Requirements:
 

Linux^®, Mac^® and Windows^® compatible

PHP 4.3.1 to 5.2.x *
MySQL 4.0.26 or later
Apache 1.3 or later ** or IIS
Zend Optimizer v.3 or later
ImageMagick is required to use the Media Utilities feature in the Enterprise version.
* PHP should have GD and session enabled.
** Apache mod_rewrite module must be enabled to use the Lightbox SEO feature (Pro. & Ent.)

Enterprise version includes all Core Features plus the following advanced features:
 

• There is no limit set by the system on the number of users or concurrent users. Multiple admin users can be logged in at the same time.

• This feature allows you to sell a specific group of selected media as a package. You can add as many media to the Virtual CD as desired and assign a download link to it, or set it as a delivery type.

• Use this feature to refine your searching by performing a new search only on the previous set of search results.

• Specify if the media is an "image" or "video" (or create your own) type.
• Customers can select the Media Status on the Advanced Search page to search media with the selected status only.

• When users have been assigned VIP status, they are able to purchase and download media from the gallery without needing to go through a payment gateway. Customers can be invoiced for their purchases at a later date.

• Customers can request a quotation for an individual image based on their specified usage requirements.

• Customers can request a quotation for a lightbox of images based on their specified usage requirements.

• Create orders for your customers from within the Admin Control Panel.

• The system will automatically detect the orientation status for each media (Horizontal, Vertical, Square or Panorama).
• Customers can select the Orientation Status on the Advanced Search page to search media with the selected status only.

• This feature allows you to offer additional languages for site users to select from. The feature allows the user to change the site language on the fly.

• The Media Utilities feature gives you the ability to edit your media from within the gallery admin area. With the Media Utilities feature, you can perform many editing functions on your media such as renaming, moving, deleting, cropping, brightness, contrast, rotating, re-sizing and much more...

• POP3 Media is a convenient way to allow you to add media to your database. This feature also allows you or your contributors to upload images to the gallery directly from their mobile phone (if they have a camera feature on their phone).

• This is a alternative purchasing method for customers. You can assign credit values for your media and customer can then purchase media using their pre-purchased credits, instead of paying with their credit card at the checkout.

• This feature allows you to sell accessories for your product. You can use this feature to sell media frames, mats etc.

• You can use the subscription feature to offer customers the ability to subscribe to your gallery before purchasing products or instant download media.

• You can use this feature to create Product Packages to sell a set of products for a set price. e.g. you could sell 2 x 8"x10", 6 x 5"x7" and 12 wallet size prints as a package.

• Using this feature you can allow or restrict one or multiple IP Addresses to access your Public Gallery Modules.

• Customers can purchase Credit and Duration subscriptions, Product Packages or Virtual CDs from the Products page of the gallery.
• Customers can switch between their available payment methods as desired.
• You can set the default payment method for the gallery, Subscription or PPP [ NEW ]

• The Lightbox admin can set the Media Release Status for each media (Model and Property).
• Customers can choose the Release Status in the Advanced Search page to search media with the selected status.

• This feature can be used to create and assign Rights Managed (RM) licenses for your digital media. The user can calculate the license price for the image by selecting their usage terms from admin generated dropdown menus.
• The admin can set download links for rights managed media to allow for instant download after the payment has been completed.
• Input pricing can be adjusted globally based on a fixed amount or a percentage. [ NEW ]

• The Photographer (Contributor) section allows other photographers to upload their digital images to your gallery. The photographer can manage the uploaded images by adding descriptions, keywords, product pricing and upload high resolution download images if they have instant download products. Before accessing this section the photographer needs to register and activate their account. The system will calculate payments due to the photographers based on their sales and the commission that you charge as the site administrator.
• Detailed sales reports are available to the photographer and the administrator.
• Admin can add a photographer to the system directly from the Admin Control Panel.
• Photographers can create Private Galleries and assign Access Users. [ NEW ]
• Photographer listing feature allows users to view all media from a particular photographer. [ NEW ]
• Photographer registration profile and sales export feature. [ NEW ]

• Once the user has registered to the system they can create an unlimited amount of lightboxes. The lightboxes are saved for future use or distribution using the send lightbox feature.

• This feature allows you to run the Lightbox installation on one server, while storing the high resolution download files on another server.

• This feature allows you to export the sales report for later use. The export file format is .csv (Comma Separated Value).
   

