Looking To Replace Gallery (with something like Fotki)

kwanbis

Hi, i'm trying to replace gallery v2, with something that is more like Fotki (www.fotki.com). Why i don't like gallery you may ask? Gallery is very powerful, but to harvest the power, you have to do too much tweaking (for me at least).

My needs are because i want to provide on my DreamHost account, to my friends/family, separate albums for each one.

What i'm looking is:

1) Simple UI/Simple to use for final users (like Fotki).
2) Should support multiple users on the same site (like Fotki)*
3) Should allow password protected albums.
4) Batch uploads (either FTP, web interface, client, etc)
5) Exiff
6) Nice to have: www.site.com/USER support

* On gallery, i simulate that by creating N albums, family1, family2, etc, for each family.

Does THIS solution supports all this?

I must say that i haven't read all the documentation about this solution, and for that i'm sorry, but i'm looking right now at 10 solutions, so i just wanted to do a quick check on each one, so if it supports all 4, i would start the real evaluation.

Thanks. Kwanbis.

Chilifrei64

1) Not sure you you mean my final users but it is as simple of an interface as you get
2) there are hacks for it but it does not support it natively
3) once again there are hacks but not native
4) batch upload via html form and also zip upload
5) once again, hacks but nothing native (the svn code has the begining works for this)
6) no /user support as this is not a multi user gallery

Even though it doesnt support natively what you want, it is very simple to use and manage and others have already hacked in what you are asking for.

kwanbis

thanks, for the response.

I don't mean using plug-ins/hacks, as long as they work as expected.

Problem with gallery 2, for example, is that i asked about an issue with the password module, and nobody knew/responded.

For what i seem on the demo, it looks very simple, as i want it.

So, may question is, can i create an album for each family, and then they can upload pictures, and create their sub-albums? Password protect them?

Thanks.

kwanbis

meanwhile, i deployed zenphoto to my site ... more or less it works ok, but for example, it tries to go to:

www.site.com/album

but the album is at

www.site.com/albums/album

but if i type that directly, i see an index page.

Chilifrei64

that is just modrewrite working. The url paths do NOT match the directory paths.

People have successfully implemented the password protect galleries hack. I have even played around with it and was able to get it working.

kwanbis

so, what is modewrite, and how do i fix it? or what should i look for in the forum?

kwanbis

ok, i know how to disable modrewrite, but i want it, what should i do to make it work?

kwanbis

by the way, if i setup N databases, and N zenphoto install, on diferent subdirs on the server, i could then provide one for each family, right?

kwanbis

very interesting, i installed zp in root at first. Uploaded some pictures, created some test albums.

Then, i created a folder in root, "family1", and uploaded there another zp install, and configured it.

Now, the two installs don't seem to bother each other, which is good, as it looks like i would be able to use just one DB for all 10 families.

Or would it be better (performance/stability) to have 10 diferent dbs?

Chilifrei64

I run something very similar to what you are doing. it isnt a family site it is a friends site and yeah I have just put everyone into their own subdirectory using wordpressMU(multiuser) and zenphoto. I have everyone on the same DB for wordpress and zenphoto and just set the table prefix to the users name. It really isnt better or worse either way with different databases or same databases. Zenphoto only has 3 tables which is almost as small of a database you can have.

I have i think 16 or 17 galleries on 1 database on my webhost and have zero problems. Now it does matter the specs on your server, shared hosting or dedicated and all that but zenphoto really isnt all that intensive. I guess it all 17 users sites got queried at the same exact time it might spike the usage

kwanbis

good advise, so how where can i define the prefixes?

kwanbis

// If you're sharing the database with other tables, use a prefix to be safe.
$conf['mysql_prefix'] = "";

right?

Chilifrei64

yes .. right