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In this part of the tutorial, you will create the administrative section of your image gallery which allows you to upload images, list all the images on the server and delete images.
In order to process images on upload and display, you must have one of the supported image libraries installed on your server and properly configured. Please make sure you have defined a preferred image library An image library is a component of your server model The server model is the Dreamweaver term for your combination of the scripting language and/ or database software used for development on your server, for instance PHP_MySQL, ASP.NET, ASP VBScript, ColdFusion, etc. InterAKT extensions generate server side code. Therefore, setting the correct server model in your site definition is important so that extensions generate the proper code for your development framework. language (PHP, ASP, ColdFusion) which contains functions for manipulating images in a variety of formats. Some MX Kollection 3 server behaviors use these libraries to generate and process dynamic images and thumbnails. Examples include the GD library for PHP or ImageMagick for ColdFusion. For a complete list of required image libraries, see "What's New in MX Kollection 3 > Improved compatibility". in the InterAKT Control Panel.
If you have the MX Kollection 3 bundle installed, then you have all the needed tools. Otherwise, the following separate products should be installed on your computer in order to complete this tutorial section:
MX File Upload
The estimated completion time for this section is about 20 - 30 minutes. The exact time depends on your authoring knowledge with Macromedia Dreamweaver (MX or MX 2004) and MX Kollection 3.
This section contains the following topics: