VergangenHeut'

Code: 19.11.2025 | DB: 29.10.2025 / Fotos: 69.584 / Videos: 4.749

Changelog

TODO:

display map with taken location of photos (added to DB on 06/2025)
fix title / preview image for albums with &
fix comparing mode not working properly with lightgallery
fix Doctype HTML Layout problems

IDEAS / nice to haves:

movies: allow multiple filters simultaneously
movies: show movies watched in cinema (where release date and watch date are very close)
add hide videos / uninteresting elements options to WhatsApp share
add about page / document where the tool is explained in detail

2025-11:

added camera models at the end of album with mapping
added focal length stats per camera (OnePlus Open, Huawei Mate 20 Pro and Samsung NX300)

2025-10:

fixed little bug with 360 raw photos not being counted as originals -> pagination was always displayed
fixed little bug with darkmode map icons having white borders
renamed all scanned photos to avoid displaying the compare to original button

2025-08:

added camera model, exposure and focal length stats

2025-07:

added fullscreen mode to leaflet map
load 360 video js only when needed (optimizes speed)
fixed little bug with displayquality
[MAJOR] fixed bug with portrait video poster
fixed bug with multiple GPX maps displayed and added duration + average speed
little optimzitation in year pagination (smaller code, dark mode compatible)

2025-06:

GPT: moved displayQuality to footer
removed mode changer in header and just keep the icons
fixed empty search error (setting field to required)

2025-05 [MAJOR]:

GPT: added stats page with count of photos, videos and documents
GPT: optimized age display with a function and show less details
show age when shared
added Emilia
GPT: added GPX map display & download
converted all TCX to GPX and renamed them to display the track in albums
moved footer to separate file
GPT [DB]: added filesize to DB to extend stats and geo data of photos

2024-04 -> 08 [MAJOR]:

GPT: changed masonry onload script to reload when all videos are ready -> avoids portrait videos breaking layout
GPT: change display size of media from normal to large for panorama photos and from large to small for portrait videos
little code fixes

2024-02-01 -> 02 [FOLDABLE OPTIMIZATIONS]:

added display quality "best" to display original media in lightgallery (useful on fold device when in home network)
3 columns optimisations for landscape mode of fold device. Changed size of large grid items to 66% affecting videos and 360 photos / videos
show album name when comparing album

2024-01-02 -> 10:

added on homepage 2 childhood pictures of this month and 2 undated childood pictures
fixed very annoying bug with videos breaking grid layout (added code ensures that the Masonry layout is initialized only after all videos on the page have loaded their current frame
some modification to compare page with stats and display limit
added age of Ralph, Lisa and Philippe

2023-09-14 -> 11-14:

fixed little bug with originals being added to the skipped media
hide compare link when viewing one specific day in album (to avoid comparing the entire album, which might be huge)
hide pictures taken now / movies and rollercoasters when navigating through pagination in default display mode

2023-08-07 -> 08-11:

fixed little bug where compare link was displayed but no album has been defined
removed some underscores in links of movies and updated DB. Added genre "Music"
movies: modified sort order to include month & day instead of only year and added 2 filters

2023-06-07 -> 06-13:

added function to compare all photos of one album, merged into one file later (with single compare)
fixed bug of pagination with one page only beeing displayed (due to original count)
added right arrows to distinguish links and underlined some links
show original video in lightgallery when quality is high

2023-04-26

fixed little bug when displaying 360 photos only

2022-12-28 -> 2023-01-05:

little CSS optimizations for mobile login form
fixed little bug with posters of old videos
changed album titles to add month in album link while in default display mode

2022-09-21 -> 10-06:

movies: also show elements released on that day (instead of just rated this day)
movies: added filter for genres and filter for different sort orders
movies: added number of votes for single movie and fixed DB value in Excel
movies: extended search to directors
little changes to sharing text in header
shortened code by using urlArgumentsSettings variable

2022-09-09 -> 09-18 [MAJOR]:

added movies / TV shows released or watched today
movies: added filters for movies / TV shows
movies: added display of single element and all elements
movies: added filters for genre, rating, director
little code optimizations (use in_array instead of many ORs)
finally fixed menu to avoid large free space on mobile, other little style corrections
removed logout button (rarely used)

