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.
Hi,
Back in 2015 you said https://www.gfisk.com/koken-is-back-image-gallery-software/ you had tested Piwigo and Koken and Koken won mainly for aesthetic reasons.
I work on Piwigo and I can tell you that we’ve worked quite a lot to improve our design. Don’t hesitate to make a new test ;-) The upcoming version 2.11 brings even more back-office design improvements.
Hi Pierrick
I have been looking for a solution on how to get out of Koken for 6 months, I have been studying so many photo CMS, I am a little difficult but need I have narrowed it down to half a dozen systems now, including Piwigo. It’s funny I see your post today cuz I just deleted Piwigo from my list as I did not get ONE answer for Piwigo since 2 weeks now that I have been trying to contact them through Twitter, Piwigo.org and Piwigo.com….
I was looking forward to using a European product ( I live in Paris) but looks like customer relations is not Piwigo’s top feature. And I need a tool I can rely on, even if I need to pay a price for it. too bad…
Anyway… first… find the lost script :-)
HI, we have a Koken instance that we need to migrate away from. Do you know if that script is still available somewhere?