Best open source gallery scripts - pros and cons

sven silva

Joined: 2005-10-28
Posts: 5

Posted: Tue, 2005-11-08 18:06

Does anyone have a list of all the gallery scripts out there with pro's and con's. I have been using coppermine, but want to do some interface mods for keywords and searching. As I am planning to do quite a bit of work I was wondering if there were any new scripts/programs out there to work with that were better. Any opinions - I am sure Gallery will get many pro's, but any con's? Any help would be apprciated.

I have Gallery 2.0 running and it looks pretty good. You guys have done a great job.

Thanks,
Chris

valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509

Posted: Tue, 2005-11-08 18:29

moved to the g2 general discussion forum.

well, g2 is very flexible and extensible. you can create your own g2 module to extend its functionality and there are a lot of ways to hook into existing functions.
if you choose g2, you choose rather a framework than a simple script. it's based on modern programming concepts and it is well designed.

on the con's side:
g2 is quite new. so gallery 1.x and coppermine might have a few features that g2 doesn't yet have. but the extensible design of g2 will make sure that all missing features and much more will be added soon.

sven silva

Joined: 2005-10-28
Posts: 5

Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 06:11

Thanks for the reply - I am looking for the best platform to work from - best database structure and "service" oriented capability. Does using the smarty templates make the code depend on loading pages, or can functions still be called as components - easily integrated into pages without relying on a complex framework for the most simple requests? Let me know if the question(s) just confuse you....

I didn't see what major cms gallery2 has been integrated into - are there any? I guess I can search for that one, but a quick list would be great.

Thanks again.
Chris

mindless

Joined: 2004-01-04
Posts: 8601

Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 06:52

http://gallery.menalto.com/forum/g2_integration
and other sticky topics in that forum.

valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509

Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 09:44

g2 is designed for integration. it's an ongoing process and we're still improving things, e.g. trying to make it a little simpler.
Wordpress and joomla are probably the mot advanced integrations (usability, features), drupal / G2 is used on this site, mediawiki / G2 which is used on codex.gallery2.org shows very cool features (e.g. a mini browser in mediawiki to pick the images to show in the wiki, etc), etc.

sven silva

Joined: 2005-10-28
Posts: 5

Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 19:11

Thanks - I am looking at picking a cms to learn and deploy. It is hard balancing the choices, but I have to pick something and run with it. Any suggestions to theat end would be great - G2, or easy G2 integration would be important of cours.

I am looking at starting a large project to be deployed over and managed by many sites. I am looking at the cms as the framework for this. Typo3 is looking good while a phpnuke variant seems good too. I have looked, but have not found what Gallery2 is based on (or is it based on something?). Any ideas wold be greatly appreciated. I am very interested in AJAX type integration features and tool sets - I was suprised and happy to see some integration into G2 - kudos to those working on that (I know AJAX isn't more they hype).
Thanks

valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509

Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 21:31

- G2 isn't based on another project, it's built on its own framework.
- one word about phpnuke: you can't honestly consider it, do you?
- typo3, joomla, drupal, xaraya, ... are all worth a recommendation

ajax is nice and we'll use it more and more in g2. we're using it already in some features.

sven silva

Joined: 2005-10-28
Posts: 5

Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 22:20

- G2 isn't based on another project, it's built on its own framework.
> Thanks - I kind of go that impression reading some of the documentation.
- one word about phpnuke: you can't honestly consider it, do you?
> There have been some derivative, but it does seem well supported....
- typo3, joomla, drupal, xaraya, ... are all worth a recommendation
> Thanks for the info - are there "framework" integration issues with G2?

ajax is nice and we'll use it more and more in g2. we're using it already in some features.
> I like/hate the "ajax" name, but really the technology is not what is important, but how you use it, and with graphics and organization where I believe there should be alot of interactivity agax based solutions offer some great opportunities. My main push is to integrate automated keyword entry to help with organizing the sea of information I have with over 40K personal images and such. I want to buile a heirarchical sp? relational database driver keyword generation engine to allow easy, topical, graphical based keyword entry for searching.
- anyone working on that? I am still munging through the modules and forums to see what is being done.

Thanks agian.

valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509

Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 22:30

- framework integration issues:
we had issues during development since we use 3 3rd party libraries (smarty, adodb, bbcode) that are used by other frameworks too. but these issues are resolved.
g2 is integrated in joomla, wp, drupal, xaraya and other portals/CMS/forums and there are no such issues.
of course g2 overlaps with the functionality of other applications (user management, session management, templating, ...) and we interface where possible and offer hooks for the rest.

