Gallery2 gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site.

Gallery2′s main strength is its extensibility; the base package contains all the features required for a basic gallery (and more advanced ones too), but if you want more features, it is easily extended through extra modules available through the Gallery2 website.

If you want to customise the theme, it is easy to do so; alternatively, a large amount of themes exist which you can upload to your website.

Features

• Easy to create Photo Albums
• Easy ways to add Photos, e.g. with Drag and Drop Tools
• Photo and Album Administration and Editing
• Auto-Generation of Thumbnails and Resized Images
• Handles Many Image Formats
• Easy Installation and Upgrades
• 100% Multi-User Ready
• User and Group Management
• Themeable – Change the Look and Feel by Switching Themes. Code and Presentation are Separated.
• Comprehensive Permission Management (Album and Item Level)
• Extensible – Add / remove Features by Installing ‘modules’ and Change the Look by Switching ‘themes’
• Over 25 Integrations into CMS, Portal, Forum, Blog Software and other Systems
• Internationalized – Over 20 Mostly Complete Translations (and Many More Less Complete Translations)
• Community Building Features (User-Albums, Comments, User Self-Registration, …)
• Scalable – Manage Over a Million Items and Thousands of Users
• Image Firewall (Downloads are Protected Through Application-Level Permissions)
• Secure – Gallery has been audited by several core developers and by paid professionals for application security
• Portable – Gallery runs on any webserver with PHP 4 or PHP 5 and with a wide variety of database servers
• Multimedia Ready – Watch Streaming Videos, Listen to Music, …
• Unlimited Number of Sub-Album Levels

Gallery2 is a powerful and flexible image gallery, with a number of useful features and attractive themes. Additionally, installing it is a matter of a few clicks thanks to the easy to use Fantastico control panel, included with all of our Linux hosting plans.

First of all, login to your cpanel at

http://www.yourdomain.com.au/cpanel

You will be presented with the default cpanel screen. Scroll down until you see the Fantastico link.

Click on it, and you will be taken to the Fantastico panel. Scroll down to the “Image Galleries” section, and click on the “Gallery” link.

You will now be shown a description of the script and a list of existing installations. To start a new installation, click on “New Installation”.

You will now be presented with this form:

Fill the form out like this:

• Install on domain: Select the domain you want to install the script to.
• Install in directory: You can specify here which directory you want to install it to. For example, if you type /gallery, the script will be installed at www.yourdomain.com.au/gallery. You can leave it blank to install it directly in the root of your domain, so the gallery would be displayed at www.yourdomain.com.au.
• Admin user and password: Specify here the login details for the script.
• Admin full name: Your full name. You can leave this blank if you want.
• Admin email: Your email address. It is important that this is an active email address.
• Preferred language: The language you want the script to use.

Once you have double checked the form details, click on “Install Gallery”. You will be shown a screen confirming that a database has been created and the address of the script. Click on “Finish installation”. You will be presented with this screen:

Congratulations, Gallery2 is installed! Your new gallery will look like this:

Gallery2 is a very powerful and configurable image gallery script. One of its most useful features is the variety of methods you can use to create albums and upload images, one of them being through Windows Explorer, allowing you to select images through the file manager and upload them directly. This tutorial will guide you through setting up this feature.

Login to your Gallery2 installation, and click on “Add Items” on the left. You will now be presented with the Add Item page, which contains a number of tabs. Click on the “Windows XP” tab.

Click on the ” Download [install_registry.reg]” link on the following page, and when the download is finished, double click on the file. You will get a popup prompt asking you if you want to add the information in the file to the registry; click on Yes.

Now browse to a folder with pictures which you want to upload.

Under the “File and Folder Tasks” header on the left, you will see a “Publish this folder to the Web” link. Click on it. You will now be presented with the Web Publishing Wizard. Click on Next. You will now be shown a list of the images in the folder.

Here, tick all the images you want to upload to your Gallery2 installation. Then click on Next. You will now be shown a service providers list.

Click on your Gallery2 installation, and then click Next. You will now be presented with the stanard Gallery2 login page. Log in, and you can now select which album to upload the images to (or, create a new album). Once you have selected the album or created a new one, you will be shown a few options regarding picture size and other settings. Set these to your liking, and click Next.

Your files will now be uploaded to your Gallery2. When it has finished, you will be given the link to the album.

Congratulations, you have finished uploading an album to Gallery2!

Coppermine is a powerful, highly customisable photo gallery script which can easily be installed by using Fantastico in your control panel.

Coppermine comes with a number of themes already installed, but for users wanting more variety without needing the spend the time making a theme yourself, a number of other themes exist which you can install relatively easily…

Follow these steps to install new themes.

1. Browse to this website:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89658&package_id=98541

This website displays a list of themes. Download one of them by clicking on it. (Note: This is only one of many websites that offer free Coppermine themes; a simple google search will bring up many more)

2. Once the file has downloaded (it should be a zip archive), open it and extract the folder inside to your computer.

3. Connect to your website via FTP and browse to your Coppermine folder. There should be a “themes” folder here. Upload the folder on your computer into the themes directory.

4. Once the upload has finished, go to your Coppermine gallery in your web browser. The theme should have been detected automatically. To select it, go to the Config section > Theme settings, and select it from the drop down list.