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SDG Simple Dynamic Gallery is a dynamic server side image gallery application written in PHP. Developed as a simple way to launch dynamic image galleries on your own web site without requiring a data base, JavaScript or external data documents such as XML. SDG gathers file and EXIF information from images in a directory on your web site, and sets all the variables necessary to dynamically populate, paginate and display images in your own gallery design.

I started with a simple function to create an array of images that gets built based on the files found in a directory, making this gallery so simple it doesent even need a data base. Of course it has some serious limitations because there is no data being stored about the image other then the image itself.

Many moons ago, when I created this application using php 3 or 4, I'm not sure, not all web hosts included support for the EXIF module in PHP, so I found an EXIF library called "Exifer" that did what I needed". The exif library used on this application does not require that your web server or host support PHP EXIF module.

Now that we are up to PHP 5 and most servers support EXIF, I would recomend at least replacing the exif library with calls to PHP's exif module.

Release News

  • Version 1

    I have no future plans of updating or maintaining this old code, this is the final version.

    Version 1

Sceenshots

  • Single page view displays thumbnails and large images on the same view.

  • Multi page view displays thumbnails and large images on diffrent views.