For a webmaster to submit a gallery, you need to direct them to the post.cgi script. Any old link to that script will do. Once they get there, they will fill out a form with all the information that is needed to make a submission. When they press the submit button, their URLs are verified (optional), reciprocal links are checked (optional), and their submission is then added to the appropriate database. E-mail Confirmation If you have the e-mail confirmation option enabled, the webmaster's submission will be stored in a temporary database. An e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address they used with their submission. They will need to receive this e-mail and visit the link that it contains. By visiting this link, it will verify that they have a valid e-mail address. If you have the auto-approve option enabled, their submission will be added to the current database and the main TGP page upon visiting the confirmation link. If you are not using the auto-approve option, the submission will be added to the queue where you will be able to review the submission before displaying it on your TGP. Auto-Approve If you have the auto-approve option enabled, there will be no opportunity for you to review submissions before they are added to your TGP. All submissions will be instantly added once it has been received, or after the confirmation link has been visited if you are using the e-mail confirmation option. If you want to be able to review all submissions before displaying them, you should not use the auto-approve option. Maximum Posts Per Day The maximum posts per day function uses the submitter's IP address, website URL, and e-mail address to limit the number they can submit. If the software matches on any of those, and the total number of matches exceeds the number you have entered, the webmaster will not be able to submit any more galleries until the date changes. Permanent and Temporary Galleries When webmaster's submit their galleries they will have the option to choose if their gallery will be temporary or permanent. Permanent galleries are those which they plan to leave on the server for a long period of time, and are the only submissions that the software will move into the archives. Temporary galleries are considered short term, and will not be placed in the archives. Once their run on the main TGP page is up, they will be removed from all databases.
The software allows you to add partner accounts to the system. Partners are webmasters who you trust to make good submissions without any type of review or reciprocal link checking, but the software will still check for banned HTML. You should only give partner accounts to webmasters that you trust - you will not have any chance to review these submissions before they appear on your TGP. Partner accounts can be added through the administrative interface. Once a partner account is created, they will be able to submit their galleries through the partner.cgi interface. You can link to that page with any type of standard HTML link.
The software has an optional feature which will allow you to keep older submissions, while not displaying them on your main TGP page. For each category that you have an archive page will be created, and the page will be named based on the category. The archive pages will only display submissions once they have been rotated off your main TGP page. When you first start running your TGP, the archives will not have any submissions listed on them. The software will maintain the size of your archives, and remove the oldest galleries first. Archive Page Naming Each of your category archive pages will be named based on the category and file extension entered in setup.cgi. The software will take the category name, remove all non-alphanumeric characters, make all letters lowercase, and attach the file extension. We'll give a few examples so you can see how they will be named. In these examples, we will assume 'html' was entered for the file extension in setup.cgi. Category HTML Name -------- --------- Internet internet.html CGI Scripts cgiscripts.html Unix/Linux unixlinux.html
The blacklist is a list of items that you do not want to be posted to your TGP. There is a blacklist for e-mail addresses, URLs, IP addresses, and words. If you have found that someone is posting bogus galleries, you can blacklist their URL, e-mail address, or IP address. If there are certain words that you do not want to appear on your site, you can ban those from the gallery descriptions. With the e-mail and URL bans, it is possible to block an entire domain, or an exact URL or address. For example, if you want to ban all people using Hotmail e-mail addresses from posting, you should add 'hotmail.com' to the e-mail blacklist. If you only want to ban John Doe, you would add 'john_doe@hotmail.com' to the blacklist - this will allow others from hotmail.com to continue posting.
You can optionally put a small link next to each post which surfers will be able to click on. This will take them to a page where they can report cheaters or dead links. All reports are stored in a database which can be viewed from admin.cgi. You will need to decide if the surfer has correctly identified a bad site or not, and you can then process that cheat. If you select the 'Do Nothing' option, the cheat report will be removed from the database and the post will remain. If you choose to 'Delete & Ban', the selected post will be deleted and the domain name and e-mail address from which it was posted will be added to the ban lists; the cheat report will be removed at the same time. If you choose to 'Delete Only' the selected post will be deleted, but nothing will be blacklisted.
The software offers two different methods to determine the number of submissions that should be displayed on your main page. The first, and most simple, is the Most Recent Posts option. With this, the software will simply display the x most recent submissions in the database on your main TGP page, where x is the number you entered in the setup.cgi interface. If you entered say 100 for that value, the software will show at most 100 submissions on your TGP page. Once that number has been reached, the oldest submissions will be moved into the archives if you have them enabled. The second option is to display the Most Recent Posts Per Category. With this option, the number of galleries displayed on your main TGP page will depend on how many categories you have. If you have 10 categories and tell the software to display the 15 most recent posts per category, you will have at most 150 galleries on your main page. Once a category has more than 15 submissions, the oldest in that category will be moved into the archives. |