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Joachim Müller:
Hey all,

the supporters and devs constantly mention tools in their postings that are useful when setting up or modifying Coppermine, so we decided to start a thread dedicated to those tools. Please understand that they are all "third-party", so the links may go down, the licenses they come with may change or other unexpected things may happen - we have no control over those apps! This thread is locked, so only devs can reply. Please don't ask questions on those apps here on the Coppermine board, but on the pages that deal with them.

App nameTypePurposeOSLicencephpMyAdminWeb appDatabase managementn/aGNU GPLmySqlDumperWeb appDatabase backup/restoren/aGNU GPLIrfanViewClientImage viewerWin32Freeware (non-commercial)Exifer for WindowsClientEXIF manipulation/backupWin32FreewareCrimson EditorClientText file editorWin32FreewareWindows GREPClientFile searchingWin32SharewareSmartFTPClientFTP clientWin32/64Freeware (non-commercial)FileZillaClientFTP clientWin32GNU GPLTHE RenameClientFile-renaming utilityWin32FreewareWeb Developer ExtensionBrowser pluginWeb development tooln/aGNU GPLWeb Accessibility ToolbarBrowser pluginWeb development tooln/aFreeware (Creative Commons)Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar (Microsoft) Browser pluginWeb development toolWin32?FirebugBrowser pluginWeb developer extensionn/aOpen Source freewareBluefishClientText file editorPOSIX compl.GNU GPLWinMergeClientDiff viewerWin32GNU GPL

Joachim Müller:
Open-source web application that can be downloaded (for free) and installed on your webserver (easy installation). It comes with multiple language support. Your webhost may even provide this tool.

Features:
MySql database management tool that allows manipulating your database and running queries directly against your database.

Benefits for the use with Coppermine:

* Create database backups
* Edit config options (even if your Coppermine site's config panel is not accessible)
* Repair broken tables
Homepage:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

License:
GNU GPL (open-source)

Joachim Müller:
Light-weight Image Viewer that supports many file formats, comes with various plugins and can be used to convert and manipulate images as well.

Features:
Easy install, available for all Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. Rudimentary image manipulation (cropping, rotation, brightness, contrast, red-eye reduction, color-depth etc.), thumbnail view, slideshow, batch-manipulation, EXIF/IPTC-support

Benefits for the use with Coppermine:

* Batch-resizing
* Conversion from exotic image types to web-safe ones
Languages:
English and German as default, many other languages can be downloaded optionally.

Homepage:
http://irfanview.com/

License:
Freeware for non-commercial use
Moderate cost for commercial use

Joachim Müller:
Exifer is freeware and allows viewing and editing EXIF meta-data on the client (your PC). Key benefit is the option to backup exif info and restore it later. This is particularly helpful if your favorite image manipulation app is not capable to handle EXIF and strips the EXIF data when editing - you can restore the EXIF data from your backup after having modified it with your non-EXIF app.

Features (taken from the homepage):

* Supports EXIF (up to 2.2) and IPTC data in JPEG and TIFF files
* Reading and displaying of makernotes by Canon, Casio, Fuji, Minolta, Nikon and Olympus
* Backing up, restoring and comparing metadata (EXIF/IPTC)
* Editing of metadata (for JPEG files only)
* Inserting EXIF data from THM files (for JPEG files only)
* Creating/inserting/rotating EXIF thumbnails (for JPEG files only)
* Customizeable view of metadata
* Export/import of metadata (CSV, Canto Cumulus, descript.ion files)
* Renaming and redating with various formats
* Lossless rotation (for JPEG files only)
* Cropping (with aspect ratio)
* Watermarks
* Slideshow
* Runs under Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP (runs not under Windows 95)
Languages:
English and German

Homepage:
http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/

License:
Freeware

Joachim Müller:
MySqlDumper is a web app that can be downloaded and installed on your webserver. It is meant to be used to create backups of your mysql databse (and eventually restore those backups). Particularly helpful if you don't have shell access to your webserver and regular mySQL backups fail due to time-outs.

Features:
A PHP-Script has a maximum of execution time; anything after above the limit (Usually sets to 30 seconds) will result in losing data.
Such behavior renders large database backup impossible.
Perhaps you already noticed how much of a problem it could be while using other tools.
MySqlDumper uses a proprietary technique to avoid execution interruption.
It only reads and saves a certain amount of commands and then calls itself via JavaScript and memorizes how far in the process it was and resumes its action from its last standby.

Languages:
English and German

Homepage:
http://mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

License:
GNU GPL

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