Coppermine Photo Gallery (CPG) is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built-in support for other multi-media/data files. The gallery can be private, accessible to registered users only, and/or open to all visitors to your site. Users, if permitted, can upload pictures with their web browser (thumbnail and intermediate sized images are created on the fly during the upload stage), rate pictures, add comments and even send e-cards. The site administrator determines which of the features listed above are accessible by registered and non-registered users. The site administrator can also manage galleries and batch process large numbers of pictures that have been uploaded onto the server by users.
Image files are stored in albums and albums can be grouped into categories, which in turn, can be further grouped under parent categories. The script supports multiple users and provides the administrator of the website with tools to manage which user groups can or cannot have personal albums, send ecards, or add comments. Users may also upload to public albums if the website administrator permits it. Permissions to create albums, upload and delete files are all determined by the website administrator.
Coppermine has an optional user selectable theme system with a number of themes pre-installed. It also supports the use of multiple languages and contains it's own language library. These language files provide users of your gallery to access the gallery in their preferred languages. Coppermine uses PHP, a MySQL database, and either the GD library (version 1.x or 2.x) or ImageMagick as image libraries to generate and keep records and file information of all thumbnails, intermediate, and full-sized images. Coppermine generates the html code necessary to display its various categories, sub-categories, albums, intermediate, and full-sized image displays dynamically. This drastically cuts down on the number of files and space your gallery would require using standard HTML. The install script (install.php) makes it quick and easy to get started.
Copermine Features.-
CPG is so fully featured it's not enough to fully list them here:
- picture information stored in database;
- users can upload pictures with web interface or ftp (and admin can batch-add to database);
- full multimedia support
- creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics;
- search feature;
- last added;
- random picture;
- user management (private galleries, groups);
- integration of user management with various bbs (like phpBB, YaBB SE, SMF, Invisionboard, vbulletin);
- caption, title, description and user defined fields for each picture (searchable);
- multi-lingual: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (both Big-5 and GB), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (both "Du" and "Sie"), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian (both with and without diacritics), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Uighur, Vietnamese; if your language is not on the list, you can easily create a translation for your own language;
- user comments;
- e-card feature;
- slideshow viewer;
- all features customizable with web interface (admin section);
- template system;
- user membership in multiple groups;
- upload approval notice for admin;
- EXIF/IPTC support;
- language selection option in template;
- image rotation;
- multi-pic upload;
- separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template;
- option to choose max height or width for thumbnails will help in creating nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols;
- option to display a clickable filmstrip of thumbnails below the image display;
- option to show first level albums of a category instead of just statistics of the category;
- option of turning on OR off the showing of "Private" Icon to unlogged / unprivileged user;
- title option to sort in albums;
- online help feature for the admin pages;
- plugin-API;
- English as a fallback language for un-translated entries in language files;
- password-protected albums;
- more admin-settable user profile fields;
- picture-resize on upload;
- bbs integration settable with a wizard-like user interface;
- advanced search (boolean operators);
