Wanted - PHP image gallery

Now I’ve got some industrial hosting, I need to make good my promise to Nongyow to put up family albums so friends overseas can marvel at our glamorous lives. So I’m seeking recommendations for some gallery software that meets these criteria:

  • PHP/ MySQL, for free open-source goodness
  • easy-peasy to install. (I mean easy-peasy; bear in mind, I had to take a day off work to install WordPress.)
  • Doesn’t require some special process to upload the photos (so I can FTP all nine million straight to the server)
  • Standards-compliant, and doesn’t use tables to lay out the photos
  • Automatic thumbnail generation
  • Can set up albums

I’m not really bothered about comments (it would be nice, but the wankers who spam me give me enough moderation to do on my blog).

Anyone got any favourites to suggest - with a link to a gallery so I can check it out, if you feel really kind?

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8 Responses to “Wanted - PHP image gallery”

  1. Comment by John Oxton

    I have to ask wassup with Flick? It has privacy settings and all that Jazz and there are even some back-up apps out there now… and you can get prints done from Flickr…

    April 7th, 2006 at 3:01 pm

  2. Comment by Bruce

    To be honest, John, I just want it on my own site, so I can customise the look and feel as I want!

    April 7th, 2006 at 5:28 pm

  3. Comment by John Oxton

    Furry muff, though I was hoping for some dark, sinister tale of Yahoo! and data ownership.. ho hum.. sorry to hijack the post!

    April 7th, 2006 at 6:30 pm

  4. Comment by Gary

    You looked at Plogger?
    Given it a brief try a few months ago, and appeared to have serious potential…

    http://www.plogger.org

    April 8th, 2006 at 1:20 pm

  5. Comment by Neil Merton

    I can higly recommend Zen Photo - easy to use and I think it will meet all your requirements :)

    http://www.zenphoto.org/

    April 10th, 2006 at 9:09 am

  6. Comment by Bruce

    Plogger looks great, as does Zenphoto: although, with the latter, it’s a shame that the individual photo+comment pages don’t validate (UTF-8 error, I think) and couldn’t find a non-beta download, but it does look nice.

    April 10th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

  7. Comment by Josh

    Take a look at cat-scan. Customisable output, valid out of the box, PHP, no database required.

    If you’re feeling like rolling your own, you could always use Flickr’s API tools so they get to host + you get to control design ;-)

    May 6th, 2006 at 2:24 am

  8. Comment by apostolis

    Have a look at EPIG. It is called Easy Peasy Image Gallery for a reason ;-)

    June 12th, 2006 at 11:24 am

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