Gallery2 Introduction

Written by WebHosting Moderator

Friday, 07 March 2008

Gallery2 gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.

Gallery2's main strength is its extensibility; the base package contains all the features required for a basic gallery (and more advanced ones too), but if you want more features, it is easily extended through extra modules available through the Gallery2 website.

If you want to customise the theme, it is easy to do so; alternatively, a large amount of themes exist which you can upload to your website.

Features

Easy to create Photo Albums
Easy ways to add Photos, e.g. with Drag and Drop Tools
Photo and Album Administration and Editing
Auto-Generation of Thumbnails and Resized Images
Handles Many Image Formats
Easy Installation and Upgrades
100% Multi-User Ready
User and Group Management
Themeable - Change the Look and Feel by Switching Themes. Code and Presentation are Separated.
Comprehensive Permission Management (Album and Item Level)
Extensible - Add / remove Features by Installing 'modules' and Change the Look by Switching 'themes'
Over 25 Integrations into CMS, Portal, Forum, Blog Software and other Systems
Internationalized - Over 20 Mostly Complete Translations (and Many More Less Complete Translations)
Community Building Features (User-Albums, Comments, User Self-Registration, ...)
Scalable - Manage Over a Million Items and Thousands of Users
Image Firewall (Downloads are Protected Through Application-Level Permissions)
Secure - Gallery has been audited by several core developers and by paid professionals for application security
Portable - Gallery runs on any webserver with PHP 4 or PHP 5 and with a wide variety of database servers
Multimedia Ready - Watch Streaming Videos, Listen to Music, ...
Unlimited Number of Sub-Album Levels