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10 BEST FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
PHP IMAGE GALLERIES – UPDATED

August 26, 2010 in Open Source  362693

I was looking for totally free and open resource php image gallery, and I found ideal
open resource php gallery scripts. Underneath you will find a listing of the most
effective totally free and open resource image gallery scripts that I have come across
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1. Gallery – Gallery is an open source project with the goal to develop and support
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leading photo sharing web application solutions.

With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive,
web interface. Gallery works with several different image processing toolkits and is
available in over 30 languages! You don’t need special privileges on your webserver
to install, configure and maintain Gallery.

Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation,

ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums and photos can have view, edit,
delete and other permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional
level of privacy.

It’s great for communities – give accounts to your friends and family and let them
upload and manage their own photos on your website!

You can easily customize Gallery to your needs. Latest version available for download
is Gallery 3.0.9.

2. Zenphoto – Zenphoto is a standalone gallery CMS. Zenphoto have everything you

need for web media gallery management.

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Zenphoto is more than just a gallery for images! It also has features like multimedia
support for audio and video and is even capable of running your entire portfolio
website including a news section (blog) and custom pages. This makes Zenphoto the
ideal CMS for illustrators, artists, designers, photographers, film makers and
musicians.

Features

Automatically generated thumbnails and sized-down images

Upload via FTP or via the admin interface
Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives
Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters
AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse
Video support for Flash Video (.flv), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp)
Password protection for gallery and albums
Watermarks for images
Powerful search with boolean expressions
Tags: Categorize you images with tags
Image rating
Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!
Highly customizable theme engine
rss for gallery, albums and comments

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Multiple administrataive users with varying rights

Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite

Latest version available for download is Zenphoto 1.4.10. Its released under license
GPL v.2.

3. PhpWebGallery – PhpWebGallery became Piwigo on February 15th, 2009. Piwigo is

a photo gallery software for the web that comes with powerful features to publish
and manage your collection of pictures.

It supports numerous galleries of all sizes all over the world, from an individual ten-
photos party to the images stock of an agency. This scalability is supported by smart
browsing capabilities based on categories, tags and chronological search. Various
extensions make Piwigo even more scalable and customizable to suit your own needs
and desires.

Features

Categories – organize your photos in your category tree, with no limit in depth.
Tags – describe photos and find all of them tagged with “night + Paris + John”.
Themes and Plugins- customize appearance with themes and add features with
plugins.
Privacy – make your photos private and decide who can see each of them.

Piwigo is both web and photo standard compliant. Latest version available for
download is Piwigo 2.7.4.

4. TinyWebGallery – The TinyWebGallery is a free php photo album / gallery that is

very easy to install, extremely user friendly, does not need a database uses xml files
but still has all the features you should expect and much more.

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Features

AJAX + Flash navigation with sliding image thumbnails

XML based – no database needed
TWG Admin to upload/manage images, manage users, Color Manager,
Configuration of TWG …
3 different slideshow types
Protected galleries
Text and image watermarks
Full video support
TWG Flash uploader
Frontend in 29, backend in 5 languages!
Fullscreen mode
Remote picture support
All features can be enabled/disabled/configured

Latest version available for download is TWG 2.3.

5. Plogger – Plogger is the next generation in open-source photo gallery systems. A

web application not bloated with superfluous features or complicated configuration
settings. Plogger is a simple yet powerful tool — everything you need to share your
images with the world. Plogger is your photos integrated into your website, a fully
featured photo sharing package with an attractive and easy to use administrative
interface that makes managing your galleries a breeze. Integrating our gallery
software into your website is as easy as inserting three lines of PHP code. And did we
mention the price? Absolutely Free.

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Plogger installation requirements are MySQL v3.23+, GD1.0, and PHP4. Latest
version available for download is Plogger 1.0 RC1.

6. phpAlbum.net – phpAlbum.net is an Open Source PHP script which allows you to

create your personal Photo Album / Gallery in just a seconds. All you need is a web
space with FTP access. No database is needed. After a few clicks with phpAlubm.net
Installer you are ready to upload your photos, create new directories /galleries, and
use your photo album.

These are the features which phpAlbum.net offers you:

Automatic generation of thumbnails and resized

Commenting of pictures with antispam security code
IPTC Support, import of keywords and picture description, showing other IPTC-
tags
E-Card – you can now send e-cards to your friends and family
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Screenshots for files to be downloaded, movie, audio, exe or whatever

Password protection for your private galleries
Admin section for creating new directories, uploading photos (works even with
PHP safe_mode=on),Uploading ZIP Files preserving directory structure
Short and long description of galleries/directories and photos
Highly customizable layout, separated layout(HTML) from functional code, this
allows easy creation of new themes
Caching of all generated thumbnails and resized photos
Transparent logo and icon processing with any background color, including IE6
Access logging, with exclude strings
And last but not least, you can help us with your suggestions to create usable,
easy to install, php photo album script.

Latest version available for download is phpAlbum_v0.4.1.16.

7. Coppermine – Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web

picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a
MySQL backend.

Coppermine is free software which you can download and install on your webspace.

