Comments on: Photo album (gallery) scripts…

By: Rizwan Kassim's Public Log

Rizwan Kassim's Public Log — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Look Mom!
See what I've done? The side bars (just left for now) are collapsable, and not in the stupid way that the blogrolling is collapsable… It actually doesn't transmit the data if it doesn't need to, meaning an even quicker download…

By: Rizwan Kassim's Public Log

Rizwan Kassim's Public Log — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, this comment is rather late, but I personally like a program called JAlbum, which generates photoalbum pages that are quite lovely (sample at:

http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/samples/Bluepro/index.html

It's a Java-based client-based program that essentially creates a bunch of PHP files in, say, a Windows 2000 environ and then uploads them to the server. Although this is fairly tedious and doesn't allow one to upload images from any computer, the generated pages are easily customized and (at least to me) look better than any other freeware program currently available (i.e. Gallery & Coppermine) — Also, personally, I touch up my images in Photoshop and Fireworks before uploading (just to get file sizes down), so I'm really not affected by the lack of server-side capability. (More skins can be seen at:

http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/samples/

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent choice!

my photo gallery

By: dave

dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've used Gallery for my personal sites for a while now and love it. Last I had to create a gallery on another site, and I tried out Coppermine's photo gallery script. It's also awesome. A little easier to install than Gallery, and a bit more flexible. Worth checking into. It has some really cool features, although everyone may not need them.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think there's some great feedback here – so I wasn't going to stop it by saying which one I went with – but I won't hold you in suspense any longer… (yeah, I'm sure it's keeping you up at night. NOT! LOL!)

In any case, I decided to go with Gallery. Took me all of 10mins (?) or less to install. left it with mostly default stuff. She *adores* it and will probably donate some cash to them. Not going to bother customizing it at the moment… she just wanted a way to show friends/family paintings she was doing – doesn't really care about the "design" of the page itself. At some point if I ever get bored (HA!) maybe I'll try and customize it a bit for her – but it works great "out of the box".

By: dave

dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've been using Gallery for quite a while and have been pleased overall. I've also installed it for several other people and they all like it. It CAN be a pain to install, depending on how your hosts servers are configured and what modules are present or not. I've installed it in as little as 30 minutes, but sometimes it can take a day if things dont go right. It's also not as easy to customize as it COULD be, but still fairly easy if you know HTML (especially tables) and some basic CSS.

I hear Gallery2, due out this summer is going to rock. I cant wait.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I've been really happy with Gallery. That's what I used when I slapped my Boston photos online, and I'll be using it again tonight for SXSW photos. If you need help tweaking it, Matt of PhotoMatt.net has helped with the development of it and can help do anything you want with it. Well, probably almost anything…

By: Fidel

Fidel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don't like to gripe about free script offerings that much… But (you knew there had to be one) After another several day search to find a decent gallery script I have come up with nothing. All of them have problems, none of them are as easy as ANY cms to use. What are a few things a decent Gallery script should have?
Unlimited Categories and Sub-Categories
Templates/Easily wrapped
On the fly thumb generation.
Somewhat directory based, i.e. it would see existing directorys and be able to setup gallerys from there.

Somebody over on "Gallery"'s website said that it was easy to install and only took a couple of hours. Only! Hours! what kind of script takes a couple of hours to install? In my opinion "Gallery" has got to be one of the most cluster****ed scripts I have ever come across next to anything based off of phpnuke. Coppermine has alot of problems too. e107 being my cms of choice, I've installed several versions of coppermine, and was aggravated with all of them. (Jalist the author of e107 likes coppermine.) I did have this script that was pretty much all I wanted, it's shortcomings were ones I could deal with, But alas I have since forgotten which particular script it was. To not be entirely negative, Zoph looks clean and well done. Too bad it's not what I'm looking for.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My favorite is the first one that pops up on Google searching for 'album'. http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/

Easy to setup and easy to maintain. Here's my kitty family album – http://www.gaiser.org/Cat_Family/

Jerry