PHOTOn is a photo gallery application written in PHP. I needed a gallery for a couple of web sites I manage on minimal hosts. That meant older versions of PHP (4) and no database access. Many of the gallery apps I found needed MySQL or had many more features than I would ever use. That made them harder to integrate into the web sites.
I found what I thought would work in a application called Gallery Thingie
(always available at
http://www.solitude.dk/gallerythingie/). It was simple and and stored the
photo info in an XML file. It didn't dictate appearance but rather manifested
itself as PHP functions such as displayImage. Unfortunately it
stores all the photos in a single directory and uses the XML file to create
virtual albums. To retain the structure of my web sites I really needed it
to support subdirectories. So I started to modify it. In the end I rewrote
virtually the entire application so I decided it deserved a new name. About
the only pieces remaining from Gallery Thingie are the general format of the
XML file and the public function names.
PHOTOn isn't ready for public release so you can't download the code yet. If you have problems with the site or have questions, feel free to drop me an email: rick@beebe.org