A while ago I was looking for a truly upload and go photo gallery one that does require a database. I found an abandoned PHP project called Simple PHP gallery by Paul Griffin.
No database required, automatically generates thumbnails, auto generates gallery layout based off of file structior, a truly upload and go photo gallery. It was almost perfect only missing a few “nice to have” mod_rewrite and comments, file upload, and IPCT data.
After a little searching on Google I found that other people had made improvements to this package such as Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery and Espg v2 that alowed for mod_rewrite, comments.
I took the eSPG project and altered its source code and added the ability to read the IPCT titles, a pretty easy mod that you can read about and download Enhanced Simple PHP Gallery IPTC mod
The website for original developer of this project has been shut down. I have mirrored of the original project that you can download. eSPG with IPCT mod
Features
- No Database required
- Upload and go
- Easy install (just upload the files in the zip)
- Automatically generates thumbnails
- Automatically generates gallery structure from file structure
Minimum Requirements
- PHP 4.0 or better
- GD Library, 1.0 or better
Recommended Requirements
- PHP 4.0 or better
- GD Library, 2.0 or better
- File write permission for PHP
- mod_rewrite
[...] creating the IPTC mod for the simple gallery script I had to extract the IPTC information for the title of the image. This allowed me to extract the [...]