Looking for a simple PHP image gallery

[dolphin842]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a simple, no-frills image gallery to embed into a webpage. Ideally, the gallery would:

- Take images from a specified location and auto-generate a table of thumbnails using imagemagick or similar.

- Clicking on a thumbnail would reveal the full-size image

- Each image would have space below it for a name

- The table generated would be simple so that it would unobtrusively fit inside of a normal page.

I've tried Coppermine and some others, but they all have way too many features and are 'self-contained' (i.e. the gallery is a site in and of itself, and hard to style according to the rest of the site).

Preferably such a script would be in PHP, but I'm willing to try anything, really.

Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction :)

[superbovine]

you checked here yet?

http://sourceforge.net/

[snkTab]

http://ppleyard.org.uk/software.php

[realityisterror]

i stumbled across this and remembered your thread :p

http://celerondude.com/index.php?a=s&id=3

though it looks like the last one might be better suited to you...

[munkle]

Here's (http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/04/photoalbum-cms) a comprehensive discussion on Photo Gallery CMS's over at another site.

iPap (http://rebelpixel.com/projects/ipap/) comes highly recommended and has recently been updated. Zen Photo (http://www.trisweb.com/archives/2005/04/24/new-photo-album/) seems to be one to keep an eye on.

I was looking for similar solutions to you and ended up going with Flickr (http://flickr.com) in the end. Unfortunately it can't be integrated into your site but it ticked all the other boxes. Easy exporting from iPhoto was a major plus.

[kgarner]

I was looking for similar solutions to you and ended up going with Flickr (http://flickr.com) in the end. Unfortunately it can't be integrated into your site but it ticked all the other boxes. Easy exporting from iPhoto was a major plus.
Actually you can integrate Flickr with sites. I use it on my Wordpress install and it's fantastic. If you don't use Wordpress, but understand PHP fairly well, you could try to extrapolate the code needed from this plugin:

http://www.worrad.com/archives/2005/01/08/flickr-gallery-07/

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Not a php solution, but in iPhoto you can actually make a nice (well easily maintained) html photo album from a given album with File -> Export and choosing the Web Page tab. This makes a html index page with a folder for sub-pages, one for thumbnails and one for the pictures. You can set how many images each index file should have and the sizes of the thumbs and images...

[jburrw]

I'd suggest using Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com/) . It's a great way to share photos. Also, a friend of mine has written a pretty slick plugin for iPhoto that will allow you to export your photos to Gallery. Give it a shot - iPhotoToGallery (http://www.zwily.com) .

[dolphin842]

Many thanks for all of your suggestions! :)

After reviewing each one, I think that the SimplePhotos system (post #3) will be best for me to work with, as looks like it requires the least CSS wrangling in order to match my current site's style.

I must say though that all of the suggestions are quite nice and I will keep them in mind (and this thread bookmarked) for future reference.

Once again thanks for your help everyone. Perhaps once I finish the site (it's for a client) I will post a link here to see what ya folks think of it :cool:

[snkTab]

After reviewing each one, I think that the SimplePhotos system (post #3) will be best for me to work with, as looks like it requires the least CSS wrangling in order to match my current site's style.

Single developer apps kick ass. I love supporting them.

[munkle]

Actually you can integrate Flickr with sites. I use it on my Wordpress install and it's fantastic. If you don't use Wordpress, but understand PHP fairly well, you could try to extrapolate the code needed from this plugin:

http://www.worrad.com/archives/2005/01/08/flickr-gallery-07/

Thanks for the link! I am using WordPress and this plugin could come in very handy :)