h1. phpfspot

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phpfspot brings you F-Spot album online. The PHP-based application handles the sqlite3 database of F-Spot and displays tags, EXIF informations (for JPEG photo's), ...

h2. Download

The current stable release is 1.7 ([[Changelog]]). See "Files":/projects/list_files/phpfspot if you want to download it.

h2. Features

* publish your F-Spot photo collection in the web
* AJAX-based web-interface
* Tag-Cloud
* RSS XML export
* auto-rotation based on EXIF Orientation header in the photo
* Slideshow
* Works well with Firefox, Safari, Epiphany, Opera and IE
* Support of Nikon's NEF format (via dcraw) 

h2. Demo and Screenshots

A simple Demo-installation with some wallpapers from kdelook.org can be found at:

http://oss.netshadow.at/phpfspot/

[[Screenshots]] has some pictures of a running phpfspot installation.

h2. Requirements

* apache2
* php5
 o gd2-extension2
 o sqlite3-extensions [or also as PDO driver]
 o PEAR module Calendar
 o PEAR module HTML_AJAX (version >= 0.5.6 suggested which supports Opera)
* sqlite3

h2. Get involved

h3. Mailinglist

Installation issues, ideas, feature requests, ... post to the mailing list which can be found at

phpfspot@netshadow.at

Do not forget! Before posting to this list you need to subscribe either via sending an empty email to phpfspot-subscribe@netshadow.at or visit https://admin.netshadow.at/mailman/listinfo/phpfspot/.

h3. Reviews

* http://lefant.net/logposts/2007-07-22---phpfspot/ by Fabian
* http://www.linux.com/feature/133156 by Ben Martin 

h3. Users

* http://images.netshadow.at/
* http://gallery.lefant.net/

h3. I want to get the lastest development trunk!

You can check it out of the GIT repository via:

<pre>
git clone http://git.netshadow.at/phpfspot.git/
</pre>

h3. Some tips

* Convert NEF (Nikon RAW format) to JPEG with EXIF meta-data - http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/forums/digital-photo/my-humble-contribution-wrapper-script-dcraw-linux-4360.html





h2. Links

* "roundup":http://oss.netshadow.at/roundup-phpfspot/ - issue tracking until 21st of June 2008.
* "freshmeat.net project page":http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpfspot/
* "PennAve":http://pennave.sourceforge.net/ - similar implementation with python written by Patrick Wagstrom

h2. Installation

A general install description is bundled with each release - see INSTALL file.

h3. Debian

phpfspot was develeoped under Debian GNU/Linux. 

* [[Debian-Howto]] for Etch by Fabian 
* [[Debian-Howto-Lenny]] for Lenny by Unki

h3. OpenSuSE

see this [[OpenSUSE-Howto]]

h3. Further configuration hints

phpfspot supports [[EnableFriendlyUserUrls]].