Coppermine Photo Gallery: version 1.3.3
Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick lib with a MySQL backend.
Installation Procedure 
Quick Tips
The script can be downloaded from here.
The file that you will download is saved in .zip format; this is a compressed bundle containing the files in the distribution. Unzip this archive in a temporary directory on your computer using decompression software.
Start your FTP software and upload all content to your web server preserving the file structure.
Note: Let's assume you install the contents of the script to /var/www/html/photos/
CHMOD the folders albums and include to 755.
To change file permissions using your FTP client, select the file by clicking on it once on the remote system side and then right-click on the file to bring up the option menu and select CHMOD.
Run the install script on your server (http://www.mywebsite.com/photos/install.php) and follow the instructions.
Username: (suggest to use your Doteasy Member ID)
Password: (we suggest to use your Doteasy password)
MySQL Host: 127.0.0.1
MySQL Database Name: (enter your DB name)
MySQL Username: (enter your DB Username)
MySQL Password: (enter your DB password)
MySQL table prefix: default is okay
ImageMagick path: (leave this box empty)
Click Let's Go!
Congratulations, the installation for Coppermine Photo Gallery is now complete.
You can go to http://www.mywebsite.com/photos and try your first post.
Batch-resizing pics with Irfan View
Tutorial: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/tutorial/irfanview1.php
Although Coppermine is capable of batch-resizing pictures on the server it is advisable to resize the pictures on your client PC before upload.
Advantages:
- Smaller file size reduces upload time
- Reduction of web space usage
- Higher picture quality
- (Nearly) no limitation of amount of files that can be processed in one go
- Reduced server load avoids issues with web server admin (especially on shared/virtual web space)
- Additional options and features available (e.g. crop, sharpen, rename)
The tutorial (refer to the above link) will explain how to batch-resize/rename pics on your client, using the widely popular freeware application
IrfanView - of course there are many other applications available that can do the same; you're welcome to try other apps as well.
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