Photo Gallery

[Scott L.]

http://www.pentabyte.de/software/WebControls/

I just installed this last night, it seems easy to install with minimum coding knowledge required. uses ASP.Net

its running at http://asp.shinraikon.com/PARCXI/Pho...20Gallery.aspx

[artdutra04]

Last year while I was still a senior in high school, I wrote my own Photo Gallery software (along with the rest of the CMS) for Team 228, simply because I wasn't impressed* with any of the existing open-source photo gallery software. So the Photo Gallery software I wrote for Team 228 was coded in PHP, and uses MySQL databases for the content storage.

It only took about two days to code the front end work, and a week to do all the back-end administration coding. Then, after importing nearly 60 galleries with 3,000 photos, I rewrote several scripts to optimize the execution speed and to introduce caching to relieve load on our MySQL server.

It took a fair bit of work, but I'm very impressed with the end result. Eventually I plan on making the software for the Photo Gallery open-sourced, but that's for another day.


* I took a lot of inspiration from Apple's .Mac Photo Galleries and CD-Media when I designed Team 228's Photo Gallery software last year, combining the tagging and searchability of CD-Media with the looks, functionality, and slideshow features of the .Mac galleries.

[Ctrl Alt Delete]

That's really neat! We haven't had the need for a real photo gallery yet since there aren't many photos we have and I just made a script that iterates through the current directory and pull all the photos and thumbnails. It seems something like Gallery2 would be bit of an overkill for most of us though.