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Welcome to WACS, Web-based Adult Content Server, a free software package for the management of material of an "Adult Nature" (or basically whatever euphermism for porn you prefer). It is web-based and can be used for the management of an existing collection, as a download manager, or as a back-end system for running a commercial adult web site.
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Visit our new demonstration web site at PinkMetallic.com for a first hand view of the WACS system! CAUTION: contains adult material! |
While it currently requires a Unix or Linux box to run on, it can be accessed from just about anything with a decent web browser - Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix or even web-enabled portable devices. In addition to being a powerful collection management tool, the underlying software infra-structure (the API or Application Programming Interface) is available for web designers and programmers to use from a range of programming languages to develop their own adult web sites (a simple example site is also provided - this is discussed in Chapter 15, Wacs-PHP: The Simple Skin).
WACS is dramatically different from most other image gallery systems in that it understands photo sets and video clips as basic concepts, instead of single photographs. Wacs includes far more specialised tagging, source, relationship and attribute marking concepts than other more generalised systems. WACS' abilities in the areas of searching and dynamic filtering are really industry-leading in their power and flexibility. If all you want is to index single photographs, you'll probably find a package like Gallery 2 more suitable.
This book, the WACS User Guide, is designed to show you around the key parts of the WACS system and teach you how to use the many features and advanced search mechanisms to navigate a collection with ease and accuracy. While it is extensively illustrated and should provide a good foundation by itself, you will benefit from having an account on or other access to an already operational WACS server, whether it is our demonstration site (visit PinkMetallic.com - CAUTION: contains adult material) or a WACS server someone else has already configured. If you don't have either of these, you may wish to read the companion "Installation Guide" either in parallel or first.
This book is typically revised for each major new release of the WACS software, and while small improvements are made throughout, major changes are highlighted here for the benefit of people who have read the previous edition.
A whole new chapter on the brand new detailed model page has been added - Chapter 7, Details Model Page
The original detailed model page is still available but is now known as the full details model page (wacsmpfull) and that is documented here - Chapter 8, Full Details Model Page
The Wacs-PHP Simple Skin has had a massive amount of work done and is now functionally complete. It's new functionality is described in detail here - Chapter 15, Wacs-PHP: The Simple Skin
WACS is designed to use very clean, standards conformant HTML (Web Documents) and so should work on just about every full featured web browser. It does use JavaScript fairly heavily but has been designed to fall back as gracefully as possible; navigation and some functionality will be impared but not severely. Primary development is done with Firefox 2, but those Web browsers tested and known to work are listed below [1].
Table 1.1. Compatible Web Browsers
| Logo | Browser | Platform | Notes |
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| Firefox | Linux, Windows | |
| Google Chrome | Windows | Also CxChromium on Linux |
| Internet Explorer | Windows | |
| Opera | Linux, Windows | |
| Konqueror | Linux | |
| Lynx | Lynx | Linux | useful for downloading |
For copyright/licensing reasons, the example images feature sets from photoshoots by the main developer of WACS (Beaky) and a friend of his. These sets are available on our demonstration site at PinkMetallic.com - CAUTION: contains adult material. Initially access to the site will be free, but we may end up making a charge in the future if referral revenues and donations do not reach the hoped for level.
[1] Trademarks, logos and product names are acknowledged as being the property of their respective owners