Welcome to PHPGallue!

PHPGallue is a server based Open Source image management system which uses PHP 5 and MySQL. It is designed to be efficient, scalable, extensible and flexible.

If you search the web for online image gallery or image management software, you will find hundreds of projects that focus on the same target as PHPGallue. Some are client software to manage images on your hard disk and provide HTML export, some are online galleries where you upload your pictures to publish them on your homepage. PHPGallue tries to be more:

It is designed to be capable of managing large amounts of images (say, 100,000).
It is server based and provides a web frontend.
It is designed to be used by multiple users.
You can adjust if an image is visible to the public, to registered users or only to yourself.
The backend functionality is completely separated from the frontend: You can write own code that uses the image management libraries - e.g. an image listing for your homepage or an image blog.
You can upload your images through the web interface, with gallupload, a simple command-line tool, or with PyGallue, a graphical PHPGallue client.
Currently an improved graphical client application and a SOAP interface are under development.

The intention to develop PHPGallue is to create a tool for ambitious photographers who want to catalog and publish their work. A drawback compared to client-side image management is that you need a UNIX server environment and/or a fast internet connection, but therefore you don't have to export your images every time - as soon as they are cataloged, they are online, too. In addition, you can use the PHP 5 library libgallue to create your own frontend to the image database and include your images seamlessly into an existing web application.