Apostolos Dountsis

For some time, I have been looking for a PHP database-driven image gallery. I tested both Coppermine and Gallery2 but I concluded that both of them are extremely complicated and very confusing in their use.

I ended up sticking with ZenPhoto, an excellent and lightweight piece of software that does the job with extreme elegance and simplicity. It is worth mentioning that ZenPhoto was granted an honorable mention in the Web2.0 Awards.
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EPIG2 has been quite successful with more than 500 downloads. So, it is time to announce the development of two add-ons for the Easy Peasy Image Gallery (EPIG).

• Config Editor: Editing XML files may not be straight forward for everyone. This add-on facilitates the customisation of the config.xml by making use of a web form that stores the user’s options in the config.xml. No more manual editing of the config file. You can grab this add-on from the download section.
• Album Gallery: In the case that you want to publish more than one set of photos/images. This add-on groups the images in albums. It displays one of the album images as a thumbnail with the album’s title and description. - Currently this is add-on is under development.

The power of PHP rests on its simplicity and speed. One of the common uses of dynamic pages is the processing of HTML forms. PHP does not offer any functions for the development of web forms so managing one in PHP tends to be nothing more than a sequence of print statements. The PEAR library contains the HTML_QUICKFORM package that provides all the necessary classes and methods to display and manage HTML forms.

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The new version EPIG is now available to download. This version has been released as EPIG 2 and not as EPIG 1.2. The reason for the jump in the version numbering is that I have re-written more than 90% of the original code and the code structure now follows the MVC methodology.

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