Piwigo

Piwigo

Interface of Piwigo
Developer(s) Pierrick Le Gall, Piwigo Team
Stable release 2.3.2 / December 20th 2011
Written in PHP
Available in Multilingual 45 languages
Type Online Gallery
License GPL
Website www.piwigo.org

Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web licensed under the GPL. It is written in PHP and requires a MySQL database.

Piwigo was formerly known as PhpWebGallery. Piwigo creator Pierrick Le Gall announced the rename on his personal blog on September 24, 2008[1].

Contents

Main Features

Add Photos 
with a web form, with an FTP client software, with digiKam, Shotwell, Lightroom or a dedicated software like pLoader or Jiwigo.[2]. Mobile applications for iPhone/iPad and Android
Albums 
Each image is bound to one or more albums. Albums are hierarchical and there is no limit in depth.
Tags 
An administrator describes photos with tags, then visitors can browse photos by tags or multiple related tags, for example "night + Paris + John".
Calendar 
Extracted from EXIF metadata, Piwigo knows the date of each photo and is able to display photos for a given day, month or year.
Themes 
The appearance of the photo gallery is defined by the theme. There are various themes provided by the project community.
Plugins
Plugins expand capabilities of Piwigo. Example of plugins: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Google Maps or displaying photos in a Lightbox.
Access control 
Access control is handled by the user manager, restricting and granting varying levels of access to photos and albums.
Notification system
Users can be alerted of changes and updates through RSS feeds and E-mail

Other features are listed on the features page of the Piwigo website.

Deployment

Piwigo can be deployed using various methods on a hosting environment. Users have the option to download the current version of Piwigo from Piwigo.org. Either they download the full archive and upload the source code to their hosting environment or they download the NetInstall (a single PHP file), upload it to their hosting environment and let it download the full archive automatically.

Piwigo can also be installed on GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian/Ubuntu via the APT packages system where Piwigo is available.

Many shared web hosting services also offer automated Piwigo installation through their control panel: Piwigo is available in SimpleScripts and Softaculous.

Hosting services such as Piwigo.com offer users an easy way to deploy a Piwigo gallery on-line without having to install Piwigo on your own web server.

History

Piwigo was originally written by Pierrick Le Gall as a personal project during fall 2001. Inspired by the opensource web forum phpBB that he installed for his university website, he chooses the GPL license to distribute Piwigo and start a community around the project. On spring 2002, the first version of Piwigo was released [3]

In 2002, Piwigo became multilingual. In 2004, a bugtracker was installed in order to work in team. In 2005 an online extension manager made contributions easier to share. In 2006, themes made customization possible. In 2007, plugins are introduced to extend Piwigo features. In 2009, PhpWebGallery was renammed Piwigo, pLoader (Piwigo Uploader) makes photo upload easier for Windows, Mac and Linux users. In 2010, digiKam, Shotwell, Lightroom are able to upload photos to any Piwigo gallery, an enhanced web uploader in Piwigo 2.1 and Piwigo.com is launched (dedicated hosting for Piwigo).

In 2011, 20 members in Piwigo team, 40 translators, a website available in 10 languages and a thriving community.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ PhpWebGallery turns Piwigo
  2. ^ Jiwigo official website
  3. ^ Release archive

External links