After reading the review by soldstatic, October 31, 2006, I was scared off and tried Gallery2. But the thing is that personally, I've never liked Gallery2. However, I now able to expertly declare that if you follow the very detailed installation instructions for both Galleries you should have zero problems. The key is to FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.

After struggling with other galleries with javascripts going bananas, code hacking, ajax loading heavy script libraries, and many other problems I went for the good and old coppermine and all functionality works like a charm just out of the box! Plain, feature rich and straight forward! Great work with the bridge!

I installed Mehdi's Coppermine Bridge on my web site the other day and it worked great! I followed the instructions and the installation was smooth and easy. Mehdi's bridge works, is as good as CoppermineVis and it's FREE!

I guess it's just me because all of these other reviews are positive, I'm sorry Mehdi but I'm so frustrated I must come on out with my different point of view...

My situation: been using cpg for years now, just installed joomla. total joomla noob. Decided to leave my cpg gallery in tact and just test the waters with gallery2 from menalto. A buddy of mine uses it and swears by it so i figured ah what the heck. Decided G2 didnt handle movies right for a PDA I have so came back to coppermine. Now I'm trying to integrate coppermine/joomla (aka bridge).

This bridge is much more difficult than the G2 bridge. I had installed G2, and integrated with joomla within 10 minutes of deciding to do so. This has taken me much longer. Basically, G2 you bridge by installing the component for it, then some modules, and your done. Just upload some zips through the joomla component and module installer interfaces. The cpg integration is more intense, you have to install the component, then tweak a couple of files, copy some new files up to the coppermine, etc etc. Then the whole CSS thing where you have your joomla template and then inside of that you have whatever theme you used with cpg, and so you try to integrate via the instructions and you have to do some conversion junk from your joomla css file to a new version for coppermine to use and that (sort of) works [didnt look very pretty for me though...].

I realize the problem is that mehdi is using coppermine's built in bridging functionality to do this, and thats cool and all, but I really wish this install was more like the G2 install. click click click and your done, no tweaking and screwing around and jumping through hoops. Mcuh respect to you Mehdi, nice try.

As the other reviews have stated, this was a very straightforward configuration.

Many thank yous!

While I can usually figureout how to do computer stuff I have never taken any classes or read any books and I found this bridge really easy to use. The directions are really well written and easy to follow.

It works great and the installation is quit simple. There´s no more to say about it. :-)

Thanks!

Integration is so simple,tried G2,RSG, Zoom and finally thought will try CPG. Integration was so simple. Simpler than phpbb bridge by mehdi only. Great Work done by mehidi. Now I need to work out on the layout which is my job. I decided I'll stick to Coppermine and if in future G2 comes as Com/Mod then will migrate to that.

Thanks Mehdi for the awesome work.

The first gallery/bridge that hasn't made me scream (so far). It wal easy to install and integrate into Joomla!, even if the characters coding is different.

Great work!

This bridge works the way I expected it to work. The installation was simple, works with a clean install of Coppermine, and just plain works. Thanks!

Highly recomanded component if you want gallery in your joomla.Awosome.This is the best one among all commercial and noncommercial joomla gallery....becasue coppermine itself can run video file pdf...this is not only photo gallery.Moreover the instruction given on Mehdi's webpage....is awosome.It's really easy to use.Highly recommanded ...A++++++

I tried about 10 different gallery solutions before settling on this one. I was pretty disapointed with all the others (except G2 which was very good). The others either were not feature rich enough / too basic / not very good looking or buggy.

The G2 bridge didn't want to work with my phpBB2 bridge login at all but with two little adjustments, Coppermine worked fine! (I simply edited the links for logging in and out in coppermine so they redirected to the forum for login log out, once users logged in out through Joomla/forum everything worked fine).

I also found editing the Coppermine skin easy (despite being a newbie) to make fit with some of the rest of my site.

Coppermine was built from the ground up to be integrated with forums and CMSs like Joomla which is probably a lot of what makes this integration as tight as a bass drum! 5 stars!

I'm not much of a techie when it comes to these things, but I was able to install this easily.

P.S. Functions with Coppermine v1.4.6 as well.

Works like a charme! Great work! Thank you very much!

I've been looking for this past few months!!

Installation and instructions are easy and clear.....great work :-)

Thank you very very much!!!