I have been conducting exhaustive research to try and uncover that illusive Gallery application that could run within my Joomla applications.
I have configured and tested every single Component, Module, Bot and Plugin available, but all were found wanting with the exception of 'Album Component' by Roland Breedveld at http://breedveld.net and this truly wonderful Gallery application by Tiny Web Gallery at http://www.tinywebgallery.com/en/index.htm.
Roland's is great and I've posted my Review under his application but the Tiny Web Gallery's 'Joomla Flash Uploader' not only allows you to provide an upload facility within your Joomla site but you can integrate all your Joomla logged in Users to the Gallery as well.
I've wrapped the Tiny Web Gallery and provided an upload link to their clever Flash upload system and for all intents and purposes, it fits within my Joomla system and template seemlessly and without fuss.
Tiny Web Gallery's extensive installation notes and FAQ's are second to none and their English translation is pretty much perfect.
Not only can you and your Users add photos via the Flash Uploader tool but you can also stream many video applications such as Google and YouTube as well as music. Plus their sample videos and songs they've set up are cool!
Coupled with a very slick front end, what you have here is a trailblazing Gallery application which is easy to use and looks great!
One thing I would ask the Developers to consider is to provide a system whereby you can add Users to the Flash Uploader en mass rather than individually. It's a bit of a pain having to do this one by one. Better still, if you can find a way to do this automagically, that would be awesome!
My system is running as follows:
PHP built On: Linux pl1.hostingmetro.com 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 17:03:35 EDT 2007 i686
Database Version: 5.0.27-standard
PHP Version: 5.2.1
Web Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
WebServer to PHP interface: cgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.0.13 Stable [ Sunglow ] 21 July 2007 16:00 UTC
A great Gallery application with a very clever Flash Uploader that seemlessly integrates into Joomla! My Clients and their Members are delighted and I'm looking forward to combining the power of Joomla with Tiny Web Gallery in many more Member sites.
Great work!