V-Gallery is a simple free ' Internet Picture Voting ' application. Back-end by Access Database, V-Gallery can store thousands of pictures(Limited only by the web space it sits in..). Visitors can submit their own pictures for others to vote on. After each vote, the picture will be shown together with its total votes in order of most votes first.

Voting can be open and unlimited or the Control panel can change the settings to limit user votes and restrict them.

Once a photo competition is over and the winners have been chosen either by total votes or by an independent judge the admin / manager/s can use the control panel to move winning photos to the Hall Of Fame gallery where you can save a collection of competition winners, these will display in order of highest votes first.

EXIF info is displayed on each image if available.

You can add your own theme names and descriptions so your users all know what the current competition is and any info the site manager/s want to give on the current competition can be added in the control panel and this will display on the Info / Rules page.

V-Gallery is an excellent FREE add-on for your Web site.

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The basic idea of the V-Gallery is you can simply drop it into your web space you have already or you can add it to its own web space its all the same, whether you are a webmaster or not the gallery sets up in 2-3 min's.

Once running you have an online picture gallery and your visitors can add picture images & photos by using the submission form provided, in turn you the admin / manager get an email to tell you and can view the 'Pending Pics' to review what has been sent. This ensures no illegal or X rated material gets published without you knowing.

Once you accept the photo it goes into the main gallery where it can be voted on my your sites users, if you were running a Photo Of The Month Competition you would allow users to add pics up until a certain date, you fill in the section in the control panel with the comps start -finish dates and any other info you need to give out and you can then enable the submission form on or off when your ready to receive pics this is done by a simple On/Off button in the Control Panel.

However your Photo Of The Month Competition is judged whether by an individual judge or by highest votes its all the same that's your decision....

Once the competition is over you can switch off the submission form to stop receiving photos until the old lot are cleared out or the top picks have been sent to the hall of fame.

There are individual photo deletes in the control panel or there are 2 Mass Delete Functions, use these with care as when you choose a mass delete it does just that and will blitz whatever gallery you choose, although you do get a warning to say are you sure you want to do this it is un reversible once done!!

V-Gallery comes with a small Web-based Admin panel, you will be able to perform all of the following:

- Alter The Password-Protected Admin Panel User & Password
- Alter The Gallery Titles & Headings
- Turn Voting On & Off Or Restrict Votes (Cookie Based)
- Preview Pics Before Public Display
- Add, Edit And Delete Existing Pictures
- Turn Photo submissions On / Off
- Batch Delete Photos
- Toggle Admin Email Notifications On / Off
- Add Your Own Links To The Gallery's Main Pages
- Move Favorite Or Winning Entry's To Your Hall Of Fame Gallery
- Undate The Info Page With Latest Competition Info
- Specify User Max Upload Photo Size In kb or mb

On the users browser to allow them to vote, voting can be restricted to one vote per picture or set to allow multiple votes up to a maximum of 3 votes per visitor. See the file common.asp or look in the admin control panel for setting changes.

-Windows Servers with MS Internet Information Server 4.0 or later.
-ASP 2.0 or later.
-Must allow for use of FSO.
-ASP JPG & ASP Upload must also be installed on your server.
-CDONTS for email services.

If you do not have a web host or even a web site we can set up your gallery on our servers with your own domain or with one of our free domains. Contact us

- The Gallery is Free (No Cost)

-If you need hosting we can fix you up on our server if we for :£3.75 pm For Unlimited Photos & Web space with a full web account & control panel & 1 gb Bandwidth per month. See Staffdata for more info on hosting.

After you unzipped VGallery.zip, the Gallery is ready to run out of the box so to speak.

Then use an FTP program such as Cute FTP to upload all files and folders to your site servers root.

If your site domain is yourdomain.com, and you do not rename the original main folder Voting Gallery, and you upload this whole Voting Gallery folder to the root of your site, the URL to your VGallery front page is:

Its advisable not to rename the gallery folders and keep its folder structure intact. Although we do recommend moving the database to a secure folder and altering your connection string.(See Below)

http://www.yourdomain.com/VotingGallery/

The default Admin Account Details Are:

Username: admin
Password: password

Login and you will be able to change the default password to something else.

It is advisable to move your database to a secure location on your server and change the connection string to suit and add an absolute path and rename the database to for extra security.

Change the line in file in your /Connections/ folder to fit your server.

EG: conn_STRING_STRING = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};" & _
                                                                      "Dbq=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\yourDBName.mdb;"

EG: conn_STRING_STRING ="Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ= " & Server.MapPath("/PathToGallery/MyVGallery.mdb")

Thank you for using V-Gallery.