I am contemplating on a web gallery project, and on the lookout for a scalable PHP gallery script. Here are a few initial requirements:
The script must be scalable, i.e. must be able to withstand slashdot/digg effect! Should survive 10000 page-views a day.
Should consume as little resource as possible, i.e. lightweight.
Since the gallery will be updated infrequently, most of the time there will be static content. The script should have a mechanism to cache the generated gallery pages to disk.
The URL must be SEO friendly.
[Optional] Support comments by visitors.
So far I have tried Gallery 2, Plogger, Zen Photo, PhotoPost and a few others. Here are my initial impressions about them:
Gallery 2 - seems to be too resource hungry to me (though they have incremental caching mechanism). The code seems pretty robust to me.
Plogger - I haven't been able to enable Search engine friendly URLs with Plogger. Also there doesn't seem to be any way to cache static content with it. Also 3rd theme support seems virtually non-existant.
Zen Photo - This one is on my top-list. Seems pretty light-weight. Has 3rd party support for caching. Has some extra themes.
PhotoPost/Coppermine - Not suitable for my project because of their bulletin-board like interface.
Can you suggest to me which is the most scalable gallery solution?
