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what

Zoph (Zoph Organizes Photos) is a web based digital image presentation and management system. In other words, a photo album. It is built with PHP, MySQL and Perl.

After I bought a digital camera I wanted some way to easily organize a growing number of photos. At the moment I use Zoph to keep track of and share a few thousand of my photos, all cross-referenced.

If you just want to generate a gallery of thumbnails from a bunch of images, you may want to try one of the other numerous photo album projects. But if you want to also store additional information about your photos, search them, or control access to them, take a look at Zoph.

news

Zoph 0.7 released

1 July 2007 by Jeroen Roos

After two pre-releases, here it is, Zoph v0.7.

Compared to the last pre-release, a couple of small, but sometimes annoying bugs have been solved, most in the autocomplete keyboard handling and some issues with using the "autothumbnail" feature when not logged in as an admin user.

Compared to v0.6 lots of bugs have been solved and a couple of new features have been added, Most notable new features are a Javascript based autocompletion function on the selectorboxes for albums, categories, places and people; new views for albums, categories, places and people - including a thumbnail view, giving you a preview of what's in that folder.

For full overview of changes, see the changelog.

Dutch, Danish, German, Canadian English, French, Norwegian, Turkish and even Swedish Chef (Bork! Bork! Bork!) are completely up to date now. Italian is almost up to date.

Many thanks to Antoine Delvaux, Francesco Ciattaglia, Håvard Lund, Jesper Skytter and Mufit Eribol for translating Zoph in their languages.

I would appreciate a post in the forum telling me what you think about the new release and, while you're at it, why not vote for Zoph at the Sourceforge or Freshmeat site?

I hope you will all enjoy this new release!

Jeroen Roos

features

• Photos can have lots of meta data. Each photo record can store:
  • EXIF info (date, time, width, height, size, camera make, camera model,
  • flash used, focal length, exposure, aperture, etc)
  • title
  • photographer
  • location
  • description
  • rating
  • people in the photo
• Each photo can appear in zero or more albums.
• Each photo can appear in zero or more categories.
• Albums and categories are both hierarchical.
• Searches can be performed using all this data:
  "Show me all photos taken by 'Joe Smith' between 2001-01-01 and 2001-12-31 at 'Joe and Nancy's House' in which 'Nancy Smith' appears and whose rating is greater than 5".
• Access privileges:
  • each user has an account and is granted permissions on albums
  • each user can specify various preferences
  • an automatically logged in guest user can be defined
• Slideshows.
• Lightboxes.
• "Email this photo" feature.
• Some basic reporting: most photographed people, places, etc.
• Photos, albums, categories, people, places and users can be easily administered using the web interface.
• Import photos from the web or by using a Perl script.
• Export photos to create static galleries with album or BINS.
• Internationalized (multiple language support).
• Fairly detailed documentation, including a manual/tutorial.
• Extensible OO code (more or less).

todo

See the feature request forum to request or discuss future features.

documentation

You can find the most up to date documentation in a Wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Zoph.

screen shots

A few shots from slightly dated build of Zoph (v0.3). All were taken using Mozilla under Linux. If you have a nice Zoph-screenshot you'd like to display here, please mail it!

home page	albums	categories	search page
thumbnails	a user	prefs page (alternate color scheme)	about page
details (1)	details (2) (alternate color scheme and in pseudo-sweedish)	reports

demo

A read-only demo of Zoph with a handfull of photos is now available:

http://www.zoph.org/demo/zoph.php

You can also view some static exports of the demo generated by the export script:

http://zoph.sourceforge.net/export/

download

Zoph is open source and is released under the GPL license. Releases prior to 0.4 were released under the modified BSD license.

Please go to the Zoph Filelist to download Zoph.

translations

Zoph has been translated in several different languages. This can be controlled on a per-user basis. Translations are made using a language file. Below you can see the current status of the translations; if you are interested in updating one, you can download a file with the missing strings and update them. If you would like to provide a full translation of a language currently not available, please use the zoph_strings.txt. You can send the updated files to and I will make sure they will be included in the next release.

updated 2 July 2007

feedback

Send feedback to

Bug reports, fixes and suggestions are all welcome. Or if you just find Zoph useful please send me a note, I'd like to hear about it.

Now that a Sourceforge project is up, you can post to the forums or submit bugs or feature requests there.

To be notified of new releases please subscribe to the project at freshmeat.

Zoph, (c)2002-2007, Jason Geiger and Jeroen Roos