Image Gallery Script Question

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HarveyJ

He is - THE CACTUS!
OK, never set up a site like this before, but I figure, why the hell not?
Between me and a few otaku friends, we have a shitload of domains that could potentially contain some very visually appealing material.

So, what I'm wanting to do is setup a site HotorNot.
You all know the sites.
Basically, you've got the random image that shows up with a rating bar underneath, maybe a few other randoms underneath, and links to the favourites, the most viewed, etc., etc.
It's almost paramount that people be able to upload their own pics to this.
Still not sure if they should have to sign up to be able to do that. I suppose they should, just in case they post anything that could get potentially be legally problematic.

So, my questions:

Is a wordpress install able to handle this with a decent image gallery plugin? If so, what plugin do you recommend?
If it's not, what CMS does handle something like this and comes with some easy to install plugins? I've got a little experience with Joomla, zero with Drupal.

Once I get the site up and running, have a bit of good content up there, I will gladly share some of it, which should be pretty fun ;)
 


Sorry, no experience with them mate. I seem to remember coming across something for Drupal (I think) that sounded like what you need... was a while back though and no fuckin idea what it was called!

This might be worth a look at: Destiney's Reality :: PHP Scripts (Maybe with the exec-php WP plugin - poss. play with the permissions for user groups to only allow members to post pics? Or just add a bit of code to check if they are logged in?)

Re: legal stuff. I've been running an image hosting site for a while now and allow unregistered users to post pics. I just have a fairly standard disclaimer in my ToS which was provided with the (free) script I use. I'm not sure how legally binding that actually is though, I've had no complaints but it'd be interesting to find out.

(I've just noticed that the script I use allows you to rate the pics. It could probably be modified to do what you need, but I'm sure there's better solutions out there.)
 
Thanks guys :)

I'll check out the Destiney's one... mostly because all the others on Scriptcopy seem to be dead links.
The mihalism script does look like what I'm after, but not 100% sure just yet.

Will install all of them, seed a bit of content, and try to break them over the next few weeks. If all goes to plan, I should have a cool Xmas present for WF.
 
So coppermine seems ok, but a little annoying in that you have to use "albums" underneath categories... Fuck that.

Mihalism seemed ok at first, but the documentation for modding it was woeful, and I can honestly admit I'm not that great at doing what I need. I'd rather not outsource at this point in time because the image niche I'm going for hasn't been done like this yet either, and I don't want people jumping the gun on me.

So having been lured back into the Skittles thread once more... I was wondering if anyone knows what script they're using on jailbaitgallery.com, because that's actually EXACTLY what I'm after.
Not the pics mind you (well, for personal use maybe), just the script.
 
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