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PhotoFS provides a Web- and shell-based photo album based on ReiserFS concepts.
PhotoFS is a Web-based photo album or image gallery, based on the files-as-directories and attributes-as-files concepts at the core of the ReiserFS 4 filesystem.
It does not require ReiserFS 4, but is much more efficient on that system than on others. It does many of the same things as other Web galleries, at least as far as the basics go.
What makes it different is its use of the filesystem instead of a database. It allows you to use regular unix tools to access your photo collection.
It can handle very large collections, and also encourages multiple categories per file, deep category hierarchies, and batch processing.
Main features:
- Hierarchic categories
- Multiple categories per photo, plus "also in..." feature
- All data stored in the filesystem
- Browsable both on the web and from the command line
- Uses standard filesystem tools to access records
- Easy backup and replication with tar, rsync, etc...
- Uses no special file formats; data is stored in many small files instead of a database or several large files.
- works best with reiserfs v4, but is compatible with any filesystem
- Insert many photos at once from the command line
- Clean URLs; simple directory structure and no huge ?argument=foo lists
- Secure web interface
- Access control for web use: per user, per file, per category
- Non-public files cannot be viewed by the wrong users, even if those users know where to look.
- Restricted files are completely invisible to anyone not authorized to view them.
- Metadata:
- Description: Yes. HTML allowed. Can be edited with any text editor.
- Extended Description: Yes.
- Title: No. Use the description or filename.
- Keywords: No. (irrelevant; use the category system)
- People: No. (irrelevant; use the category system)
- Event: No. (irrelevant; use the category system)
- Date: Yes, for now. May be removed.
- Photographer: No, but may be added.
- No SQL database required
- Fast! Handles many, many thousands of files easily
- Auto thumbnail creation and caching (manual creation supported too)
- Auto-creates medium-sized previews when appropriate (manual creation supported too)
- Holds any type of file, not just images
- Integrates easily into php template systems with header/footer hooks