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Prof3ta's Joomla! Picasa 2.0			componentlanguage
Rating 8 votes	Developer:	Roberto Aloi (a.k.a. Prof3ta)	Version:	2.0.5 (Updated 139 days ago)
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	Views:	24,158	License:	GPLv2.0
	Favoured:	19	Type:	Non-Commercial
			Date Added:	Dec 24, 2007

This Joomla! 1.5 component allows you to create an eye-candy photo gallery within your Joomla! website. It uses the Zend libraries to connect to the Picasa Web Servers and the lightbox and instant scripts to obtain cute graphic effects. The project is now in stable version.

Version 2.0.5 Stable changelog:

* Album covers in the front page
* Scripts and Css included in the component. No more need for manual configuration!
* Switch from Lightbox to Slimbox
* Used the Mootools scripts included in Joomla! 1.5
* New Logo
* Fixed some php4 compatibility issues
* Removed optional languages from the main package. No more installation warnings!
* Fixed some minor graphical issues

Version 2.0.4 Stable changelog:

* Php4 support added
* Component now works even if Joomla is not installed in root directory
* Added French translation. Thanks to sigo.
* Added German translation. Thanks to George.

Version 2.0.3 Stable changelog:

* Fixed a bug in titles visualization with some php configurations.

Version 2.0.2 Stable changelog:

* Fixed the include path problem for Windows systems.

Version 2.0.1 Stable changelog:

* Added Chinese Translation. Thanks to baijianpeng.

Version 2.0.0 Stable changelog:

* Totally coded from scratch!!!
* MVC Pattern Introduced
* Internationalization Support (ITA - ENG for the moment)
* Parametrized graphics effects (lightbox + instant)
* Code speed dramatically improved
* Fixed almost all bugs from previous releases

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User Reviews (4)

very nice fotoalbum by janbockaert, July 27, 2008

There where only two small problems with this component, none of them deal breakers. In order to install it, you had to extract it, and then rezip the component without the osX folder. And translating the language file, did not seem to work on my site...

But once installed, it worked like a charm (in FF3) This component is by far the easiest way to get a beautiful photoalbum in your joomla site.

Very, very tastfull!

thanks.

Beautiful, but slow for windows browsers by esydor, June 17, 2008

After spending a few days tweaking this component to work with my site, everything looked great. The little Polaroid like thumbnails were just fabulous and i thought everything was great.

Then we started getting reports from Windows users saying that the site was unbearably slow. It took a few days to figure it out, but once i uninstalled this component the site went back to being speedy. Some reason with my setup and template the site came to a crawling stop just for Windows users (Firefox, and IE 6+7). Anyone else experience this?

Hope this can be worked out, switched to a Flickr plugin instead for now. But it's not as graphically nice as this one.

Not ready for non-developers by awkwards, April 21, 2008

This is a very nice looking component in the demo site.

I was unable to get it to work. I scanned the forums and was able to solve the first parsing error thanks to respondents there (be sure your host has truly activated PHP5 on your account).

However, when I received a fatal error having to do with one of the code libraries the component uses, I was lost and noticed others on the forum in the same predicament with no solution. I will wait for a more stable version that is more friendly for non-developers. This component needs better error handling in order for me to be able to use it.

Owner's reply:
:) Try the new version. Hope you can change your mind :p

A great idea! by MissShona, April 15, 2008

This component was just what I was looking for. I already have a good number of pictures on Picasa and I'm working on a personal Joomla website. I wanted a picture gallery, but didn't want to deal with uploading pictures all over again. Plus it's very attractive.

I did not give it five stars though because it was tough to configure. You MUST read the developer's instructions on his webpage in order to get the scripts and learn to install them so that they can work (the pictures will appear...but the "eye candy" will not be there). Also my site is in a subdomain...so the given header instructions didn't work (had to go through the forums in order to get the answer). Then I didn't like the components main page...actually had to go into the .php file to change that around. And finally you HAVE to have PHP 5 enabled on your domain...or this component will not work.

I think this component has a lot of potential. If you have the patience to do what you need to do in order to get it set up and running. I thought it was worth it in the end though.

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