I want to put a gallery of family photos up on my 1and1 hosted website. Gallery program suggestions? There are a million out there, and a thousand of them seem to have good reviews, so I need advice from people I trust (IBM’ers).
I have MySQL, PHP4, PHP5, Perl, and cgi access available on a shared linux hosting box. It’s important to have good security (i.e. I only want family and friends to see these), and it would be nice to have commenting and such, but not really important. I like XML and RDF stuff, as long as it doesn’t take too much extra maintenance. I definitely want the presentation to include a filmstrip-like feature, or at least a last/next thumbnail, so it’s not just the “one picture and forward/back buttons” that some galleries use.
I already have some cat photos on flickr, but want to host these myself for security and ease-of-use reasons. I.e. my grandmother can barely use the web, and certainly doesn’t know how to login to flickr so I can give her access that way…
What do you use to self-host photos? An online gallery that does the work, or a local site generator where you just push a chunk of static files up to the server?
Easiest way I know is to make a private copy of http://photos.ning.com/
By private copy, I mean when you first create it (Get Your Own) choose that it is a private application, access by invitation only.
Folks will still have to create an account, or, alternately, you can create accounts for folks and just send them the access info (as you would for http auth on a local thing).
-Brian
http://gallery.menalto.com
my choice is ZenPhoto (http://www.zenphoto.org/).
For my online photo gallery — I call them webphotos — I've found Zenphoto to suit my needs quite well.
I've tried other CGI/PHP packages (e.g. Gallery), and have documented my complete digital workflow (and alternatives), so I'm curious if you've been doing something different.