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Performance: Which is better? Gallery2 or Zenphoto?

milohuang Member
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I switched from different gallery scripts, say Coppermine, Gallery2 and now, Zenphoto. I recently test the script and it works well, fast and simple. The point is, how well Zenphoto can perform.

My gallery (using Gallery2 now) focuses on Anime scans and has over 2,8000 scans (most of them over 2000x2000) and several hundred of albums and subalbums. However, my gallery turns out to be very slow, sometimes even fail to load pages or simply gives a error message.

I want to ask those who have used Zenphoto and how it performs. Any ideas? THX~

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Well, this is of course a little weird question to ask on a Zenphoto forum, isn't it?..:-)

    Recommended reading:
    http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/08/troubleshooting-zenphoto/#23
    http://www.zenphoto.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/zenphoto-12-image-discovery12.pdf

    Although I won't deny that some users encountered some performance issues on the admin backend only (http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=4320), some have used Zenphoto sucessfully with large amounts of images successfully.:
    http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=3418#post-20542

    Maybe just try Zenphoto yourself.
  • olihar Member
    Comming from Gallery 2 to ZenPhoto a long long time ago, I would say ZenPhoto all the way.. However I do find it strange as well to ask such question on the ZenPhoto forum. If I was using gallery 2 I would probably be over there using their forum not the ZenPhoto forum and Visa versa.
  • milohuang Member
    Well, since I just want to ask how well ZenPhoto can do on managing a large number of photos. But it seems well and I tried it out just now. It works well with Wordpress. One thing to mention, it will be better to let users register before viewing photos since you can protect your photos in this way.
  • sbillard Member
    You can handle the user registration yourself. Password protect your gallery. Then users must log on before viewing it.

    On the index page place a link to your registration page. (You can use the contact form plugin for this.)

    When you decide to approve a user for viewing your gallery, create a user name/password for him. (Of if you don't want to manage individual users, just give him the password for the gallery.)
  • milohuang Member
    Well that's great and thank you very much!

    While I'm testing zenphoto, after I enabled the URL rewrite mod, I found that the mod use hyphen to replace space. eg: "zen-photo" instead of "zen photo". Can I modify the code to replace the hyphen with "+", say "zen+photo", since in gallery2 it uses "+" between words and I don't want the links to be broken.
  • southdreamz Member
    Is there way get URLs like zen+photo or zen-photo from folder name "Zen Photo"?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    @milohuang: This surely would require hacking the core what we don't recommend because of possible trouble with updates. But of course you can do that if you really need it. It is not done via modrewrite but when uploading via the upload form if I recall correctly (otherwise the folder name will appear escaped in the url)

    @southdreams: If you upload via the upload form a folder "zen-photo" instead of "zen photo" will be generated.
  • southdreamz Member
    Yes, that is correct, but I'm using FTP, i will try to use upload forms.
  • sbillard Member
    milohuang:

    At least on my site the spaces are replaced by plus signs. This encoding is done by the PHP library, so maybe there is a difference on your setup.
  • milohuang Member
    Thank you all guys!! Zenphoto is the best gallery I've ever seen and it does everything I'm looking for!! Thanks for your help!!
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