foto-portfolio

Photography Portfolio & Client Galleries

A flat-file PHP website for photographers, built for plain shared webhosting. No database, no framework, no build step — upload via FTP/SFTP and it runs.

Features

• Landing page — full-screen hero image with an artist introduction.
• Showreel — the portfolio: selected images displayed full-screen, one per scroll step, on a minimal dark layout. Navigation hides while scrolling.
• Client galleries — whole event galleries (weddings, events, …) hosted on Hetzner Object Storage (S3). Optionally password-protected and/or with an expiry date after which the gallery is hidden. Visitors load images directly from S3 through short-lived presigned URLs — nothing is proxied through the webhost.
• Topics — optionally split a gallery into named sections (the days of a trip, the stops of a shoot). Each gets a heading the client can collapse, and its own folder in the ZIP download. Photos without a topic simply show first, so galleries that do not use them look exactly as before. Guest uploads land in their own section automatically.
• Admin backoffice — a small CMS to edit the front page, manage the showreel, create galleries and bulk-upload images. Uploads go straight from the browser to S3, in full resolution, originals untouched; grid thumbnails are generated in the browser. A gallery can optionally cap its resolution or strip EXIF metadata (camera, lens, timestamps, GPS) from what it stores.
• Flat-file storage — all content lives in JSON files; admin credentials live in a PHP config file. Password can be changed online.
• Backup & update — the backoffice can back the installation up and install a new release, both through a central manage server. Same operations from the command line, for cron.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1+ with curl and openssl (standard on shared hosting)
• Apache with .htaccess support (or any server with the document root pointed at this folder)
• A private Hetzner Object Storage bucket (for client galleries)

Quick start

cp config/config.sample.php config/config.php          # fill in S3 + site settings
cp config/credentials.sample.php config/credentials.php # default login: admin / changeme
php -S localhost:8080 router.php                        # local preview

Then open http://localhost:8080/admin/, log in, and change the password first (Settings).

Documentation

• docs/SETUP.md — deployment, Hetzner bucket + CORS setup, backups, and how to update an existing installation
• docs/ADMIN-GUIDE.md — using the backoffice
• docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — how it works inside

Layout

Upload the contents of this folder straight into your document root — index.php is the home page.

index.php       landing page                        ← document root
showreel.php
gallery/        client galleries (/gallery/?g=<slug>)
admin/          backoffice
assets/         css + js
media/          local images (hero + showreel)
app/            PHP library code                   ┐
config/         config + credentials               │
data/           flat-file storage                  │ inside the docroot,
docs/           documentation                      ├─ but blocked
manage-client/  backup + update client             │  by .htaccess
migrations/     one-time release scripts           │
scripts/        release build + cron examples      ┘
router.php      local dev only (php -S)