Beamtic PHP Gallery takes advantage of PHP's build-in capabilities and file-handling to create a modern image gallery, allowing us to create categories, upload images, and organize them into categories.
There is a live demo available at the website.
December 2023:
- Corrected an ancient bug that prevented creation of directories with numbers in them.
- Added a Docker based developer environment that runs on localhost to simplify future updates.
I am still very busy with work, but will try and prioritize updating older personal projects.
The gallery requires GD library to, among other things, create thumbnails from uploaded images. Some hosts will already have this installed by default. If your host does not have it installed, it is recommend you either shift to cloud hosting, or find a shared host that does have it installed.
Some hosts already handle permissions by default, others will not. In the latter case, you will have to change permissions on your own (I.e.: chown & chmod). If this is not possible, change to another hosting provider!
You might also need to change the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in php.ini, but again, sometimes your hosting will already allow you to upload larger files. Obviously, it is bad to upload big image files because they generally take too long time to load, and they will slow down the gallery for your visitors. It is recommended you resize images before uploading.
Installing the photo gallery is simple. You can either download a .7z file from the project website (phpphotogallery.com), or you can clone this git repository.
After extracting the zip and moving the files to your server, you just need to add the usual permissions with chmod. I.e: chmod 777 -R /var/www/mysite/gallery/
It is recommended that you setup groups instead of just allowing everyone (777), so instead you may want to do something like:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/mysite/gallery/
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/mysite/gallery/
The photo gallery relies on gdlib. If your server does not already have it installed, you may be able to install it with the following command:
sudo apt-get install php7.0-gd
Note. The above is just an example, the exact steps required on your own setup might be different. Some shared hosts will not need any modifications to permissions. In addition, you might also need to adjust the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size settings in php.ini. Have fun!
https://phpphotogallery.com/ – PHP Photo Gallery Homepage
