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https://github.com/UberGallery/UberGallery

An easy to use, simple to manage, web photo gallery written in PHP.
https://github.com/UberGallery/UberGallery

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An easy to use, simple to manage, web photo gallery written in PHP.

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UberGallery - The simple PHP photo gallery
==========================================

Created by, [Chris Kankiewicz](http://www.ChrisKankiewicz.com)

Introduction
------------

UberGallery is an easy to use, simple to manage, web photo gallery written in
PHP and distributed under the [MIT License](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
UberGallery **does not** require a database and supports JPEG, GIF and PNG file
types. Simply upload your images and UberGallery will automatically generate
thumbnails and output standards compliant XHTML markup on the fly.

Like this project? [Make a donation](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ChrisKankiewicz/10.00).

Features
--------

* Simple first time installation
* Database-less configuration
* Include galleries within pre-existing sites
* Create multiple galleries with a single installation
* Easily customize your gallery styles via CSS
* Install and update the gallery easily wth Git (optional)

Requirements
------------

UberGallery requires PHP 5.2+ and the PHP-GD image library to work properly. For
more information on PHP and the PHP-GD image library, please visit [http://php.net](http://php.net).

Simple Installation
-------------------

1. Copy `resources/sample.galleryConfig.ini` to `resources/galleryConfig.ini`
and modify the settings to your liking

2. Upload `index.php`, `resources/` and `gallery-images/` to your web server

3. Upload images to the `gallery-images/` directory

4. Make the `resources/cache/` directory writable by the web server

```
chmod 777 /path/to/resources/cache
```

5. Open your web browser and load the page where you installed UberGallery

Custom Installation
-------------------

1. Copy `resources/sample.galleryConfig.ini` to `resources/galleryConfig.ini`
and modify the settings to your liking

2. Upload the `resources/` folder to your web server

3. Insert the following code into the PHP page where you would like the
gallery to be displayed (be sure to change the include and image folder path
to match your configuration)

```php
createGallery('path/to/images-folder'); ?>
```

4. Include the UberGallery and ColorBox style sheets in your page header

```html


```

> ℹ️ You can replace the `1` with a value between 1 and 5 for different ColorBox themes.

5. Include jQuery and ColorBox javascript files in your page header

```html


```

6. Include the ColorBox jQuery call in your header

```html

$(document).ready(function(){
$("a[rel='colorbox']").colorbox({maxWidth: "90%", maxHeight: "90%", opacity: ".5"});
});

```

7. Upload images to your images directory

8. Make the `resources/cache/` directory writable by the web server

```
chmod 777 /path/to/resources/cache
```

9. Open your web browser and load the page where you installed UberGallery

Install with Git
----------------

1. SSH into the your server and clone the UberGallery repository and submodules

```
git clone --recursive git://github.com/UberGallery/UberGallery.git /path/to/ubergallery
```

2. Copy `resources/sample.galleryConfig.ini` to `resources/galleryConfig.ini`
and modify the settings

```
cp resources/sample.galleryConfig.ini resources/galleryConfig.ini
nano resources/galleryConfig.ini
```

3. Upload images to the `gallery-images/` folder within your gallery directory

4. Make the `resources/cache/` directory writable by the web server

```
chmod 777 /path/to/resources/cache
```

5. Open your web browser and load the page where you installed UberGallery

When using this method to install UberGallery, you may update your installation
by running the following commands:

cd /path/to/gallery-directory
git pull origin master
git submodule update

> ℹ️ If you are installing UberGallery via git into an existing git repository,
> you will need to add it as a submodule.

git submodule add git://github.com/UberGallery/UberGallery.git path/to/ubergallery
git submodule update --init --recursive path/to/ubergallery

Troubleshooting
---------------

Please report bugs to the [Github issue tracker](http://github.com/UberGallery/UberGallery/issues).

If you're having issues with UberGallery here are a few troubleshooting tips.

* Verify that you have PHP 5.2 or later installed. You can verify your PHP
version by running

```
php --version
```

* Make sure you have the latest version of UberGallery installed

* Replace your `galleryConfig.ini` with `sample.galleryConfig.ini` to ensure
proper configuration

```
rm resources/galleryConfig.ini
cp resource/sample.galleryConfig.ini resources/galleryConfig.ini
```

* Clear your cache and make sure the directory is writable by the web server

```
rm -f resources/cache/*
chmod 777 resources/cache
```

* Enable debugging by setting the `enable_debugging` option in
`resources/galleryConfig.ini` to `true`, try loading your gallery in a web
browser then inspect the debug.log file in your cache directory for any errors

News & Updates
--------------

For UberGallery updates and news follow [@UberGallery](http://twitter.com/ubergallery) on Twitter.

License
-------

UberGallery is is licensed under the [MIT License](https://github.com/UberGallery/UberGallery/blob/master/COPYING).