On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 12:44:40AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On 05 Jan 21:29, Chris Green wrote:
I have a couple of family members who have photo albums on the web which I host. For the past two or three years I have been using gallery2 to do this but I'm getting increasingly fed up with the hassle involved whenever anything changes.
A recent OS upgrade has made the gallery2 installations fall in a heap yet again and I'm wondering if I might find something easier than gallery2. Apart from not being easy to upgrade it requires quite a few non-standard changes to php.ini which I'd prefer to avoid if I can, and it uses a mysql database which I'd also like to avoid if I can.
My two users don't need most of gallery2's abilities, all they want to do is to be able to upload photographs and organise them into albums with (presumably) thumbnails to select them. There's no need for multiple users, no need for tags, no need for extra information, just the EXIF and IPTC from the image files.
So is there anything out there that can do this with as little hassle as possible?
Obvious questions: - Do they need to be able to upload them through the website?
Yes, in fact that's one of the major reasons for doing it, both my family 'customers' are globe-trotting and want to send pictures from their cameras to the web site - and as a consequence have them saved on my server.
- Do they really need the EXIF and IPTC from the image files?
Possibly not, though any annotations (IMHO) should be in EXIF and IPTC so that moving the pictures about takes the information with them.
- Would a statically generated gallery be OK for them?
Probably, but they need to be ablet to send photos to it.