Good, this is what I want, gallery with comment system + rating system + linking url + supportwebsite + smooth operation and even more from what i said, I think this will be a real joomla image gallery when the stable file is released!

This gallery has many bugs and does not work property, and no support on the official forum.

The old version 1.13 was really correct and i thought that RSG2 may become THE gallery for Joomla.
But with the newest version it goes worst to worst. You need a lot of memory in your php config, and you have to change your time limit (wich may not be allowed by your hoster).
Finally there is so much bugs that you can not use it.

RSGallery2 Component is one of the best tool which integrates a powerfull image Gallery system in your joomla website,However it currently in progress to work with joomla 1.5 Natave component,but we can still use it by using Lagecy Mode enable.

Such a good component.

Stange how things work out sometimes. I have been using RSGallery2 ver 1.12.2 for some time now and despite it being a bit bland on the looks side, it did the job well. Whilst setting up a new site this week I decided to give Pony Gallery ML a try and was quite impressed with it's look and function. So much so that I was planning to migrate the other site as well.

However being reluctant to migrate stacks of images, I decided to upgrade to RSGallery2 ver 1.14.1 ( via ver 1.13.2 which had some image path mapping issues on my site)-

I am very happy with version 1.14.1 as the administration tools have matured and the look is way improved over that of the 1.12.2 version.

I am defenitely staying with the RSGallery2 component now!

Thanks for all the hard work.

compatible with joomla 1.13 y 1.5 , multi-language and more...
this is excellent...

I have tried many galleries but for me this is the best gallery so far... it has cool interface and easy to use.

This is a fantastic component. Downloaded and Installed it, worked first time perfectly just what i wanted and much more without any issues. Thank you to the development team of this component. AAA+++++

I like it and I don't want to change (I already uploaded more thn 200 pictures) I like the plug in for the gallery in the content.

My only trouble are the templates: the only that I can use are "micromacro" and "supersimple", but they are too "minimal" for me.
I wuold like the voting system,the comments and the gallery divided in different pages!!!
Is it possibile to have different templates?

What should I repair to make the other templates function correctly?

Thanak you.

Owner's reply:
The default Semantic template has voting and commenting. If you have problems using it please post on the forums at http://rsgallery2.net/

I've tested several galleries (zoom, easy, etc.) and none of them gave me such a pure functionality as the RSGallery2.

But there is one BIG trouble using RSGallery2. It stores all the images from your galleries into ONE directory. There are directories thumb, original and display for the versions of images but still the only one directory for all images throughtout all your galleries.

Anyhow I wish to use the RSGallery2 for it's great functionality I must leave it outside until its storage is better organized.

I have been reluctant to put photo galleries into my client's sites because there hasn't been any that have really worked all that well and I've tried most of them. I tried RS Gallery a long time ago and had given up on it too...

But I decided to give it another try and wow, I'm impressed! Very professional and feature rich. It's not too complicated (I'm looking at you Gallery2) and it integrates seamlessly into Joomla and becomes part of your site. I did have to use a nightly build version to rid this release of some of the bugs but it works great!

Hats off to the developers and I'm sure with the skills you've demonstrated so far, RS Gallery is only going to get better and better in the future!

One MAJOR flaw of this component is it doesn't have constantly updated sef extensions. Since, the developers are the only persons who really know the structure of their component/database, they are surely responsible for updating those extensions.

On your forums, I've read nothing but blaming other people, like developers of all those SEF components, for not updating their extension list with one for RSGallery.. This could really be a big problem for this component.

Also, the developers of this component are also responsible for keeping their content elements files (for JoomFish), the same reason as above..

Oh yes, I almost forgotten another very important thing. While I was trying to somehow develop the SEF extension for myself (since no extensions found on the internet were good enough for me) I've realized you are using $catid and $limitstart variables (altogether with page=inline) to display a singe image. Is this really necessairy? For example, you could use only $id (like for download link) and from that $id you can do a single SELECT statement and retrieve those $limitstart and $catid from the #__rsgallery2_files table..

And what is gained using id in URL instead of catid, limitstart, and page? Well, if you think about it a bit, you'll see that your links for displaying a certain image, remain the same no matter if user changes ordering of image in a gallery, or if the user moves the image in another gallery. That way you will be able to get the sef extensions written by other people in your email inbox, to save your time, but this way, there is no way to create good SEF links if your links to a certain image change a lot, depending on the user actions on that image..

First let me say I love this component! It has so many of the features in a gallery that the others are lacking; resizing of the original - a MUST have IMO, multi-upload, bulk-upload from a zip file, and the presentation of the gallaries is perfect! I know all of the lightbox and slideshow stuff looks cool, but on a website where you're trying to present galleries, alot of times it just isn't effective. RSG2 gives clean, simple, effective presentation of top level galleries, then clicks down to similarly presented details within those galleries. Perfect!

I'm not thrilled that the pics are all stored in one massive directory. As other b4 has said, if a user drops, removing their pics is an admin nightmare. Next I've encountered problems uploading pics. It's not that I've reached any maximum number of allowable pics or anything, and I can see the pic in the "monster" pic directory, it just wont show in the gallery or anywhere in the component. Of course the component is in alpha so some of these things may yet be worked out.

All-in-all its worth a closer look.

I had about 100 hi-res photos to upload, and the upload feature simply wouldn't work with them. It was either maxed by the PHP limit on uploads, or they had to be manually uploaded. So, for anything that approaches more than a few lower resolution pictures, you may need to look elsewhere.

I am relatively new to Joomla, having taken over a site that somebody else created. I'd been using Zoom Media Gallery until a few days ago when the main gallery page developed an error that I couldn't fix. After getting no response from the developers and at their forum, I gave up and looked for something else.

After researching the many gallery components available for Joomla, I decided on RSgallery because it had the features I was looking for and had many positive reviews.

I just installed it this morning and am still working on creating my new galleries, but WOW. This is so much better than Zoom - I am really pleased. The interface is much easier to work with and it just looks so much nicer than Zoom (and I haven't even touched the CSS yet...really only a few tweaks here and there) I love the option of having different templates and I tried them all, but it seems the default tables template will work best for my site anyway.

I highly recommend this component for anyone needing a basic, clean image gallery. As someone noted on another comment, be sure to go to the config panel before you start uploading images. I also changed my thumbnail size to 100 (from the default 80 - too small, I think) and full size to 500 - I'm not sure how changing those numbers after uploading images would work, so do it first.

You get an excellent rating. Thanks!