Koken – How to Export Albums and Images to a new Gallery system

Koken photography content management system is great. Koken photo management system is dead. Long live Koken. And my quest for a Photo Gallery system that doesn’t die goes on…

With Koken no longer actively supported I needed to move to another Gallery management system but found it wasn’t possible due to how Koken stored Albums and images – in a completely random nonsensical method with no way to copy, migrate or otherwise export your galleries and files in a way that can be reconstructed into a new photo gallery system. And that new system for me is – the X3 Photo Gallery Website.

Toine Kuiper from repiuk.nl to the rescue! Toine had a Koken export script posted that addressed the issue directly by creating Gallery based folders containing all the images for the gallery. Yes!! But… it was not a functional script. I played with it for a few weeks but couldn’t get past creating a database connection,  queries and PHP function errors. I reached out to Toine and he immediately assisted with creating a PDO SQL connection, helping adress my errors and an error or two in the code. I cleaned it up and commented the code a bit and within an afternoon of emails we had a fully functional script. Yes, yes, yesssss!!! I now had a full usable export of 99 galleries containing 5,884 images weighing in at 1.8 gigabytes.  Without this script I would be recreating it all from scratch. If you want to move from Koken, give it a go! Thanks Toine!

The script with documentation – Koken export original images
(the website appears to be offline as of 09/30/20 – check below for the scripts)

 

Koken – Script to export all Images and Albums

Zip file contains two scripts – Test Print file that outputs what it will do on screen as a dry run, then the export script which does it for real. Instructions and details for both files are in the comments at the top of each file.