Personal Note (Feb 2024): Phormer has been a pet project back in 2007. It is no longer maintained. However, it should still work, even with PHP 8. ^_^
Phormer is featureful a Photo Gallery Manager in PHP (and no MySQL)!
- Homepage: https://p.horm.org/er
- Demo: https://p.horm.org
- Former Project Home: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rephormer/ (Since 2007)
- Download the latest version of phormer###.zip from http://p.horm.org/er (or
/binfolder here) - Unzip the
phormer###.zipfile (~90KB) to the destination folder on your server (e.g./var/www/photos). (Hint: type this command: "unzip phormer###.zip" in the shell). - Load that by a web browser (e.g.
http://somewhere/photos) and fill the short form of preferences.
That's all!
Note that the base directory of phormer must be writable by php server, for
the first time installation. Thus, chmod 777 this base directory (where
index.php, admin.php & etc are placed) after the unzip, and when installation
completed, turn them back to 711.
Briefly, after uploading, the following commands shall be entered:
$ unzip phormer###
$ chmod 777 .
and after installation (getting the "installation completed" message):
$ chmod 711 .
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Remove folder "
files/" and all files in root of installation directory (e.g.index.php,admin.phpand etc.) after that, there should be just 3 folders of "data/", "images/" and "temp/" there with no files in root folder. HINT: in correct accessing mode, those 3 folders are owned by PHP and you may not delete them. -
Place all the contents of download phormer (i.e. a folder of "
files/" and some files to be placed at root of installation) there. no conflict should occur. -
Go to administration area (http://example.com/photos/admin.php) and work fine! All your images would be saved through an update.
That's all!
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Easy webbased setup: Just copy the files and then enter admin's password! Also uninstallation is so easy and can be done from inside the Phormer by one click (after confirmation!).
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Fast and valid pages: Tableless and human-made XHTML codes for both admin and visitors page, leads faster and cleaner pages which are tested in common browers! also the image-less and comfortable administration region has provided very fast and exact navigation whole around!
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XML databases: Light, easy to handle/manage/backup/manualModification. Doesn't require any sql (mysql, pgsql) account on machine, just a php server!
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Category/Story: Having two separate categorization method will lead to handle everything in the most right place! -- You can both categorize your shots by Category (e.g. black and white, self-portrait, etc.) and, on the other hand, by date (which named story), just like the posts of a weblog.
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Hierarchical Categs: Each photo can be placed in several categories/stories. also the Categories/Stories, themselves can be inherited.
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Improved Privacy: Leads both private (passworded of each own) and unlisted (unseen from the first page) mode for the Categories/Stories.
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Link Manager: Manage the side-bar links of your blogs, visually from inside the administration area, so fast and clean!
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File gathering mods: Image files can be acquired either from the PC (by Ajaxian upload manager) or from somewhere across the web (just enter url!).
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Ajax Upload Manager: Name and fill information of your shot while its upload progress goes (ajaxly) on background!
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Square thumbs: Easy WYSIWYG Part-of-Image Square-Thumb maker tool helps you to create the best square thumb from your shots which is best-fitted and much more catchy! various sizes of whole image can also be generated, beside.
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Editable add-shot: Edit and regenerate/re-enter everything at everytime, even the photo's source file!
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Advanced Commenting: Manage them easily. Control visitors to leave comments on each photo/story or not.
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RSS Feed: Don't Lose RSS-Addicted visitors! index.xml for last photo entries will be generated after each photo add/del.
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Various Themes: You'll never get bored with 10 different styles.
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Various styles: 3 different styles for index page: photos, stories, jungleBox (where all the shots can be place above each other and be highlighted when pointed!). a Random of them can also be selected!
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Rating system: Save the opinion (rating) of visitors about each single photo and sort them in that way! Note: on version 2.30 and later, the Rating is moved on AJAX system and visitors doesn't need to load the page once again!