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Core Features of ALL Versions (except where noted):
 

• The Lightbox SEO feature concentrates on optimizing the dynamic content of your Lightbox system which will allow the search engines to crawl your site more effectively and therefore add more content to their databases. There are two main components to this feature, dynamically generated meta tags and search engine friendly URLs.
  1) With this component, your static page title, meta keywords and meta description on the Media Details and Category pages will be automatically changed to the content of your selected media properties.
  2) This component will change all static & dynamic URLs that are generated by Lightbox to Search Engine Friendly URLs.
• Dynamically add media properties data to the "alt" tag of your images.

• Products and/or categories can be designated to have pricing automatically added when new media are added to your gallery.

• Product pricing can be assigned to all media in a selected category, or to all media in the entire gallery.
• Multiple products can be assigned to multiple categories at the same time. [ NEW ]
• Apply pricing to a group of selected media. [ Pro & Ent Version ] - [ NEW ]
• Lightbox admin can assign Global Pricing to a specific product type.

• Advanced search to include "any", "all" or "phrase" for multiple keyword searches.
• Refine searches based on License Type, Release Status, Orientation, Black & White and/or Media Type status.
• Hyperlinked keywords that users can search media with the same keywords with a single click.
• "Partial Text Searching" option allows for the system to search for words containing the input keyword.

• The system will append any user input keywords with words or characters specified. e.g. if you add "s;ed" to this feature, the system will also search for the plural "s" and the past tense "ed" of any entered keyword.

• The system will return results for any user input keyword as well as any synonyms associated with the keyword. e.g. If you create the synonyms "rose" and "orchid" for the keyword "flower", then the search function will return results for all three keywords if the keyword "flower" is entered into the search function.

• These are keywords that you want to have listed in the gallery so that users can click on each keyword to obtain a particular group of images which contain the selected keyword.

• The Gallery Menu Manager feature allows you change the navigation menu buttons from within admin control panel, as well as add more pages to the gallery.
• Option to set a specific gallery page as the home page.

• The admin can assign the same media to multiple categories from one physical media file.

• Customers can view media and the properties by moving their cursor over the media thumbnail. This provides a convenient way to preview media information. This feature can be enabled or disabled by the customer. - [ IMPROVED ]

• Software can be installed and used as a complete stand alone gallery website, or it can be integrated into an existing website.
• Using AJAX technologies, Lightbox now operates even faster than ever.

• Unlimited categories in both Public and Private galleries.
• Quick Jump category search can be displayed in a drop down menu or a listing style menu tree.

• The featured media are displayed in the Featured Media section in both the public and private galleries. The featured media can be displayed horizontally or vertically.

• A date can be set that the system will use to determine if the images are considered new. Images added to the system prior to this date will not be displayed in this section.

• Restrict access to individual galleries by requiring the user to input an admin generated username and password.
• Admin can assign the customer login to the private gallery login, allowing the customer to use one login for access and purchases from the private gallery. [ NEW ]
• Ideal for an event photographer to distribute at an event.
• Categories can be hidden for development purposes or you can provide a client private access to a category (gallery).

• Options to restrict user access to the gallery unless the user is registered.

• Search logs to display which keywords were searched and how often they were searched.
• Search logs are generated for individual customer's

• Create administrative groups to restrict administrative privileges.

• Upon order completion the system sends the user and the admin a copy of the transaction invoice.
• Send an invoice notification to the administrator's mobile phone.

• Send html or plain text emails to Pending, Active or both customers groups.
• Compose email form to email a specific customer. [ NEW ]

• Control which IPTC fields display. Allow fields to be hyperlinked searches (or unlinked). Allow fields to be linked as individual words or linked in keyword phrases, depending how they were captioned.
• "Floating" IPTC fields for thumbnails and display images, which allows the admin to select the IPTC fields and order for display.
• IPTC metadata can be added to individual images or to an entire category.
• IPTC metadata can be imported to create searchable hyperlinks.
• Option to display IPTC data on the thumbnail page.
• Support for XMP IPTC metadata format

• Send an individual image or send an entire Lightbox.
• Sends a fully customizable html email.
• Sendmail or SMTP mail configuration option.
• Log files for the "Send to a Friend" and "Send Lightbox" features. [ NEW ]

• You can generate and print sales reports on the fly. Administrator can select date range and fields to be displayed.
• Invoice feature which allows the admin and/or end-users to print out invoices.

