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Zub's Photo Gallery is a simple PHP photo gallery system. It doesn't require database or imaging support on the server and generates clean and valid HTML.
I use it to:
- Put my photos on the web, easily and quickly.
- Create HTML galleries to archive pictures on CD-ROMs.
News
2004-10-26 First public release
Zub's Photo Gallery v0.5 is out :-P
Features
ZPG has "grown" from a really simple core, and it has been written to meet my personal needs with photo sharing. So it doesn't do a lot of things, nor it wants to...
Anyway it has some features:
- Lightweight and simple
Doesn't require database or imaging support on the server. Hopefully it's fast. - Generated HTML is clean, simple and valid
It's browsable by all decent and semi-decent browsers by non technical people. - Can be administrated remotely
Ability to change some options and edit galleries with a web interface. - Flexible upload scripts
Easy uploading of pictures to a remote server or to localhost webserver. GQview (and others) can be configured easily to do the job, using ZPG upload scripts. - Uses CSS, so it is somewhat themeable
- Supports gallery and photo comments
- Shows EXIF data, if available
- Easy navigation
Not a million links to choose. Thumbnails to previous/next picture. - Supports JPEG and PNG image file formats
- Multilingual support
Currently English and Spanish.
Requirements
On the server
- PHP-enabled web server
Not that hard to guess :-) I only tried with Apache and PHP4. - FTP server
If the server is on a remote machine. A ssh (scp) version should be trivial to write. - Exif support on PHP
Not required, but nice if you have a digital camera.
On the workstation with the original pictures
- Bash
Upload scripts are Bash shellscripts. - Imagemagick
For resizing pictures and thumbnail generation. - NcFTP
ncftpput is used to upload to ftp server. Not needed if the webserver isn't on a remote host.
To Do
ZPG does almost everything i need. That's not much, i know. Anyway i found it fun to write it and if i have enough interest i could do the following, some day:
- Forget HTML 4.01 Transitional. XHTML is the way to go.
- Using tables to do the layout is an horrible hack. I should be using pure CSS to do it. But i need it to display well on IE...
- Ability to make new users, other than "admin", to let them make comments or, may be, upload pictures.
- Rename galleries (easy one)
- More scripts to upload photos using other methods. (Currently you can upload to a remote host only with ncftpput). PHP upload, may be?
- If the number of galleries grows, a method to organise them is needed: By date (grouped by months), just the last N are shown...