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Comment Manager: Save each Photo/Story's comments separately which can be disabled (for each item) in admin's page. also catches the date and the IP of each comment. they can be browsed totally sorted-by-date by admin and be deleted (if needed!) by a single click. also, since version 3.10, word verification feature has comen to help fighting against spam commenters!
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Hit Counter: Counts each shot's view-times, separately!
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Easy export: Use each photo in your weblog/website (in proper size) by a single code (e.g. something like this line: <script src="http://mywebby.com/?j=290"></script>) in various sizes. Also, since version 3.30, export method in PHP is available - just put this line in your PHP code: include("http://mywebby.com/?jj=290"); Note that in both modes of export, you can set pass a size parameter (in range [0..4] to get various sizes) like: include("http://mywebby.com/?jj=290&size=2"); in PHP export!
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Info gatherer (EXIF): Save the photo info (like focus mode, shutter speed, ...), date taken and every other precise data about each shot. Since version 3.20, EXIF handling is also enabled.
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I18n: using unicode (UTF-8) as whole encoding system, has provided a reliable support of various languages.
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ALSO, ON VERSION 3.30 AND AFTER:
- Powerful Backup Anytime, each of your essential XML files missed or corrupted Due to a server lack of write or synchronous problem, Phormer will automatically notify you of that and helps you to restore the last saved backup. NOTE: always log-out to save a back-up of your files, automatically!
- Help Interactive help on every menu feeds you the required informations about each item.
- Automatic Update Your PG, by contacting to the homepage of Phormer, will notify of that!
- Statistics Online visitors count, today, yesterday & this month visitors count.
- Mass Upload Now, you can upload many of your files into a .zip file and also add several inside another local directory!
- External CSS Is now supported, just put them into files/externalcss and pick them inside the preferences area.
- SlideShow Is available now! both for stories and categories and also for recent photos
- New recenting modes! Recently commented and Random photos are also added to First page indexing made, which is rebuilt.
/{Installation Directory}
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+- data/ # Keeps a set of .xml files like a database
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| +- adminPass.php # MD5-ed version of Administration Password
| +- basis.xml # Basic configurations like theme
| +- basis.xml.bku # A backup of last saved basis.xml
| +- ...
| +- p_00000i.xml # Data of Photo #i
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+- files/ # Phormer's own files, like css
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| +- adminfiles/ # Administration area's files
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| | +- addphoto.js # Javascript of adding photos
| | +- admin.css # CSS of admin.php
| | +- photos.xml.def # Default XML file of data/photos.xml
| | +- ...
| | +- help.js # Help messages
| | +- skeleton.js # Thumbnail skeleton picker js
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| +- cssfiles/ # Images of different themes
| | |
| | +- black_hbg0.jpg
| | +- ...
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| +- externalcss/ # Additional External CSS Files
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| +- phorm.js # JavaScript file of index.php
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+- images/
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| +- 00000i_j.jpg # j-th thumbnail of photo #i
| +- ...
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+- temp/ # Temporary/Draft photos/files which ain't public
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+- admin.php # Administration area
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+- css.php # CSS file of index.php, generates upon theme
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+- funcs.php # Functions of admin.php and index.php
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+- index.php # Viewable file for public
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+- index.xml # RSS feed file, auto-generated
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+- readme.txt # This file!
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+- upload.php # PHP files of uploading photos (AJAX)
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+- wv.php # Word Verification PHP
This program is a free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.0 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You can receive a copy of GNU General Public License at the World Wide Web address http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
Product Name Phormer
Product URL http://p.horm.org/er
Product Description A PHP (without MySQL) PhotoGallery Manager
Latest Version 3.35
Release Date 2024/02/07
Author's Name Aidin NasiriShargh
Author's Email aideen[at]gmail[dot]com
Author's URL http://i.horm.org
License GNU's Public License (GPL)
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This Readme is Last-Updated on 2024/02/07 by Aidin NasiriShargh [http://i.horm.org].