Introduction to Gallery

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Introduction to Gallery

• Bharat Mediratta
• July 25, 2002

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What is Gallery

• Your photos on your website
• Similar to commercial ASP products

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Brief History of Gallery

• Started May 2000
• Small development team
• 20,000 websites today
• 100 new installs a day

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Gallery Features

• Easy Install
• Simple image management
• User permissions
• Java companion
• Slideshow
• User comments

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Customizing Gallery for Your Website

• Html wrappers
• Style Sheets
• Modifying the code

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Gallery and CMS/Portals

• Nuke and PostNuke
• Geeklog
• PhpBB2
• XOOPS

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Using Gallery for E-commerce

• Using html_wrap plugins
• Shopping cart
• Inventory integration

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Known Issues

• Prototype
• No Internationalization
• No Templates
• Concurrency Problems

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G2 The Future of Gallery

• Templates
• Concurrency Support
• Relational Database support
• Better CMS Integration
• Internationalization
• Dynamic thumbnail generation
• Significant performance increases

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Questions