I found an updated version of PHPix there. It includes a thumbnail for each directory on the main page. It's the same thumbnail for all of the directories but with a patch I found on that site I now have the ability to use any pictures I want for thumbnails.
The version you're all using from here is cool, but the new one is fabulous!
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Hi. I started the PHPix2 project page after a long period of not being able to get in touch with the author of PHPix. Later, the PHPix guy resurfaced briefly, but I haven't heard from him since.
Both projects are stagnant at this point, although IMHO PHPix2 is a little nicer to use. As SF saw fit to obliterate my login (they didn't say why), I can't update the PHPix2 project page at all anymore, nor can I get in to the PHPix stuff.
If you are looking for a good photo album that is actively maintained, I would suggest checking the Gallery project. I've written new album software myself (called photobob), but it is not aimed at ease-of-use.
Hope this helps!
- Neale Pickett
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Neale Pickett wrote:
"If you are looking for a good photo album that is actively maintained, I would suggest checking the Gallery project."
Gallery is great and I've used it on a couple of websites. But it's not a phpix replacement.
PHPix in it's utter simplicity has unique advantages.
1.
One can install multiple instances of phpix in seconds. That way visitors of gallery1 don't see that I also have gallery2 and 3 and 4 and ....
2.Adding pictures is as easy as moving them to the right directory.
There is a misconception that media galleries need to accomodate someone's ever growing collection. Very much like a museum. While that's true for a lot of people, it's not true for everyone.
Some of us simply need to share the pictures of the day with certain people. When the job is over the gallery gets deleted. No need for frills or elaborate interface.
PHPix is brilliant.
Neale, with all due respect, I think you took PHPix in the wrong direction. You made it more difficult to install (command line) without really adding any new features.
Ooops now I see your follow up post.
Oh well, let's say we all agree that there is a need to keep development alive for a simple, non-database, file based, image browser.
Marino
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I did the command-line install to get around what I saw as a security hole in phpix: you need world-writeable directories with any web server that doesn't suid to you when in runs PHP. And that's most of them.
The command-line installer creates a suid shell script to resize images, so PHPix can call out to that shell script, no more a+w directories, and everyone's happy. Well, except the people who can't do the command-line install ;)
I wasn't a big fan of requiring a cmdline install either, but I couldn't think of another way to get the directory permissions back to something reasonable.
Eventually I gave up on PHPix and wrote photobob, which runs more like a compiler, generating static pages. I'm convinced now that static pages are the way to go, and updating the pages should be accomplished either through an suid CGI program, or with a command-line utility, depending on which one the user wants to run.
But, as seems to be the fate of most photo albums, I got photobob to the point where it worked well enough for me, and then forgot about it. Which is the same thing I did with PHPix2, and I assume is the same thing Robert did with PHPix. Web-based photo albums aren't really a hard thing to write, and once you have one that's working, more interesting problems tend to pop up.
This is why I think things like Gallery will keep people's interest--they turn a dull problem into an interesting one by adding a bunch of extra requirements and features. OTOH, maybe someone will come along who gets a kick out of doing maintenance on code, and PHPix will be revitalized. Any takers? :)
- Neale
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BTW, I should mention that Robert Holak (the PHPix guy) has been nothing but helpful, and I'd be pleased as punch if he were to merge back any of the PHPix2 code. I'd like to shut the PHPix2 project down altogether if Robert would be willing to host the fork on the PHPix project page, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't have any access to the project since SF nuked my account.
I think PHPix has a lot of potential for a lightweight "install and go" sort of photo album, and if development resumes on it I may start recommending it again :)
- Neale
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It appears that this is an old project page. Apparently, the current one is:
http://phpix2.sourceforge.net
I found an updated version of PHPix there. It includes a thumbnail for each directory on the main page. It's the same thumbnail for all of the directories but with a patch I found on that site I now have the ability to use any pictures I want for thumbnails.
The version you're all using from here is cool, but the new one is fabulous!
My mistake! That project is a fork of this one. I apologize, Panthar!
Hi. I started the PHPix2 project page after a long period of not being able to get in touch with the author of PHPix. Later, the PHPix guy resurfaced briefly, but I haven't heard from him since.
Both projects are stagnant at this point, although IMHO PHPix2 is a little nicer to use. As SF saw fit to obliterate my login (they didn't say why), I can't update the PHPix2 project page at all anymore, nor can I get in to the PHPix stuff.
If you are looking for a good photo album that is actively maintained, I would suggest checking the Gallery project. I've written new album software myself (called photobob), but it is not aimed at ease-of-use.
Hope this helps!
- Neale Pickett
Neale Pickett wrote:
"If you are looking for a good photo album that is actively maintained, I would suggest checking the Gallery project."
Gallery is great and I've used it on a couple of websites. But it's not a phpix replacement.
PHPix in it's utter simplicity has unique advantages.
1.
One can install multiple instances of phpix in seconds. That way visitors of gallery1 don't see that I also have gallery2 and 3 and 4 and ....
2.Adding pictures is as easy as moving them to the right directory.
There is a misconception that media galleries need to accomodate someone's ever growing collection. Very much like a museum. While that's true for a lot of people, it's not true for everyone.
Some of us simply need to share the pictures of the day with certain people. When the job is over the gallery gets deleted. No need for frills or elaborate interface.
PHPix is brilliant.
Neale, with all due respect, I think you took PHPix in the wrong direction. You made it more difficult to install (command line) without really adding any new features.
Ooops now I see your follow up post.
Oh well, let's say we all agree that there is a need to keep development alive for a simple, non-database, file based, image browser.
Marino
Hey, activity, cool!
I did the command-line install to get around what I saw as a security hole in phpix: you need world-writeable directories with any web server that doesn't suid to you when in runs PHP. And that's most of them.
The command-line installer creates a suid shell script to resize images, so PHPix can call out to that shell script, no more a+w directories, and everyone's happy. Well, except the people who can't do the command-line install ;)
I wasn't a big fan of requiring a cmdline install either, but I couldn't think of another way to get the directory permissions back to something reasonable.
Eventually I gave up on PHPix and wrote photobob, which runs more like a compiler, generating static pages. I'm convinced now that static pages are the way to go, and updating the pages should be accomplished either through an suid CGI program, or with a command-line utility, depending on which one the user wants to run.
But, as seems to be the fate of most photo albums, I got photobob to the point where it worked well enough for me, and then forgot about it. Which is the same thing I did with PHPix2, and I assume is the same thing Robert did with PHPix. Web-based photo albums aren't really a hard thing to write, and once you have one that's working, more interesting problems tend to pop up.
This is why I think things like Gallery will keep people's interest--they turn a dull problem into an interesting one by adding a bunch of extra requirements and features. OTOH, maybe someone will come along who gets a kick out of doing maintenance on code, and PHPix will be revitalized. Any takers? :)
- Neale
BTW, I should mention that Robert Holak (the PHPix guy) has been nothing but helpful, and I'd be pleased as punch if he were to merge back any of the PHPix2 code. I'd like to shut the PHPix2 project down altogether if Robert would be willing to host the fork on the PHPix project page, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't have any access to the project since SF nuked my account.
I think PHPix has a lot of potential for a lightweight "install and go" sort of photo album, and if development resumes on it I may start recommending it again :)
- Neale