I'm still a noob with joomla and bridging but, after reading and following the instructions on Mehdi's site, I have the gallery bridged and working just fine.

I still have to experiment a little with the .css stuff so that I can get a fairly seamless integration with the template I use for my website but this was a painless install once I figured out what I was reading wrong.

Again, follow the instructions on Mehdi's site and it will bridge perfectly.

Other reviewers have said how important it is to read the instructions on the site, and I'd endorse that, but its actually less complex to install than you'd think when you first read them. It works well for me and some of the extra instructions about the interaction with Community Builder were particularly welcome. Very helpful, thanks.

Following the previous reviews it should be said that this is an outstanding work and what is more it works fine.
But as mentioned several times you should exactly follow the instructions given on Medi's homepage. I also recommend using a style2.css and let it automatically configure from Medi's homepage. Amazing how this works!
And in any case you have to evaluate whether your Coppermine theme really matches with your Joomla template. If not it makes no sence. If not you can always re-bridge without any problems!

This is a very well made component, and been wanting some thing like this for quite some time. I so happend to have a coppermine installation that was not in use. Also this was easy to configure... although each instrution be taken very catiously.... I believe I messed up once, but there is a few small problems... one, the top header was slightly glitched on the photo section of my site.... two, every url would be mysite/cpg/whatevertheurl (The /cpg made it annoying because I had to create redirectories to make the top header links work....) plus it makes my thumbnail image of my cb avatar not show up because of the /cpg... but only on the gallery section. Also there Seems to be a lower limit on how much I upload.... is there a way to fix this? With out the bridge, I tested the gallery, and it let me upload bigger stuff. But all in all one of my favorite joomla components, and I plan on continueing to use this. Thank you very much! Greatly appreciated! Cheers Josh Lewis.

I installed the bridge and followed the instructions. The install is not difficult, but you should pay special attention to the "full forum url" part when running the bridgemgr from coppermine. I actually tried to contact Mehdi via email asking for help(due to my own mistake somewhere, the coppermine login/logout link screwed up), to my surprise, he responded quickly and offered his opinion. After reading his email, I realized that it must be something that I did wrong that caused the problem, so I did a fresh install again and this time, everything works. Kudos to Mehdi for his great work and his willingness to help.

Well, the integration between the joomla and coppermine works without a glitch, but integrating the style sheets is complicated when the template in joomla is confusing (replicant for j1.5), but that's hardly the bridge's fault.

Had to read all the instructions carefully re: working with CB, and re: using his online CSS file modification tool to avoid template conflicts. But once all the steps were followed it worked completely. I then extensively modified the Rainy Day template to make coppermine resemble the rest of my site. Bravo and thank you!

Let's face it, this is a bridge, and as a bridge, it works as suggested, does it's job, fantastic. However...

I've been creating a Community Builder based website and need a powerful gallery like Coppermine that will be friendly with CB and all the modern functionality that a Joomla based website has to offer. After I installed this bridge and clicked the link to view Coppermine I was given an XML error. Doing some research I found that this bridge will not work with ajax and therefor my instant messaging (JIM) needed to be turned off. This is when I realized I can't use Coppermine.

Again, this bridge works great but us CB web designers are still without a powerful gallery.

I've been using Joomla for almost two years now and have not wrote one review until now. For months I have been looking for a really powerful way to integrate a gallery on my website and I have tried many different extensions. Yesterday I discovered this bridge and installed it. It worked flawlessly and integrated with my website perfect. Long story short this is by far the best extension i've used and it made my year .. Thank you from The Bahamas LongIslandIsHere.com!!

One of the easiest bridges to install. I couldn't believe it was so easy. Works great!

The only thing I have a problem with is users can not use the xp_publish.php method of upload files. I've looked up and down the internet and can't find a fix. It works with a regular Coppermine site but not after your bridge it.

Let me know if you get the publish feature working.

It uses an iframe, it would be better if it made the gallery look like a component instead of just showing a window to the gallery.

User integration works okay though.

Im not exactly a newb, nor am I experienced, but this was too confusing for me and couldnt get it to work...

I bridged G2 with much less hassall, but unfortunatley I dont like G2 as much as I like coppermine.

I guess I need to wait for a more thorough step by step or easier bridge component.

Its a shame, thanks anyhow.

After downloading, I simply followed the guide and after a few clicks (and file transfers), lo and behold, Coppermine was running nicely with Joomla!.

Admin and User integration worked perfectly.

Coppermine just got bumped up to a new version 1.4.13 last night (Sept. 14 '07) so I patched the the cpg files and simply ran the cpg upgrade (following the instructions on their website) from within Joomla!.

Everything worked like a charm after re-running the cpg Bridge Wizard.

A very well designed extension. Most of all, it's free!

Can't wait for any improvements.

I've been using this bridge since it was created. Our corporate intranet (Joomla based) now has a gallery with over 13 thousand media items including photo's, training video's and audio books. Coppermine is the only media gallery suitable for Intranet use and Joomla, Mehdi and Coppermine make an incredibly powerful combo.
Can't wait for Joomla 1.5 with Coppermine 1.5.x integrated !
Many thanks again,

I am very impressed with your instructions as well as your Bridging Skills. Thank you for a perfect Extension.

If you are having trouble with the CSS, and easy fix, is just use a wrapper and modify your stylesheet to simply fit, width wise. It worked for me with Joomla 1.0.11 and Coppermine 1.4.12

Awesome Job and even better Instructions!!

Ignore all the reviews complaining about the setup. People who don't even know how to install a Joomla component have no business giving bad reviews to a product like this!

It took less than 10 minutes to get this bridge running, from starting the download to viewing the Gallery page in Joomla. The instructions are very clear and easy to follow. I run a fairly heavily customized Joomla 1.0.13, but the page looks fine, and the install went flawlessly.

The result is fantastic. Yes, I'll have to do some work on the CSS to tweak the style to match my site, but one of the standard Coppermine themes suites me well enough for now.

Major kudos to Mehdi.

Been using Dragonfly for a couple years now and thought I'd give Joomla a try, but I need Coppermine. So I looked and found this bridge and was quite happy, as I've installed many php scripts and hacks over the years and this appeared to be just what I needed.

But, after nearly two hours I've still got nothing working.

In the instructions it says "First install com_coppermine.zip inside Joomla."

OK. But where inside Joomla? It's a pretty big script and having a directory name might be nice. I've popped it around from directory to directory but still I get the error "Cannot find 'com_coppermine' component. Seems you need to install it first."

For me the use of Joomla hinges upon being able to have the Coppermine photo gallery. I don't understand why such a highly regarded CMS doesn't include Coppermine (or some other equiv. gallery) , or even a forum. Both Coppermine and PHPBB come pre-bundled with Dragonfly. But DF doesn't have the additional modules like Joomla does.

Anyway, for now I'm back to DF. I rarely have the time to try new scripts and working with this bridge has shot my time for today. I've given up.

Thanks for such a great tool!

Unlike the other Coppermine component, this bridge brings the complete Coppermine gallery into Joomla. Setup is easy. Thanks for the pre-hacked files!

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!