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The Gallery Project is an open source
Open source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source . Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical Strategy element of their business operations....
 project enabling management and publication of digital photograph
Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
s and other media through a PHP
PHP

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in Standalone software Graphical user interface....
-enabled web server
Web server

The term web server can mean one of two things:# A computer program that is responsible for accepting Hypertext Transfer Protocol requests from clients , and Server them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as Hypertext Markup Language documents and linked objects ....
. Photo manipulation includes automatic thumbnail
Thumbnail

Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words....
s, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things. Albums can be organized hierarchically and individually controlled by administrators or privileged users. Gallery 2.0 was publicly released on September 13, 2005.

In addition to Gallery 2.x, Gallery 3.x continues to be developed where new features are added. The development of Gallery 1.x is stopped.






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The Gallery Project is an open source
Open source

Open source is an approach to design, development, and distribution offering practical accessibility to a product's source . Some consider open source as one of various possible design approaches, while others consider it a critical Strategy element of their business operations....
 project enabling management and publication of digital photograph
Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
s and other media through a PHP
PHP

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in Standalone software Graphical user interface....
-enabled web server
Web server

The term web server can mean one of two things:# A computer program that is responsible for accepting Hypertext Transfer Protocol requests from clients , and Server them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as Hypertext Markup Language documents and linked objects ....
. Photo manipulation includes automatic thumbnail
Thumbnail

Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words....
s, resizing, rotation, and flipping, among other things. Albums can be organized hierarchically and individually controlled by administrators or privileged users. Gallery 2.0 was publicly released on September 13, 2005.

In addition to Gallery 2.x, Gallery 3.x continues to be developed where new features are added. The development of Gallery 1.x is stopped. The current release version is 1.5.7 (August 16, 2007). Development of further Gallery 1.x versions continues in project , a fork of Gallery 1.6.

The Gallery Project has also released a "Gallery Virtual Appliance
Virtual appliance

A virtual appliance is a minimalist virtual machine image designed to run under some sort of virtualization technology .Virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of Software Appliance....
", which allows users to test the current versions of both Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.

Requirements

  • PHP — version 4.3.0 or greater
  • Image processing library — for image manipulations, either ImageMagick
    ImageMagick

    ImageMagick is an open source software suite for and display, supporting close to 100 image formats. It is mainly used to perform various transformation and conversion operations on images....
     or NetPBM
    Netpbm

    Netpbm is an open source package of graphics programs and a programming library, used mainly in the Unix world. It is a highly portable package, working under many Unix platforms, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, Amiga OS and others and is included in all major open source Unix-like operating system distributions....
    . Version 2 also works with GD graphics library
    GD Graphics Library

    The GD Graphics Library is a library by Thomas Boutell and others for dynamically manipulating s. Its native programming language is American National Standards Institute C , but it has interfaces for many other programming languages....
     and GraphicsMagick
    GraphicsMagick

    GraphicsMagick is a fork of , emphasising stability of both programming API and command-line options. It was branched off ImageMagick's version 5.5.2 after irreconcilable differences emerged in the developers' group....
    .
  • Database server, for version 2 only — MySQL
    MySQL

    MySQL is a relational database management system which has more than 11 million installations. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases....
     3.x, 4.x or 5.x, PostgreSQL
    PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system . It is released under a BSD licenses and is thus free software. As with many other open-source programs, PostgreSQL is not controlled by any single company, but has a global community of developers and companies to develop it....
     7.x or 8.x, Oracle
    Oracle database

    The Oracle Database consists of a relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. , Oracle had become a major presence in database computing....
     9i or 10g, DB2
    IBM DB2

    DB2 is one of IBM's families of relational database management system software products within IBM's broader IBM Information Management Software line....
     8.2, Microsoft SQL Server
    Microsoft SQL Server

    Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system produced by Microsoft. Its primary query languages are SQL and Transact-SQL....
     2005

Further reading

  • O'Reilly
    O'Reilly

    O'Reilly is the patronymic form of the Ireland name Reilly . The surname comes from the Gaelic ? Raghallaigh. It is commonly found throughout Ireland, with the greatest concentration of the surname found in County Cavan followed by Longford, Meath, Westmeath, Fermanagh and Monaghan, and the Province of Leinster....
     Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video, by Kyle Rankin. ISBN 0596100760


External links

  • , January 31 2007 PC Magazine
    PC Magazine

    PC Magazine is a computer magazine that was published monthly in the United States both in Printing and online until January 2009. In November 2008 it was announced that the of the magazine would be discontinued, but there would still be an online version....
  • Potential source on history of the project, as it pertains to EZPrints, legal disputes.


See also

  • Photo gallery comparison
    Photo gallery comparison

    The following is a comparison of web-based photography photo sharing publishing software.ReferencesExternal links...