No, I'm never completely satisfied. This comes close, but I wish it would be able to auto-create categories and categories within categories depending on the directory structure. Maybe I missed where to do this, but it would be very nice if this were a feature. Other than that, does what it says no problem!

This is a great tool, but it is lacking in three areas:
1) need to be able to specify categories within categories, and then the admin should be able to create links on menus to certain categories for download.

2 and 3) The component allows for transfer of files from sources other than the computer your on, ie server to server transfer. It also allows you to "link" to a file on a different server. These methods need some improvement in their functionality, or perhaps just need some updating in the code to make them work better.

This is a great add on for gig calendar. Works just like it says, easy install, you'll be up and rolling in no time. It is difficult, however, to navigate the foreign website. at least its difficult to me... and so it is also somewhat difficult to find support. For example, the add event page doesn't fit in my template and I need to find a place to edit some of the css for this page, or I need some way to tweak it. I can't find a place to do this though. :-/ Oh well, it will still work fine for my purposes.

I used mehdi's cpg bridge for a while, not bad, but this one just aint doin it for me.

I'm farily new to Joomla, but I've been able to do tons of stuff with it. I run a decent sized community of about 700 consistent users for a music website, that has generally been just the phpbb. I got excited when I designed a front end presentation using RSS feeds from the modded forum, but I got extremely excited when I found Joomla. So I decided to re-do the site using Joomla as a backend and using the phpbb as a feature, I was excited by all the possibilities with gigcal and gallery2 bridge which I had already used on another site.

All that remained in switching was installing a component to integrate the phpBB forum. Well aparently that miracle component doesn't exist like it does for gallery2 from menalto. Mehdi, I'm sorry but this integration just doesn't measure up. It is a pain to install, I don't know what these other people were talkin about in their reviews. I know some stuff about this whole web developement, but the steps to install this bridge just take way too long as far as I'm concerned. There are too many steps, too little description on how to do it, and way too suseptible to user error in installation. This user error cause me to completely break my site, and maybe I'm just dumb but it took me about 2 hours to simply go BACK to the way it was before.

I'm a big believer in open source, and I commend you Mehdi for your work and contribution. I just wish that there were a more uniform, simple, and straight-forward installation method, like the gallery2 integration component and relative modules.

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.