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Help a newbie: Example of very large gallery?

AlternativePhotography Member
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Dear all,
I am thinking of using Zenphoto for my website www.AlternativePhotography.com, which has over 300 artists, with galleries and subgalleries.
I can't find an example of a huge gallery in the demo pages, does anyone know of a good example?
I am also assuming it's possible to have subgalleries?
Can you also reorder the images manually?
Appreciate any help!

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Just to avoid confusion about some terms regarding further questions:
    http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/08/zenphoto-glossary/

    With "demo pages" you mean the showcase? Anyway, Zenphoto is filesystem based. Please read:
    http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/troubleshooting-zenphoto/#23

    This is a quite large site done (mostly) with Zenphoto:
    http://phauxshow.com/

    Of course you can have subalbums and order the images manually. Please see the (slighly older) screencast and the screenshots. And best try it yourself!
  • AlternativePhotography Member
    Thank you! Great example.
    I'm not sure really what you mean with "filesystem based". Where can i read about this?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    It's the entry before the one I linked to above, it has also a diagram about the way Zenphoto discovers items: http://www.zenphoto.org/2009/03/troubleshooting-zenphoto/#22

    In short Zenphoto adds what it finds on the filesystem (the albums folder) and also removes what it does not find anymore.
  • AlternativePhotography Member
    I just want some reassurance before i start adding 10 000 + images to the site... will it really work on this scale? They will be divided into 300 albums with 900 subalbums.
    ???
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I have posted the entry about this above. We have not tried it this large ourselves but some people have reported that it works with large installation. Try a forum search, there are some older threads about this.

    Of course we naturally can't guarantee anything.
  • michaelsam Member
    i have more than 14000 jpg and flv and more than 500 albums each album hast between 5 and 400 items - my structure is album/year/month/day
  • AlternativePhotography Member
    To "michaelsam"... what is the url, can i take a look?
  • michaelsam Member
    sorry u can't it's a private site
  • AlternativePhotography Member
    OK! Thanks anyway.
  • southdreamz Member
    South Indian cinema gallery: http://gallery.southdreamz.com/
    Total Photos: 1,23,341
    This site is running under shared hosting plan.
    The same account i have running another ZenPhoto installation too, which is http://spicy.southdreamz.com/ with 25,000 photos. Apart from this two sites i have running another 2 WordPress installation with this same account http://southdreamz.com, http://thefaceofsouthindia.com/.

    I'm using static html cache plugin and i got small issue with this plugin, because it is not deleting expired cached files. i have created small cron job, which is deleting expired files. now everything is working fine.

    Approximately 3,000 visits per day for gallery and ~600 users for spicy.

    Rare case my site get 501 error, which is related to my account CPU/RAM, concurrent user limitations.
    --
    Another sample http://album.mirchiwoods.com, which is also running with more than 1, 00, 000 photos. This site is showcased in zenphoto site.
    --
    I'm using feedburner for gallery site, recently, i face database connectivity error, can you check here http://feeds.feedburner.com/southdreamz/gallery. But same settings working fine here http://feeds.feedburner.com/spicygallery and http://feeds.feedburner.com/mirchiwoods/gallery.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    @southdreamz: Did you already report that static html cache issue not deleting the cached files??
  • southdreamz Member
    Yes, I reported this issue here: http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=5869

    Currently zenphoto is not deleting expired files, instead it re-creating when it is called. For my case i'm getting memory issue, because of it's size.
    Note: this is not an issue for small sites.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    That must have been gotten lost... That's why tickets are better..;-)

    Probably I don't understand the issue completly. The cache actually should recreate new versions of the cached pages if they are outdated. That is the sense of it. So you actually would need it first to delete them and then have them recreated?
  • southdreamz Member
    Yes, outdated files should be deleted.
    --
    I have one doubt, if robots/search engine accessing site, what happen?, is the cache created? or it just dive dynamic page.
    --
    I'm using feedburner for gallery site, recently, i'm always getting database connectivity error, can you check here http://feeds.feedburner.com/southdreamz/gallery.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    If there is no cache file available the normal page will be generate as always and the cache file created from that. If there is a cache file that will be loaded. In any case the search engine should see the "same" kind of page. Search engines etc should be treated as any other visitor as well.

    Feedburner is for RSS feeds, right? I never used such tools. Our rss feeds are actually outside the normal theme pages.

    However, the nightly build has now also separate rss file caching that works like the html static cache except that it generates an .xml file. It can be disabled on the rss options.
  • southdreamz Member
    Yes, Feedburner is free feed service engine.

    Let me try, the new feed cache.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    @southdreamz: In tonight's nightly, now both the static html and the new rss cache will delete outdated files before recreating them.
  • AlternativePhotography Member
    Thanks for the examples of large galleries. Now i know it will work.
  • southdreamz Member
    @acrylian thanks for reply @ work!
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