Hi I was on Wikipedia and noticed they [b]deleted the link to the Zenphoto description page (and I assume a site link) when comparing Photo Galleries link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_photo_gallery_software
I've never done a Wikipedia entry before ... it's probably a good idea to have a Zenphoto description & web links to the site, documentation, forum etc as they get lots of traffic .. anyone on the forum know how to do that?[/b]
We rarely look at that but the entry seems not up to date anyway. You will need to have a wikipedia account - I don't have - and since I read they tighten up the permissions you probably need to be approved first.
Anyone with a account feel free to edit that (I think the English wikipedia has an extra entry as well).
I could take care of it (in English and eventually in French), but I am not too sure about some details in the table. I have put the entries as I see them, with questions if any.
Name: Zenphoto
License: GPL
Platform: PHP, MySQL, Ajax
-- Is there any Ajax in it; in some themes only?
Languages: Multilingual
Resizing: Automatic (GD)
-- or should it say (GD/ImageMagick): I can't check as I only have GD
Upload: currently: HTTP, FTP, ZIP, Local Filesystem
Upload: would be : HTTP (Multiple in-browser uploads), FTP, ZIP
-- I am not too sure of the definitions they use; I have compared with other descriptions.
I don't know what "Local Filesystem" refers to...
Output: currently: XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Output: would be : XHTML 1.0 Transitional, RSS; some themes use Flash and Javascript
IPTC support : Yes
GeoTagging support: Yes
Tag Categories, Keywords: Yes
Dynamic Image Processing: Yes
Access Control: Yes
Having a separate Zenphoto page or not?
In a first step, I will add an outside link to Zenphoto, like those of a few other systems in the table. Writing the Zenphoto page would come a bit later.
Zenphoto Page
Does anyone know what was written when a page was accessible? Reading it would help me see why the page was deleted. I would especially like to see if it was deleted because it was too basic (i.e. saying nothing) or because the person in charge has personal preferences.
One thing that helps is outside, independent references. If anyone knows web references that talk about Zenphoto, that would help. Articles on University servers seem to be highly regarded.
Ajax is not a requirement unless a specific theme makes use of it. None of the standard ones do. We do use (and supply) jQuery among other js support libraries. I think that there is no need to mention, though.
Resizing is automatic no matter the graphics library. It is really library independent (other than that a library has to exist.)
Not sure what "upload" is for. If it refers to the application, then must HTML upload is supported. The others are kind of orthogonal. Maybe ways to install?
All else looks good to me.
I have compared a few other entries and looked very briefly at their website. From what I see,
- Resizing: some photo databases don't resize anything. IOW, one must prepare photos and thumbnails at 2 or 3 specific sizes and upload them. So it's nice to know whether it links with GD or ImageMagick in case your ISP doesn't provide one of them (I think GD support is almost universal amongst ISPs that offer PHP, but I might be mistaken).
– Uploads: I think it refers to how photos are uploaded. They may be uploaded via a web page (HTTP) either one at a time or in a batch, or as a zip file, or may be uploaded directly via FTP.
I'll update the entry tonight.
Wiki page updated.
Thanks for updating.
Just to note Zenphoto is licensed GPL v2 as there is v1 and v3 as well, so that might be useful to point out if possible. But I see no entry differs actually..
Re: output: I think XHTML 1.0 transitional and RSS is enough. Flash and JS is purely optional, the html code generated by predefined functions if you don't use the object model to do everything yourself is that.
Resizing should actually be kind of "GD/Imagick".
Updated.
Looking at other descriptions, the license is only posted as "GPL"
Upload: I'm not sure what "Local Filesystem" means. It seems to be added automatically because I did not write it.
Resizing: I was not sure whether Imagick support was "now" or "planned". Thanks for updating me on that one.