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Piwigo 248 Piwigo Interface of Piwigo Developer(s) Pierrick Le Gall, Piwigo Team Stable release Written in PHP 2.1.1 / 25 May 2010 Available in Multilingual Type web application License GPL Website www.piwigo.org [1] Piwigo (formely known PhpWebGallery) is a web standards compliant photo-gallery licensed under the GPL. It is written in PHP and requires a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite). Piwigo was formerly known as PhpWebGallery. Piwigo creator Pierrick Le Gall announced the change from PhpWebGallery to Piwigo on his personal website on September 24, 2008 [2] . History Piwigo was originally written by Pierrick Le Gall as a personal project during fall 2001. Inspired by the opensource web forum phpBB that he installed for his university website, he chooses the GPL license to distribute Piwigo and start a community around the project. On spring 2002, the first version of Piwigo was released [3] In 2002, Piwigo became multilingual. In 2004, a bugtracker was installed in order to work in team. In 2005 an online extension manager [4] made contributions easier to share. In 2006, themes made customization possible. In 2007, plugins are introduced to extend Piwigo features. In 2009, PhpWebGallery was renammed Piwigo, pLoader (Piwigo Uploader) makes photo upload easier for Windows, Mac and Linux users. In 2010, digiKam is able to upload photos to any Piwigo gallery and Piwigo gets an enhanced web uploader. In 2010, 20 members in Piwigo team, 30 translators, a website available in 10 languages and a thriving community.

Piwigo 249 Main Features Categories Tags Calendar Themes Plugins Each image is bound to one or more categories. Categories are hierarchical and there is no limit in depth. An administrator describes photos with tags, then visitors can browse photos by tags or multiple related tags, for example "night + Paris + John". Extracted from EXIF metadata, Piwigo knows the date of each photo and is able to display photos for a given day, month or year. The appearance of the photo gallery is defined by the theme. There are various themes provided by the project community. Plugins expand capabilities of Piwigo. Plugins exist that integrate Google Videos, Dailymotion, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Earth, as well as implementing a sitemap. Access control Access control is handled by the user manager, restricting and granting varying levels of access to images and categories. Notification system Users can be alerted of changes and updates through RSS feeds and E-mail Other features are listed on the project's homepage. See also • Comparison of photo gallery software External links • Official website [1] References [1] http://www.piwigo.org/ [2] PhpWebGallery turns Piwigo (http://le-gall.net/pierrick/en/blog/index.php?post/2008/09/24/PhpWebGallery-turns-Piwigo) [3] Release archive (http://piwigo.org/basics/archive) [4] http://piwigo.org/ext

Piwigo 248<br />

Piwigo<br />

Interface of Piwigo<br />

Developer(s) Pierrick Le Gall, Piwigo<br />

Team<br />

Stable<br />

release<br />

Written in <strong>PHP</strong><br />

2.1.1 / 25 May 2010<br />

Available in Multilingual<br />

Type web application<br />

License GPL<br />

Website www.piwigo.org [1]<br />

Piwigo (formely known PhpWebGallery) is a web standards compliant photo-gallery licensed under the GPL. It is<br />

written in <strong>PHP</strong> and requires a database (MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite).<br />

Piwigo was formerly known as PhpWebGallery. Piwigo creator Pierrick Le Gall announced the change from<br />

PhpWebGallery to Piwigo on his personal website on September 24, 2008 [2] .<br />

History<br />

Piwigo was originally written by Pierrick Le Gall as a personal project during fall 2001. Inspired by the opensource<br />

web forum phpBB that he installed for his university website, he chooses the GPL license to distribute Piwigo and<br />

start a community around the project. On spring 2002, the first version of Piwigo was released [3]<br />

In 2002, Piwigo became multilingual. In 2004, a bugtracker was installed in order to work in team. In 2005 an online<br />

extension manager [4] made contributions easier to share. In 2006, themes made customization possible. In 2007,<br />

plugins are introduced to extend Piwigo features. In 2009, PhpWebGallery was renammed Piwigo, pLoader (Piwigo<br />

Uploader) makes photo upload easier for Windows, Mac and Linux users. In 2010, digiKam is able to upload photos<br />

to any Piwigo gallery and Piwigo gets an enhanced web uploader.<br />

In 2010, 20 members in Piwigo team, 30 translators, a website available in 10 languages and a thriving community.

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