script to save the thumbnails. Because of you didn’t created it, you are not the owner and not able to delete it on some servers. MOSAIC MINI 1.6.4 has a build in uninstall routine that will delete this folder for you. Just rename the script to uninstall.php and run it.
If you have an older version without the uninstall function you can use the latest version as described.
Yes without any restrictions. But please make a donation to support further development.
You can use MOSAIC MINI for whatever you want. But respect these principles: