Risto H. Kurppa

I wanted to write a quick review of photo gallery software that need only one file in the image folder. It means they’re extremely easy to install, maintain and move to other places. However I was only able to find two of those so I added a small list of non-database-galleries for you to check.

Both of these are written in PHP and create thumbnails automatically in a sub-folder.

uAlbum

Homepage
Sample gallery
Version & date: 1.43, 2007-02-23 (!!)
Licence: LGPL Open Source license
File Size: 31K
EXIF support: No
EXIF orientation support: No
Valid HTML: Passed, 1 warning
Support for subgalleries: Yes
Other: Slideshow, Fullscreen mode, preloading of images
Comments: Old but simple & open source.

Single File PHP Gallery

Homepage
Sample gallery
Version & date: 4.10, 2010-07-21
Licence: Free for private non commercial use
File Size: 54K
EXIF support: Yes
EXIF orientation support: No
Valid HTML: 49 Errors
Support for subgalleries: Yes
Other: Watermarking, direct links, description
Comments: Great features but slow

Simple galleries

As it became clear, it isn’t very easy to find single file photo galleries. So to help you forward, here’s a list of some simple gallery software that doesn’t require databases.

• phpgraphy
• Simple PHP Gallery
• Pagemap-Imagewall
• Tiny Web Gallery
• ZPhotosExpress
• MicroPhotoGallery
• Max’s Slideshow
• more..

My choice

I think I’ll be using uAlbum or SFPG the most. For something a bit more advanced I might go for PHPGraphy. Any recommendations?