"novaGallery is a beautiful php photo gallery with the focus on your images, trimmed for ease of use and low demands on web space."

Simple & Lightweight

PHP Image Gallery

Simply upload images to your web space and you're done.
No database, administration or anything else is required.


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Album

Image Lightbox

Features

Albums & Images

  • Albums: Directories are rendered as albums
  • Sub-Albums (just sub directories) can be used for more detailed organisation
  • Photos and albums can be automatically ordered by capture date (based on EXIF data).
  • Photo lightbox for fullsize view
  • Photo slideshow: All photos in an album, can be displayed and presented in the lightbox view

Customizable

  • Custom Themes: With just a little knowledge of CSS and HTML, the theme can be customized.
  • Multi Language: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch. More languages can be added.
  • Private mode - protect you gallery with a password.
  • Extended configuration options available.

Easy To Use

  • Simply upload the photos into the gallery folder (e.g. via FTP) and the photos are already online
  • Automatic thumbnails generation
  • Generates automatically an album preview image

Performance

  • Smart and configurable cache mechanism.
  • Photos with high file size, are automatically compressed with very little loss.

Demo

Check out our demo gallery: https://demo.novagallery.org

Download

Free Version

$ 0,00
- free for ever -
  • Copyright Notice Required
  • All Features Included
  • Open Source

Pro Version

$ 15,00
- one time fee -
  • Without Copyright Notice
  • All Features Included
  • Open Source
  • License for 1 Website
  • Lifetime License
  • Email Support

License For Unlimited Websites

If you want to run novaGallery on multiple websites without a copyright notice, you can purchase a Network License for only $ 60,00. This allows you to run novaGallery on an unlimited number of sites without copyright notice. This is especially suitable for agencies. Buy Network Licence.

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Requirements


  • Web space with PHP 7.x and latest GD Extension and Exif-Support.
  • Apache, nginx or other web server
  • Apache: enabled mod_rewrite and .htaccess support
  • Other webserver: Individual settings in config to route all requests throw index.php
  • Supported file types: JPEG & PNG
  • No database required

Installation


  • Unzip files
  • Upload files on Webspace
  • Copy nova-config/site.example.php to nova-config/site.php
  • Change settings in nova-config/site.php
  • Create folders in galleries (used as albums)
  • Upload your images to the albums
  • Enjoy your new beautiful photo gallery

Configuration


Setup for Installation in Subdir

  • Set RewriteBase in .htaccess (RewriteBase /subdir/)
  • Set url in nova-config/site.php with full subdir path

Private Mode

  • In nova-config/site.php you can set a PHP password hash
  • The password hash has to be created with the standard PHP function password_hash()
  • To generate a password hash you can use our password hash generator: Password Hash Generator

Themes

  • Two basic themes are included: novagallery (default, dark) and novagallery-light
  • To change the theme, just change the theme name in config/site.php
  • Creating a new template is quite simple and works with basic PHP without any extra template engine.
  • To create a new template, the basic template (based on Bootstrap 4) can be duplicated, customized and activated in the settings.

Languages

  • Set your language in nova-config/site.php
  • Some populare languages are already added:
    • English: en
    • German: de
    • Spanish: es
    • French: fr
    • Dutch: nl
    • Portuguese: pt
  • You can create easily your own language. Just copy one of the language files, translate it and save it with your language code

Manage Images


  • Add Photos: Just upload the new photo to the server into the correct album (e.g via FTP).
  • Delete a Photos: Just delete the photo at the server. To save web space it's recommended to delete the cached files also.
  • Delete an Album: Just delete the whole album (directory) at the server.
  • Reset Cache: Every album has a cache directory. Just delete this directory.

Note


The first time you open an album, the thumbnails are generated. This may take a some time. With every further request (across visitors) the generated thumbnails are used and the page speed is faster.

Developer Information


For more Information checkout novaGallery Repository on Github.

License & Terms

novaGallery Free Edition is released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
With the purchase of a license you get the right to remove the mention of copyright.

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