Lychee

A great looking and easy-to-use Photo-Management-System.

Lychee is a free, easy to use and great looking photo-management-system you can run on your server to manage and share photos. Just download the source and follow the instructions to install Lychee wherever you want.

Installation

To run Lychee, everything you need is a web-server with PHP 5.3 or later and a MySQL-Database.

PHP configuration php.ini

The following extensions must be activated:

extension = php_mbstring.dll
extension = php_exif.dll
extension = php_gd2.dll

To use Lychee without restrictions, we recommend to increase the values of the following properties:

upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_file_uploads = 100
post_max_size = 100M

Folder permissions

Change the permissions of uploads/ to 777, including all subfolders:

chmod -R 777 uploads/

Lychee configuration php/config.php

Change the following properties with your MySQL information:

$db = The name of the Database you want to use
-> Lychee will create the Database and Tables for you
$dbUser = Your MySQL username  
$dbPassword = Your MySQL password
$dbHost = Your MySQL host (in most cases you can use localhost)

Your photos are protected by a username and password you need to set:

$user = Your username for Lychee  
$password = Your password for Lychee

This settings are optional and doesn't need to be changed:

$thumbQuality = Photo thumbs quality
-> Less means a inferiority quality of your thumbs, but faster loading
-> More means a better quality of your thumbs, but slower loading

$bitlyUsername = Bit.ly Username
$bitlyApi = Bit.ly API key
-> Lychee can generate short links if this properties are set

How to use

After the configuration, navigate your browser to the place where Lychee is located. Everything should work now.

FTP Upload

You can upload photos directly with every FTP client into Lychee. This feature helps you to share single images quickly with others.

1. Upload an image to uploads/import/
2. Navigate your browser to the place where Lychee is located (e.g. http://example.com/view.php?p=filename.png). filename.png must be replaced by the filename of your uploaded file.
3. Share the link.

Lychee will import the file as an public image, delete the original (unused) file and show it in the browser. Sample FTP configuration.

Keyboard Shortcuts

######Everywhere n New album/photo
u Upload photo
esc Close/Back

######Photoview s Star photo
i Show information
f Show photo in new tab
backspace Delete photo
left Previous photo
right Next photo

Browser Support

Lychee supports the latest versions of Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox. Photos you share with others can be viewed from every browser.

Update

To update Lychee, simply replace all files, excluding the following ones: uploads/, php/config.php

Troubleshooting

If Lychee is not working properly, try to open php/check.php. This file will take a look at your configuration and displays all errors it can find. Everything should work if you can see the message "Lychee is ready!".

About

Lychee is made by Tobias Reich (HTML, CSS, JS, Design, Website Design and Development) with the help of Philipp Maurer (PHP, MySQL).

##License

(MIT License)

Copyright (C) 2013 Tobias Reich
Copyright (C) 2013 Philipp Maurer

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.