Wanted: Service photo script/site with tag search

woopwoop · Jun 4, 2012

Am looking for help or a point in the right direction with the following:

I'm working on a school's website and have recently been asked to also come up with a photo slideshow for some big event.

They have thousands of photos and when I asked for the files I was told that I could take the prints and scan them....!

So in order to avoid this again in future I'm looking for a decent script that could do the following:
1. Have some password protected system of accessing/uploading the pics
2. Allow for easy drag and drop of images (especially by students in a photography class to take a load of pics and upload)
3. Allow photo taker/uploader to add multiple tags
4. Allow photos to be searched by tag
5. Ideally to use other data for searches (date/location)
6. Perhaps allow syncing with other programs (iPhoto/Aperture) but not mandatory
7. Any other cool stuff...

I've been searching the web but everything seems to point to software running on the computer and not a server. I'm leaning towards server software so that a class full of students or teachers around the school can upload albums and tag the photos so I don't have to).

Does anyone know any software that might accomplish this?

babrees · Jun 4, 2012

OK, this might be a stupid solution but.... Wordpress??

stellar73 · Jun 4, 2012

Worth looking at Flickr as it does all the above and there are plenty ways to integrate it with a website

woopwoop · Jun 4, 2012

Wordpress is what we use for the school's website already. I'm not sure giving students access to the backed to upload is a good idea (and a separate install, just for the photo database) might be weird). Might work though, but another hesitation is how to strip away everything else and allow files to be dragged and dropped in (imported from a camera, maybe a hundred at a time) and tagged. Not sure of there is a theme or plugin for this.

I was thinking of Flickr, but some of the pics will be of student events and of kids themselves. It may be poaaible to keep the pics private on Flickr, but it is a whole other security/privacy nightmare if the photos are on a server other than the school's.

Will think about these suggestions some more.

Are there any other options?

Thanks

solaris · Jun 4, 2012

woopwoop said:
Are there any other options?

Thanks

This could be your best choice for Wordpress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/

but afaik it does not do drag and drop.

What you want to do might make more sense in Drupal, where you can have fine-grained control of permissions.

gordi555 · Jun 4, 2012

+1 for Flickr for a first try. I always find something that does 90% of what you need. If it does then discuss with the School and they'll probably be fine losing the other 10%.