phpAlbum is a open source PHP script which allows you to create photo galleries on your web hosting space. Besides images, you can also place audio and video files in phpAlbum.

While this might not have the bells and whistles of a full-fledged Gallery script like Menalto’s Gallery, it’s quite useful for the intended purpose of managing photos for display in your web site.

Features:

• Automatic generation of thumbnails and resized
• Commenting of pictures with antispam security code
• IPTC Support, import of keywords and picture description, showing other IPTC-tags
• E-Card - you can now send e-cards to your friends and family
• Screenshots for files to be downloaded, movie, audio, exe or whatever
• Password protection for your private galleries
• Admin section for creating new directories, uploading photos (works even with PHP safe_mode=on),Uploading ZIP Files preserving directory structure
• Short and long description of galleries/directories and photos
• Highly customizable layout, separated layout (HTML) from functional code, this allows easy creation of new themes
• Caching of all generated thumbnails and resized photos
• Transparent logo and icon processing with any background color, including IE6
• Access logging, with exclude strings

Homepage | Official Demo

Current Latest Version: 0.4.1.14.fix03

Below are the step-by-step instructions to install, configure and administer phpAlbum on a typical shared hosting webspace:

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