Gallery (software)

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Gallery
Gallery logo.png
Developer(s) Gallery development team
Initial release April 6, 2001 (2001-04-06)[1]
Stable release 3.1.5 / November 14, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11-14)
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Content management software
Photo management software
License(s) GNU General Public License v2[2]
Website GalleryProject.org
GalleryRevival.com

Gallery is a free open-source application allowing users to manage and publish digital photographs and other media through a PHP-enabled web server. Development of the application has recently focused on four points of philosophy: keep it small, make it intuitive, make it fast, and make it your own.[3]


Product history

In May of 2000, Bharat Mediratta — the brainchild of Gallery — returned home with his wife from a trip to India, anxious to share images of the trip with family. At first he wrote a Perl script to display them, but as the need for more features quickly emerged, he started a homegrown project to develop the idea further in PHP.[4] On June 18, 2000, Mediratta and fellow programmer and photography enthusiast Chris Smith created the Gallery project on SourceForge.[4][5]

After several betas, version 1.0 was released on April 6, 2001.[1] By October 2003, the developers were "aware of over 200,000 unique URLs that have probably had Gallery installed at one point or another."[4] That same month Gallery won Project of the Month on SourceForge, further cementing the program's popularity.[6] As the popularity of Gallery increased and the project became more complex, the team began outgrowing the functionality of SourceForge, eventually setting up a new forum on their own website.[7]

Gallery 2.0 was released in September 2005 as a much more modular application with an expanded privilege system, greater image support, and new webcam support.[8][9][10] In January 2007, PC Magazine listed Gallery 2 in its list of The Best Free Software of 2007.[11]

Gallery 3.0 was released on October 5, 2010, featuring a more compact design and improved performance, though without some of the features of version two.[12][13][3]

On June 20, 2014, Bharat Mediratta announced that "[t]he Gallery team has decided to take a step back from actively maintaining this project."[14] At that time, Mediaratta also stated he would consider transferring the project to someone else under the right circumstances.[14]

In November 2019, Bharat Mediratta posted on the Gallery website the following: "Brad Dutton has been leading a community that is continuing Gallery development. He and his team have made progress over the past year and have a stable version of Gallery 3 that is PHP 7+ compatible, contains a replacement for the old Flash-based image uploader, an updated jQuery Library and other features. They've been testing it for a year now with no problems and have released it as Gallery 3.1.0."[15] He adds that it can be downloaded at galleryrevival.com, with support offered on their forums.

Features

The primary features of Gallery 3 include[16]:

  • add, view, edit, and move photos, albums, and slideshows
  • login and password support
  • comments and tags
  • watermarking
  • multi-language support
  • subscriptions
  • Recaptcha or other brute force protection
  • user and group management
  • theme support

Hardware/software requirements

The installation requirement for Gallery 3 include:

  • Apache 2.2 or better
  • PHP 5.6 or better (see below)
  • MySQL 5 or better

Additional PHP requirements (.ini, extensions, etc.) can be found here.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Screenshots of Gallery can be found on the website.

An online demo of Gallery is located at OpenSource CMS.

Entities using Gallery

There seems to be no list of users on the website, but the site does have a list of testimonials.

Further reading


External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mediratta, Bharat (6 April 2001). "Official Gallery 1.0 release!". Bharat Mediratta. http://gallery.menalto.com/node/20. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  2. ↑ "gallery3 / LICENSE". GitHub. https://github.com/gallery/gallery3/blob/master/LICENSE. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mediratta, Bharat (5 October 2010). "Gallery 3.0 is ready!". Bharat Mediratta. http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3.0_released. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Streicher, Martin (15 October 2003). "Gallery". Linux Magazine. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1480/. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  5. ↑ "Gallery". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery/. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  6. ↑ "Project of the Month, October 2003". SourceForge. October 2003. http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-10.php. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  7. ↑ Maguire, James (17 October 2007). "The SourceForge Story: Page 2". Datamation. http://www.datamation.com/open-source/The-SourceForge-Story-3705731-2.htm. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  8. ↑ Oliva, Abel (14 September 2005). "Gallery 2.0: Tus imágenes en tu web". Genbeta. http://www.genbeta.com/web/gallery-20-tus-imagenes-en-tu-web. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  9. ↑ Ihlenfeld, Jens (14 September 2005). "Gallery 2.0 für webbasiertes Foto-Management". Golem.de. http://www.golem.de/0509/40428.html. Retrieved 29 March 2005. 
  10. ↑ Mediratta, Bharat (13 September 2005). "Gallery 2.0 Released!". Gallery. http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_2_0_released. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  11. ↑ Hoffman, Tony (31 January 2007). "The Best Free Software (2007)". PC Magazine. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2090812,00.asp. 
  12. ↑ Seetzen, Robert (8 October 2010). "Gallery online photo album - cropped". The H. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Gallery-online-photo-album-cropped-1104646.html. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  13. ↑ Mediratta, Bharat (5 October 2010). "Re: Let's release 3.0 final on Monday or Tuesday". Nabble. http://old.nabble.com/Let's-release-3.0-final-on-Monday-or-Tuesday-to29874122.html. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Mediratta, Bharat (20 June 2014). "Gallery is going into hibernation". Gallery. http://galleryproject.org/time-to-hibernate. Retrieved 02 September 2014. 
  15. ↑ Mediratta, B. (13 November 2019). "Gallery development is continuing!". Gallery. http://galleryproject.org/gallery-development-continues. Retrieved 05 May 2020. 
  16. ↑ "Gallery 3: Features". Bharat Mediratta. http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Features. Retrieved 29 March 2012. 
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