I have used quite a few photo galleries in the past (coppermine, gallery, and others) and was never very happy with the "backend" administration side. There were other things left to be desired but this was the main kicker for me. In pursuit of something better I came across plogger. Plogger is hands down the best PHP based image gallery I have ever installed and used. Light weight, super simple administration, bug free (at least for me) and good load times set it apart from the crowd.



After installing it and taking it for a test drive I found that there was no "easy" way to implement Lightbox. For those of you who don't know about lightbox it provides a nice flash-like effect using javascript and CSS. I figured it would be something nice to add to a already awesome gallery program.

» Read More