What LAMP-Based Gallery Software Would You Use? 62
Zanguinar asks: "I've been a Gallery user for years now. I have a ton of photos, organized by albums, mainly just for use by my family and close friends. However, some of my friends have begun using Flickr. I can't say I blame them, since it's got a great design, and I love the tagging concept. However, I'm not eager to store my photos on somebody else's server, and don't want to pay for the privilege, especially since I already run my own web server. The problem is, I can't find any Flickr-like software to run on my home LAMP setup. All I want is to be able to tag my photos like Flickr and be able to display them by tag, tag intersection, date, and other such fields. Is there an OSS that is doing this?"
danbooru (Score:2, Informative)
JuxtaPhoto (Score:4, Informative)
JuxtaPhoto
JuxtaPhoto is an easy PHP photo album that lets you share and organize images on your website. The features include tagged "smart albums", EXIF information, batch uploads, automatic photo sizing, chronological sorting of photos, slideshows, and easy to modify templates.
Demo:
http://photos.jeffreyharrell.com/ [jeffreyharrell.com]
Gallery (Score:2, Troll)
See http://gallery.menalto.com/ [menalto.com]
For Business use I would perhaps use something else as it looks far too much fun!
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Was there part of that you didn't understand?
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Gallery 2. (Score:5, Informative)
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It's OK, most of us were thinking the same thing.
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Maybe I should clarify that I did indeed see that he's been a Gallery user for years. Maybe he just haven't kept up with developments, I dunno.
It's OK, most of us were thinking the same thing.
Perhaps you were, but I am also a G2 user looking to switch to something else. I've already started using flickr, but I would prefer better software for my site. Gallery is just too slow for me, and I guess I've just become frustrated with it. I can't point to any specific feature that I like or dislike, but I think something web 2.0ish and an uploading client would help.
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Which part is slow? Poke around at pictures.$mylastname.us and see if that feels slow to you. I've got it on an old server without any performance optimizations and it serves me pictures as fast as my browser can render them. I would expect Flikr's servers to be highly optimized and therefore marginally faster, but the "Gallery is slow" thing, which I've read a few times on this thread, I'm not understanding.
Do you have it on a slow shared host maybe?
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blorp! (Score:3, Informative)
One of Justin Frankel's (from Winamp) works. Not as structured as Flikr, but is also more flexible.
Singapore? Coppermine? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.sgal.org/ [sgal.org]
http://coppermine-gallery.net/ [coppermine-gallery.net]
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(I love Singapore and use it for my own site - but it ain't what the original post is looking for.)
I use Gallery (Score:2)
I think that would be so much easier to manage. Its a project on my to do list and really all you need to do is write a client to talk to a gallery server.
Like you, I have my own server and i'd rather host it... Especially since I already have 12GB of im
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I've now moved to Phanfare, mostly because it's a sane way to store videos as well as a very good way to store photos.
It's a relief to be able to not worry about backing up 10GB+ of photos.
I've officially aged out of the nerd category. (Score:2)
Other than the word "the", I don't think I have any idea what anybody is talking about.
Roll your own (Score:3, Informative)
The first version just made the thumbnails with ImageMagick for images in specified folders and spewed out a table with the thumbnails and links. It didn't even use the database. Now you add an album through an admin page and at this point the script adds the album and individual images to the DB, then it makes the thumbnails with PerlMagick. The user accessible part just fetches the rows and prints them out in individual divs, which are then nicely arranged in CSS. Ta-da!
The whole thing is less than 200 lines including a good deal of comments (or maybe just commented-out code). Had fun writing it, would do it again. A+++.
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Zenphoto (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.zenphoto.org/ [zenphoto.org]
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And the award is legit, but for last year.
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There's always Photo Organizer.. (Score:1)
It's primary purpose is to be a photographer's main image repository rather than "post a bunch of images online and blog about it" As such, it lacks social networking features (beyond ratings) but it scales up to ginormous repository sizes. My personal site has over 30K images (in over 100GB).
It supports multiple image versions, extensive tagging, bulk updates, and has fancy search, import, and export features. It's built on top of PostgreSQL, making extensive use of stored proced
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I wish there would be some program that would let me edit my gallery offline and only upload static HTML pages... (other than my crappy sed based script I did)
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That said, BINS is nice for small, fire-and-forget static galleries. IT's just not a management solution.
photolibrary (Score:1)
Scry (Score:2)
Scry [scry.org] is a great, simple, easy-to-install PHP image gallery. Just download it, unpack it, and upload your photos, organized in folders, to the 'photos' directory. The first time you view the site, Scry will create thumbnails and index images.
It requires write permissions on the server ( to create the thumbnails and index images) and it relies on GD support being co
Try LinPHA... (Score:2)
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DRIV (Score:1, Offtopic)
My own :) (Score:3, Interesting)
Plogger (Score:1)
* Easy Install and Setup -- Single step installation - no fussing with configuration files or server privileges (if allowed). Plogger contains a fully featured, secure administration system. Plogger can be used as a stand-alone gallery or be dropped into your current site with no more than three PHP statements. You can be up and running in less than five minutes.
* Easy Gallery Creation -- You can upload photos one at a time from the web based administrative tool or use an FTP connection
roll your own (Score:1)
Why not Flickr? (Score:2)
I resisted it for a long time, and just uploaded all my photos to it, and am glad to have them all off my server. flickr's easy to use for me - and more importantly - my family and friends. no training, no maintenance, unlimited space, upload via email + phone - all worth 25/yr to me. (cheaper than research and setup time for the software, or the hard drive I was going to have to buy to st
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I just couldn't do it, unless there was an easy way of backing everything up including any tags. Photos have got to be the most precious data a family routinely stores.
Why would you pay for Flickr? (Score:2)
Unless you're uploading more than 100MB of photos a month, there's no need to pay for a Pro account on Flickr. Storage space is unlimited, there's no bandwidth charges, and they allow <img> tag embedding so long as the photo links back to the photo's Flickr page.
That's not to discount the do-it-yourself option, but if Flickr happens to provide everything you need, why bother installing software on your webserver? (Especially considering you'll need to keep an ear out for security updates, probably
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If that's the case, they're sure not up-front about that. Sneaky.
Try Media Wiki (Score:1)
Another Question along the same lines (Score:2)
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Gallery.Site.hu - a dog photo gallery [gallery.site.hu] hosts ~700,000 photos on Gallery2.
The problem you've mentioned might be the _initial_ creation of resized images, which could be done through a maintenance task, thus it won't slow down the system 'on the fly'.
The other possible problem is the EXIF module, especially pre v2.2. Your best try is to disable that.
Third: Random images. This one is really a problem with the number of pics. G2 should (and will!) use a much mo
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There's a little trick with G1 to keep it quick, force caching. By default it scans the whole gallery tree every time someone visits the front page, but if you throw in an hourly cron job (or longer, depending on frequency of updates) to do something like this:
wget -O
Color profiles (Score:2)