• Generate discount codes that are applied to every sale or set a minimum value for when the discount will be applied.
• Discounts can be a fixed amount or a percentage of the total.
• Automatic discounts can be applied. Once the defined criteria are met, the discount will be applied without any user input of a discount code.
• Set activation and expiry dates for Promotion Codes. [ NEW ]

• Allows the administrator to resize all display images to same width or height.
• Auto resize display images on import. [ NEW ]

• The system supports instant downloads. This product type allows end-user to instantly download a media file as soon as the payment has been completed.
• Assign instant download links to an entire category of media.

• Minimum order total can be set. If the required order total is not reached, then the customer is instructed to continue shopping.

• Lightbox utilizes the Smarty Template Engine that provides the admin with even greater gallery customization flexibility.
• Utilizing a set of templates and CSS it is possible to customize the "look and feel" of your gallery as desired or to match an existing website. The code can be edited in the admin area or using any html editor such as Microsoft® Expression Web or Dreamweaver®.
• We can also provide affordable template customization services if required.

• Browser based batch upload feature that allows the admin to upload a batch of display, download, or sample download images. [ Pro & Ent Version ]
• Using an FTP client you can upload an entire category (inc. sub-cats) of thousands of media and add them to the database with a single click.

• Watermark an entire category with a single click.
• Adjustable text watermark colour.
• Adjustable transparency setting for watermarks.
• Upload a new watermark via your web browser.
• Auto watermark new display images on import. [ NEW ]

• The system can auto-generate thumbnails when images are added to the gallery.
• Generate thumbnails for an entire category with a single click.
• Generate thumbnails based on a percentage reduction from the display file, or based on a fixed dimension. [ NEW ]

• The text (language) displayed on the site can be changed by editing text language files and the relevant template files. This allows you to change the user and admin interface into your preferred language.

• The system supports unlimited product types. As long as the new product type is assigned a price it will be displayed to your customers for selection.
• Products can be displayed in a list (to allow multiple selections) or they can be displayed in a drop down menu.

• The administrator can define single or multiple taxable regions based on any user registration fields.
• The tax can be disabled on a particular product type. This allows you to have a tax free product such as a digital download.
• Option to apply tax to shipping cost.
• Sales and VAT tax systems supported.

• The administrator can set a flat rate for shipping, as an alternative option to assigning individual shipping values in the media manager.
• The shipping rate can also be assigned to a particular product type which allows you to assign a greater shipping cost to heavy or bulky products. [Pro & Ent Version]
• Flat Rate Zone Shipping, allows you to set different shipping costs for different geographical zones. [Pro & Ent Version]

• The registration feature allows the administrator to add, edit, or delete registration form fields. This allows any amount of information to be collected that may be required.
• Users can edit their registration details from their "My Account" area and the admin can edit their details from within the admin area.
• CAPTCHA code for form submission. [ NEW ]
• Customer registration data can be exported to a CSV file. [ Pro & Ent Version ] - [ NEW ]
• Admin can specify the minimum number of characters used for usernames. [ NEW ]

• Users can collect their "favorite" media in their own Lightbox, for future reference or purchase.
• Admin can view the contents of users lightboxes.
• The lightbox feature provides a comments box, which allows lightbox owners and/or their associates to add comments to lightbox items. [Pro & Ent Version ]
• Add images directly to the shopping cart from the lightbox. [ Pro & Ent Version ] - [ NEW ]

• Slideshow for a category of media or lightbox (favorites) contents.
• A lightweight and smooth slideshow that allows the user to click on a slideshow image and be taken to the media detail page for that image.

• Admin can view contents of a user's shopping cart
• Users can select the payment gateway of their choice . The admin can set either PayPal, 2Checkout, VeriSign Payflow Link, Skipjack, Sage Pay with Form, Westpac, PayGate, Paystation, Przelewy, Webstream, WorldPay, Secure Hosting, Suomen Verkkomaksut Oy, Click and Buy, ePDQ, Moneybookers, Google Checkout, Robokassa and Netbanx (or all) to be available in the standard version and additionally Authorize.Net, PayPal Pro, Beanstream, Echo, Concord, Payment Express, Sage Pay with Direct, ANZ - eGate, WTC PayEx, eProcessing, Chase Paymentech, Linkpoint, Moneris and eWay in the Pro. & Ent. versions. Click on the logo's below for more information or to sign up for an account. In addition to the online payment processors the admin (Pro. & Ent. Version) can choose to capture users payment details and process offline (a secure certificate for the site is recommended).
• Option to require users to agree to licence terms during checkout. [ NEW ]