Coppermine Photo Gallery has been tested to work well on IIS, Apache 1.3.24
onwards to the latest Apache 2, on Linux, UNIX, OSX, and Win32 systems. The
following settings are required:

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* Good webserver (Apache recommended)

* PHP (4.2.0 or better)
* MySQL (3.23.23 or better; 4.x recommended)
* either GD or ImageMagick (any version)

Latest version available for download is Coppermine 1.5.38

8. Phonora – Phonora is a fully customizable PHP photo gallery script that lets you
collect, organize and share your images, photos and multimedia files with visitors
directly from your Web site. If you need a PHP photo gallery for your Web site that
looks great and is easy to install and customize, Phonora is the perfect photo gallery
script for you.

Features

Uploading Multiple Photos

Password Protect Categories
Multiple Slideshow Options
Social Network Plugins
Entirely Customizable Layout
Seemless Adaptation with Your Site Design

Latest free version available for download is Phonora 2.2.

9. phTagr – phTagr Sort out a large number of photographs with embedded

metadata. Use advanced filters to appreciate a particular subset of your photograph
library. Control your documents on your web server or install the exhibition at home.
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Features

Free web album software

Your web space – Your control
Tag your photos
Browse your media gallery
Share your private web album
Import picture, video file formats, and GPS logger
Automatic rotation and resizing of preview images
Automatic flash video conversion
Upload via HTTP, WebDAV, local storage
Geo Tagging – View your favorite photos on online world map
Single or multiple edit of meta data like tags, keywords, categories, location or
geo location
Read and write support of EXIF, IPTC, and Geo Data
Multiple user support
Flexible and simple access right management

Latest version available for download is phTagr version 2.3.

10. MG2-MiniGal – MG2-MiniGal MG2 is the continuation of the famous picture

exhibition script MiniGal.
One of the highlights of MG2 is, that it underpins PHP running in protected mode
which is unsupported by all other element picture exhibition scripts on the web.
MG2 is considerably less difficult to use than the first script and it incorporates a ton
of energizing new elements.

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Features

Easy to use.
Fast
Template and skin support
Displays EXIF image information
Supports image titles, descriptions and user comments
Multilanguage support
Works in PHP safe mode
XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS valid. Unicode support
Full featured webbased admin interface – control your gallery from any computer
(with internet access)
Multiple image upload & FTP image upload
Automatic thumbnail generation
Image rotating feature
Short gallery URLs

Latest version available for download is MG2-MiniGal version 0.5.1.

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Comments

SIMON MAGRO SAYS: August 27, 2011 at 2:38 am

Laxman, thanks so much for your wonderful article. You’re a credit to the web community.

ZAMIR SAYS: November 10, 2011 at 11:14 pm

oh, this is awesome, its best to use them with wallpapers site or image hosting site.

DINH VI GPS SAYS: November 30, 2011 at 8:01 am

Thanks Laxman, your post is great!

I’m going to find php gallery for my project, your listing help me alot.

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AMIR SAYS: December 25, 2011 at 4:40 pm

Thanks dude … it helps a lot

ANDY SAYS: January 14, 2012 at 5:05 am

Good article! Do you know if any of these support openid authentication, so the user can log
in using either his/her facebook, google or live account?

H AFSTEINN SAYS: January 26, 2012 at 2:39 am

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Why is this gallery no on the list?

LANH SAYS: February 20, 2012 at 9:37 am

Great stuff, help me with me photo meme frame work search.

MANOJ SAYS: February 29, 2012 at 11:17 am

Thanks for sharing these nice scripts.

MINERO SAYS: March 24, 2012 at 4:43 am

Andy, ZenPhoto Support openID

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thanks laxman this really helpful for us.

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EGYPTIAN PAPYRU S SAYS: May 8, 2012 at 5:21 am

Thanks It’s really nice article

MEL SAYS: May 9, 2012 at 10:32 pm

Great article.
Does anyone know of an application that allows admin setup for both a gallery and an
events calendar in PHP?

Thanks
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X EMLE SAYS: July 17, 2012 at 10:15 pm

Thank you for this nice collection of php image galleries! Well done!

Did you had also a look to the open source web galley phTagr (http://phtagr.org)? With this
gallery you can tag, browse and share your photos together with friends.

It supports embedded meta data editor, a feature rich search engine and a flexible group
based access for multiple users. Preview images and videos are generated automatically
and it has a built-in slideshow. Further features are ZIP archive upload and multi file
download, WebDAV, RSS, MediaRSS, Comments, email notification and guest accounts.

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MAX SAYS: July 20, 2012 at 2:06 pm

In the free open source dept, Gallery 3 is the only one thats got it right, almost.

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DDTDDT SAYS: July 25, 2012 at 11:54 am

Piwigo 2.4 is available

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GCH OKEEN SAYS: March 28, 2014 at 11:07 am

Personally which one would be great to use Zenphoto or Piwigo?

DESIGN3EDGE SAYS: March 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm

We would suggest Piwigo

J AG SINGH SAYS: July 31, 2014 at 4:18 am

Also checkout Phonora Photo Gallery. It adapts to your site design and has many options to
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I often use img.justpaste.me, they allow image posting with only two clicks and also have
password protected galleries…

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thanks info nya

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