Host your own images sans database with DAlbum
January 11th, 2008
Found yourself in need of sharing images in the Internet? Before you go and spend a dime on commercial image album software, or waste hours uploading images one by one on third party sites, you might want to try DAlbum.
DAlbum is a free PHP photo album that lets you host your own images. Small and easy to install, DAlbum requires minimal knowledge in PHP manipulation, as the software is almost good out of the box. Just copy the files to your web server, follow the instructions, and you are ready to upload your images. The best news is that there is no need for any database to take advantage of DAlbum.
To share an image, upload it to a directory under DAlbum and click ‘Reindex’ in your web page. Once done with the reindexing, the images are now available for viewing. Though the software doesn’t have a lot of visual customization available, you may change the color scheme and the layout to a certain degree. Available are four pre-set color schemes you can immediately use. A bonus pack is also available for download to include slide show, video and other features in your DAlbum page.
DAlbum requires a web server with PHP 4.1 and Apache 1.3 installed.