VStar PhotoAlbum 0.6 review

VStar PhotoAlbum is a Web-based photo album designed for amateur photographers with digital cameras and their own Web server or home

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Vladislav Staroselskiy

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VStar PhotoAlbum is a Web-based photo album designed for amateur photographers with digital cameras and their own Web server or home page.

VStar PhotoAlbum alleviates the need to spend much time creating Web pages to show off photographs, and it automatically makes periodic backups for photos.

Requirements:
Web server with PHP 5.0 (or above) language support
GD library support compiled into PHP

Installation:

- Create a folder for this program within your website (for example, "PhotoAlbum", which will be accessible from Internet through http://yoursite.com/PhotoAlbum link). Copy content of this package into it.
- Create 3 subfolders under it for your original photos, thiumbnails and temporary resized photos. Give to your web server read-only permissions to "photos" folder and read-write permissions to "thumbnails" and "temp".
- Edit settings.php file, according to required settings and own taste. Descriptions are inside.
- That's it, you are ready to go.

Limitations:
Program supports 4 image formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG. It is limited to whatever formats GD library can handle. All other formats are ignored.
If you have TIFF's coming out from your camera - probably, you are much professional, than I am, and either have to convert them into one of supported formats or need something else to use.

What's New in This Release:
This release adds an automatic folders structure check, deletes thumbnail subfolders that no longer have corresponding subfolders under the "photos" folder, returns the "PhotoAlbum" link in the image view to the appropriate section, and adds a variable which determines whether the maximum or minimum resolution size should be taken as a basis when resizing an image on the server side.