Website Design Forum

**vaio2006** · 10-20-2005, 07:46 AM

I am looking for an alternative to the Coppermine photogallery.

I have a Window 2003 Server with MS SQL on it.. Apparently Coppermine doesn't work with MS SQL... and my school isn't willing to pay for mySQL....

**Anacrusis** · 10-20-2005, 08:26 AM

You school isn't willing to pay for MySql? Do they realize that MySql is free?

**vaio2006** · 10-20-2005, 09:33 AM

oh really?
I was looking at https://shop.mysql.com/network_features.html
and that costs... alot.... where can I get mySQL?

**Anacrusis** · 10-20-2005, 09:41 AM

Right here:
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html

**vaio2006** · 10-20-2005, 10:54 AM

hmm in anycase is Coppermine the best out htere? I found something called Gallery2 (http://gallery.menalto.com/)

Please help me out..

**Anacrusis** · 10-20-2005, 11:00 AM

I like coppermine, it's a very good application. I think Gallery2 is much better though, it's much more robust and has a ton more features.
You'll need to evaluate your needs and figure out which one suits you best.

**Alexa** · 10-20-2005, 04:11 PM

It amazes me how many people don't know what is free. Yes, mySQL is free and as far as I know most schools already have it installed on the server along with PHP, if they offer computer courses. Take a look at the Photo Gallery demo at:
http://www.dmcreativeservices.com

It's easy to install and is affordable for professional software.

Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

**DaBlacDragon** · 10-20-2005, 07:35 PM

I have used BOTH and Gallery is definately better than Coppermine.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anacrusis

I like coppermine, it's a very good application. I think Gallery2 is much better though, it's much more robust and has a ton more features.
You'll need to evaluate your needs and figure out which one suits you best.

**jbella** · 01-26-2006, 09:32 AM

Try KirouGallery is doesn't require a database, www.kirou.com

**vaio2006** · 01-29-2006, 01:53 AM

Thanks! is there a live site that is using it?

I got coppermine working on the server. But the thing is. We want a Gallery that is very user friendly, [opensource or not] that we can basically upload a zipfile, and the program will automatically extract the files and create a gallery.

We want to do this on our school server. So parents, students and teachers can upload galleries and their own will. [but we would like to make it an approval based gallery]