Web Gallery software Recommendation

zilly

zilly

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Hey guys

I need some web based system to help display my family archive of some 75,000 images :bang:

What I need for it to do is.
Be secure - registered users only
Have a API
Coment system
Boolean search
Tag Cloud
Lightbox and slideshow
very user friendly

Any ideas on suitable system?

Cheers
 
Sounds like wordpress meets all those requirements, but Gallery may tick most of the boxes and be easier to upload your image library too. You can point it at a directory and it will make albums automatically from the directory structure. It has a great slideshow feature now and I think it has comments and searches out of the box.
 
thanks guys

Currently playing around with gallery 3 however its written in kohana php and the CSS and PHP files made very little sense to me.

Also it doesn't seem to search via keyword only caption, which is a issue.
Other people have pointed me to drupal as well but I don't know a great deal of Php how easy is it to assemble?
 
zilly said:
thanks guys

Currently playing around with gallery 3 however its written in kohana php and the CSS and PHP files made very little sense to me.

Also it doesn't seem to search via keyword only caption, which is a issue.
Other people have pointed me to drupal as well but I don't know a great deal of Php how easy is it to assemble?
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You don't need to know PHP to use them.
You just upload them to your webhost (which has to support PHP and probably also MySQL), use the web based installer and you should be set unless you want a different theme.
Look into documentation for the web apps you're trying, it usually contains most of the steps necessary to get it installed.

I don't think Gallery 3 has made it into the stable stage, so you're probably better off with Gallery 2.x, which you can download here: http://codex.gallery2.org/Downloads
Here should be most of the information you'll need to install Gallery 2:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Category:Gallery_2:Installation
 
Apprently gallery two may be unstable with the size of our archive. Having browsed through the theme' that are availbe non of them are overly pretty.
 
zilly said:
Apparently gallery two may be unstable with the size of our archive. Having browsed through the themes that are available none of them are overly pretty.
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It probably won't be unstable with it, but it could be slow. For 75000 photos, you'll probably need a pretty good host to keep the site snappy anyway - you're planning to store at least 18 GB of just images (without thumbnails), presuming that a standard image would be jpegs at about 260 kB of decent quality (90-95% of the original image) and slightly bigger than VGA resolution, perhaps 700 pixels on the longest side. Depending on how many visitors the site will have, it could tax the server quite a bit.

This might help:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=100121

I like the Ebony and Carbon themes with the PG charcoal colour pack myself.
 
zilly said:
Apprently gallery two may be unstable with the size of our archive. Having browsed through the theme' that are availbe non of them are overly pretty.
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From the G2 website...
'Users share anywhere from 3 to 350000 photos and manage anywhere from 1 to 25000 user accounts.'

The gallery code is reasonably lightweight in terms of server demand, of course, it will depend on the number of concurrent users making demands on the database. Forums often hit this wall. The database only references the photograph file, so your limits are really dependant on the quality of your server(s)

Gallery does have an 'embeded' mode so in theory, you can integrate it into your existing template easily

What ever system you choose - if you want bespoke, you will need to work at it
 
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