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Coppermine is a photo gallery tool that enables you to arrange pictures in categories and albums, create thumbnails of images, search for pictures, and view slideshows.

.:: Requirements

02: Web Server + PHP + MySQL + IM/GD = CPG!

Coppermine Photo Gallery has been tested to work well on IIS, Apache 1.3.24 onwards to the latest Apache 2, on Linux, UNIX, OSX, and Win32 systems. The following settings are required:

  • Good webserver (Apache recommended);
  • PHP (4.2.0 or better);
  • MySQL (3.23.23 or better; 4.x recommended);
  • either GD or ImageMagick (any version);

.:: Current features

03: Endless Features!

CPG is so fully featured it's not enough to fully list them here. Feel free to have a go with the demo - change the themes, add some comments, see it in Hungarian!

  • arrangement of pictures in categories and albums;
  • picture information stored in database;
  • users can upload pictures with web interface or ftp (and admin can batch-add to database);
  • full multimedia support
  • creation of thumbnails and intermediate size pics;
  • search feature;
  • last added;
  • random picture;
  • user management (private galleries, groups);
  • integration of user management with various bbs (like phpBB, YaBB SE, SMF, Invisionboard, vbulletin);
  • caption, title, description and user defined fields for each picture (searchable);
  • easy install (installer provided);
  • multi-lingual: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (both Big-5 and GB), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (both "Du" and "Sie"), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian (both with and without diacritics), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Uighur, Vietnamese; if your language is not on the list, you can easily create a translation for your own language;
  • user comments;
  • e-card feature;
  • slideshow viewer;
  • all features customizable with web interface (admin section);
  • template system;
  • user membership in multiple groups;
  • upload approval notice for admin;
  • EXIF/IPTC support;
  • language selection option in template;
  • image rotation;
  • multi-pic upload;
  • separation of the breadcrumb block so that it can be placed independently of category in the template;
  • option to choose max height or width for thumbnails will help in creating nicer looking thumbnail rows and cols;
  • option to display a clickable filmstrip of thumbnails below the image display;
  • option to show first level albums of a category instead of just statistics of the category;
  • option of turning on OR off the showing of "Private" Icon to unlogged / unprivileged user;
  • title option to sort in albums;
  • online help feature for the admin pages;
  • plugin-API;
  • English as a fallback language for un-translated entries in language files;
  • password-protected albums;
  • more admin-settable user profile fields;
  • picture-resize on upload;
  • bbs integration settable with a wizard-like user interface;
  • advanced search (boolean operators);

Customize your frontpage through CSS, PHP or plain HTML!


Unlimited multiple albums and categories using MySQL.


Film strip for easy access.

.:: Future plans

04: What does the near future hold?

The developers are excited about releasing a new version which may include the following features (check out the forum):

  • integration of various hacks/user contributions into the release package;
  • advanced e-card feature (plain-text mails);
  • template-building tutorial;
  • optional dhtml navigation;
  • Permanent URLs for search engine friendliness (using PID instead of POS)
  • Rating on thumbnails page
  • Registration disclaimer optional
  • From thumbnail to Pop-Up option
  • Coppermine API
  • Comment approval
  • Comment and registration captcha class
  • Global password for registration
  • Watermarking
  • Thumb cropping and sharpening
  • Movie download option
  • Ecard flash support
  • Random album thumbnail
  • Tag cloud for keywords
  • Moderator for album pictures
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