WebCards Manual

General Settings

The following imge shows the General Settings page.

Number of images to show on each row when composing card

When a user is browsing the category sections, rows of available pictures are displayed. The user can change how many pictures they want to display on each page, but the admin can modify how many pictures are shown on each row. The best value to choose depends on how many pictures you have in a category and how large they are.

How many random categories to show on main page

Random categories are shown on the main "choose image" page to give your users inspiration on which card to send. You set the number of random categories to show here. The number cannot be higher than the number of categories you have. Please also note that each category shown requires another SQL query, so don't make this number too high. Depending on how many categories you have, 5 should be a good number to use here.

How many new/popular images to show on main page

The main choose image page shows the newest images added to the database and the most popular images (based on the number of cards containing this image sent). You can set how many are shown here. Purely for layout purposes it is best to use the same value as for the setting above.

Default order to sort cards?

When the user is browsing categories do you want the images sorted by order added or alphabetically?

Date format

This is how the date will show to the user who picks up the card. You should use a format identical to that used by the PHP date() function. You can see an up-to-date list of all the variables allowed at http://www.php.net/date. If you are not sure what to set this to, leave it as it is. When you update this setting you will see an example below.

Message to show users that have been banned

Any user that has had their IP address banned will receive this message and nothing else. You should make the message quite descriptive and possibly give the user an email address so they can contact you if they think there has been a mistake.

Default public language

Choose which language your visitors will see by default. They will later be able to pick from any other languages you have installed if you allow them.

Allow users to change styles

You can create multiple stylesheets for the user to choose from. If you put this setting to "no" the user will always use the default stylesheet.

Allow users to change languages

If you let users choose a language beware that the category and image names will be displayed in the original language.

Dimensions for automatically generated thumbnails

You can enter a width and height. If you enter just a height the image will be this height and the width will be proportional to the original width. The same is true if you only enter a width. If you enter both a height and a width the image will be forced to be this size but will probably be out of proportion.

Image format for automatically generated thumbnails

Choose from png, gif and jpeg. Ensure that you have the correct modules installed to generate the correct format. The gif format is only available if you have GD library version 1 installed.

Click "Update Configuration" to save your changes.