Gallery: Open Source Web Based Photo Organizer

Gallery is an open source web based photo album organizer with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions. Gallery is freeware and free to download, gives you an instinctive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether on a running small personal site or for a large community site. The software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. Gallery is unique project of its kind and mostly used world wide.

A Gallery is a collection of photo albums. System can have many Galleries on a single web server. Each gallery contains as many photo albums as required. Configuration of Gallery and administration of the photo albums is done entirely via an intuitive, web interface. You don’t need special privileges on your web-server to install, configure and maintain Gallery. It’s free, and we (the Gallery team) support it. Gallery works with several different image processing toolkits and is available in over 30 languages!

A brief overview of the requirements of Gallery 1 and Gallery 2:

• Platform - UNIX (BSD, Linux, …) or Windows
• Webserver - Apache, Microsoft IIS, Zeus, …
• PHP - PHP version 4.3.0 or greater (Gallery 1.x requires PHP 4.1.0 or greater), PHP safe_mode must be turned off
• Image Processing Library - In order to automatically generate thumbnails and resized versions of your photos, Gallery requires either ImageMagick or NetPBM. Gallery 2 additionally supports GD and GraphicsMagick
• Database (Gallery 2 only) - MySQL 3.x, 4.x or 5.x, PostgreSQL 7.x or 8.x, Oracle 9i or 10g, DB2 8.2, MS SQL Server 2005 (Gallery 1.x does NOT require a database)

Visit: http://gallery.menalto.com/
Download: http://codex.gallery2.org/Downloads

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