Image Display System 0.82 review

IDS (Image Display System) is a CGI written in Perl that interactively generates a photo album website

License: BSD License File size: 0K Developer: John Moose

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IDS (Image Display System) is a CGI written in Perl that interactively generates a photo album website. All you need to provide are the images and (optionally) text descriptions. As you add new pictures, they will appear automatically. Each image will be displayed with information such as image type, file size, image size, and date uploaded. If EXIF information is embedded in the image (shutter speed, aperture, focal length, etc.), it will be displayed.

It will create thumbnail images for JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF images. It can be configured to display icons for any other type of file.

IDS uses HTML template sets called "themes." This allows you and, optionally, your visitors, to change the look of your site on the fly. You can create your own themes.

Visitors to your site can easily browse photos, leave comments, and order prints of your photos through Shutterfly if you choose to allow them to do so. Visitors can view IDS' controls in the language of their choice. Chinese, Deutsch, English, Espa?ol, Fran?ais, Italiano, Japanese, Nederlands, Slovak, and Swedish language files are included, and it is easy to add others.

Here are some key features of "Image Display System":
Displays albums (directories) of images. IDS will create thumbnail images for JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF images. It can be configured to display icons for any other type of file.
Web-based administrative interface allows you to:
edit IDS' preferences
upload, delete, rename, rotate, or caption images
create, rename, and caption albums
create, modify, or delete news items
view the size of and delete the image-cache
view IDS' logs
and more...
IDS uses HTML template sets called "themes." This allows you and, optionally, your visitors, to change the look of your site on the fly. You can create your own themes. The templates that ship with IDS are (mostly) compliant with the XHTML 1.0 standard.
Visitors can view IDS' controls in the language of their choice. Chinese, Deutsch, English, Espa?ol, Fran?ais, Italiano, Japanese, Nederlands, Slovak, Swedish and Romanian language files are included, and it is easy to add others.
Guests can search for images by filename and description.
IDS displays custom icons for albums.
You can nest albums inside of other albums if you wish.
The site title, headers, and footers can be modified in the site's preferences.
IDS can display descriptions of images or galleries if you provide them. These descriptions can include HTML.
Guests can view images at the resolution of their choice. For example, guests on slow connections might wish to view smaller images. IDS will cache resized images.
Guests can sort the contents of albums by name, date, size, or "intelligent sort." Intelligent sort will arrange items by the numbers buried in the files' names. For example, "image100.jpg" would come before "abc999.jpg".
Guests can leave comments for each image (this feature can be disabled or password protected). If you choose to do so, guests can be banned for using words you deem inappropriate.
Guests can easily order prints of your photos through Shutterfly if you choose to allow them to do so.
IDS will display the EXIF information embedded in some images files (often by digital cameras.)
You can use spaces, ampersands, apostrophes, and other "odd" characters in both album and image names.
You can rearrange the order in which items are displayed by prepending "#x_" (where "x" is a number) to an album or image name. The "#x_" won't be displayed.
You can adjust the size of thumbnail images generated by IDS.
You can adjust the quality (level of JPEG compression) of resized images generated by IDS.
You can adjust the number of images displayed per row on album pages.
You can adjust the number of rows per page on album pages.


Requirements:
a webserver capable of executing Perl CGI's (I recommend Apache)
Perl 5.00503, 5.6, or 5.6.1
ImageMagick 5.3.1 or later (w/ PerlMagick aka Image::Magick)
the Image::Info Perl module


What's New in This Release:
Romanian localization
Fixed a Search bug when traversing symbolic links (Bruno Tavares )
Fixed Information Disclosure Vulnerability (isox )
Fixed Special Characters Encoding (Paul Delano )
Added Romanian Translation (Kovacs Andrei )