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Advice On PHP Photo Gallerys

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:29 pm
by WaterWolf
Hello,

I'm trying to develop a php webpage and I'm hoping to minimise the amount of work I have to do. I'm looking for a free photo gallery script to use on my site with the minimum amount of editing. At the moment I can't seem to find one that has all the features I want (or else it's not very clear that they have these features).

What I want is something reasonably simple using a mysql database. Only I will be putting photos in it so it doesn't need the ability for other users to upload photos. I want to be able to put photos in albums in the standard tree structure however (CRUCIALLY !) I also want to be able to assign photos to categories. A photo can belong to any number of categories and a page displaying all photos from a particular category can be displayed. E.G. If a user clicks on a 'Dogs' category all photos that contain a dog in them are displayed no matter what album they are stored in.

I've seen this functionality in commercial gallery programmes but does anyone know of a free one that can do this ?

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:38 pm
by neophyte
Let me direct you to GOOP Gallery my open source project. http://webgeneius.com/demo/

All you have to do is put the script one leve above your picture folders. Aside from that you have to define the path to your gallery in a config file.

Then it does the rest for you dynamically: thumbs, resize larger images etc...

But it looks like you need some sort of Database driven set up if you want categories and seaching.

I'd look around at sourceforge.net. There's a ton of that type out there.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:44 pm
by WaterWolf
Okay, just reread my post and realised that I may cause confusion with my 'tree' example as people may confuse it with a tree structure.... So Change that line to :

E.G. If a user clicks on a 'Dogs' category all photos that contain a dog in them are displayed no matter what album they are stored in.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:12 pm
by pickle
The most popular image gallery setup is Gallery. I know you can sort pictures into albums, but I'm not sure about categorizing. It's the most popular PHP photo gallery, so if anything should have it - it would.

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:10 pm
by matthijs
A very nice gallery script I use is http://www.zenphoto.org/, however it is in beta stage at the moment (very web 2.0 :) ) but works very well.
Some others which seem good: http://photostack.org/ and http://www.plogger.org/

But you will have to check yourself to see if they have the features you would like to have.

Good luck.

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:03 am
by Grim...
Instead of catagories, try looking for some that feature 'tagging', which is basically the same thing.

I think Flickr started all that off.

Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:25 am
by foobar
Grim... wrote:Instead of catagories, try looking for some that feature 'tagging', which is basically the same thing.

I think Flickr started all that off.
Just for reference, it's called "folksonomy". It relies on the users creating categories rather than them being dictated by the runner(s) of the site.

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:30 am
by pilau
WaterWolf, add me to your MSN, and I'll send you my script+directions on how to use it