June 14, 2001

11:24 AM

Another PHP Script?Yeah. This one allows you to instantly create thumbnailed galleries from the comfort of your home. (Yeah, I'm sure there are others like this out there, but this one is the *newest*. And the site is funny. dammit.... stop staring at me.)
posted by jcterminal (7 comments total)

I didn't download the script, but from the specs and screenshots it looks like a very nice, clean program with lots of cool features. And extra brownie points to the author for not naming it something in the realm of PHPhoto.

I've been experimenting with a few simple functions for building photo galleries on my site, but my goal was to not make use of a database. Instead, my programs go in the direction of "upload some photos, drop in a generic php script and your gallery is done." Lots of filesystem and directory listing stuff. Quite fun.
posted by tomorama at 11:36 AM on June 14, 2001

I thought Slooze was the best php image gallery script?
posted by mathowie at 11:37 AM on June 14, 2001

What's especially ironic is that I just spent the last three days trying to get PHP to work happily with GD on Solaris for the sake of just such a thumbnailed image gallery script, eventually giving up in horror and rewriting the script to use external calls to ImageMagick, and when I come to MetaFilter for recovery, this is what I see.

Stop the pain.
posted by moss at 11:48 AM on June 14, 2001

tomorama, I have an index.php file you can use to do something like that. not as cool as the link posted though, no thumbs. check it out.
posted by artlung at 12:22 PM on June 14, 2001

Matt, it looks a lot more powerful than Slooze.
posted by prolific at 1:27 PM on June 14, 2001

/me works on converting the PHP to work with Postgres...
posted by holgate at 1:41 PM on June 14, 2001

If you want something that doesn't require a DB try Blorp by Justin Frankel of the Nullsoft/Winamp fame.
posted by riffola at 3:18 PM on June 14, 2001