2022-08-17 -> 09-02 [MAJOR]:

added support for multiple search words (separated by a comma = OR / white spaces = AND / beginning with - = exclude from search)
added automatic darkmode depending of time of the day during the year
added movies / TV shows watched today
fixed little bug with pagination in pathsearch mode while navigating through album
removed year pagination displayed by mistake (not visible in normal mode)
show 1 rollercoaster / beer / waterfall below photos taken now
changed label of age to "einem Jahr" and "X Jahren" and fixed bug with age = current year being displayed
automatically limit amount of 360 elements per page
count embedded videos (.url) as videos

2022-07-26 -> 08-12:

fixed little bug with older video (Ultraschall) posters not loading in gallery-slideshow
added displayQuality = original argument when switching to local mode
fixed bug with age display of Theodor (needed to add 0 to month < 10)
changed form look to better fit on mobile
removed album / standard display mode icons and replaced them by simple text
shortened SQL requests by using variable

2022-04-21 -> 06-17:

fixed bug with videos or 360 photos/videos breaking layout on mobile when displayed first (edit 13.07.23: as well for unsupported and embedded videos)
moved media today info element to another position to avoid line break
formated changelog as html

2022-02-16 -> 20:

fixed bug with album being displayed multiple times when elements are not 100% correctly named
added ages of Family

2021-12-16 -> 2022-01-04:

ignored 360 photos from uninteresting filter (they are often in this folder...)
removed white border of videos in fullscreen mode
fixed little bug with empty pages on pagination because of skipped elements
displayed skipped counter also when there's no pagination

2021-10-07 -> 21 [MAJOR]:

replaced simple lightbox with (full screen) lightgallery slider with support for photos, 360 raws (hidden in normal view), videos and YouTube
added slideshow mode to lightgallery
optimized options of gallery-slideshow and 360 photo (moved to settings file)
added zoom cursor when hovering photos / normal in album overview
added zoom mode in slideshow
fixed little bug with wrong quality in pictures with compare link
fixed problem with video posters not showing depending of quality
hid scrollbars in lightgallery
added dynamic clock icon showing current time in menu
added (hidden) mode "now12" to display pictures taken now + 12 hours

2021-09-28:

added YouTube videos support (for after movies etc.)

2021-07-26:

fixed bug with some childhood years (1988, 1992, 1993) in album overview breaking year pagination

2021-07-05 -> 13:

added skipped parameter for better pagination when hiding elements (bug left when going backward)
added link to footer "logo" -> homepage
added [online - home - local] mode switch in footer
replaced sharing link to always use online mode

2021-06-07 -> 22:

share entire album when there are no more elements in this album (removed day & month from sharing URL)
displayMode = default when album is set (cleaned up many unnecessary arguments)
added displayMode auto, shows albums when more elements on that day then the display limit per page (50 by default)
respected sharing thumbnail of specific day (don't choose picture of entire album when month is set)
[DB] converted mkvs (not supported by NAS convert) to mp4
added subject to mail share
added smiley for WhatsApp share instead of :-)
fixed bug with page argument added twice in pagination
fixed bug with pagination displayed when amount of photos matches the limit per page
fixed bug with pagination breaking inside page number
fixed bug with media left in album when on another page (decreasing page by page...)

2021-05-16:

added "mov" to unsupported videos extension
[DB] removed Google Maps Title Photos album

2021-04-14 -> 25 [MAJOR]:

moved all plugins and php files to separate folder "!VergangenHeut"
added album sharing mode
fixed bug with pictures displayed now in wrong quality
added variable for VLC-placeholder image
removed filter for standard/album display when displaying album
[DB] moved Best Shots, Google Maps Picture etc. to folder "Diverse" and renamed them from "o_" to "nx_" (to be able to display them)
moved notice of remaining photos in album to the bottom to display it also when pagination is enabled
added function to get the website's URL (localhost or NAS)
display original when file type is gif (not being converted from NAS)
optimized loop on form days and added loop for form months
replaced month number with month name at various places
modified title to display album name when available
fixed bug with unsupported videos no available in certain quality
added og:meta for sharing (preview image, text etc.
fixed WhatsApp sharing
added little age counter for sharing text
added sharing icons
[DB] renamed South-Africa videos and optimized date of certain old photos
added display of age at the end of album
hide album display notice for photos taken close to midnight in "now" mode
fixed bug in compare mode

