I've been using Xoops for 1 year, but now I know Joomla, I'll never go back. 1 hour after I installed Joomla, I tried to install Gallery 2. Still as a Joomla beginner, I managed to get it working in 1,5 hour. Only problems you could worry about are PHP-safe mode, which should be off. Within one week I'll put a installation manual to show the ease and results of a Gallery 2 install in Joomla.
good stuff!

I have only used Gallery components in the past where the gallery was only a small part of the whole site. However my latest project is a serious photographic site. Being very comfortable using Joomla and being totally impressed by Gallery 2 this bridge is exactly what I needed. The whole site was up and working within a couple of hours including modifying the Joomla template.
I recommend this to anyone who wants to set up a serious gallery within a Joomla site.
Thank you.

Easy to install, easy to configure for anyone with reasonable knowledge of Joomla and easy to use. ;-)
It does what is says. You can have your Gallery 2 content accessible from your Joomla site. But do not forget, it's a bridge component, not a full installation of the Gallery software. You must have Gallery 2 installed on your domain to use the Gallery 2 Bridge component.
Only problem is character encoding, but the solution to this is explained on one of the posts here.
BIG THANKS to the developpers for sharing this great component with the Joomla community.

I don't really understand the last submitted review. I installed that extension as a noob without problems and have been using it for ages now! It is amazing and integrates without hardly any flaws (except community builder integration via existent additional plugin in alpha phase). u just have to follow some steps and have good knowledge of both joomla and gallery. u have to enter some path info and have to synchronize users and groups of gallery and joomla and give permissions for gallery through component backend as well. that easy and your up and running! that component rules!
if your geeks haven't managed it is because they have no clue of joomla and gallery. otherwise i cannot explain it!

THIS BRIDGE IS THE MOST USEFUL THING THERE IS FOR JOOMLA AND DEFINITELY THE MOST POWERFUL GALLERY SOLUTION!

This is one of the best extensions I've encountered, works like a dream. Useful modules available too. Good documentation on the website, and any problems you might encounter are dealt with in various forums, just google. Problems usually have to do with not following instructions anyway (that's me..)
Highly recommended, you get a great gallery app seamlessly integrated in your Joomla installation.

I do agree that this is a good extension, however it is very bugged. I'm lost to why so many good replies are posted here. I downloaded it, installed it and had errors like crazy on a new install of Joomla. Just so I didn't think I was losing my mind after reading all the feedback here I had two other people try to install it (all of us are reasonable computer/Joomla geeks) and they failed as well. Make sure you hit up the [Demo] button and check the forums there as well, as the feedback here doesn't seem to follow the same track as the feedback there.

Well there aint much more I can say, I prefer to let the quality of this mambo add-on speaks for itself. This should be your first, last gallery web app that you install on your website.

Nothing comes close, and there are plenty of other systems out there. Don't waste your time, install this and upload your pictures job done :)

It seems everyday I find a Joomla component that amazes me! Gallery2 Bridge is no exception! You can't go wrong with this to add a powerful gallery section to any site.

With this component you can connect 2 great software projects so they are working on your website together for you. User and group management is also handled by this component. So your users only have to login once and dont know that they seeing pictures on your joomla website
delivered by the gallery2 software.
Gallery2 has a lot of very nice options to set up a picture collection.

easy to use. recommended for people with even less dev knowledge. thanks and more power to the dev team!

- g

This is a very good bridge for Gallery 2. There is a problem with UTF-8, but here is the solution. I hope it will be integrated in a future version :

http://wiki.4theweb.nl/w/Gallery:FAQ#Convert_Gallery_2_output_to_joomla_char_set

I must say that this bridge is one of the easiest ones to install and use ever. There is an issue with the charchter set yes, but that can easily be resolved.

I use this bridge on my danish website, and actually you don't need a hack or to translate a lot of language files either. Just go to the Gallery FAQ at Wiki4TheWeb, and you will find all the instructions you need.

You can find it here: http://wiki.4theweb.nl/w/Gallery:FAQ

It took me less than two minutes to fix the charset issue using this guide, so don't start using the hacks and other things, as they will only present you with other problems instead.

This component is absolutely recommended, as it will allow you to integrate the best gallery ever made into Joomla! with a minimum of effort!

A superb solution!

Cheers!
/Marauder

It takes a little more work than loading Gallery 2 than the average Joomla component, since it is only a bridge component that also requires the software, but it is the best overall solutions, since it is very powerful and very search engine friendly under the control of the write hands. Not only does it integrate well with Community Builder, but you can also make use of it as a photo / media e-commerce solution at the same time. You cannot beat this bridge component for the applications listed above. I have yet to try others, but it also works well as a showcase for photography or video work.

It can become buggy at times, particularly when you load it full of images, but on the other hand, it doesn't SEEM (I have not studied and compared the databases resources used) to require as much database load as Gallery 2.

Perfect integration of Gallery2 into Joomla. I've had no problems at all. I solved the utf-8/iso-8859-1 problem like this:

I changed Joomla charset to utf-8 simply by editing the language files. Since then I've had no problem with Gallery or any other component!

I use this bridge and I love it. The only problem is: gallery2 Comments are utf-8-encoded, joomla texts iso-8859-1.

I solved the problem with a little hack in the index.php of joomla:

// Hack to make Gallery2 have the right encoding ...
if($option == 'com_gallery2') DEFINE('_ISO','charset=utf-8');
// Hack end, next lines are already in the index.php, put the hack right here

// loads english language file by default
if ($mosConfig_lang=='') {
$mosConfig_lang = 'english';
}
include_once( 'language/' . $mosConfig_lang . '.php' );

Consider that you should not use any char which is different in utf-8 and iso-8859-1 in your navigation or any text visible at the same time as the gallery.

Would be nice if the bridge would be able to convert utf-8 to iso-8859-1 in one of the next versions.