Revolver is a fast image rotation engine built with PHP.

It is just like a slideshow application with features like:

• Play and stop controls
• No database requirement
• RSS support
• Pre-dating images for future publishing
• Produces valid XHTML code
• Different background colors for every image

Revolver is managed with uploading the image files according to the special name format and there is no need for an administraion interface.

You can use it to create a portfolio website, slideshow, sketchbook or a simple image gallery.

Phormer is an open source PHP photo gallery that helps you store, organize and trim your photos online.

This photo gallery application uses XML for all the data including photos, comments and settings and does not require MySQL.

With an easy web-based install, Phormer has features like:

• Categorization (by date, subject..)
• Standards-based XHTML output
• Making any content private
• Photos can be set to be called from another server
• Ajax upload manager
• Ability to create a thumb image of your own selection
• 10+ themes
• RSS feeds
• Advanced commenting
• EXIF metadata reader
• Statistics
• Mass upload from a ZIP file
• Slideshow

Ajax-S is an ajaxed, nice looking and easy to use slideshow application.

It is similar to Eric Meyer’s S5 (another slideshow application) except a major difference, Ajax-S calls the data from a XML file rather than HTML which makes the application more portable and user-friendly for anyone without HTML knowledge.

Ajax-S accepts HTML and XHTML natively (no need for escaping any characters). Navigation of the application is pretty simple; mouse clicks, keyboard navigation bottons or the drop-down list in the application are the choices. And, we can get a printable-version with a click.

jQuery Cycle plugin is a lightweight plugin which lets users to create animated slideshows.

jQuery already has slide plugins and this plugin covers most of the effects and some effects are based on other jQuery plugins.

The Cycle Plugin is split into two parts: the core engine and the transition definitions. The core engine provides the ‘fade’ transition effect and all the logic needed for defining and using custom transitions. The Transition pack includes all of the pre-defined transition effects for the Cycle Plugin.

Slideshow effects includes:

• pause-on-hover
• auto-stop,
• auto-fit
• before/after callbacks
• click triggers
• and many transition effects

Slideflow is a slideshow-like ajax image gallery created by Nicholas T.

  You can drag the Slideflow using your mouse, or click anywhere in the stack to jump there. Click inside the frame in order to enable mouse wheel and arrow key navigation!

Technical background:

The photos and titles are read from an XML file, and the thumbnails are pre-generated using Photoshop actions (included in the download).