2021-04-11 -> 12:

added album captions to photos displayed now
added counter next to album caption
fixed bug with albums only having videos -> used VLC placeholder local or video thumbnail on NAS

2021-03-22 -> 04-03:

used images in lower res for album display mode (except in original mode)
created little summer winter date shift function (for localhost)
replaced icons not working on mobile
reduced size of album caption on mobile (less border)
fixed problem with permanent focus on search field
added quality changer
used resized photo/video for 360
used NAS generated thumbnail for 360 video
added total amount of pictures "now" on homepage
moved year pagination to function an displayed it on top of album overview
fixed now pictures on homepage to display only jpgs
added displayQuality parameter to logo and album overview link
hide 360 RAW pictures by default
fixed bug with album cover not displaying the first image
fixed bug with pagination not respecting quality
moved header to separate file
implemented original vs edited compare mode
added link to changelog file
modified display stat number at the end when there is a pagination (sum up photos from previous pages)
enabled day jumping in djwm-mode
filtered "now" pictures in djwm mode to respect year
added footer
[DB] added cover / posters for all festivals
added noCaption option for festivals

2021-03-16 -> 20 changes for NAS [MAJOR]:

added getResizedMedia function to display Elements from @eaDir
added "now photo display" at the end of the homepage
added check for summer and winter time
added password protection for website
made album caption clickable (needed for mobile when panorama is used as album cover)
colored favicon from blue to orange, CSS adjustments to album caption for hovering etc.

2021-02-23 -> 03-15:

display notice if more elements in album available than displayed
removed originals from counters (elements in album, filters and remaining elements in album)
added autofocus to search field
added some search examples
display 360 and videos with full width on mobile
fixed mobile CSS, added mobile year pagination
removed page from day jumping links to avoid jumping to non existing page for that day
created global first_year variable in settings for year pagination

2021-02-06:

added little image zoom on hover via CSS

2021-01-18 -> 01-25:

moved some variables to settings file
added album overview display mode for most of the modes (display album instead of all photos of album)
fixed "specific" mode not working anymore
fixed bug with uninteresting elements hidden and pagination (not jumping far enough)
enabled day jumping inside albums
removed random sort in album display mode
moved condition to check for elements a few lines down to still display day etc. before showing that there are no results
added filter on the right to toggle between default/album mode
added trigger to run the hideFields function at the end to show/hide form elements
enabled album mode for pathsearch and display only search results inside album
optimized album mode code and hided originals
displayed last change of code automatically

2021-01-13 -> 01-14:

moved some variables to a settings file to make the tool portable
renamed "boff" to "uninteresting"
added icons for mode selection
optimized sorting filter size
made search icon and specific date icon work to change the form value
changed logo font

2021-01-07 -> 01-11:

fixed filter buttons to make them work in album and search mode
replaced icons for movie and boff filters
optimized form auto select rules (remove isset as variables are always available)
added icon for album overview
added pre-counter for boff and video items (counter next to filter symbols), display them only when elements available
added good photos icon and counter with link to hide videos and uninteresting elements
added filter for elements per page at the bottom and removed from form
removed jump buttons for mode "now"

2021-01-04 -> 05:

created separate dateshit function (returns array with new date)
make dateshift before formload to be able to use the increased / decreased date in it
merged many arguments in one variable and use it for jumping buttons and pagination
added same bottom jump icons instead of form buttons and removed form buttons
simplyfied pagination urls by using urlAguments variable
hided navigation in some modes
modified jump buttons behaviour when in childhood mode (jump months) -> removed random childhood mode
changed order by filters and show/hide boff and video to symbols floating right -> removed them from form
moved changelog and style to separate files

