The idea is good, and the component shows promise, but it is limited by some bugs and user controls. I found that registered users can upload files to any gallery even if the permissions are turned off. There isn't a global feature set yet implemented for permission settings on all galleries. There are some good hacks being done to give it the functionality it needs in some areas, like scrolling galleries, but none of these are yet implemented in the base. On the plus side, it requires no bridge. Just can't use it yet for a production site. I am trying the alpha, which is supposed to have bug fixes over the current stable release. I can't imagine they removed functionality, so, take the review for what it is worth.

I have been a Zoom user for about a year and was quite happy, I'd tried other gallery components but they either didn't work or were too basic. I had even tried RSgallery but with little or no luck.

I regularly check for install updates and recently updated Zoom it was a disaster it looks good but users have found it awkward and incredibly slow and the modules caused all sorts of validation errors, I didn't know what to do but get on joomla and investigate the possibility of a new gallery, I tried Gallery2 but too much faffing about, that's ok if you just have one site but when your handling 20 plus it's far too time consuming. I noticed RSgallery and sighed if only it would work, I downloaded the zip then uploaded the file to my site, BINGO! it worked straight away and at first look is absolutely perfect!

A gallery should be practicle and present your pictures clearly after all they are what you want people to look at as opposed to a graphically complex gallery that takes forever to load.

Thanks RSgallery simple, clean, fast and very praticle with enough features to keep me happy

If you are looking for a gallery to plug into your site, this is the one - look no further. When I set up my joomla site, the gallery selection was daunting. After trying several galleries, RSGallery2 was the easiest to install and configure. Sure it has a couple of small bugs, but nothing that will impact your site. The developers are working hard to make this the best gallery for joomla. If nothing else, since this gallery is so easy to install, its worth a look.

I've checked out easy gallery, zoom, gallery 2 bridge, and RSgallery2. RS2 was my favorite of the lot. I liked zoom but alot of the functions had buggs and didn't work. Gallery 2 bridge was nice but it was hard for me to customize. Easy gallery was as advertised but with limited functionality. I would reccomend RS2.

Very nice gallery component. Installed the latest 1.11.11 version and integrated in my site without problems. One of the modules comes up with an error, but I am sure that will be ironed out in the very near future.
Looking forward to the next release !! Good stuff.

Installed without any hassle.

Configuration was easy and error-free. Nice javacript effects.

I've had problems with gallery2 and coppermine but this one installed without any problem and works great.

Of course like any other extension, more can be done to make it even better. A lot more features can be added to it.

5 out of 5 from me

I was quite pleased with this component, till I upgraded it to version 1.0.10. There were some problems with the layout on my website, thats wy I upgraded.

Now, some improvements to the components are made. But my browser (IE6) hangs when opening a picture. It says: fatal error bla bla...

I've seen no solution to this problem, so wait for it to come and then install this component, it has some great potential.

1.1.10-alpha looks quite promising, but it wouldn't work at all for me. Couldn't upload a single picture, couldn't get it to import pictures already on the server.

I think this all comes down to script execution time-outs, but since I have no control over the php configuration on my site there is nothing I can do about it.

If you have access to your php.ini or can override it, things will probably work fine for you.

My only gripe about the way it works is the single folder for all galleries. You can move this so that it appears under /images/stories but with a single folder reusing the images in content articles will quickly become unmanageable.

I tried to install the 1.11.10 but got some rather strange backend commands, some of the menu items were showing as variables. The 1.11.9 hasn't got that problem, it installs well and is very easy to configure. Initial setup and managing categories & media is very straight forward. I very much like the pop-up zoom shot, so much easier than opening and closing windows. Excellent extension.

There is a strange error with this component(1.11.10 english version). On IE (6 and 7) when you click on thumbnail images the browser crashes and gives a fatal error. I tried to install version 1.11.9 and 1.11.10, but the IE crashes anyway. On Opera and Mozilla it works properly however. On official forum, the RSGallery developers seem to have no solution for this bug.

There is another language error. I have a russian Joomla and when I install RSGallery it automatically tries to recognize the language of a joomla. And it is not Russian what it chooses but some Gibberish language with characters that I could'nt read and change. I had to switch to english to able to see properly the RSgallery menu.

Overall, this component is promising, but needs to fix the above problem with IE.

With the 1.11.9 update, it works on my joomla now. The last didnt.

SO, no more installation errors if you had that in the prev. version.

Great work.

Great gallery, but one major disadvantage (for me anyway). All images, from no matter what gallery, are stored in one folder. When trying to add a pic to a content item, it's almost impossible to find it among the huge number of other pics.

Yes, it certainly has a potential, I used it [testing] a month.
But there were serious problems - i.e. today I found some categories *disapeared* and I can't edit categories details anymore - it displays always details of 1 same category nomatter which category I click to...
And I read some frightenning articles about how dangerous RSGallery is in terms of security. It seems it's "leading" unsecure component!
But a good thing is, that there is a development and there were 2 new bugfixes and updates last 2 days (29 July), so maybe some of the topics mentioned was fixed...
BTW I found Zoom Gallery and it seems to be a "different league", it's stunning!

I love this component. It's simple and clean. I have been told by my users that the image upload feature of my website(using RSGallery2) is user friendly. Easier to create galleries and upload images.

As long as my users are happy, I am satisfied with RSGallery2.

BTW, I have created a simple mod that display the latest x RSGallery2 comments. You can download the mod from here: http://www.adsrite.com/mod_rsgallery2_latest_comments_1.0.zip

Great potential here, but *beware*. I had to spend about 6 hours cleaning up the code to get it to work. Preview next to image detail (admin) didn't work. Preview popups on image list (admin) page didn't work. Columns on same page were messed up (filename wasn't correct, etc). These issues were related to some SELECT * statements joining 2 tables, messing up $row->name field (both tables had same field). Needed to make misc other fixes. But now, everything's working great. I wish I could send my changes to the developer so everybody can enjoy it! Check out my test site with my changes at http://www.getlife.tv/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2