- keywords / tagging
we've got keywords, but not like flikr style tags. it's a much discussed topic but there's no such module yet. but there are discussion topics about it in the module / 2.x forums.

sven silva

Joined: 2005-10-28
Posts: 5

Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 18:33

Thanks again for you time/help/comments. I have been working on so many large projects with local clients that it has been a while since I have working over the internet with forums and such. I am very passionalte about information and organization, and I think I have found the platform to work with here to channel my time and effors towards a web solution - thanks again for the time.

sven silva Joined: 2005-10-28 Posts: 5	Posted: Tue, 2005-11-08 18:06
	Does anyone have a list of all the gallery scripts out there with pro's and con's. I have been using coppermine, but want to do some interface mods for keywords and searching. As I am planning to do quite a bit of work I was wondering if there were any new scripts/programs out there to work with that were better. Any opinions - I am sure Gallery will get many pro's, but any con's? Any help would be apprciated. I have Gallery 2.0 running and it looks pretty good. You guys have done a great job. Thanks, Chris
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valiant Joined: 2003-01-04 Posts: 32509	Posted: Tue, 2005-11-08 18:29
	moved to the g2 general discussion forum. well, g2 is very flexible and extensible. you can create your own g2 module to extend its functionality and there are a lot of ways to hook into existing functions. if you choose g2, you choose rather a framework than a simple script. it's based on modern programming concepts and it is well designed. on the con's side: g2 is quite new. so gallery 1.x and coppermine might have a few features that g2 doesn't yet have. but the extensible design of g2 will make sure that all missing features and much more will be added soon.

sven silva Joined: 2005-10-28 Posts: 5	Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 06:11
	Thanks for the reply - I am looking for the best platform to work from - best database structure and "service" oriented capability. Does using the smarty templates make the code depend on loading pages, or can functions still be called as components - easily integrated into pages without relying on a complex framework for the most simple requests? Let me know if the question(s) just confuse you.... I didn't see what major cms gallery2 has been integrated into - are there any? I guess I can search for that one, but a quick list would be great. Thanks again. Chris

mindless Joined: 2004-01-04 Posts: 8601	Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 06:52
	http://gallery.menalto.com/forum/g2_integration and other sticky topics in that forum.

valiant Joined: 2003-01-04 Posts: 32509	Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 09:44
	g2 is designed for integration. it's an ongoing process and we're still improving things, e.g. trying to make it a little simpler. Wordpress and joomla are probably the mot advanced integrations (usability, features), drupal / G2 is used on this site, mediawiki / G2 which is used on codex.gallery2.org shows very cool features (e.g. a mini browser in mediawiki to pick the images to show in the wiki, etc), etc.

sven silva Joined: 2005-10-28 Posts: 5	Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 19:11
	Thanks - I am looking at picking a cms to learn and deploy. It is hard balancing the choices, but I have to pick something and run with it. Any suggestions to theat end would be great - G2, or easy G2 integration would be important of cours. I am looking at starting a large project to be deployed over and managed by many sites. I am looking at the cms as the framework for this. Typo3 is looking good while a phpnuke variant seems good too. I have looked, but have not found what Gallery2 is based on (or is it based on something?). Any ideas wold be greatly appreciated. I am very interested in AJAX type integration features and tool sets - I was suprised and happy to see some integration into G2 - kudos to those working on that (I know AJAX isn't more they hype). Thanks

valiant Joined: 2003-01-04 Posts: 32509	Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 21:31
	- G2 isn't based on another project, it's built on its own framework. - one word about phpnuke: you can't honestly consider it, do you? - typo3, joomla, drupal, xaraya, ... are all worth a recommendation ajax is nice and we'll use it more and more in g2. we're using it already in some features.

sven silva Joined: 2005-10-28 Posts: 5	Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 22:20
	- G2 isn't based on another project, it's built on its own framework. > Thanks - I kind of go that impression reading some of the documentation. - one word about phpnuke: you can't honestly consider it, do you? > There have been some derivative, but it does seem well supported.... - typo3, joomla, drupal, xaraya, ... are all worth a recommendation > Thanks for the info - are there "framework" integration issues with G2? ajax is nice and we'll use it more and more in g2. we're using it already in some features. > I like/hate the "ajax" name, but really the technology is not what is important, but how you use it, and with graphics and organization where I believe there should be alot of interactivity agax based solutions offer some great opportunities. My main push is to integrate automated keyword entry to help with organizing the sea of information I have with over 40K personal images and such. I want to buile a heirarchical sp? relational database driver keyword generation engine to allow easy, topical, graphical based keyword entry for searching. - anyone working on that? I am still munging through the modules and forums to see what is being done. Thanks agian.

valiant Joined: 2003-01-04 Posts: 32509	Posted: Thu, 2005-11-17 22:30
	- framework integration issues: we had issues during development since we use 3 3rd party libraries (smarty, adodb, bbcode) that are used by other frameworks too. but these issues are resolved. g2 is integrated in joomla, wp, drupal, xaraya and other portals/CMS/forums and there are no such issues. of course g2 overlaps with the functionality of other applications (user management, session management, templating, ...) and we interface where possible and offer hooks for the rest. - keywords / tagging we've got keywords, but not like flikr style tags. it's a much discussed topic but there's no such module yet. but there are discussion topics about it in the module / 2.x forums.

sven silva Joined: 2005-10-28 Posts: 5	Posted: Fri, 2005-11-18 18:33
	Thanks again for you time/help/comments. I have been working on so many large projects with local clients that it has been a while since I have working over the internet with forums and such. I am very passionalte about information and organization, and I think I have found the platform to work with here to channel my time and effors towards a web solution - thanks again for the time.

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