Am I crazy to try to use G3?

I desperately need to implement a gallery-type program on my website and it needs to be able to handle more than 50,000 images.

I did the research, and Gallery seemed to be the smartest choice.

But now people are telling me that I need to learn PHP from the ground up to even think about it.

That doesn't seem right.

But I do find that I'm getting frustrated trying to get it set up. My server admins installed it for me, but configuration is not all that simple.

Your advice and suggestions, please.

Well, the first time I even tried it out jsut to see how it worked, it kept breaking. I'm sure it was something I was doing wrong, but it was frustrating.

The first issue i ran into was trying to tell it how to grab the images from the server itself...but [/i]I think that's an issue with my directory structure? - why does this thing keeping changing my capialized "I" to html italic code??? GRRR... anyway, it's set up as a test site outside my main site directory, so I'm sure that's part of the problem.

The second massive issue, and my reading just now tells me I may be stopped cold... is that I must be able to control how it looks. And for the first time [/i]I read a thread that said none of the Gallery 2 themes will translate directly to 3, and no new themse for 3 have been written! This is depressing.

I would go backwards and start with Gallery2, but the reason I ended up picking gallery in the first place was because of the ability to read IPTC tags and make them searchable. (though the non-boolean-ness has been disappointing...)

I'm getting very frustrated. I'm not a programmer, but I've been on the net professionally for 15 years, and the things I want to be able to do SEEM, but I guess [i]I'm wrong, to be extremely fundamental and basic. The fact that they aren't is really amazing.

First of all, I appreciate that you are taking the time to try and respond, I truly do. Thank you! Getting this to work is more important than you can imagine.

Well, I jsut went back to noodle around and see if I could remember some of the problems I was having, and Bingo! Right out the gate: it's not uploading. At least, not correctly. Add pictures... navigate to the folder, select 3 images, it lists them, the uploading progress bar fills up very fast, it says uploading...then nothing. It says 0 of however many, even if it's only one, and nothing else happens. The other images are listed as pending. It doesn't upload, doesn't close, doens't do anything. My only option is to close.

Then I go back, I see that the gallery is created, but the photos aren't visible. And it didn't add all the photos, just the first one of the first batch and the single one I tried the second time.

There has been no modifications of the program, my server admins just did a straight install.

I just tried logging out, logging back. It thinks there are pictures, it has the names listed, but they aren't there.

So that's first and foremost.

The underlying software is correct, I went through much back and forth with my server admins to make sure that it was. Latest PHP and the rest.

And, for the record, i did successfully add some photos when I first started messing with it.

This has been an issue that has been reported before.
In some cases upgrading to an experimental version helps:
FAQ: How do I upgrade?

You can look though the forums for more info:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/88654
or
FAQ: Why am I seeing errors about suhosin.session.encrypt?

Those might help.

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URL?

Dave
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I see nothing

Perhaps some of your requirements are better suited to G2.

Dave
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