gallery tests
gallery programs being tested
http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/gallery2/main.php
http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/copper/index.php
http://merz.art.gvsu.edu/zenphoto/
mobile phone image upload program
http://bolink.org/projects/mms/
All three of the gallery programs use php and sql and are open source and free.
Gallery2
http://gallery.menalto.com is the program that I'm interested in the most. It has some great current and future features. Usually I go for barebones, but many of the features appeal to possible uses. If I'm going to run a program, I want to be able to use it for lots of things.
The main problem is that the program seems slow. The developers admit as much and say that their focus is stability and features and that speed comes later. Speed problem has mostly to do with the fact that the program does not cache things very much, meaning save things once they are rendered for reuse. This might be helped by loading an accelorator for the php program.
http://www.phpmac.com is a good php for mac site. There are also compression programs for the web server apache. The other solution is waiting for the developers to work on speed or put up with it until it gets better.
I also like the aesthetics of the templates that are available. -
paul
coppermine
http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php is also recommended by lots of folks. It has many of the same features as gallery2, but is definately faster. It does not allow albums to be clusetered in albums and is not developing new features such as integrating with google maps. It is ugly, but you can mess with the css to get things to look better, but it takes time and work.
zenphoto
http://www.zenphoto.org/ is fast, light and looks great (plain). Not out of beta yet, future features undetermined.
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