Have you ever needed to quickly share a bunch of photos via your own web server? Have you just dumped them into a directory and settled for Apache's mod_autoindex directory listing? Have you thought that there has to be some open-source project which makes an actual browsable gallery with thumbnails out of these, preferably without any elaborate installation and configuration process? Well, if there hasn't been any until now, now there is.
php-tiny-gallery is a single simple stupid PHP script, which you drop along with the photos into the same directory, and it will turn your directory into an actual gallery. On the client side, the script uses jQuery 3 and Fancybox 3 presentation library, fetched from CloudFlare CDN. When you first visit the gallery, the script will check if the thumbnails have been created yet and if not, it will create them via series of AJAX calls. On the server side, the script will create a thumbnail subdirectory, generate the thumbnails using Imagick or GD2 image processing PHP extensions, and store them for future use.
- PHP 7.0 or newer
php-imagickORphp-gd2image processing extension
Just upload index.php to a directory from which you want to create a gallery.
Well... none. Which is kinda the whole point. :)
But if you really want to, on first 3 lines of the script you can set
THUMB_SIZEfor thumbnail size in pixels. The default is 200 px.THUMB_DIRfor name of the thumbnail subdirectory. The default isthumbs.ALLOWED_EXTfor file extensions which will be displayed and for which the thumbnails will be generated. The defaults are['bmp', 'gif', 'jpe', 'jpeg', 'jpg', 'png'].
Q: Can the script create thumbnails for videos (MP4, WEBM, ...) or documents (PDF, DOC, XLS, ...)?
A: It can't, because it would need other modules for it. But you can hack it a little bit. The script expects the thumbnails in the THUMB_DIR with the same base name as the original file and jpg extension. First you need to manually create the thumbnails using whichever tool you like and upload them to the thumbnails directory. Then add the file extension to supported extensions. This will cause the script to display your thumbnail and link your file without attempting to create a new thumbnail, because it has been already created manually.
Q: I have added / removed / changed some files in the gallery. Do I need to do anything to reflect the changes?
A: New files will be picked up and the thumbnails will be generated for them automatically. As for the update or removal - the old thumbnails won't be removed automatically, so you need to remove them manually. The same goes also for change of THUMB_SIZE.