Tomato gallery is the perfect, free image gallery on the web, written in a fantastic programming language PHP. It is one of the best looking image gallery that have a real, neat and smooth layout and is a clone of the apple mobile me gallery. It uses a lot of java script and XHTML together with PHP and MYSQL and the only flash component is the uploaded that makes uploading images to a natural process.

Tomato gallery is a script that create a fantastic image viewer on a PHP server automatically. It creates thumbnails and shows them in a fantastic-looking page. The fantastic, upload process of tomato gallery, lets you upload an unlimited amount of images at the same time. The Apple’s mobile Me gallery is costly, and you will have to pay a lot of money every year to get that service you need. But the tomato gallery which is a clone of apple mobile me gallery is produced entirely free.

You are welcomed with an installation page, the moment you upload and enter the URL to your document. The first step is the setting of MYSQL connection information, which you can get from the mail received soon after registering a web hotel. You need to set the name of the gallery which will be displayed at the start screen and also the administrator username and password. Also, set a home page link URL. (including HTTP://), the absence of which no link will be displayed.

Max PX handle indicates the maximum number of pixels your server can handle before it says something went wrong and stops. It is use arises when you use a cheap web host that limit the server power for you. Therby letting you know, when something large is uploaded so that the page can be protected from dieing. After setting up the gallery, the next step is creating an album. There are options to set the name, to give permission to the visitors to download images, to create image titles from the file name when you upload images. It also provides an option to change the resolution of the image when the visitors view it. You can start uploading images once you have successfully created the album. There are several edit features to rotate images, to delete images and to order them.

Tomato gallery have various modes to view the album. The skim mode allows you to skim through the photos link in iPhoto. At a time, it allows to view up to 20 images in the gallery. The grid view shows all the images in thumbnail format. The feature that makes them stand out of others is that they allows to re-size by dragging the slider. It is also possible even to change the background color. Mosaic view shows the images in a square format, which is also re sizeable. In the image view, just one image is shown in a large format, with a lot of control options.