I’ve released Photos 4.1. This release adds basic internationalization support and fixes all reported bugs in verion 4.0.1.
Here is the change list:
- Added localization support
- Reduced HTML footprint
- Changed the get limit from 500 to 300
- Allow viewing the portfolio by list
- Added a check that may allow Photos to work with GD 1.6
- Change check for GD version, should be more compatible.
- Upgraded to Exifer 1.41
- Stopped using the deprecated ‘call by reference’
- Date picker works properly when a number of months other than 3 is selected.
- Added a setting in the language file for the character set of the page
- Added a check to remove the error message if you clicked the ‘Add Details’ button and no photos needed details addded.
- Fixed search by ‘Need Details’
- URL encoded the photo URL in the EXIF and IPTC pop-up windows
- Fixed a problem with single quotes in photo paths
- ‘previous’ was misspelled on entry page
- Download link for latest release version on about page was broken
- List view change works in Portfolio screen now
- Hidden files (beginning with ‘.’) are properly hidden on the load folder screen
Note: to use Photos, you must have PHP installed with the GD image library enabled.
This post is part of the project: Photos. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
Photo DB
Finally managed to migrate away from using ACDSee as my/our image database. It has cool features and I’ve enjoyed using it. But it has limitations WRT multiple users (along with the need to buy another licence). Another irritation was that moving…
Have u considered supporting slideshowpro (www.slideshowpro.net) all u have to do is create a simple xml file for it to use. lots and lot of people are using slideshowpro and ur product like covers the missing features of it. Your prduct can serve as a administration tool for it. just by adding a xml export. 🙂 Do think about it.
Alex – are you still developing this? Just curious, as I’d love to see CR2 support [aka Canon RAW]. Anyway, awesome program – keep up the great work!!
/vjl/
In theory – yes, but I haven’t had time this year. I’m looking for ways to support things like Camera RAW – but I need a PHP library that supports it.
Hi Matt!
Just wondering, seeing how this last release is rather dated now; do you know of any forks or alternate development efforts?
The one thing I really miss in photos is good gallery functionality. I would like to let users browse my huge photo archive in all the usual ways; browsing by dates, thumbnails, events, keywords – whatever.
I would like to create “dynamic” gallerys. When I’ve visited an event I would like to put up a gallery for the photos of that folder/event, and have a way to give me, my friends and family easy access to it in a usefull format. It would be very sweet if the gallerys could have logins to allow sharing of private photos and/or selective sets of photos.
I don’t think I’m alone in whishing for this functionality, but unfortunatly I don’t have time to implement it by myself. That’s why I ask if you know of any forks I could check out or contact to help out in.
… I thought Alex but wrote Matt. Sorry for that.
Photos is not open source, so forking is not possible.
It isn’t completely dead yet – maybe Miracle Max can give it a boost. 😉
Who’s Miracle Max?
I just feel it’s frustrating to see such a useful codebase age and eventually grow too old to be usefull anymore. I feel a lot of the purpose of such an app is to allow future proof organisation and access to your photos, and it’s being wasted if the app itself isn’t updated.
I know (of) you well enough to realize you made a deliberate (conscious?) choice of licensing of this code, and have a good reason not to free the source.
You’re of course in no way obliged to answer, but I’m a curious monkey; why didn’t you make it free? Is there anything I can do to make you consider “freeing” it?
Off to Google for you on Miracle Max. 😉
I don’t see how age has changed the usefulness of the code. If you’d like to request new features, please take those requests to the forums.