Last week we got a work of making a php based gallery website with admin panel . Now , this is a pretty basic work and has been done over and oevr again. However, two new things are involved in this . One , the design is not something we will be doing as it is already done, so when we finish making the gallery , we will have to dress it up with the layout the client has provided.

The second part is something i liked , which is the main customization. As all gallery based sites have the typical admin panel from where the admin can create , manage , edit and delete Categories or albums and Sub Categories . It will not have the option of users uploading photos , as that will only be done by the admin and users will mostly be viewing images and if interested, adding it to their cart of sorts. With every gallery , it is reuired to auto crop images and create thumbnails , and sometimes also a watermark to put the sitesname , thus involving GD.

A somewhat new twist will be , there will be some categories which will not be viewable at all to general visitors . The client wanted to manually generate some kind of password and assign it to them manually to each so that with the password , they would be able to view certain restricted categories . i didnt feel that was a handy solution, so I have suggested that we create user groups and assign the specific categories to specific user groups , thus minimizing the work of assigning passwords and the problems of password sharing .