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Support for large filesize JPG's

Submitted by greatdane on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 08:13

Hi again,

Still using your lovely software with a few mods here and there. I added some buttons so I can start a Cooliris slideshow directly, and some graphics showing the features of the galery. I have thousands of pictures now in my gallery from 3 years :)

Also recently started a video gallery, as i found a good video resizer WinFF. Works great, though Quicktime is slow in playing mpeg4 files.

If you are still looking to improve Photo Gallery, here are some requests :)

- Support of larger resolutions: Since online space is getting cheaper and cheaper, I decided to
try and upload some of my pictures in 2800x2100 and 3200x2400, but the album won't display them. Either in the webpage,nor the admin list.

- Center Header: Option to center the header gif: I added a header, but it is left alligned I believe.

- When new pictures are uploaded, can it be possible that when index.php reads it, that it updates the photos.rss automatically. I often just upload a pack of pictures into a "month" folder, and forget to go to admin panel and click save to update it.

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#1Submitted by admin on Tue, 08/04/2009 - 05:55.

large photos

Thanks for the support!

The support for larger photos depends entirely on the webserver, many providers already started to increase te memory php can use. In the beginning of EasyPhpAlbum the PHP memory_limit was often set at 8MB or 16MB, resulting in max. sized photo's of 640x480px. Now 24MB or more seems standard allowing larger photos to be resized.

The centering problem seems like a small bug. The new feature is interesting and would require an additional check against thumbnails file date and the photo.rss file date.

Another option I'm looking at is to continue to develop with the EasyPhpAlbum Lite version and add the most important features to that package. The Lite version has a better 'unlimited depth' album structure, is faster and XHTML compliant.
#2Submitted by greatdane on Wed, 08/05/2009 - 22:51.

I have 24 MB php_memory

I have 24 MB php_memory limit, but that will not allow pictures beyond 2000px to be shown .... but how does it calculate the usage?

A page with 10 x 1MB pictures is 10 MB or ?
#3Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 20:56.

How to calculate PHP memory requirements

For images you can roughly use:

4 x width (px) x height (px) = memory requirement in bytes

PHP uses more memory for image manipulations that you would expect!