Virtual Photo Album

The Virtual Photo Album is a php based web site useful for the display of family/friend photos organized into collections. The site supports dynamic captioning of photos by visitors, user preferences (keyed by cookie), creation of custom photos for visitors, and the display of mini-movies (animated GIF files).

For more information about this project, please visit some of the following pages:

This software is free software licenced under the General Public Licence (GPL).

Latest Version (in development)

This new version of the Virtual Photo Album is destined to become version 2. The following new features are either working, in development, or planned:

no more frames
use of stylesheets
support for multiple languages
administration interface integrated with main album
configuration through web interface
no more restrictions on directory names
processing of images through web interface
users can create custom collections of photos, either private or public (in development)
can track people who appear in the photos
can add arbitrary set of keywords to each photo
ability to search based on keyword, person, or photo type
more control over users and cookies (can set user restrictions)
more statistics on photo album usage

The latest version of this branch that will become version 2.0 is available by using the following link. Please be aware that this verison requires PHP v4 or better and PostgresSQL v7 or better. MySQL may be supported again at some time in the future. Installation and photo creation instructions are included, but may be a little sparse, so please send me email if you are trying to get this new version working and are having trouble.

Download Latest Version 2 Release (.tar.gz file)

The most recent version of the photo album software is available through anonymous CVS access from sourceforge. To download the software using CVS, enter the following commands:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.vphotoalb.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/vphotoalb login
$ cvs -z8 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.vphotoalb.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/vphotoalb co vphotoalb

When asked for a password, just press ENTER.

An online demo of this new version is available in two versions:

Note: if asked for a username and password, use demo and demo.

Please feel free to explore every aspect of this demo.

Last Modified: 31-Oct-2005
by: Chris Studholme
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