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Phormer Official website: http://p.horm.org/er/ Phormer, unlike most of the other gallery mangers tools that require MySQL or any other high-level Databases, uses its own XML database files which let us: - Run Phormer on any server with only a php parser (like apache)!
- Modify the information offline and/or using any text-editor, even Phormer's own online XML-Editor!
- Have transportable files, which speed up import and export!
- Simple Backup! Just copy the folder of data/ which has all the information of photos, comments, categories and …
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=169218 Demo: Phorm: Aidin's PhotoGallery | Decoral: Coral's PhotoGallery Features of Phormer: - Easy Web-based Install/Uninstall
To install, just download the package, unzip it to the desired place on your website, and then enter admin's password!
Also since version 3.20, you can easily uninstall Phormer directly from Administration Region.
- Categorize by Date, Categorize by Subject, Categorize by Everything!
Having two separate categorization method will lead to handle everything in the most right place! -- You can both categorize your shots by Category (e.g. black and white, self-portrait, etc.) and, on the other hand, by date (which named story), just like the posts of a weblog.
Obviously, a shot can be placed in many Categories and many Stories at the same time!
Even, the Categories/Stories, themselves can be inherited from eachother!
- Make Anything Private!
Phormer's great privacy allows both private (passworded of each own) and unlisted (unseen from the first page) mode for each Categories/Stories.
This way, any photo which its default Category or Story be private would be private, too.
Umm... with the help of this feature you can have various albums for various (possibly private) events, so simply.
- Fast and Valid Pages
Tableless pages, browser compatible and brief administration area, means just clean speed!
- Link and Extra HTML Manager
Manage the side-bar links of your blogs, visually from inside the administration area, so fast and clean!
Also paste the additional HTML codes of your counter, ad-sense into the Preferences area instead of dealing with HTML codes of the index!
- Two File gathering mods
Image files can be acquired either from the PC (by Ajaxian upload manager) or from somewhere across the web (just enter url!). 
- Ajax Upload Manager
Name and fill information of your shot while its upload progress goes (ajaxly) on background!
It's brilliant! You won't lag by your monitor and glaze at the percentages to become filled -- Just do your own task (filling name, date, info) and it goes its own way under the desk!
Since 3.30, you can upload a zip file of many photos inside and also grab entire a local folder!
- Square thumbs
Easy WYSIWYG Part-of-Image Square-Thumb maker tool helps you to create the best square thumb from your shots which is best-fitted and much more catchy! various sizes of whole image can also be generated, beside. 
- Editable add-shot
Every, Every and Everything at Phormer is editable! You can modify and regenerate/re-enter everything at everytime, even the photo's source file, after it's got comment! 
- Various Themes
You'll never get bored with 10 different themes!
even you can handle with your own CSS themes and share (Since 3.30, directly use) them!
- RSS Feed
Don't Lose RSS-Addicted visitors! index.xml for last photo entries will be generated after each photo add/del.
- Various Styles
Three
Eight since 3.20
Now, 9 * 9 * … styles since 3.30! different styles for index page: photos, stories, jungleBox (where all the shots can be place above each other and be highlighted when pointed!). a Random of them can also be selected!
Furthermore, You can have: - last added photo(s)
- most visited photos
- top rated photos
- recently visited photos
- recently commented photos
- random photos
- recently added stories
... and any combination of these in the index page! 
- Advanced Commenting
Manage them easily. Control visitors to leave comments on each photo story (a group of photos) or not. also with the new feature of Banning IPs, you can block spammers to leave comments! 
- Rating system
Save the opinion (rating) of visitors about each single photo and sort them in that way! The Rating is also based on AJAX system and visitors doesn't need to load the page once again!
- Hit Counter
Counts each shot's view-times, separately!
- Internationalization
using unicode (UTF-8) as whole encoding system, has provided a reliable support of various languages.
- Link and Extra HTML Manager
Use each photo in your weblog/website (in proper size) by a single code (e.g. something like this line: <script src="http://mywebby.com/?j=290"></script>) in various sizes.
- Optional Word Verification Tool
This feature (added on version 3.10) helps you to fight well against spam-commenters and eliminate them!
- EXIF Metadata reader
By this feature (since version 3.20) the meta datas generated by digital cameras (like shutter speed, photo's original date and etc.) will be added automatically during an photo uploading process!
- Terribly Customizable
Customize everything, default values, index mode, link's opening targets and everything, simply from inside the Admin's area!
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