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For as long as there as been a world wide web, there have been those who surf for images of all kinds. It’s one of the aspects of the web that helped it rise to real popularity. We get to see things we could never have seen before there was the first web gallery script to help a website display the images that it offered. The rise of the php script photo gallery made things easy for even the most amateur web master to create a great collection of images. Thanks to wide availability of online photo gallery software, a huge range of sites have sprung up to offer their own image collections, often relying on what users can contribute to help them grow and expand.

Today, Gallery 2 is one of the most popular scripts out there and some say it is the very best php photo gallery available. There are many who swear by this script and you can definitely see the results when you check out various highly successful sites that are based on images. As a photo album organizer, not many programs compare to what Gallery can offer, so if you are looking for a way to upgrade to the latest version, here it is:

First things first, back up your installation! This is absolutely critical because losing all of your images would be a terrible accident. Be sure to back up both your database and all of the files for your gallery to ensure that everything is safe first.

Next, navigate to the admin section of your Gallery 2 installation. You need to know which version you are currently running so that you know which version you will need to upgrade to. You can find this by visiting the Site Admin area of your installation and then clicking the Maintenance link. Click on System Details and then there will be a line that says “Gallery version” followed by a number sequence. That is the version of Gallery you are running right now.

There are multiple methods to updating Gallery, but the simplest by far is to replace all of the files. To do this, download a brand new copy of Gallery 2, uncompress the file, upload it to your server and run the upgrade program. This is a slower method and it will not save any changes that you made to your installation, so consider it carefully. The advantages are that you should find no errors upon completion since this is a brand new version of Gallery that will go right over the top of your last installation.

Now, all you need to do is navigate to your Gallery section of your site and run the installer program. It will automatically update everything for you, giving you progress reports along the way.

That’s all you need to do before enjoying your fresh version of Gallery!

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