Abstract
The Coppermine Photo Gallery is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built- in support for other multi- media respectively data files. It supports multiple languages and has its own language library, which will allow your users to choose their own preferred language. Coppermine also comes with a variety of templates to choose, allowing you to customize the outlook of your gallery.
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Keywords
coppermine, photo, photograph, sound, video, gallery, album, jpg, gif, mpg, mvi
That's Coppermine
Coppermine is an easily set- up, fast, feature- rich photo gallery script with mySQL database, user management, private galleries, automatic thumbnail creation, e- card feature and a template system for easy customization to match the rest of a site.
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), 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 FTP.
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 to adapt easily the presentation of the user interface. Concerning your request, WEB9 can design special Coppermine themes for your usage. It also supports the use of multiple languages and contains it's own language library. These language files provide, users of your gallery, access in their preferred languages. Coppermine uses PHP, a MySQL database, and either the GD library (version 1.x or 2.x) or ImageMagick 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.
Price and Licence
Coppermine is open source, available under the GPL license and free to download. With commercial systems, the cost of license fees can add up quickly as you add goods, software extensions, servers and databases.
None of these fees apply to Coppermine. With the open source licensing model, you can minimize the amount of your initial investment, which increases your ROI (Return on Investment) over the same time period. Besides the financial gains of using open source, you will also have the freedom of choice. With similar commercial systems, you cannot alter the software, build additional functionality or even control your data because you are locked in a contract that prevents you from doing so. As the web changes, you won't be able to change with it. Instead, you will be at the mercy of the company that developed the software. With thousands of systems available today, it is not uncommon for these software companies to go out of business unexpectedly. You may end up with an expensive picture management system that you can no longer even use and the cost of migrating your data to a new system could be astronomical.
Note
The Coppermine solution is property and under copyright of the Coppermine development team.
