Gallery Project

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The Gallery Project is an open source project enabling management and publication of digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server. Photo manipulation includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things. Albums can be organized hierarchically and individually controlled by administrators or privileged users.

In addition to Gallery 2.x, Gallery 1.x continues to be developed. The latter's current release version is 1.5.7 (August 16, 2007). Gallery 2.0 was publicly released on September 13, 2005.

The Gallery Project has also released a "Gallery Virtual Appliance", which allows users to test the current versions of both Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.[1]

Contents 1 Requirements 2 Further reading 3 External links 4 See also

[edit] Requirements

• PHP — version 4.3.0 or greater
• Image processing library — for image manipulations, either ImageMagick or NetPBM. Version 2 also works with GD graphics library and GraphicsMagick.
• Database server, for version 2 only — MySQL 3.x, 4.x or 5.x, PostgreSQL 7.x or 8.x, Oracle 9i or 10g, DB2 8.2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005

[edit] Further reading

• O'Reilly Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video, by Kyle Rankin. ISBN 0596100760 [2]

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Official Gallery Documentation Site
• Numerous features listed in comparison between Gallery 1 and Gallery 2
• The Best Free Software, January 31 2007 PC Magazine
• http://www.builderau.com.au/program/web/soa/DIY-image-gallery-in-PHP/0,339024632,320281211,00.htm
• http://gallery.menalto.com/node/157#comments Potential source on history of the project, as it pertains to EZPrints, legal disputes.
• Directory of Gallery Powered Websites

[edit] See also

• Photo gallery comparison