Comments on: Update on zenphoto

By: Mick

Mick — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:21:30 +0000

The Snipe page is up again and here is a link to one of the pages on the demo which has keywords underneath the image. The IPTC info is originally embeded in the image and (I think) the info is extracted using PHP.

http://snipegallery.com/demo/image.php?page=1&search_type=and&image_id=1100&keyword=car&search_cat=

You can find out more about snipe at http://snipegallery.com

This is (what I’ve found to be) the simplest of any of the galleries using IPTC info.

Oh and I’d love to help you out with a plug in but I know VERY little about producing this kind of stuff I could help you with design but joen looks to be doing a great job there.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:11:58 +0000

Mick - Sounds like a great plugin you or someone else could make once I put a plugin interface in.

I will take a look at it for earlier versions however. I wish I’d heard about that before I began development; it may be that I could have used the images themselves to store metadata instead of a database.

No, I take that back. DB will be orders of magnitude more efficient once I add custom groups and searching. Anyway, thanks for bringing it up. I’ll definately research it.

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:08:35 +0000

Can’t remember if I’ve brought this up on your site before but have you considered using IPTC metadata for image info?
I have been following the discussions on noscope regarding the gallery/cms debate but haven’t gotten round to actually writing to any of you and your gallery system seems to be the best of the lot so here goes.
Almost every gallery system from folderblog to coppermine has the ability to display EXIF info from an image… who cares?! IPTC is the info people might actually be interested in. Location, title, keywords, city, dates, description, people, etc. Rather than what ISO was used for the image. Or both if you want.
The important thing is, software like photoshop, bridge, or even better iView media pro allows you to batch enter IPTC information to thousands of images and embed that information so when you use PHP or something to parse the info you can display it on a web page just like EXIF info can be. This way you don’t have to use a web interface to enter things like titles and descriptions. It’s all done in software that can batch process it all before hand and save a hell of a lot of time.
At the moment there are a few systems that can display IPTC info extracted from an image. Coppermine and Snipe Gallery to name a couple but they are systems that aren’t as nice and simple as Zen Photo. At the moment Snipe’s page is down but that is a fairly simple system that is almost there, however it is far from where yours is at. It would be great to see IPTC info from an image as an option in your gallery system sooner or later.

There I finally did it. Thanks and nice work.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:01:11 +0000

Bryan - Yep, it’s completely open source once I decide to make it that way, and yes, I will be looking for developers to help once I get the first release out the window. I’m going to be very strict about coding and design standards though. I’ll give you more info once the time comes.

No, there will not be a prerelease version. Unfortunately, I’m afraid of any release spreading like wildfire, along with inherent bugs, so the first release is going to be very robust. I hope you don’t mind…

By: Jina Bolton

Jina Bolton — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:10:47 +0000

gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!!! I’ve been silently watching this for a while, but I can’t hold my silence any longer - I want ZenPhoto!!!

By: Bryan Ward

Bryan Ward — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:59:55 +0000

As others have said, Zenphoto is exactly what I’m looking for too, is it possible that there is going to be a pre-release version? Also, is this going to be open source? Possible to contribute towards it’s development?

By: Jamie Rees

Jamie Rees — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:00:24 +0000

Zenphoto is exactly what I’m looking for - can’t wait for the release

By: junkie

junkie — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:23:33 +0000

release when ? i like zp

By: Grant Palin

Grant Palin — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:50:43 +0000

Hi, I’ve been using Simple PHP Gallery for some time, and it’s okay…I can upload photos into directories via FTP, but there’s no configureation features, and I have to manually edit a text file with photo labels and album names. Tedious!

I’ve been searching for a better solution, and was thinking of writing my own in PHP, but then I found your site and this project. Wow! I think I’ll wait for the release of the software, and use that! It seems to have all the features I want, and I like what I see in the live demos.

I will definitely be keeping an eye on this one, and will try it on my site once it becomes available. Keep it up!

By: Tristan

Tristan — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:27:47 +0000

Thanks Bernard. I’ll take care of that.