Quick & Easy Photo gallery?

[DeadMeatGF]

Hi Folks,

I'm looking into whether it's worth changing the photo gallery that I display my rugby photos in, after some requests from the viewers.

Features I need are:

Thumbnails either configurable size or approx 200px wide for a 7x5 ratio image.
Preview image about 480px wide.
Full size image about 1024px wide.
Ability to slideshow the fullsize image or the preview image.

Runs on mySQL 5 and php 4.

Any reccommendations?

[3DTexturizer]

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

[DeadMeatGF]

Looks nice, Tex.
Scaleable and slim.
The 50 image limit might be a bind - I generally get between 100 & 150 images per match, although this might encourage me to be more selective :)

[WW_Nihil]

http://gallery.menalto.com/

[3DTexturizer]

If you want to see how flexible it is, hit my website link in my sig and look at how I've customized it.

[(C)orey]

Photoshop can make this very easily. File>automate>web photo gallery. All you have to is place your pictures in a map and adjust some settings. Then PS does the rest. I like this over using a site to make it because you can customize it when it's done.

My portfolio site is made like this

[DeadMeatGF]

@ Tex: If you could get it to run a slideshow automatically that would be perfect.
@ (C)orey: I've tried the PS ones, they just don't do what I need, except the Flash ones and unless you have thumbs of about 2 pixels square they look awful - they're not geared for multiple galleries and generate a huge amount of files for no apparent reason, too ...
@Nihil: I'm having a look at that.

[3DTexturizer]

Then look again at the Airtight site for Autoviewer.

[DeadMeatGF]

Then look again at the Airtight site for Autoviewer.
Ah - nice - I managed to ignore the keyboard controls completely - a simple caption below the images will alert my onlookers. I shall play with the viewer this very night ... :D

[edit]
Played with it a bit quicker than that ... it's perfect ... except ... I could really do with it handling more than 30 images ... quite a lot more.

[3DTexturizer]

Oh well, you get what you pay for.

[DeadMeatGF]

This is true :)
I just have to decide whether to pay for a pro version that will handle the bigger galleries, or "pay" by investing in the time it takes to write the structure to have each match as four or five subgalleries.

[3DTexturizer]

You could always go with Smugmug.com

We use them for the business, and they rock.

[outpt.co.uk]

If you're interested in looking at a Gallery implementation (Nihil's link), I've got gallery 2 running and integrated into my site: http://outpt.co.uk/gallery/ - It's very flexible.

To be honest, i'm just going to port the whole lot over to flickr or something and link to it when I get around to putting the finishing touches to my site re-design.