My Photo Gallery
After getting frustrated at PHP Gallery I decided to find something better. Don’t get me wrong PHP Gallery is a very powerful and robust web-photo management application, but because of all the features it is very difficult to maintain and very easy to break. So I began dreaming of a much easier to use gallery that would just parse directories for images and automatically create thumbnails essentially being maintenance free.
I started writing my own perl scripts to parse directories and generate thumbnails then I found My Photo Gallery perl script on www.fuzzymonkey.org. This is an easy to install and easy to maintain photo gallery. You just drop images in a directory and they are automatically on the Internet. There is no database and no goofy upload image tool to maintain. The hardest part was installing Image Magick but once I overcame that the rest was easy. I have my samba directories setup so I can just drag images into the directory and they are instantly in my photo gallery. Kudos to fuzzymonkey.org!