Bizou - a (french) KISS php image gallery

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Bizou is a very simple image gallery written in PHP following the KISS principle.

Bizou is free software released under the GPLv3 license.

(Bizou is a variant of "bisou", a french word for a kiss.)

Demo - Download

Features

No database needed. Just drop your images in a directory.
Sexy URLs (/images/index.php/2008 Corse /images/plugins/viewer/view.php/2008 Corse/002 ajaccio.jpg)
Album/directory preview (first image as preview)
Fast browsing (next image preloading, HTTP Expires headers)
Keyboard navigation in image viewer

Install

Required: a web server with PHP5 and the GD extension.

Untar the archive to your web directory
Copy some files in the images/ directory
For thumbnails, make sure the web server has write access on the data/ directory (probably not needed for FTP installs)
Try it, have fun!

# And for commandline fans like me...
wget www.positon.org/bizou/bizou_vXX.tar.gz
tar -xzvf bizou_vXX.tar.gz
# allow we server to write in data dir
chgrp www-data bizou/data/
chmod g+w bizou/data/

Changelog

2011-10-17

A css style for Bizou is now available. Thanks to Titi. See in the plugins section.

2011-06-13 (v1.5)

Display a progress page when generating thumbs
Exported templates in external template.php files
Bugfix: next image not preloaded for images in the images/ root (because of a double slash in URL)
The tar plugin

2011-01-27 (v1.4)

Fixed a bug when operating at the top web directory. Thanks to pilau.
Added page title, some credit.. This features are turning into a changelog.

2011-01-04 (v1.3)

Keyboard navigation in image viewer
Small CSS and Javascript improvements

2010-12-30 (v1.2)

Plugins support (minimalist API to start, contact me if you need to add something)
CSS theme support via plugins
Image Viewer is now a 'viewer' plugin

2010-11-06 (v1.1)

Only 2 PHP files
No database needed. Just drop your images in a directory.
Simple album preview (first image as preview)
Sexy URLs (/images/index.php/2008 Corse /images/plugins/viewer/view.php/2008 Corse/002 ajaccio.jpg)
Next image preloading
Fast browsing with HTTP Expires headers

2010-10-29 (v1.0)

Plugins

To install a plugin, just drop it in the plugins/ directory.

viewer

Included by default, just delete the directory if you don't need it.

greystyle

A css style for Bizou. Many thanks to Titi for that. Demo - Download

tar

Download an entire directory with tar streaming. Very fast, and no need for extra space. You can enable recursion by editing tar.php.

# commandline fans, downloading a directory becomes as simple as:
wget -O- http://www.positon.org/bizou/bizoufull/plugins/tar/tar.php/2008%20Corse | tar -xvf -

Demo - Download

Thanks Felix for his zip download patch (v1.1 only), leading me to the idea of plugins.

Development

Feel free to report any bug or suggestion:

Git tree: http://www.positon.org/bizou/bizou.git

git clone http://www.positon.org/bizou/bizou.git

Links

My blog
Blog Post about Bizou
Piwigo: well known php gallery software... does a LOT more than Bizou.