Introducing open source social web gallery phtagr

Hi,

I would like to introduce another great web gallery similar to Galler2/Gallery3 - it's called phtagr.

[img]http://demo.phtagr.org/media/preview/237[/img]

The open source gallery phtagr targets the social aspect of a free web gallery and got it initial inspiration by flickr. So it is built for multiple users which share their photos and videos. People can create accounts, upload their media (with user quota) and can assign photos to specific access groups where only targeted viewers can see the media. The flexible access management in phtagr reflects different viewer groups and their related media.

You can install phtagr on your own webserver and it's ideal for your homepage or your community like school, hobby group or summer vacation camp to share all the photo via the Internet.

Further, the gallery focuses on organizing the media by enriching meta data to them. Similar to your mp3 collection where every mp3 has its own information about artist, title, and album, your image and video can have keywords, categories, and locations, too. These can be written direct into the media via embedded IPTC and the information (and your work) never gets lost again. While each photo contains is own order, the media catalog does not need to be ordered in albums, directories or something else. You can just create your media selection of your current interest. So you can create your selection build on the meta data like selecting all media with tag 'landscape' but not having tag 'night' in the category 'vacation' from '2010'. A buildin slideshow makes is very comfortable to watch your selection.

Of cause you can subscribe to your selection RSS and MeidaRSS, commit comments, auto preview creation with auto rotation, convert your videos to flash videos, geo tag through google maps, or get informed about new media from friends via email. BTW it's great for single users as well

Core features:

• Open source, GPLv2, written in PHP, based on MVC framework CakePHP
• Requires a LAMP
• SEO friendly URLs
• Multi user support with group based access management, different read and write access levels
• Upload of single files, ZIP archives, or WebDAV
• Import of local files
• User upload quota
• Image preview generation including autorotation
• Flash video generation (requires ffmpeg)
• Read and write of EXIF and IPTC JPEG headers (keywords, categories, locations, GPS)
• Flexible search with combinations from tags/keywords, categories, locations, date (supports exclusion)
• View geo location with Google Maps
• User comments with captcha
• Download of original files
• RSS, MediaRSS on media, RSS on comments
• Email notifications including new media of your friends
• Buildin slideshow (via piclense)
• Support for mobile devices

Interested? visit the project page www.phtagr.org or have a look at the demo gallery at demo.phtagr.org

The gallery itself is written in PHP (using the great MVC framework cakePHP) and requires basically a LAMP.

Have fun, Xemle

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Developer of open source social web gallery www.phtagr.org