Best Picture Gallery For Nuke

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

I'm needing to install a gallery application for a relative. Please give your comments based on

Ease of installation
Ease of use
Author support
Uses GD Library or ImageMagik
Why it's great Smile

Thanks!

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:59 pm

Personally i like Gallery v1.3.3 from http://gallery.sourceforge.net/
i found it simple to install although i had to place some netpbm stuff on my server (whatever that it).
i don't think it requires GD, i think you have to pick either imagemagik or netpbm.
i found it less complicated than Coppermine.
Since i too was installing for others, Gallery v1.3.3 was easier to explain how it works, it's pretty self-explanatory too.
i don't know about author support but this site would probably answer any questions.
it has a cool slideshow feature too.
you can see it in action at http://www.ladonne.com/modules.php?name=Gallery
i still have the sample photos uploaded to demonstrate to the site owner.

Premium Joined: Feb 11, 2003 Posts: 172 Location: USA

i like the My-eGallery like the one here on www.roadripping.com

i dont think the author has it for download anymore but i have the zip file if youd like it.

it uses netpbm or gd i think. easy to install as i recall.....

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:59 pm

I like Coppermine 1.1D from http://www.surf4all.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=coppermine.

I had a few problems installing it but then again I am a PHP/MySQL newbie. In any case I found all the answers I needed at the support site http://www.chezgreg.net/cpgboard/index.php?c=3

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 17, 2003 Posts: 12

Coppermine everytime. If my "ole man" can get it working anyone can. It is also comes bundled with very good postcard function.

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 1:36 am

I don't know why I forgot to mention the postcard function because I use it a lot.

Cheers,
Ron..

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 6:09 am

I would recomend you 4images 1.7, you can download it here www.4homepages.de

Its a very nice picturegallery program, which work as standalone!

But you can import it in PHP-Nuke as a Module...

Its very easy to install and use,,, they have support here www.4homepages.de and it Use GD Library or ImageMagik

Why it's great ??? coz. there is much much themes, add-ons, mods for it..

And you can do auto image resize, autothumb.... etc......

Elite Nuker Joined: Nov 20, 2002 Posts: 237

Gallery is the best I have used by far. Seems the most customizable with options to have different colored backgrounds, fonts and the like for each album/subalbum if you so choose. Or you can just have it use the css from your nuke theme for seamless integration.

-Integrates with Nuke userlist with the ability to set permissions on each album as needed.

-I love the slideshow function. Great for large family type albums and allows you to cycle through all the pictures in an album at an interval you set.

-Has a random image block so you can display pics on the main nuke page if you so choose.

-Autocreates thumbnails and allows for resizing and all that using either netpbm or Imagemagick

-Very easy install. Nice little 4 step install wizard

Upload files
Chmod config file to writable
Run Install Wizard
Chmod config file back to read only
End of install Gallery is running

-Easy to upload. Can upload from the site up to 5 pics at a time by default, or your users can download a small app to allow mass uploads of pictures.

- Author and community support is huge. They have a message board that is almost as active as these here. I never had troubles getting an answer when i needed one.

Well that's my two cents. Good luck making your choice Raven!

Sergeant Joined: Jun 13, 2003 Posts: 98

I use Gallery. Always have, always will.
This site: www.nukedgallery.net looks like it will become active in a short while, and should be pretty useful.

Sergeant Joined: May 30, 2003 Posts: 88

Latest Gallery 1.3.4 RC3. It's a breeze to install and configure. Can use either NetBDM or Image Magic, choice is yours iether works great. Slide show, thumbs, sized pictures, full size pictures, print option either free or with small donation, set by Admin during configuration ( why not help thouse guys out Smile

). The only glitch I found with this program is that you have to set files html/modules/gallery/albums/albumdb.dat.lock and serial.dat to 664 mode. The user under which priveledges webserver is running has to be able to write to this files otherwise you get ugly errors from time to time regarding not been able to open this files coming from ../platform/fs_unix.php file.

Sergeant Joined: Jun 13, 2003 Posts: 98

ah, but remember, gallery was originally developed as a standalone app, not as one to be integrated into any CMS (they've been gracious enough to make it easier, though). anyway, 1.3.4 is officially out, I'm using 1.3.5-cvs-b22 (i always use the latest CVS version, never had any problems). it's also got this kick-a$$ extra: Gallery Remote, basically a Windows/*nix GUI to allow creation/uploading of albums. All the info at http://gallery.menalto.com

Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:09 pm

Personally, I find MyEGallery to be the easiest to hack and twist the way I want it to.

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

I am currently using Gallery 1.3.4, but I'm not quite satisfied with it... had an incident a few days ago where someone wrote in some innapropriate comments. The problem is that there's no control over comments... your options are to turn then on, or turn them off, end of story. No "registered users only" posting, which clearly is not going to work out for me in the long run...

Sergeant Joined: Jun 13, 2003 Posts: 98

it would be a quick mod to the code for it to either email the comments to you for approval, and then allow only the admin to post them, or to only allow registered users post them (simple ifuser check before they try to post).
i think this may be a feature (only registered users can post them) in Gallery 2.

Nuke Soldier Joined: May 24, 2003 Posts: 22

georgiaguy wrote:

it would be a quick mod to the code for it to either email the comments to you for approval, and then allow only the admin to post them, or to only allow registered users post them (simple ifuser check before they try to post).
i think this may be a feature (only registered users can post them) in Gallery 2.

Yes, but my programming ability is more or less nil. ^_^