Icy Phoenix Gallery - Flash CS3 and PHP

[Flep]

Hi all !

Do you need a free Flash - PHP images gallery ?
With easy installation and management ?
FlepStudio and Icy Phoenix has created it !
It's the FlepStudio's ElasticGallery with PHP backend.

You need just a folder with some images and the script will do anything else.

Just upload the files and images via FTP, launch index.php from your browser and the PHP will create the thumbs and the XML file for Flash. It's done !

Its name is: Instant Gallery
Package Version
PHP Author: icy phoenix
Flash Author: FlepStudio

Let us see it...

Demo html - PHP version: Instant Gallery Demo
Demo Flash - PHP: Elastic Gallery

Description
Icy Phoenix - Instant Gallery is a really easy to use gallery. It has been designed to create and show thumbnails of images in one folder and provide a nice flash slideshow (coded by FlepStudio). All you have to do is copying all the files in the package into one images folder and then run index.php. All images will be thumbnailed and a cool slideshow will be created ready to use. You need just a folder with some images and the script will do anything else. Really powerful and easy to use.

Requirements
*Apache with PHP 4.X or higher
*Direct access to the server for uploading files
*GD Library 2.0.8 or higher
*Possibility to assign 0777 CHMOD permissions (or any other writing permission to this PHP script and the destination folders)
*Some free spaces for thumbnails generations

Installation
*Upload all the files from the root folder into your images folder
*CHMOD 0777 your images folder (and the thumbs folder as well if you decide to create different folders for thumbs)
*Launch index.php from your browser and all thumbnails will be generated automatically (SMALL for slideshow, MEDIUM for web gallery, LARGE for slideshow) (smart sizes of thumbnails)
*An XML file will be generated for slideshow
*Click on Slideshow for Elastic Gallery Slideshow

Known issues
Some hosting doesn't allow to use many CPU charge on GD functions, so if you are having problems with this script, tro to use it on smaller images.

Troubleshooting
*If you see only the link of images and not the thumbnails, you may not have the correct permissions set on your folders. Make sure that the folders where thumbnails are going to be stored are writable (CHMOD 777 on some servers) and that the folder were is stored index.php is writable as well (this is needed because XML file for slideshow has to be written).
*If slideshow images stretches it is likely to be related to thumbnails settings on your index.php. Try to review your configuration.

Customization
*Some settings are customizable by editing the first lines in index.php (you can change for example some thumbnails size or the path where thumbnails
are stored... and more!)
*All styles settings are in the CSS, feel free to customize it as you wish
*For any help reagarding PHP please visit: icy phoenix
*For any help reagarding FLASH please use this thread

Tips
*This gallery has been optimized for JPG and PNG. GIF images will be shown as well, but in thumbs and slideshow they will lose the animation due to GD2 and FLASH compatibility.
*Thumbnails generation will require heavy CPU load. Avoid to use this script in folders with more than 30 images. Alternatively you may load a certain number of images into your folder, run the script, and then load more images.
*Slideshow works best with no more of 450px height large thumbs (used for images in slideshow).
*Small thumbnails for slideshow needs to be forced to the size they are or they won't fit the small frame in the slideshow.

Support
Flash: this thread
PHP: icy phoenix

You can modify this script anyway you want as long as it's for your own personal (non-business) use and my copyright and links remain in the footer.

You cannot redistribute this script in whole or in part without my permission.

Script History:
*2007/11/25 - Version 1.0.2
*Fixed permissions issue

*2007/11/25 - Version 1.0.1
*Integrated Slideshow

*2007/11/24 - Version 1.0.0
*First release

Source files:

[Mighty Gorgon]

Thanks Flep for giving me the opportunity to use this component on my galleries script.

For those who are interested, here is a mod for phpBB 3 which uses Elastic Gallery.

phpBB • View topic - [BETA] OTF Gallery

Thank you.