I’ve updated the photos 4.0b1 zip file to fix the warning message some were seeing (from engine.php line 143). If this is bothering you, you can change your php.ini to show only errors or download 4.0b1 again or edit engine.php as described in the photos Yahoo! Group.

photos 4.0b1 is up for download. This beta adds the file browser I previously mentioned here and some other goodies. As with all beta releases, use at your own risk. I bumped the version number to 4.0 because there were too many big changes for this to be a point release. I still need to…

Stayed up kinda late last night (after getting home from work late) finishing the file browser for photos. I’m pretty pleased with it. I think it will make it much more clear how you add files/folders to the app. The file upload control was very misleading and people rightly expected to be able to upload…

I got an e-mail this weekend from suggesting that I build a file browser in PHP for use with photos that people can use to select images/folders to add if they are running on a remote machine. Not only would it benefit people running photos on a remote web server, but using it exclusively would…

I’ve released photos 3.5b3. This version has some great improvements. I’m excited about the changes, I think you’ll really like them. The way the ‘Load Folder’ feature works has been completely re-done (as previously mentioned here). Now instead of loading all of the photos in one shot with no indication to the user what is…

I’ve been working on changing the way loading folders of photos works. In the next beta, while you are loading a folder there will be a status bar and a cancel button. This should fix the browser timeout issues as well. I’m also re-using the already created thumbnail images when the photos are saved to…

There have been over 800 downloads of photos 3.5b2 so far, and I have yet (‘yet’ being the key word) to receive an email about a problem due to a configuration error. I guess the configuration check I added is working and people are fixing any configuration problems they had and are happily using the…

I’ve released photos version 3.5 beta 2. This includes several bug fixes, a built-in configuration check and additional search capability. Check out the version history to see a full list of changes (at least the ones I remembered to write down). I made changes to the database again, so you have to run the database…

Over the last week, I’ve gotten several e-mails directly and several in the photos Yahoo! Group regarding browser timeout issues. Most often, people experiencing this have been using Safari which has a 60 second timeout. When loading a folder of images, it will often take longer than 60 seconds and Safari will stop waiting at…

I spent some time this evening catching up on entering photos in my own database. During this time, I also added a couple of small features and tweaks. For example (if you are running photos locally) you can now select a photo in the folder you want to add using the file browse control and…

Another 275+ downloads today… if this keeps up, I might even get a donation!

If you are ‘adding details’ to a batch of photos, it will continue to show the last photo even after you have added details to that last photo. This is fixed. If two people edit the same photo at the same time, a Resolve screen is displayed asking you to choose which data you want…

There were over 500 downloads of photos 3.5b1 in the first 24 hours. That’s amazing! So far, no bug reports have come in although I did find one. This is a good thing since I’ve made it my recommended download instead of the previous 3.21 release. I held off releasing the beta until I felt…

I’ve released photos 3.5 beta 1. This is the first release under the title ‘photos’ and it is a much needed upgrade to my photo database software, formerly titled ‘gallery’. I’m really pleased to get this release out there, I think people will like it. There are a bunch of changes in this release, here…

I created some basic documentation for photos last night. I used PHP Doc System (of course) and used the feature to create static HTML versions of all the pages to include with the download. Hopefully that will be useful to people as they are getting set up with the new version.

I’m ready to release a private beta of photos 3.5 (before I release a public beta on Monday). If you’d like to test it, let me know.

I stayed up a little late last night finishing up the Quick Entry enhancements and I’m now ready to release a beta of photos version 3.5. I’m going to hold off on the release until Monday to give myself a little more time to test it, but everything has been going smoothly in my testing…

In the 3.5 version of photos, I will be requiring previous users run an upgrade script to add additional EXIF data from the photos into the database (to allow searching on that data). I ran it last night on my 3500 photos. I used the ‘all at once’ option and it ran for 18 minutes…

I’m about ready to post a public beta of photos version 3.5. I’d like to sanity check it on a small group of testers for anything I may have missed before I release the public beta. I’d like to have both a few new testers and a few upgrading testers. If you’re interested, let me…

I’ve gotten all the browser compatability work done, added the major EXIF columns to the database, written a database upgrade script and integrated Exifer. I still need to finish the conflict resolution stuff (catching when 2 people edit the same task at once so they don’t stomp each other – like I do in tasks)…

I started working with Jake Olefsky’s Exifer last night to see how it works and what I need to do to integrate it into photos. Looks like it will be pretty easy, I removed some of the human-friendly labels he had added (‘f 3.5′ instead of just ’3.5′ for aperture, ’28 mm’ instead of just…

I’m going to try using Exifer in the next version of gallery/photos. I’ve heard from a number of people who don’t have EXIF enabled in their PHP installation and if I use Exifer, I don’t have to require PHP’s built-in EXIF functionality to be enabled. It looks like Exifer returns a multi-dimensional array and slightly…

After a little thought, I’ve decided not to do a 3.2.2 release of gallery/photos that includes just a few small bug fixes and compatability with Mozilla browsers and Safari. Instead I will wait until I’ve made the changes to the database that I have planned and get 3.5 out (beta at least) in a few…

I’ve done a little work on gallery/photos recently and I’ve fixed all of the compatibility problems I knew about with Mozilla/Phoenix/Camino and Safari. Safari’s treatment of the <button> element is not friendly in my opinion. I’ve going to make a few more changes but I expect to release a version 3.3 beta withint the next…

In the next release, gallery will be known as "photos". The name gallery has turned out to be a poor choice for this software for 2 reasons. 1) there is already a PHP package called Gallery, and 2) the name implies that the software is for displaying photos rather than archiving them. I hope that…