Need advice on Gallery Software
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- darinb
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On my web page I'm planning on having a "coomunity photo album." I want users (who have to be approved) to be able to upload their own photos--kid's baseball games, hikes,, etc.
I was assuming that Gallery2 would do it but now I see there are major issues uploading larger file sizes or large numbers of photos at once. Tried Gallery Remote but found it too difficult to use.
Is there anything out there that offers an easy-to-use upload interface and the ability to upload 100s of photos at once (say, of a baseball game)?
Photos must be downloadable--ideally I'd like users to be able to download entire albums. Even better would be the ability to have download permissions vary by album.
What about the online services? Flickr looks cool except that non-paying users are very limited and I don't see a way to have a group with folders/sets.
Help!
--Darin
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- Peter Osipof
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For Joomla base check out
gallery section of JED
I personally have used 4 galleries, Zoom Media Gallery, Coppermine, Expose and Gallery 2 out of these four I found gallery 2 to be the best for me but I have never uploaded 100s of photos at once max that I can remember has been 5 photos at once.
Checkout this Gallery Comparison site and decide for your self.
Note: Coppermine and Gallery 2 are not Joomla base but bridged. - VirtueShop
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- Daniel Hienzsch
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I have Gallery2 running bridged in my site quite nicely. Most of the albums have between 20 and 30 files, but one contains 183 individual images. Gallery2 allows you to bulkload using a zip file with as many images in it as you can squeeze up to an 8MB size limit. The Germany album involved 5 files with with about 35 files in them apiece.
Depending on how proficient / fearless you are with hacking, the template files are pretty easy to modify and customize as well. I'm running a severely hacked version of the default "Matrix" theme right now. - Carving Canyons, Taking Trips, Cracking the Ton: www.motoescapism.com
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- darinb
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Thanks guys. Veru helpful.
By far the best thing I've found so far is SmugMug's pro level of service. It allows you a "guest password" which I could give out to dozens, nay hundreds of users to allow them to upload photos. No size limit and nice interface, plus iPhoto and Elements interfaces. Not free ($150/year) but sooooo much nicer than the free stuff I've seen.
The big worry is that people will be overwhelmed by the difficult to use interfaces of most of this stuff--SmugMug looks like a winner in this regard which would make it cheap....
Any SmugMug users out there? As good as it sounds?
--Darin
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