Frustratingly, this is very close to being a really good gallery. However, it has a couple of issues.
- It's very finicky about characters in descriptions and titles. Any non-technical user is going to find this very frustrating to use.
- It saves the images with their original file names, and if you upload another image (even in a different album) with the same file name *it will overright the existing image* and not even warn you. So, upload a set of default-named images from you digital camera and you'll probably trash an entire existing gallery...
- The navigation graphics are fixed in the Flash movie. They're bold Aqua-style so will clash with a lot of site designs, and many are very poor quality with lots of jaggies. No Flash source, so you can't change them.
- ZIP uploads didn't work for me - I haven't investigated this so might be similar to the XML issue below.
The image overwriting issue I could fix, but without the Flash source to do something about the graphics this gallery is useless to me.
Hint: I had trouble getting this working - the admin was behaving strangely and not saving to the config files used by the Flash front end. This was nothing to do with the plugin - turns out Redhat decided in their wisdom to leave core PHP5 functionality out of their main PHP package. You need to install php-xml (yum install php-xml) to get it working.
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