2021-01-01 -> 01-03:

added album overview mode incl. year pagination
colored currently selected item of pagination
added returns for better code reading
changed grid behaviour when using random mode (necessary to make untappd work)
fixed bug with 0 at the beginning of month / day and when jumping back to previous month
tested tool on phone by forwarding port on router
added file size counter and functions file
fixed problem with special chars in file size counter (ex.: "Römer")
[DB] added autocollage photos
added album counter
little css optimizations for mobile

2020-12-26:

changed some options for displaying 360 photos (ignore scroll, hide compass etc.)
adapted form to select the correct options depending on URL parameters (videos, boff, limit)
[DB] sorted snorkelling videos of Mauritius

2020-12-23:

[DB] sorted Abi-Reise photos and added those with wrong date/time and some videos
[DB] renamed beer and wine photos to be able to find those
added option to order elements randomly (useful for special albums)
when sort order = RAND(): hide album name, remove pagination, hide album notice close to midnight, fixed refresh button when displaying special albums in random order
added special album 360 photos

2020-12-21:

added caption for unsupported videos
randomized rotation speed and direction of 360 photos
added filter to order from new to old (and adapted pagination etc.)
added "NOW" mode (photos taken at the current time)
[DB] Checked for 360 photos and renamed them correctly (example: Gent, Wohnung Kelmis etc.)
[DB] renamed all SRW files with _o but excluded them from original counter of JPGs.
[DB] removed duplicated photos from wedding (party) - originals (moved to Eigene Bilder)

2020-12-18:

[DB] imported filename in SQL-Table
[DB] merged columns in Excel to save space
[DB] ignored non-media files for import into SQL table
[DB] added CODUO Screenshots
sorted results by filename
ignored case of file extensions
added some special albums like beers, wines, rollercoasters, waterfalls etc.

2020-12-14:

simplified 360 photo ID in display loop (to avoid problems with special chars)
reordered photos horizontally and added a script to wait until the page has finished loading to reorder elements with masonry
created path variable and replaced // with /

2020-12-11:

fixed little bug with pagination and jumping forward / backward

2020-12-10:

added support for 360 videos
[DB] renamed/sorted 360 (boff) videos from USA

2020-12-09:

optimized month increment/decrement when jumping days forward / backward
changed form behaviour while jumping to select specific date mode
added support for 360 photos

2020-12-08:

[DB] moved subfolders of Karneval and Badminton to main level and created year subfolder for childhood photos out of album (DB update needed)
added DB info under title
fixed error with boff folders (case sensitive)

2020-12-04:

added mode "today + 6 months"

2020-12-03:

modified childhood random rule (only until 08/2003)
fixed problem with sub-albums in Foto-DB

2020-12-02:

created loop to display days in form (15 lines instead of 31) and pre-selected day in form if available in argument
pre-selected month in form if available in argument
added navigation at the bottom to jump 1-3 days forward or backward
fixed SQL problem with apostrophe in album name

2020-12-01:

removed slb display for videos
fixed little bug in text search
added download link/image for unsupported videos formats
added refresh button at the bottom
added mode as argument and replaced check for post variable mode everywhere

2020-11-26:

added album/photo search mode incl. adapted pagination
fixed problem with "&" in Album names

2020-11-20:

ignored original photos when displaying an album and added a counter at the end. Edit 2020-12-07: did the same for videos.

2020-11-19:

changed name to "VergangenHeut'"
added mode to display one album incl. adapted pagination
added link above/below when photos are taken close to midnight
added some color and styling
formated changelog

2020-11-17:

added masonry CSS grid layout
added simple Lightbox to enlarge photos

2020-11-13:

improved pagination (default limit = 100)
added pagination at the bottom
optimized code elements by adding global variables at the beginning

2020-11-11:

added buttons for jumping to next/previous 1-3 days
added display limit and pagination
added checkbox to hide advanced filters

2020-11-10:

implemented filter for uninteresting
added classes for photo and video display
added video and uninteresting counters

2020-11-05:

added filter for DJWM
added changelog
prepared filter for uninteresting

2020-10-27:

added filter for childhood
hide form elements according to mode
added camera favicon
added up-arrow at bottom

2020-10-26:

added different filters for specific date, hide videos etc.

2020-10-23:

first version, showing today or random photos