Photo Album

[Marc Nozell]

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:46, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> Hi all - I'm looking to replace my current web based photo album
> software as the current one has some security issues.  Anybody have
> suggestions for or against any particular software?
> 
> My feature requirements are that it be able to handle multiple albums,
> have "sub" albums/folders, and most importantly, needs to allow the
> viewer to choose the resolution they wish to view at.  It would be nice
> if it also supported me being able to add comments to the pictures as
> well.
> 
> I've found "yappa-ng" and "r.i.g." that seem to do what I want, but I'm
> not familiar with either.  Anybody have feedback or suggestions?

I've been using 'zoph' for a few weeks and am pretty happy with it.  
That said, it is not accessible to anyone but me, but could be. 

Things I like about it:

* web-based *and* command line interface

* stores lots of meta data in MySQL -- photographer, people in the
  picture, location, date, all the exif stuff, mulitple user-defined
  categories, mulitple, user-defined albums...
   
* different way to look at photos -- pictures of Spencer taken by Marc
  and date after 11-March-1999 and category is 'Destination Imagination'

* Export to static photo albums  - 'bins', 'albums' and zoph 
  formatted HTML.  Handy to burn for CD archives or give to non-internet
  relatives.

* Light boxes, multiple users with difference privileges, user ratings
  of photos, etc...

The project hasn't had a release in a while, but the developer is still
around.   I started with the version in debian/testing (apt-get install
zoph), but have since pulled the latest files from their CVS tree.

-marc
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