Gallery software

Kenai · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:15

Hey, long time guest lurker, finally got round to registering recently

I figured this section would be the best to ask, as i'm guessing a lot of you use galleries on your sites and have tried a few solutions out.

I'm after something to show a pretty large volume of images as i have loads of photos of mates and stuff we've done, places we've seen and they want to see them (talking circa 1000 photos i'd want to upload)

Ages ago I tried gallery2 but that was a pain because it only let me upload 3 or 5 pictures at a time. I'm hoping there is something that will facilitate bulk uploading a lot better. Any other features would be a bonus really, though being able to skin it a bit (even manually editing the CSS or whatever) would be nice so I could make it fit with the rest of my site...

Hopefully someone knows of something that will sort me out. Cheers

A.N.Other · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:40

Lots of links to different gallery software in the sticky

Not sure what I'd recommend for that number of images, though. Are you wanting them all to be publicly available? Easy to browse? Most gallery systems don't have the backend you're looking for there with the bulk uploading - not any that I've tried, anyway.

If you're handy with php, then you could just upload them all to a webserver and get php to create the page according to the contents of folders. That's sort of what I do.

Kenai · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:45

Most experience i've had with PHP has been hacking about wordpress documents.

I'm not too fussed about public/private although I suppose having them tucked away would be preferable seeing as some of them are reasonably personal.

I'll take a look through the sticky though, cheers

GWillow · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:47

I use coppermine but I'm not sure if it has a bulk upload facility, I just ftp my files directly across from PC to the server and then 'import' the ftp'ed files into coppermine (using coppermine).

Kenai · 7 Apr 2009 at 13:54

Well i'd be happy FTPing and importing if it's still quick to do lots of images, I just never got on with having to do 3 images at a time with Gallery2.

Kenai · 7 Apr 2009 at 14:22

http://www.celerondude.com/php-simple-gallery

A friend suggested this, which should do perfectly, can just drag and drop folders to FTP and it does the rest.

A.N.Other · 7 Apr 2009 at 14:23

Well you can ftp and then bulk transport into Gallery2 or something and though I've never used it, I think it allows passwording of albums.

I'm not a massive fan of Gallery2 for viewing images. I'd probably ftp to folders and then do a php page that just made a custom gallery from there. With the php album page in each different folder, it's easy to password / restrict access.

// EDIT // That php gallery you linked to basically just does exactly what I suggested. It's quite nice and would be very simple if you wanted to integrate something like Lightbox2 into it for slightly nicer viewing of images.

I'll add it to the sticky

... done it :cool:

GWillow · 7 Apr 2009 at 21:59

Kenai said:
Well i'd be happy FTPing and importing if it's still quick to do lots of images, I just never got on with having to do 3 images at a time with Gallery2.

The most I've uploaded and then imported into Coppermine was about 250 pics. These were handled with no problem, I only stopped at 250 beacuase I ran out of photos.