It's amazing how many attempts there have been made to code that best web photo gallery application. Some time ago I seeked something that would have suited me, but all those offerings had too many unneeded features and lacked effectivity and fresh ideas in browsing department. The interface the visitors use should have been the main concern, and if that's not scalable and flexible you are in trouble when the gallery is growing and growing. So I decided to do my own one. It runs now at http://photography-on-the.net/gallery/. It has got great ratings in ScriptSearch.com and www.hotscripts.com. Features e.g. - Extremely polished and professional look and feel. Can be used for small and extremely big collections.
- Innovative browsing: scalable photo browser with various output choices. In misc. settings editor you can set EE photo pages to you liking, one of the new features in 1.21 is multiarea navigation which creates active navigation and resize areas over photo.
- Runs on Apache server (although will run on others too I suppose) under any platform. PHP 4.05 or greater and MySQL 3.23 or greater.
- Photos can be on any server - distributed gallery load possible. Each photo and photo size can be fetched from any URL.
- Each photo can have any amount of variations (size, colors, sharpening whatever) which are selected from dropdown list. Each variation can be on own server if needed.
- Appearance by CSS, full dynamic style system (each exhibition can have own style). Custom frames and shadows if needed.
- Realtime feel in usage. Queries done of required data only, so speed is same if you have 10 photos or 10000 photo in you exhibitions.
- Various listing output styles: thumbs, microthumbs, counter graphs, 4 per row, 7 per row, two detail lists.
- Exhibition feedback with two browsing choices. Feedback can be unified, or per exhibition, or off.
- Hidden exhibitions (password protected). You have to know id and pass to enter.
- Hidden photos - keep some photos out of public view as long as you like.
- Gear detail can be hidden per photo - If you don't have detailed camera data, hide it.
- Search, sort, paging etc is preserved if you change output style or exhibition. The state of browser is kept in all circumstances as long as it's open.
- Freely definable categories. No limits.
- Exhibition gear notes collected from lens and camera data (per photo). Just enter the data in editors and let EE present it to your viewers.
- Each photo has owner, camera, lens and worflow popups.
- Front page news system. Select what news are visible on front page.
- Photo counters. Each photo in database keeps its own counter. Counter graphs available.
- Administrator editors are all GUI and very powerful. You can set up default photo settings for each exhibition, copy, delete, edit, create - all in very clear manner. Usage FAQ included.
- Path Analysis tool for getting info of your links' functionality.
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In the beginning of summer 2001 I started learning MySQL and PHP languages. In september I opened the first version, simple but working interface that received a lot of good feedback. At that time I inserted all data using PHPMySQLadmin freeware MySQL admin application (which is btw a great piece of programming and a great way to manage databases), but soon realized that it was not going to work for majority fo people: who would have liked to start matching table primary id's by hand and keep the whole thing's integrity solid. No way. So I needed input forms. I thought: why not bring this further and do something that does whole thing in database: lenses, cameras, photos, news, comments. After a while I realized that this small project was not so small any more. I could have asked some coding help from public, but then I would not have learned so much how to code and solve problems - so I struggled though kinky problems and came back with solutions every time (my solutions might be laughable by some seasoned programmers but they work, and they are easy to understand: no object-oriented stuff, no classes, very few functions). The engine is now so versatile it could be converted in few hours to present anything from food to cars and computer parts. It just happens it now presents photographs :) The database structure is the key to all nice features in the final application - I spent a lot of time designing the database to be as flexible and effective as possible and it was worth it. BTW: If you're wondering if you should try PHP/SQL programming wait no more - I learned it, so anyone can learn it :) A very good resource was the PHP's main site www.php.net Comments are welcome: my forum or by email Pekka Saarinen
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