Download Gallery 3.0 RC1

Last week the first release candidate of version 3.0 of Gallery was released. Gallery is a program written in PHP that can be used to create online photo albums. For example, unlike Jalbum, for example, the photos are stored in a database and a web server is needed to run the whole thing. Others features for example, the Photo Management option that can automatically create thumbnails, rotate and resize photos, among other things. Furthermore, it is possible to assign read and/or write permissions to the albums and there are countless modules to further expand the possibilities or appearance to adjust.

In the development of version 3.0, they concentrated on four separate parts, namely the program should not be too large, it should be easy to operate, it should be fast and finally fully adaptable to your own taste. More information about version 3.0 of Gallery is on this page Here’s an excerpt from RC1’s announcement:

The Gallery 3 philosophy

We set out to make an amazing application. Not only will you be able to easily host your photos, but you’ll find that Gallery 3 makes it a joy. We focused on the following 4 principles:

• Keep It Small – Gallery 3 is 5.7 MB with all of its features. This is a fraction of the size of most similar applications.
• Make It Intuitive – We’ve got some great usability and user interface experts on our team, designing and prototyping interfaces that just make sense. Frequent tasks are now quick and easy. Tough tasks are possible with great new interfaces.
• Make It Fast – We’ve made some tough decisions in keeping the scope of Gallery 3 small. We’ve created a set of features that we think will make most of you really happy, while avoiding some of the crazier features that make the product slow. As a result, you’re going to find that it’s really snappy!
• Make it Your Own – Modules let you tune your Gallery to have exactly the features that you want. The module system is so simple that even while we were still in beta, the community had written dozens or modules ranging from facial recognition to slideshows to batch tagging. Download and play with them!

How did we do it?

We have stood on the shoulders of giants. Gallery 3.0 is made possible by some truly great advances in technology.

• Kohana – We evaluated many PHP frameworks before choosing Kohana. It’s speed, flexibility and power made it just what we needed. Thanks to the Kohana folks for providing this first class application framework!
• PHP 5 – We’re taking advantage of many of the new features and capabilities available in the latest versions of PHP. This allows us to write much less code and have a faster product.
• jQuery – the write less, do more Javascript library. Gallery 3’s rich user interface is heavily driven by Javascript and is made possible by the simple and powerful jQuery framework.

Gallery 2.3 – email notification configuration.