Introduction

Since my girlfriend is a Mac user, she felt a bit left out with all my Picasa scripts, so I wrote a little XML reader which takes XML albums exported from iPhoto using Well-Formed and generates a nice online album. This is a simple, yet completely free, solution to publishing iPhoto Albums online. View an online example of what this script looks like.

Download and Installation

Note: This script requires PHP 5 to work
Download iPhotoViewer .ZIP

Installation:
  1. Extract Zip file and Upload to your server
  2. Make a "galleries" directory in the same directory as the uploaded files
  3. Make the "galleries" directory readable by the public
  4. All done!

Adding Albums:
  • Export Album (example "mytrip") from iPhoto using the Well Formed plugin. Make sure you name the xml file "index.xml"
  • Upload the Album to the Gallery directory (keeping the directory stucture of the exported Gallery), so it should have something like this:
    http://domain.com/galleries/mytrip/index.xml
  • Link to script using 
    http://domain.com/view.php?gallery=mytrip&num=index
    where "mytrip" is the gallery dir name on the server and "num=index" shows the index, or "num=0" shows the first image in the album.

Version and Comments

Current Version:
0.5 - July 14, 2005 - First Public Release

Planned Features:
- Would anyone like it to scan for galleris automatically?

Comments:
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