Hello everyone,
First of all, I have to say that I'm fond of ZenPhoto.
I deployed it on a NAS Synology DS-207+ and my photos are stored locally on the NAS and fed from my laptop through Lightroom (images are 1000px largest side, so rather light).
I'm particularly fond of the dynamic album generation based on folders tree.
Feature request 1: use of ImageMagick without the PHP extension.
I noticed that Image caching is really really slow on such a NAS (128Mo RAM).
I started to dig up and the use of ImageMagick library, which is deployed by default on the NAS, or available through the package management utility IPKG.
The only thing is that the provided PHP does not offer the iMagick PHP extension. I tried to find a compiled version of this extension, without success. I tried to compile it by myself, no more success.
But the funny thing about this is that the default gallery manager of the NAS was anyway using ImageMagick binary (convert). As so was able Gallery3 when I tried it (before removing it).
My feature request would be the possiblity of using an available ImageMagick binary out of the PHP extension, instead of GD library.
This would allow a lot more people to use zenphoto, especially people owning products like Synology NAS.
Feature request 2: Image cache scheduler
Provide the possibility to refresh the html and image cache every day for example. Today I implemented a small script that accesses the gallery to trigger the cache.
These 2 feature would help the use of ZenPhoto on older/weaker environments.
Thanks a lot for your time!