ZenPhoto

“Great stuff that is ! I love ZenPhoto !”
mrnico

“Thanks for the creation of ZenPhoto, it’s just wonderful!”
mightyhitter

“Thanks much to the dev team. Zenpress is lovely to work with.”
syrupcore

“Thanks for zenphoto… really (u rock:)”
NaWer

“Thanks for doing such a great job!”
PeterW

“Thanks - I love ZenPhoto!”
gjr

“Thanks a bunch! You guys ROCK! Many thanks again and keep up the good work. You shall be blessed. ”
Deb George

“In addition to a great product, you folks always give top notch (and quick!) support…Thanks!”
carlyman

“(…)thank you even more for such an amazing gallery - the “thought-through”fullness of which by far exceeds my expectations even for commercial software.”
digitzer

“great program and great people here!”
Connie

“Also, since I haven’t said it before, zenphoto is great great great!!!”
tehmartin

“Thanks for all that great job guys (and girls, if there are any ;)) !”
Jssfr

“Zen Photo is great.”
bjammin001

“I love Zen!”
squ1rrel

“Great gallery script! Thanks ZP team.”
Iwan1188

“(…) thanks to the developers for this great piece of software! It’s so flexible you can use it for anything..”
Hamsterbacke

“thanx for this great gallery !”
sinook

“Zenphoto is great indeed.”
jimhawkins

“Great software. Thanks.”
hansu

“What a great program ZenPhoto is!”
jessnoonyes

“Thank you for zenhphoto. Great!”
Gisselbrecht

“i *love* zppp :)”
weed

“Great software!!”
RobCifre

“a great script - zenphoto, go ahead!”
vnvsven

“either way thank you for this great software, and even better support!”
motaheri

“After looking for a good and easy to use portfolio system, which could also be incorporated into a content management system, I stumbled upon ZENphoto. Great job! Thank you”
Design

“Great program! I will definitely start using ZenPhoto all the time.”
owenpiccirillo

“Being using Zenphoto for about a year and a half now. I’m extremely happy with it! Keep up the good work.”
Vaisak

“Thanks a lot Zenphoto for the great application.”
suxab

“Thanks for a great bit of programming”
smsu

“I love zenphoto. It’s the best looking and easyiest to use gallery.”
lordcoffee

“awesome stuff! I really like the recent additions! Keep up the great work!”
zitro61

Main Contributors

The following people regularly contribute to Zenphoto or its community. We differentiate them because of the time and energy they dedicate to the project, and because they are the people that you will most likely deal with when submitting a bug, asking questions in the support forums, or communicating with the Zenphoto team in general. The Zenphoto Project is dependent on these people for its continued development and growth. We can’t thank them enough.

sbillard (Stephen)
Retired. Graduate from Yale in 1966. 35 years in software development in all sorts of roles, including Director of Operating Systems development at the Unisys (nee Burroughs) facility in Mission Viejo, CA. and former primary implementer of the Burroughs Master Control Program for the Burroughs mainframe computers.
Author and publisher of a number of Shareware, Freeware, and commercial software packages including: Printographer for the Apple II and the GUI front end for QuadToneRIP, a B&W printing RIP
Website/Zenphoto: albums.sbillard.org (test site: testalbum.sbillard.org)

trisweb (Tristan)
BA/CompSci from UC Berkeley, Lead programmer, Silvertip Labs Inc. Founder and lead developer of Zenphoto for 3 years. Designed the core software, the “Testing” theme, the “Tricasa” theme with Javascript preloading, and more.
Website: www.trisweb.com

acrylian (Malte)
Freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Webdesigner.
Co-designer of the zenphoto site.

aitf311 (Mark)
Graduate from University of Missouri. Coldfusion Developer, Web-designer (www.career.umkc.edu). Mark helps with various things like producing the videos for the site, co-designing the ZP website, moderating on the forums, testing, and general advice.

