PHP Auto Thumbnails? Anyone?

Trying to put together a website, actually more my fiance is putting together a website. She needs something PHP based that will do autothumbnails? Basically she wants to be able to dump the photos in a directory and be done with it....

Anyone have any ideas?

Everyone is using Gallery. Same thing that Riocar.org uses, that I'm using, that robricc is using...

Auto thumbnails and auto image resize, image rotation, comments on an album, captions, everything. There's even a java-based remote uploader if you want to use it (not required).

yeah, gallery is very slick. It also works with the photo upload agent bundled with XP. Once it's setup, it's extremely easy to maintain.

Thanks guys, thats actually what she's learning to use now, we just thought there might be something better out there. But apparently thats the one to use... Cool...

Well, if you don't like that one for some reason, here are the major competitors (that I'm aware of):

http://phpmygallery.kapierich.net/
http://www.chezgreg.net/coppermine/
http://www.4homepages.de/

I use it as well, and have installed it for 2 or 3 other sites. Some people here didn't like it, though, and there's a long thread somewhere that contains solutions that people have patched together for themselves.

Rob, I just installed gallery on my 2000 server, and now am trying to get the upload agent working, but am having problems. My photos are natively 1600x1200, and I have gallery set to 640 size. The web method resizes them fine, but I get errors using the upload agent. I have unselected the resize button while going through the wizard. But it doesn't work with it set to 640x480. I did install the registry patch. Do you have any ideas since you have it working?

What version of gallery are you using? I am using 1.3.4 and in the release notes I read that it fixed some issues with upload agent. I didn't start using the XP agent until 1.3.4 and it works fine for me. However, I don't use the resizing feature and I have no experience with the agent prior to 1.3.4

I'm using 1.3.4 as well. I was just thinking it may be an issue since Gallery is running on IIS. I also have problems with Gallery remote. That's probably what it is. Gallery isn't supported on IIS... But it runs!

Apache here and everything seems to work.

There is/was some problem with PHP under IIS calling external binaries like the netpbm ones but you say it works fine when using the normal web interface...

Yeah, but I'm using ImageMagick, not netBPM. I thought the issues were with Gallery itself, not PHP in IIS.

It's any external program so ImageMagick is affected as well. The problems with PHP and IIS are in the Gallery FAQ

Well it looks like I'm stuck doing it the web interface way for now. I'm working on my MCSE so I want to stick with IIS for now. Maybe after I'll migrate to Apache.

What's the error?

Micheal, try asking your question on the Gallery forums. I had a question about Gallery Remote and got an answer from its author very quickly. We went back and forth a couple of times and he found/fixed the problem for me. (The problem was that one of the lines in the gallerty remote configuration file needed to be updated to compensate for changes in the new version of the software I downloaded.)

Well with the web publishing wizard it says:

The wizard encountered a problem while copying the files. A number of things can cause this problem. For example, the Web server might be down, or you might have lost your Internet connection.

Yeah it doesn't say much. And Gallery Remote flashes by on the bottom the status, but even though it says I'm logged in, nothing works.

Hmm. Does the logs in IIS say anything?

Nothing at all. I was able to create a new album, but then the upload failed.