ArtVenue : Image Sharing Community Script

User Profile Features

Unique Username: Each user has unique username

Unique Profile: link: Unique profile link with there username

Image Gallery: Gallery of all the images shared by a user

Favorites: Gallery of all the favorited images

Most used tags: Profile page display most used tags

Followers: List of all the followers

Following: List all the following

Counter: Counter for number of images shared – number of comments – number of followers

Social Link: Users can share there fb – tw – blog links

RSS: Unique rss link for each user

Limits Settings Features

Limit number of images user can upload per day

Limit maximum image size a user can upload

Limit maximum number of tags image can have

Limit number of image in gallery to control pagination

Admin can set site as auto approve or approval required

Allow download original image or not or leave upto to user

Registration Features

User can register by there email address

Support for Facebook and Google connect for instant login

Email confirmation is required to protect from spams

Support dual facebook && google + username login

Admin Panel Features

List of all the users at one place

Track inactive users with no activity over a month

List of all images

List of all comments

Admin can edit any users profile

Admin can users

Admin can edit image description and title

Admin can delete any image

Admin can make user and images as featured

List of all featured images at one place

List of all featured users at one place

Managing reports

Edit FAQ – Privacy – About us pages

Admin can add as many as category he/she wants

Clear cache at any time to refresh the site

Upload Features

Multiple – Drag and Drop – Clipboard upload

Mass upload to populate your website

Security Features

Email Confirmation to protect from spams

Unique download link of images each time page refresh

CSRF Protection: Protection from CSRF

XSS: Protection from cross site scripting

SQL Injection: 100 % SQL Injection safe using late binding

Secure Bcrypt password hashing

Server Requirements

• PHP 5.5.9 or Greater
• GD or Imagick
• Curl
• Fileinfo Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension

Check your server comparability using :- Server test script

Demo ( Visit )

• Live demo site ArtVenue Demo ( some features are disabled )
• Demo Login 1 : username = test : password = testuser
• Demo Login 2 : username = test2 : password = testuser
• Visit Admin Panel after Login

SMTP Support for

Some Sites Using ArtVenue

Post your site URL in comment if you want to get listed ( Make sure you have large number of images on your site )

Updates

Version 5.0.9.2 Nov 11, 2017

• Library updates
• Minor tweaks
• Make sure to delete and replace `vendor` folder

Version 5.0.9.1 Jul 11,2017

• Library updates
• Minor performance tweak.
• Few known issues with email token are fixed
• Make sure to delete and replace `vendor` folder

Version 5.0.9 Oct 17, 2016

• List of knows issues are fixed.
• Very Minor admin panel tweaks.

Version 5.0.8 Oct 03, 2016

• Minor known issues are fixed
• Some improvements.
• Google maps are now using API key

Version 5.0.7 July 19, 2016

• Admin Panel updates
• Some reported and know issues are fixed
• Code optimizations
• Library updates
• Better delete functions

Version 5.0.6 April 18, 2016

• SQL query are optimized
• Admin panel improvements
• Minor template improvements
• Library updates
• Know and reported issues are fixed

Version 5.0.5 April 07, 2016

• Minor database update
• Minor known issues are fixed
• Added NSFW option in admin panel
• Library updates

Version 5.0.4 March 18, 2016

• Library update
• Image Lens exif correction
• Minor know issues are fixed

Version 5.0.2 Nov 02,2015

• All minor known issues are fixed.
• CSS library update

Version 5.0.1 Sep 17,2015

• All minor reported issues are fixed.
• Just replace app, resources and public/static folder.

Version 5.0 Sep 14,2015

This is really really big update. Tons and tons of services added.

CDN Support For

• Amazon S3 and cloudfront
• Copy.com
• Dropbox Pro

Social

• Facebook ( Improved )
• Google ( Improved )
• Twitter ( Added New )

Image

• Watermarking
• Prograssive and faster image loading.
• Better and faster image resizing
• Improved support for GD and Imagick
• Standard image site throughout the site.

