SlideShowPro Director

How to: secure content

Here are some tips you can use to provide extra security for your uploaded content.

Tip One: Add SALT encryption

For security purposes, all of the URLs that SlideShowPro Director publishes are encoded so they are not easily modifiable. You can make that encryption even stronger by adding a pass phrase to the image publishing URLs. To do this, add the following to your slideshowpro/config/user_setup.php file:

define('SALT', 'somerandomstring');

Change somerandomstring to something more unique. It should be a single string (no spaces and alphanumeric characters only) that would be difficult to guess.

After any change to your SALT setting, delete any files in the slideshowpro/xml_cache folder.

Tip Two: Change "albums" directory name

All SlideShowPro Director installations use a folder named "albums" to store your album content. If you'd like to alter this to something more custom, here's how.

1) Rename the slideshowpro/albums folder via FTP. Let's say you rename it to 'photos'.

2) Open slideshowpro/config/user_setup.php and add this line:

define('ALBUM_DIR', 'photos');

3) Delete all files from the slideshowpro/xml_cache folder.

After the edit is complete your content should now be served from 'photos' instead of 'albums'.