After making the initial version publicly available many features were asked for and implemented. With the scope of the project considerably larger now, I’ve taken a moment to step back and clean up the code. It’s been a slow process, but with the refactoring almost done and a stable version in hand I can finally start to add in new features! I’ll try to post my progress as I go and will make a release candidate available once I have one.

Also, if you’ve used the forum in the past, you might notice that I’ve removed the link for it. There was just too much spam on the board to deal with. I will reinstate it after I have time to get an appropriate solution up and running, but in the meantime I have put an email link there instead.

If you have any questions about the status of the project please email me.

• Fixed a bug where the SEO URIs would drop a letter if it was an accent.
• Fixed a bug where pagination wouldn’t work while browsing a tag that had a space in it.
• The IPTC Headline is now read and used as a title when importing an image.

So what are you waiting for? Go download it now.

What I’d like to be able to do is export from JuxtaPhoto via File > Export directly to JuxtaPhoto with tags, titles, and albums intact. I know this can be done — I’ve seen it done and can provide samples if needed — but alas I ‘m not a Cocoa developer…

So this is my call for help to see if there’s anyone interested in donating a bit of their free time and talent. I can provide any changes need to JuxtaPhoto, a SVN repository to store the plugin code, and, of course, credit. I’m in no rush if you are busy at the moment; I am too with a big move ahead of me. I just wanted to throw the idea out there and see if anyone was interested.

• Fixed an issue where square images would get distorted thumbnails.
• Fixed an issue where tag names with accented characters would not work when trying to browse by tag.
• Fixed an issue where the MySQL client connection would not be UTF-8.

Feel free to post comments or email me about issues or suggestions that you want in before the official release.

So what are you waiting for? Go download it now.

Here’s a list of the improvements:

• Supported file formats now include TIF, PNG, GIF, BMP, and PSD.
• RAW support is experimentally supported, specifically NEF files. A lot of progress still needs to be made though. You’ll need to be using ImageMagick and additionally dcraw to process these files.
• IPTC data is parsed on import and stored in the EXIF array. IPTC Object Title are imported into the photo name, Caption fields into the description, Categories into the tags, and so on.
• Added the ability to set an image to be the preview for an album.
• Added a copyright field to images.
• Added a new setting “ignoreIPs” in data/config.php where you can enter an array of IP addresses that the image viewed counter ignores.
• Created a new theme “blanched” which provides an alternate look to choose from. You can change this in your data/config.php file to take a look. You may need to clear out the data/compiled/ directory for the changes to take effect.

Feel free to post comments or email me about issues or suggestions that you want in before the official release.

So what are you waiting for? Go download it now.

My question to users: Is there another format you are looking for me to add in? If there’s interest and someone has a RAW file they can send me I might be able to get support for that in there, too. I’ll accept cameras that can shoot RAW, too ;)

Email me or comment on this to let me know.

It fixes a few bugs that popped up lately. Here’s a quick overview:

• Fixed an issue where LIMIT and OFFSET would not work in MySQL 4
• Fixed an issue where next and previous images would skipped if the EXIF timestamp was the same
• Fixed an issue where the tag count would become out of sync with how many images were actually tagged

I also added a description / caption field for each image.

It’s all feature enhancements so it should be a drop in change for upgraders. Just make sure to backup your database as always! There were a few things added to the templates you might want to check out if you are running something custom.

Changes include:

• Slideshows and RSS feeds for any group of photos
• You can now browse by multiple tags on the tags page
• Setting for “search engine optimized” URIs can be enabled in the config.php file (it’s disabled by default)
• Better compatibility with MySQL 5.2.1
• Better compatibility with the GD library
• Other minor interface changes

I was inspired with these last few changes and they have all been released within a short period of each other. With this change out I hope to go back to my prior routine of every month or so.

Two things that have been requested are MySQL and PostgreSQL support and guess what— you got ‘em! There has also been some template improvements, an installer to help with setup, and other miscellaneous changes / bug fixes.

For more information see the JuxtaPhoto page.

The default layout for JuxtaPhoto was designed to be generic and please everyone. It’s very easy, though, to create your own design that looks like your website—in fact, the photo section of this website is using the same database and images as the default layout above by just changing some settings to use different templates.

To get started navigate to the “templates/default” directory and open up the .tpl template files you want to edit. These files are are HTML files so any editor should work.