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Seventh Edition
for WACS 0.9.2
This book contains an extensive tutorial in how to administer collections within the WACS system and includes a reference section that summarises the available tools.
Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 B King
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Friday 22nd April 2016
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| Revision Seventh Edition | 22nd April 2016 |
| <listitem>added new iconmanager and customisation chapters</listitem> <listitem>went through removing references to features introduced during the wacs 0.8.x release series.</listitem> | |
| Revision Sixth Edition | 14th November 2012 |
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| Revision Fifth Edition | 19th March 2012 |
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| Revision Fourth Edition | July 2011 |
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Abstract
WACS is a tool for building Adult Web Sites; it is equally suitable for managing a private collection or building a commercial web site. It has many best of breed features including dynamic filtering, model catalogs, automatic download and powerful search engine. It comes with a powerful API (application programming interface) implemented in both Perl and PHP5 languages to allow web developers to leverage it's facilities from their own programs.
This book describes the administrative tools used to manage, catalogue and update collections of digital media (images, videos, etc) maintained within a WACS web site. It provides both a tutorial and a reference document for the various administration applications within the WACS system. The intended audience is WACS web site managers and support staff tasked with maintaining a collection within a WACS system. Some familiarity with using WACS as a normal user is expected, carefully reading the User Guide should suffice.
The WACS source code and other documentation and support tools can all be found at the WACS website at Sourceforge and at the WACS page on Launchpad . A demonstration site using WACS is available at PinkMetallic.com and can be visited for free at the time of writing - at some future point a small charge may be levied to cover costs. Commercial add-ons and support options can be purchased from Bevtec Communications Ltd, see their website at Bevtec Communications.
Table of Contents
- I. WACS Administration Tutorial
- 1. Introduction
- 2. First Steps
- 3. Site Design
- 4. Naming Sets In WACS
- 5. Preparing To Create A Model Record
- 6. wacsmodelmgr - The Wacs Model Manager
- 7. wacsunpackmgr - The Unpack Manager
- 8. wacsplacemgr - The Placement Manager
- 9. Wacs Set Manager
- 10. The Info Manager
- 11. Other Web Based Tools
- 12. Migration Tools
- 13. When Using Wacs For Hosting
- 14. The Download System
- 15. More About Model Manager
- 16. The WACS Icon Manager
- 17. Command Line Tools
- 18. Customisation
- 19. Simple Tasks In SQL
- 20. Using SQL: Advanced Topics
- II. WACS Admin Tools Reference
- 21. Collection Management
- 22. Lookup Data Management
- Web Based Tools
- wacsvendmgr - Wacs Vendor Manager
- wacsphotmgr - Wacs Photographer Manager
- wacskeywordmgr - Wacs Keyword Manager
- wacsusermgr - Wacs User Account Manager
- wacsuserlist - Wacs User Database Account List
- wacsdnlmgr - Wacs Download Manager
- wacsdnlreg - Wacs Download Registration
- wacsdnllist - Wacs Download Status List
- wacsdnlframe - Wacs Download Frame
- wacsdnlnext - Wacs Download Next Prompter
- 23. Utilities Reference
- 24. Database Population Tools
- Index
List of Tables
- 4.1. Clothing Related Keywords
- 4.2. Set Ranks
- 5.1. Final Example Headshot Icons
- 5.2. Typical Site Identity Information
- 6.1. Breast Size: Our Take
- 15.1. Current and Planned Features in Model Manager
- 17.1. Command Line Tools
- 17.2. Attribute Names And Legal Values In addmodel
- 19.1. SQL Command line interpreters
- 20.1. Tables That Reference Model Numbers
- 22.1. Substitution List For Vendor URLs
- 24.1. New XML Elements For wacspop