That's the way for this extension. Be minimalist.

For people who don't need too much information in the pictures.
Great lightbox look.
All the pics are stored with theirs real name, in the same folder.
Subcategories are very important, perhaps in next version.

Continue with this project, and thanks for all your time.

Well, this gallery has absolutely no options. But it looks very nice and it was just what I was looking for.

For those who doesn't need descriptions and details, just a simple gallery with slimbox, it's great. I was planning to make my own thumbs so the non-authomatic thumbs didn't bother me, but be aware of this lack of function.

the category menu module is a great add-on. I'll be using this gallery in my artistic portifolio.

I would like to suggest a couple of improvements:

-you can navigate through the slimboxes, so why not put next and previous buttons there?

-would be nice to have the image title in the slimboxes.

- the automatic thumbs generator would be great for other uses

Thanks for the lovely gallery!

My client needed something simple and easy for her to update on her own, so I saw this component and gave it a whirl. Well, it had conflicts with the templates' JS so I just simply edited SamGallery a bit to load the templates' JS instead.

If there could be some options added to get around the conflicts or point to the templates' JS, then this would be a nice addition. Also, the named images can get confusing in admin, but I appreciate the roll-over thumbs! Overall, nice work.

This component is very nice!! Really nice interface and design in frontend...I love the javascript thumbnail effects...

Some features that would be nice:

1.Batch upload - Allow you to upload a zip or more photos in once
2. Automatic thumbs - Use GD2 or something to generate thumbnails instead of making the and uploading them manually...

That's about it...Everything else is really good!

This component has a great frontend, but the backend is slightly lacking in auto thumbnail generation and ease-of-use. The component has GREAT potential, and I'll look forward to using it, once some "tweaking" has been done!

Well... this seems to work pretty good... except I can't edit images...
When I try to edit one image, it takes me back to the category part...
Also... I don't see a button to add more images!

Something missing here?!

Ok so I've given this 'fair', but this is mainly because of how the gallery looks on the authors site.

Now for the bad bit - it said it installed correctly, however when trying to fire up the component admin you get


DB function failed with error number 1146
Table 'xxxxxxx.jos_samgellery_cat_x01' doesn't exist SQL=SELECT m.cat_name as name, m.cat_desc as descrip, m.cat_id as id, m.added as added, m.cat_img thum FROM jos_samgellery_cat_x01 AS m ORDER BY m.added desc LIMIT 30

OK so here is not the correct palce to put the error, but there is no author support forum, and I'm not sure they got my contact form through their site.

It would appear that I'm not the only one with this error as this has already been posted on the joomla forum - without a fix.

So unless it will work I'm afraid I will have to leave this as it is.

Nice simple looking gallery, just doesnt work on my set-up.

Owner's reply:
The problem is a sql table is created as ‘sam_samgellery_cat_x01’ instead of ‘#__samgellery_cat_x01’. The symbol ‘#_’ used to change the prefix dynamically.



I sure our new release will works good.



Thank you

Very good and fast

This would be great...but:

1) Had a few errors when installing...Once I changed the database table name, it was okay.
2) In order to add a category you have to have a front image.
3) You can't upload zip files which sucks if you have large galleries.

Nice tool.

But during installation two tables are created in the database.
Both tables use 'sam_' as prefix and not the one choosen during the Joomla installation.

This should be just a small bug fix in the installation file of this component, but anyway prevents the component from running.

Regards,
Friedel

Owner's reply:
The problem is a sql table is created as ‘sam_samgellery_cat_x01’ instead of ‘#__samgellery_cat_x01’. The symbol ‘#_’ used to change the prefix dynamically.



I sure our new release will works good.



Thank you

clean and decent looking but I was put off from the start when the config screen wouldnt work

I eventually figured out that the SQL table name had been created as sam_xxxxxxx but was being called as jos_xxxxxxx

After renaming tables it worked and although pretty basic looks good.

plus points - clean, simple and easy to understand
minus points - SQL error, cannot nest categories, all images appear to go into one directory and are named/numbered as sam_img_1.jpg, 2.jpg etc.

Owner's reply:
The problem is a sql table is created as ‘sam_samgellery_cat_x01’ instead of ‘#__samgellery_cat_x01’. The symbol ‘#_’ used to change the prefix dynamically.



I sure our new release will works good.



Thank you