Anigozanthos

As part of my research into consolidating my web sites, which has been concentrating on CMSs for the last couple of weeks, I've also been pondering how to manage my photo galleries.

This is a run-down the sort of features I've been thinking of:

• Lightbox style (shade the main page, pop the photo on top).
  
• Caption display.
  
• Prev/next.
  
• Display embedded EXIF data.
  
• Link geocoded image with Google Maps.
  
• No JS library dependencies.
  

None of the CMSs I've been looking at support such a gallery system. The closest were Quick.Cms and LightNEasy, both with standard Lightbox support. That is, lightbox style and caption support, but no prev/next or exif or geocoding support.

Well, today I've found the viewer that supports all the points I want: Lytebox, modified and extended. It's not perfect, as it has a dependency on ExifTool, and I would much rather use the built-in PHP EXIF/IPTC support. It looks like I only need to replace one function, though, so not much work there.

The real work will be integrating with whatever CMS I end up choosing, but this solves the largest piece of the puzzle.