Contributors

These people have contributed to Zenphoto significantly in the past and may still occasionally help out either in the forums, testing and submitting bugs, or by submitting patches and code. We thank these people immensely for all their support and contribution!

thinkdreams (Craig)
Network Administrator, Exactech, Inc. (http://www.exac.com), 8 years so far.
Website/Zenphoto: www.bushwoodworking.com

La0c00n (Bastien)
Student in Computer Science at the ENIB (www.enib.fr, Founder of Lookiad, a “junior company” working on web development and design (lookiad.fr/en, in English!).
Developer of ZenVideo? (la0c00n.info/zenvideo )
Website: la0c00n.info (and la0c00n.info/zenvideo), lookiad.fr

mannkind (Dustin)
Programmer, System Administrator, Web Developer, Usability Advisor, University of Washington.
Geospatial Patch for ZenPhoto (Trac#78).
Website/Zenphoto: www.thenullpointer.net

Vistronic
Broadcast Engineer
Website/Zenphoto: www.wtjr.org

GameDudeX (Darrell)
Systems Administrator/IT Support/Network Administrator/Web Developer, Radiologic Technologist Student
Developer of the Akismet Hack.
Website: www.gamedudex.com

Jb
Student, ENSIIE, a French postgraduate school in computer science.
Website/Zenphoto: jbaviat.free.fr/photos

Msturm10 (Martin) (Martin10 on Trac)
Software developer (Java, PHP, Ruby)
Website: www.wolkje.net

Chilifrei64 (Daniel)
Systems Administrator
Website: www.chilifrei.net

Skwid (Benjamin)
B.Sc. in Biology; Co-developer of the “thinkdreams” theme with Craig. Implemented slideshow, fotobuzz
Website/Zenphoto:lostocean.net

Former Contributors

Luckyspin (Todd)
Website: www.luckyspin.org

Rakaz (Niels)
Website: rakaz.nl

Raphaël HUCK

New in 1.1: Sub-albums, tags, searching, RSS feeds, EXIF/IPTC support, Video support, plugins, comment sp@m filtering, geospatial visualization, image archives, and more…much more. Yep, it’s all there!

Version 1.1.7: This release includes many bug fixes from 1.1.6, with improvements especially in the localization libraries and translations.

Want to influence what goes in the next version? Visit the news page and vote on your favorite new feature. Or if you don’t find you favorite feature there, create a feature request ticket on the trac.

Quick Upgrade Steps

1. Important note: In 1.1 and later, the /zen directory has been renamed
   to /zp-core. Keep that in mind if upgrading from versions prior to 1.1.
2. Delete your old copy of the zenphoto files (the zp-core and themes folders.) Be sure to keep your zp-config.php file or at lease make note of the MySQL information in it.
3. Extract the contents of the archive and upload all the files to your web site directory.
4. Make sure the .htaccess file is writeable.
5. Navigate to the visit your gallery url EXAMPLE: www.yoursite.org/zenphoto/, now setup.php should run automatically. (If it somehow does not please navigate directly to www.yoursite.org/zenphoto/zp-core/setup.php.)
6. Make sure everything checks out, and click go!

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

• Internationalization/localization
• Plugin system
• Slideshow
• Automatically generated thumbnails and sized-down images
• Upload via FTP or via the admin interface
• Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives
• Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters
• AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse
• Sub albums
• Video support for Flash Video (.flv), MPEG4 (.mp4), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp)
• Audio support for MP3 and MP4
• Password protection for gallery and albums
• EXIF and IPTC support
• Watermarks for images
• Powerful search with boolean expressions
• Tags: Categorize you images with tags
• Image and album rating
• Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!
• Highly customizable theme engine
• rss for gallery, albums and comments
• Multiple administrative users with varying rights
• Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite

That’s just the beginning. There’s lots more in store for zenphoto in the future, as you can see in the roadmap. Major plans include native WordPress integration (in many sexy ways), sorting by dragging around the little thumbnail thingies, EXIF/IPTC, RSS, Plugin API, Searching, Password protection (done) custom dynamic and user-defined groupings, localization, and even more! Keep checking back for news and new versions. Sound good? Take a look at the demo and see for yourself.

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 release and continued development of Zenphoto.