Hi all

I need to setup a photo gallary for a client, who wants to allow his photographers and models to advertise themselves / their services to their respective markets.

He needs three levels of access:

public - for every one to view
private - for registered members only. Registrations need to be free, but would allow users to upload photos
adult - if registered users is older than 18, he / she should be able to upload nude / semi nude / artistic nude photos, and also be able to view photos taged as nude / semi nude / etc.


We do need some other features as well, like a newly registered user can only upload 20 photos, and could "upgrade" his account with ratings (either photo ratings, or forum ratings - haven't yet defined the scope for this)

I had a look @ Gallery 2, but this simply don't do it.
Coppermine might do it, but with a lot of programming / hacking. There are a few threads on their forum with some bits of code, but nothing stable or working
4 images gallery might, almost might do it, but I can't see anything

I have downloaded 18 other gallery script from hotscripts.com's listing, but none come even close to these 3 in features and performance, let alone in what I need.

Can someone please recommend something that will work for this?

Not free but http://www.photopostphp.com/ might be worth a look.

google for adult photo gallery software. I remember one called AGP I think that had those options.

Actually you might be able to use coppermine usergroups and privilages.

To get a clearer idea what the Coppermine Photo Gallery User Groups options are, click on this link (http://documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/groups.htm).
Indeed, I haven't used their services so far but judging on what I've read about their offers, I guess Coppermine may work for you, LordMerlin.

All the best,

Amalia

Is there any reason you don't want a custom coded solution?

Actually you might be able to use coppermine usergroups and privilages.

To get a clearer idea what the Coppermine Photo Gallery User Groups options are, click on this link (http://documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/groups.htm).
Indeed, I haven't used their services so far but judging on what I've read about their offers, I guess Coppermine may work for you, LordMerlin.

All the best,

Amalia

The usergroups is only really part of it. But coppermine doesn't have an option to require a user's age, not how to check it, which is very important for adult galleries on "open sites"

Is there any reason you don't want a custom coded solution?

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're trying to tell / ask me?

Anyway if you want a free solution you should make a choice between gallery (http://gallery.sourceforge.net) and coppermine (http://coppermine-gallery.net) with patches etc

I mean that picking some open source program will guarantee that it won't exactly fit your needs, and it'll have a lot of extra fluff that you won't need.

So since you'll have to customize it pretty heavily anyways, why not look for someone to custom design the script?

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Btw... my choice for free programs is Coppermine.

Gallery2 is easier to hack on the template/visual side, but Coppermine is easier to hack on the programming/backend side.

Since it looks like you'll have to modify the access control in whatever script you get, that's backend stuff, so I'd pick Coppermine to do it in.