For my website i would like to implement an advanced image search.

On my website there will be lots of pictures of airplanes, and to maintain an overview i was thinking about something like the Aviation photo search engine on http://www.airliners.net/

I will need a database (wich i have) and i asume that something like that will be needed to be written in php.

 

However, i know verry little about PHP, so if someone can point me in the right direction that would be great

I have been looking on google for about a week now, but could not find an answer to my "problem"

 

The website runs on Concrete5 as CMS, but if needed i can placen the search engine on another (non Concrete5 related) page and then embeded it in the site as it is now

 

Thanks in advance for tips about this

The key here is to store various pieces of data along with each image such as:

 

Manufacturer (categories)

Type (categoties)

Description (free text)

Date taken

Country (categories)

Location (categories, eg what airport)

Photographer (probably the site member name)

...and so on.

 

You would then use this data to enable a visitor to search by one or more parameter, as the site you mention does.

 

You may be able to manipulate Concrete5 to do all this but it might be a bit of a struggle.

 

There are some dedicated photo gallery CMS's around such as:

 

http://www.pixaria.com

http://www.photopost.com/

http://www.wsngallery.com/

 

Or you could easily build something using a CMS such as ExpressionEngine or Craft.

In Concrete5 i upload the pictures with names like this: 5966_Lufthansa_Boeing737-530_D-ABIL_24-08-2014_EBBR.JPG

so first i have the number of the picture, then the airline, model of the plane, registration number, date, airport

 

The options you give are to costly for me (im just a hobbyist) and since the site ii make is only form my own pictures i cant ask for membership fee's or something like that.

So the idea is that the "search-engine" can find pictures like the one mentioned above when you type in Boeing or EBBR os stuff like that.

If possible with a pull down like on airliners.net

How many photos are you wanting to search throgh?

at this moment i have about 180 pictures that i want to put on the website, but that number will grow each time i go to the airport

No doubt D4Y0 will give you some ideas but here's a few more:

 

http://coppermine-gallery.net/ is a standalone gallery system that's GPL's so its free to use.

 

Both ExpressionEngine and Craft offer free to use core versions that would allow you to build your gallery however you wanted, and with all the search/filtering options you could ever need.

coppermine looks nice, going to test it

coppermine was not realy a great test, for some reason, it did not work.

However i have installed and tested Piwigo, and it looks like it has what i need.

 

Thank you for thinking with me