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Dustin Lane
03-26-2009, 2:22 PM
I am looking for a quick and easy photo gallery that i can put on my webspace for viewing of pictures. The single most important feature I want is the ability to click the photos to view the original full size photo. Auto generating thumbnails, commenting, registration accounts and those sorts of things all come second. I've tried 4Images Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery, and Gallery, but didn't really like any of them. I guess php isnt really a requirement but i thought thatd be simplest.
Any suggestions? Anything you use? Pros and Cons of that?
Thanks

Stephen Massman
03-26-2009, 3:33 PM
I use both Gallery and also coppermine. Both are relatively easy but gallery is the easiest. I now use Zencart for my website.

http://massmans.org/gallery/SteveFolder


zencart.
http://www.massmans.org/zen

Eric DeSilva
03-26-2009, 3:43 PM
I was looking for the same thing once upon a long time ago, with the added requirement that it integrate with Wordpress. I ended up using zenPHOTO, which I liked a lot (www.zenphoto.org). The sourcecode is available, and there is a forum with a community of folks customizing it.

Ultimately, when WP 2.5 came out, they had gallery software that worked well enough for my needs, so I kicked zenPHOTO to the curb for simplicity's sake.

Dustin Lane
03-26-2009, 6:02 PM
after taking a second look at gallery i think i like it. i thought about doing wordpress and just having it be a photo blog but it seems like too much overhead for a simpler photogallery.
more ideas are still welcome.
as a test; a photo of something i pulled down from the ceiling of my shop left by previous owners. interestingly i was still able to pull it out of the ceiling with one hand.
http://dustinlane.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=42&g2_serialNumber=1

Karlan Talkington
03-27-2009, 12:32 PM
I was going to recommend Coppermine but you said you already tried it.

zenPhoto would be my second recommendation.

If I may ask and feel free to PM me if you feel it doesn't relate to this post, what didn't you like about coppermine?

Dustin Lane
03-27-2009, 10:23 PM
what didn't you like about coppermine?

Honestly I dont remember. I just remember spending a bunch of time messing around with all the image galleries offered through my host's fantastico installation thinger. At the time i wasn't satisfied with what they offered vs what i wanted.

Mark Placek
04-01-2009, 8:36 AM
Hi Dustin,

Here is a link to the software I use for my photo gallery:

JAlbum Photo Gallery software (http://jalbum.net/)

It's very easy to build a gallery and free to use. Lots of templates.