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.
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.
Flat-file storage — all content lives in JSON files; admin credentials live in a PHP config file. Password can be changed online.

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 public/)
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 -t public                         # 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
docs/ADMIN-GUIDE.md — using the backoffice
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — how it works inside

Layout

public/    web root (point your domain here)
app/       PHP library code (not web-accessible)
config/    static configuration + admin credentials
data/      flat-file content storage (JSON)
docs/      documentation

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