New in 1.2: Move/Copy/Rename images and albums, translations and multi-lingual data, improved installation, streamlined admin interface, and more. Check out the news page for the latest info.
Installation & Upgrading
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About Zenphoto
Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. After years of bloated software that does everything and your dishes, zenphoto just shows your photos, simply. It’s got all the functionality and “features” you need, and nothing you don’t. Where the old guys put in a bunch of modules and junk, we put a lot of thought. We hope you agree with our philosopy: simpler is better. Don’t get us wrong though –zenphoto really does have everything you need for your online gallery, and you’ll even stare in awe at some of the innovative innovations we innovated upon. Here are some of the wonderful things about it:
Features
Gallery management
- Upload images, videos, mp3s or even zip-archives via the admin interface or even albums (folders) directly via FTP
- Move, copy and rename images and albums without loosing any data
- Automatically generated thumbnails, custom crops possible!, and sized
down images - Tags for categorizing your images and albums
- AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse
- Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!
- EXIF and IPTC support (images only)
- Multiple administrative users with varying rights
- Password protection for gallery and albums
- RSS for gallery, albums and comments (Media RSS support)
Supported media formats
- Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG*
- Video: Flash video (.flv)**, MPEG4 (.mp4)**, Quicktime (.mov)***, 3GP (.3gp)***
- Audio: MP3 (.mp3)**
*all formats the installed GDlibary supports
** via standard plugins / *** handled by your browser if available
Extendable with plugins
- CMS plugin Zenpage for managing an entire site with custom pages and news section (blog)
- Slideshow
- Image and album rating
- Google maps
- FLV player
- Flowplayer3
- and here are some more plugins!
Internationalization/localization
- Admin backend fully translatable (gettext server support required)
- Multi-lingual site support
Highly customizable theme engine and framework
- Predefined themes available (five included by standard)
- Flexible to fit your personal needs (XHTML, CSS, PHP knowledge required)
Also visit showcase to see what else you can do with Zenphoto!
Other notable features
- Search engine with boolean expressions
- Comments with powerful spam filters
- Watermarks for images
- Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite
- And many more!
That’s just the current list. There’s more in store for Zenphoto in the future, as you can see in the roadmap. Keep checking back for news and new versions. Sound good? Take a look at the demo and see for yourself.
What our users say
“I just wanna say thanks for bringing out such a great photo-gallery to the community! Zenphoto is perfect because of its simplicity, usability and of course its design.”
crushmaster
“I found ZenPhoto by accident and it is a godsend! I was using Menalto Gallery before and I am so frustrated with its bloated code and Web 1.0 architecture! I was able to redo the site in less than a week using ZenPhoto! You guys did a great job! Thanks!”
pixelfreak
“I been using zenphoto for a while, mainly because I love its versatility and how easy it is to adapt it to an existing design.”
zucye
Development
zenphoto was started in May of 2005 with a published specification on a weblog (trisweb.com), and each version saw dozens of comments leading to revision of the spec and more ideas for subsequent versions. It was a fruitful and enjoyable development process that is not even close to being finished. If you’d like to participate, please visit the message boards and introduce yourself, or just start submitting patches on the bug tracker.
In September 2007, members of the Zenphoto community began improving Zenphoto and making a ‘community build’ that included many new features and fixes, since the development had stalled for over six months. The community build was then merged into the Zenphoto codebase and development continued with a core team of developers and contributors. Finally, on November 2nd 2007 Zenphoto 1.1 was released, including many new features and improvements.
We now have an excellent team of developers working on the project and development is much more active than in the past. Thank you to all those responsible for the 1.1 and 1.2 releases and continued development of Zenphoto.
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