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RSGallery2 lives again with new project leadership! Extensive gallery and image features. Alternative templates. Multiple languages. Enjoy!

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I have been using this extension for a long time. Still do, even on new sites. Has its quirks, like anything else, but is really a rock-solid extension.

What has me concerned is that their site has been down for an extremely long time, and does not show any signs of that changing. Has active development of this product ceased? Will we ever see the site again? If we cannot get answers to these questions, it may be time to find something else.
When I was using Community Builder I would give this an excellent rating. If you use Community Builder, RSGallery2 provides a load of great features but keeping it simple. I love a photo gallery that includes a searchbot and downloading photos was easy as well as allowing users in my site to create there own albums.
Now that I moved to JomSocial (which I prefer) RSGallery is also out as its focus is CB users. I hope one day it will support us JomSocial users if we don't already have a replacement.
byBrunus on January 14, 2009
I enjoy this composant, but there is a lot of bugs to fix. The last one I fixed by myself was a problem with backslashes generated by ' caracters in galery description and pictures descriptions.

Then please note this, in the template semantic, in html/gallery.php there is a lak of stipslashes functions.

Also, Y tried to register an account on the home website, and it seems that I can't receive the account activation mail...then I can't give the solution for the backslashes problem while there is already 2 users claiming for a solution in the support forum.
Owner's reply

Yes, the forums aren't working right now after a failed attempt to migrate to PHPBB3. I'm not sure if to try to fix them or just start afresh, but hopefully one of us will have the time to do something this month.

There are javascript errors and fails to show the lightbox in IE. Apart from that, excellent extension.
byThumdar on January 2, 2009
From what I've found, this is the best available gallery system for Joomla 1.0.15. That being said.......

Be for-warned - I just spent the last 2 hours deleting spam from the commenting system. I looked at my backend configuration and it was setup so that commenting was available for registered users but public commenting was set off. It didn't matter because the public was still able to add comments. By the time I came across the spam entries, I had about 5000 that needed to be deleted. This is a SERIOUS flaw.
I have tried and tried and tried many Photo Galleries and I have finally found one I can use! It lets me have categories, it lets me have a slideshow, it let's me have descriptions, it has lightbox effect, it has batch uploading, it has many features I haven't even used yet. The only thing it lacks is variations on the front end layout. There are three layout templates you can download but I would love to see more options!
byjustinw1970 on January 1, 2009
Pretty good. Managed to get galleries I was happy with quickly. My only comment is that it is a shame that I can't get more sophisticated sub gallery structures. However I am happy with this and it will be my gallery component for the forseeable future on our online magazine. I hope the developers find time to continue working on this to make it everything it can be. I am particularly pleased with the integrated commenting facility with this gallery.
byMRDS on December 16, 2008
I am a complete novice with Joomla and I had this extension downloaded, uploaded, installed, a gallery created, my images zipped up, batch uploaded, named, and published in less than 10 minutes. I can't believe it. Merry Christmas early!

The only request I would have is the ability to upload multiple files without having to zip them up, but that is such a minor thing. Oh, one other thing would be to make the hit counter unique with the use of a cookie like the voting is.
byKojac on December 16, 2008
Thank you RSGallery2 I love you.The very first joomla Gallery component to install , Configure , and work with out me haveing to search the manuals , tutorials, help blogs or tearing what little hair i have left out.
Thanks Again Great Job
byCulot on December 9, 2008
This is GREAT extension.

Set up in minutes, uploaded images in seconds, integrated immediately.

There is only some shadow in feature activation ( for example in front end it says I can upload images as user, but I cannot find HOW I can Upload !)

If you are looking for a simple, yet full featured gallery, Here you are! download this extension.
byobotor on December 4, 2008
This component is complete. And rough...
Many features are available. The API, though not tested, seems promising.
I have been deploying RSGallery2 for about a year now.
Version 2.0.0 beta 1 works alright. And can be coupled with Joom!Fish 2.0 RC, provided xml declaration files are correctly formatted and named...

The French translation provided is not UTF-8 encoded.

As a summary RSGallery2 is a good component.

JoomFish declaration XML files and French translation files are available at...
bybertm on September 26, 2008
A fantastic component. Solid, fast, flexible, great admin features. The true beauty of this component is discovered when you start to play with the templates and tweak them to create a completely original front end look and feel. Developers are consistently moving forward, adding features, fixing bugs. I have used RSgallery2 on many sites.
But with a few minor changes (changing alias to id in the code to eliminate errors), this is working exactly how I hoped it would. Great little component!
I was searching for a photo gallery, and after some tests I have choose to use RSGalllery, it looked like the component I really needed.

After an intensive use of this component I decided I wont use it anymore. There are many bugs, configuration options not working, frontend management is weak,....

Th worst of this compoenent its not having support at all, I mean you go to support forum and you can see nobody has answers!
bygrustni on July 8, 2008
It is a great module, that will allow you to have comments and voting on its default template. however other templates do not support commenting and voting...
bySproutus on July 2, 2008
I've tried literally dozens of gallery sites, both internal and external to joomla, and this is by far and away the easiest to use. It works straight out of the box, and within 20 minutes I had 4 galleries uploaded onto my site.

I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to display more than a few pictures in joomla.

It looks like there is constant work being done as well, which is always reassuring! Thank you for such a fantastic product!
byicaninvent on June 24, 2008
I tried every free component for displaying pictures that supports 1.5 and am blown away by how easy and versatile this component is. THANK YOU!
bypalered75 on June 20, 2008
Finally! Something that does exactly what I need and actually works!! I tried four other image gallery products before I finally tried this one and it blows the others out of the water. It worked immediately and I haven't had a single problem. It looks great and is very funtional. I love it.
It's the best choice for Slideshow + Thumbs Gallery for Joomla. Both are in one Main Restangle. There are so much features and templates for customization of the gallery, like Descriptions, Votes, Comments and many, many others.
Thank you very much, guys.
byhypermodern on June 16, 2008
It works for me, i havnt encountered any bugs yet. Even if i do find a bug, the author did say it was beta 1. The previous reviewer gave an unfair review.

In previous versions i havnt been able to change from the default template. Havnt attempted yet with this version.

Thanks the the developer ! All in all its a good component.
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