Security

• Login throttle.
• Cookies encryption ( Improved )
• Better xss protection
• Better validation checking at every step

Configuration

• Easy and single file configuration

Caching

• Better caching support.
• Redis support
• Memcached support

Template

• Improved design
• New pop-up gallery loader with zoom
• Image pop-up load on main image
• Updated 3rd party dependency.
• Merged all CSS-JS to single file
• Better responsive support.
• Bower and gulp support

Coding Improvement

• Optimized old algos.
• Minor Bug fixes.
• Minor translation update
• Change file structure.
• Dropped support of dead PHP 5.4

Admin Panel

• All new admin panel.
• Faster and easy to sort
• Quick search feature
• Clear individual image cache feature

Error pages

• Added all new 404, 400, 500 error pages.

Docs

• All new docs, with videos

Version 4.4 March 30, 2015

• [ New ] Voting on comments and Replies
• Coding Improvement
• Minor translation fixes
• Added some missing icon files
• Reported Issues are fixed
• Minor security update

Version 4.3 Dec 06, 2014

• [ New ] Using latest Google’s “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA” ( read the docs for api key )
• [ New ] Featured images now have banner
• Minor reported issues are fixed.

Version 4.2 Nov 18, 2014

• [ NEW] Time based filters [ Week – Month – Year ].
• [ Added ] Left and right keybaord <- -> navgiation support to switch between images.
• [ Improved ] Users list is now arranged by poular ( based on algo ).
• [ Improved ] Minor theme updates.
• [ Improved ] JavaScript – CSS libaray updates.
• [ Improved ] Known issues are fixed.

Version 4.1 Sept 22, 2014

• [ Improvement ] Minor reported issues with version 4 are fixed
• [ Improvement ] SEO improvement

Version 4.0 Sept 2, 2014

• [ Added ] Geo-tagging on photos.
• [ Added ] New full page uploader
• [ Added ] Custom exif addition
• [ Added ] Category filters
• [ Added ] Adult ( NSFW ) protection
• [ Added ] Dual support for avatar’s ( Gravatar + Image upload )
• [ Added ] Fancy alerts ( display on top bar, for few seconds. )
• [ Improvement ] Coding structure
• [ Improvement ] Code Re-factoring
• [ Improvement ] Coding structure
• [ Improvement ] Tags and category become optional
• [ Improvement ] Minor issues with template are fixed
• [ Improvement ] Improved Facebook-Google login
• [ Improvement ] Database structure
• [ Improvement ] Default theme update

Version 3.4.5 July 21, 2014

• [ Added ] Queues are encrypted
• [ Added ] New super fast mandrill API mail driver
• [ Improvement ] Facebook – Google login improvement
• [ Improvement ] Minor admin panel update
• [ Improvement ] Few reported issues resolved

Version 3.4.4 Jun 3, 2014

• [ Added ] RSS feeds now shows images
• [ Improvement ] Framework update ( Twitter Boostrap )
• [ Improvement ] Framework update ( Laravel 4.2 )
• [ Improvement ] Improvement in search result
• [ Improvement ] Fixed next/prev quick navigation button
• [ Improvement ] Minor admin panel issues fixed
• [ Improvement ] Admin panel graph improvement
• [ Improvement ] Minor theme fixes
• [ Improvement ] Reported issues fixed

Version 3.4.2 May 5, 2014

• [Added] Comments section in admin panel
• [Added] Deleted Category feature
• [Added] Drag and drop category re-order in admin panel
• [Bug Fix] Some minor reported issues are fixed.
• [Bug Fix] User delete bug fix
• [Framework] Framework updates
• [Improvement] Category improvement
• [Improvement] Performance Improvement
• [Improvement] Translation update
• [Optimization] Reduced number of SQL executed
• [Security] Minor security update

Version 3.4.1 April 16, 2014

• [ Added ] Intelligent view counter
• [ Added ] Popular section ( auto select popular images based on algo )
• [ Added ] Most viewed section
• [ Added ] Total number of views in users profile page

Version 3.4 April 9, 2014

• [ Added ] Google Login
• [ Added ] Blogs for site
• [ Added ] New admin panel
• [ Improved ] Facebook login
• [ Fixed ] Minor issues

Version 3.3 February 10, 2014

• Framework update
• Speed Improvement
• Facebook SDK update
• Minor bug fixes

Version 1

• Initial Release