Image Galleries: Gallery

Gallery is a open source web based photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you\'re running a small personal site or a large community site.

As you know a gallery is a collection of photo albums. You can have as many Galleries as you want on your web server. Each gallery contains as many photo albums as you want. Configuration of Gallery and administration of the photo albums is done entirely via an intuitive, web interface. You don\'t need special privileges on your webserver to install, configure and maintain Gallery. It\'s free, and we (the Gallery team) support it. Gallery works with several different image processing toolkits and is available in over 30 languages!

Administration

Installation/Configuration Wizard

Gallery comes with a handy web based configuration wizard. This wizard helps to make sure that your web server and operating system are set up correctly (screenshot). It also allows you to configure many of Gallery\'s options while determining as much as it can from your environment (screenshot). The wizard lastly creates and admin account for you to administer your Gallery with. Later on if you want to change settings, you can run the configuration wizard and make changes without having to take down your Gallery.[1] (screenshot)

Here are some of the features that you can customize in the configuration wizard:

• Image Magick or NetPBM - pick which image manipulation package you have on your server or want to use.
• Auto Rotate Images - Gallery can look at information in pictures from digital cameras and automatically rotate them as needed.
• Image Quality and Size Defaults - You can limit the quality and size of images so that when images are uploaded, Gallery will resize them to save space.
• Main Gallery Page Settings - The configuration wizard contains all of the settings for how the main Gallery page looks and acts including showing or hiding the album tree, search engine, or album owner, and what frames to show around albums.
• Optional Binaries: zip, jhead, jpegtran - If you have these programs on your webserver, you can enable them to make gallery work better and be more flexible.
• Languages - Choose which languages you want your Gallery to support and how the user is presented with the choice.
• Email Support - Set up email support to have your Gallery email users when their accounts are created or when they forget their password, email you copies, email people when the Gallery is updated, and more!
• Gallery-wide Slideshow - enable or disable a slideshow that includes all pictures in the gallery
• Commenting - turn off or on the public commenting system and configure it.
• Logging - enable logging with syslog or the Windows logger
• RSS publishing - publish your Gallery with RSS![1]
• Album Defaults - set defaults for the way that all new albums will originally look

Accounts/Permissions

You start off with only one user, the Administrator (login name:admin). This account can do anything with Gallery. Typically you\'ll want to use the admin to create other users (which can also be administrators if you want). Users can be granted permission to create and maintain their own albums on a per-album basis (screenshot). Users can also self-register [0] (screenshot) and sign up for e-mail notification [0] (screenshot) when things in the Gallery change.

• Platform - UNIX (BSD, Linux, ...) or Windows
• Webserver - Apache, IIS, Zeus, ...
• PHP - PHP version 4.1.0 or greater, PHP safe_mode must be turned off
• Image Processing Library - In order to automatically generate thumbnails and resized versions of your photos, Gallery requires either ImageMagick or NetPBM. Gallery 2 additionally supports GD and GraphicsMagick
• Database  - MySQL 3.x or 4.x, PostgreSQL 7.x, Oracle 9i or 10g (Gallery 1.x does NOT require a database)