I just wanted to make a quick post ‘bigging-up’ Plogger. It’s a PHP/MySQL based image gallery that seems to take a lot of inspiration from WordPress.

I’ve spent the past couple of days looking for a good quality image gallery for use with the South Worcestershire College site that I’m building (which isn’t live yet, but should be soon), and looked at various solutions, including Gallery and PhotoPost, but had settled on getting AZ Photo Album as I was impressed with the simplicity of the script.

That was until I tested their script on my server to make sure that it worked – at which point I discovered that it didn’t. The issue is that their script uses PHP short-tags (i.e. they use <? to open section of PHP code, rather than <?php like they should). The server I’m using doesn’t use short-tags, and while I could have gone into their code and do a find-replace on all the tags – or even changed the server to support short-tags, I didn’t want to have to do either.

After AZ’s failure to do what I wanted, I resumed my search and came across Plogger – and I’m glad that I did. Not only is it free and open source, but it provides everything exactly how I want it.

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