SimplePhotos Beta Released

[dappleyard]

I've been working on this for a couple of days now, mainly for personal use. I've chosen to release it to the public as a Beta.

SimplePhotos is a piece of free PHP software, which allows you to maintain a very simple image/photo gallery on your website. It is simply a case of uploading your photos via FTP. SimplePhotos does the rest!

The software is currently in Beta stage, so there still may be a few problems. You can report them through the contact page of my site.

Screenshot:

You can find more info and download here:

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

[pwnzrzpat]

nice. is this going to be used in iSnaps?

[dappleyard]

It may well form a part of it. However, this is just a basic system which I've released as a PHP application.

[ji eun]

and a nice website, too

[dappleyard]

Cheers - Has anyone given the application a go?

[Hyral]

I have tried it but it doesnt seem to work as it's supposed to...

like there's the gallery but the screenshots dont show...

but's probably something i did wrong?

here is the link if u want to see...

LINK

[dappleyard]

That's because you've specified an incorrect path in the head of index.php

Check your path settings, make sure you have photos one folder deep within /photos, and try again. Let me know if you can't fix it.

Anyone else willing to give it a go?

[dappleyard]

Addition - I've fixed a global variable issue - Now up to v0.1.1

[Hyral]

I dont know.. I cant get it to work...

is there anything specific i should change in the index.php?

i think i did everything right..

i'll try it again... :confused:

[dappleyard]

Hmm - I can't see why it isn't working on there, you seem to have done everything right! - Have a play around, but it's really hard to solve problems like this without an FTP console in front of you

[LordZoltan]

Looks great =O

[Seph]

Very nice and simple

I had been using Photoshop's WebGallery automated script and i didnt like it this much

The only problem i have (nor really a problem, more of a personal dislike) is that the thumbnails look very unsharp, i modified the code to not expand the main image to 728 (a lot of my images were smaller than that and looked like crap when stretched)

It would be wise to implement an if clause there, if the images is smaller, leave it as is, if not, resize it (altough im afraid it will look bad resized, even if its downwards).

Good Job

[dappleyard]

Hey There

I'd already noticed all these , so I've modified the script to do the following:

Not resize if smaller than 700

Allow size change of thumbnails

Improve thumbnail quality to the best possible

You can grab it from the same URL:

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

[Seph]

Looking a lot better now

I have two suggestions:

1. Implement Next and Previous Photo Buttons (and maybe albums?)

2. Make the thumbnail size chooser a more graphical and maybe on the top right of the title header (i thought of it maybe as three increasingly sized squares)

Very good job so far, i have already changed my galleries to simplephotos

Now, does anyone know a good batch image resizer (either software or a PS Script) for mac?

[dappleyard]

Cheers Seph - I'll work on some sort of a sidebar, to allow thumbnail resizing, and give information about the current image you are viewing.

[Seph]

Do let us know

Im going to play a bit with the css... see what i can customize

[dappleyard]

Fine - Feel free to submit any major modifications to me, and I'll include them in the next release. It's all open source, so anything contributed would be great.

[Tadis]

Looks good - although CPU usage skyrockets when the thumbnails are being generated - thought of using gd to create the thumbnails?

[dappleyard]

Right - I've updated this to version 1.4, with the following enhancements:

Improve default layout and design (again!)

Comments facility on photos (optional)

Subfolder navigation

Fixed photo count issue

Fixed issues with PHP safe mode

Fixed various security issues

Added caching of photos

Made XHTML and CSS standards compliant

Read EXIF data where available

Grab it here - http://ppleyard.org.uk/software.php

[Seph]

- YES!

Question... If i have modded it for my site's layout, do i need to rewrite all? :confused:

[dappleyard]

Erm, the CSS file hasn't really changed - so if you modified it using CSS, then you should be fine.

If you changed all the index.php file, then I'm afraid that you will probably need to re-customise it. Unless you can suggest a better way of updating it to avoid that problem.

[Seph]

Yeah no...

I was naïvely hoping that there would be a way, maybe some lines of code that ~have~ changed in the index.php file...

Ill update when i get some hours in between :slant:

Thanks man

[nightcrawler1089]

Haha, still using that old avatar .

Can't wait to use this...once I have a spare minute, I'll be sure to set it up.

Thanks for this great server-side "app"!

-NC

[perbalay]

hi to all, and specially to the creator of this precious gallery (congratulations)

but, i got a problem while sendin comment, it dosnt pos tanithing, just chmod 777 al php files,

photos(folder too) and all folders also chomoed(dunno how to type it , sorry), here is the link

where you can check it :

http://www.codfotos.tk

Hope you can help me soon, and Greetings.

PD: sorry about my english, i'm from spain,

[dappleyard]

Once you've posted the comment, look to see whether the program has created the file in the directory. Post back here when you know whether the text file with the comment text in is created or not.