DOCUMENTATION FOR EMBEDDING PHP SWF SLIDESHOW INTO COPPERMINE

1. As the potential number of arguments passed to to the SWF object as URL params is bigger than it can natively handle, images names and other options must be read from a file. This file MUST be unique for each slideshow viewing so a directory needs to be created that is writable via the user that runs the scripts (usually apache or nobody for PHP scipts)

ACTION - create a directory called "slideparams" under your base directory and make sure it is writable.

2. Copy all other files in the module OVER (if there is already an existing file) the original coppermine files.

3. The module contains a version of the SWF object that is free for distribution. It does have limitations on it (one of which is that it can only show 10 transitions at a time) and this is well documented at http://www.maani.us/slideshow/

4. Change the path of $galleryPath to the absolute location of the the gallery directory on you webserver in the file include/flash_slide_show.inc.php