Spent a few hours today looking around for an image gallery application. Gallery 2 cannot run in PHP Safe Mode. Plogger for some reason runs at snail’s pace on my server; I couldn’t even get into the admin panel. Coppermine looks so Web 1.0. Thank goodness I stumbled across Zenphoto. It’s actively developed, is fast and simple, looks nice, and actually installed without a single problem.
To-do: Figure out why I had problems running Plogger. Try Pixelpost.
Here’s a good but out-dated list of photo CMS’s on the market. Anyone have other suggestions?
Update: Plogger not working was entirely my fault. My .htaccess redirects requests for CSS/JS to a directory with pre-gzipped versions of the file. I did not pre-gzip Plogger’s CSS/JS files and did not turn off the .htaccess directive, so it appears that my browser was trying to access non-existent CSS/JS files. Strange that it resulted in super slow pages; I thought the browser would get a 404 response and give up immediately.
Still, Plogger doesn’t work well in Safe Mode, and I was not impressed enough to use workarounds to make it play nice.
Also tried PixelPost. It doesn’t even support importing images on the file system (ex. uploaded via FTP) very well; it relies on an addon to do that, and it failed for me. Not impressed with it enough to try to make it work.
So back to playing with Zenphoto.
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Zenphoto is really nice, but uploading photos one by one sucks, and the upload limit of 7MB makes the zip option unuseful. I suppose this limit can be changed if you have access to the server, which is not my case
Ups.. did not try the FTP option, which is great: the albums get created automatically! The change of using Zenphoto instead Gallery2 is evident