Pinterest styled, Bootstrap based, Lightbox enabled, PHP photo-sharing app
I created the photos app because I was bored one evening and have been thinking about doing a redesign of my original phpMyPhotoAlbum software that I created a long time ago. I’ve taken a few cracks at simple redesigns whenever I’d find myself looking for something to tinker with (sites like my Adventure Photo Blog). I guess photos have always had a captivating essence for me.
So I built out the Photos App. It’s fairly basic. It has one main view which is a card view much like Pinterest that I see a lot of folks trying to copy into their design. Even Bootstrap is attempting a version of this in their alpha version.
Major features include:
- Full mobile support
- Multi-layout for phone, tablet, small screen, and desktops using Bootstrap CSS libraries
- Pinterest Style Layout
- Lightbox with Slideshow
- Full-size image downloads
- PNG, JPG, and GIF image support
- Load on scroll (for long pages)
- Filesystem-based structure (No database required)
- Optional password protection
(to disable just set the username/password in theconfig.phpto blank)
Read ./html/config.php for basic configuration options. Once installed, just chmod -R a+rw ./thumbs and upload your folders and photos into ./albums.
One small feature that may be of interest is if you use a date notation in your folder names then it’ll pull the date as a subtitle for the folder. Format is YYYY-MM-DD FOLDERNAME.
System requirements are pretty light just needing the following:
- PHP GD2 support
- PHP 5.4+
Here are a few screenshots for this version:
