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A simple to use/install gallery script

3rd of March 2008

Lately, A customer wanted to have a simple gallery script for his website to show pictures about his last events. So far no problem I thought, because there are many gallery scripts out there. But they have to fit four conditions:

  1. There should be no need of a MySQL database, because it should be simply uploaded onto the server and should work out of the box.
  2. It should be free of charge.
  3. To create a new gallery, it must be possible to upload all images via a ftp application. A form with manually selection of each image a time is not practicable due to the number of images.
  4. There should be threeimage sizes per image available. One is a thumbnail to show in galleries, one is a medium sized image to use at image to view. It turned out that the third image really is a tough one, there must be an original sized version of this image for downloading.

So, I looked around for gallery scripts. (more…)