2007-07-22

for some time now i have been using f-spot (website: http://f-spot.org/, which is a nice photo organization software for gnome. above all f-spot has great support for tagging, which in my opinion is a very important feature. you can also automatically create a static html thumbnail gallery for your website or export to flickr or gallery (the php thing many people seem to be using). however this way either you loose your tags (static html, gallery) or you handover your pictures and control over the url to flickr (which limits you to 200 pictures in their free plan anyway).

phpfspot (website: http://oss.netshadow.at/oss/phpfspot/Project, freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpfspot/) to the rescue!

after some whining on my part at work my colleague at work andreas unterkircher started looking for a better webfrontend solution (foremost including good support for the tags) himself and, finding none, started coding. for reference there is pennave with a similar goal (website: [http://pennave.sourceforge.net/](http://pennave.sourceforge. net/)), however speed was really lacking and development very slow).

i am now happily running phpfspot myself (link: http://gallery.lefant.net/). i also use the thumbnail export feature to create thumbnail galleries for use in the debienna wiki (link: http://debienna.at/). the thumbnails on the starting page are created dynamically for each page visit (try reloading, see http://debienna.at/?action=raw for the page source and the ?RandomQuote hack) which uses the FotoFortunes wiki page as its source (warning, huge page). using phpfspots export feature i can now create the content of the ?FotoFortunes page automatically after selecting all pictures with the debienna tag.

the same works with literal html for blog entries like this one. find a thumbnail gallery of all my images tagged with "screens" below: