Wow!
After struggling with the integration of Docman with joomla multi site, I came across Phoca Download. From the first install, everything worked perfectly. It is so easy to use and looks nice and clean.

I have nothing to say against it!

Phoca extensions never stop amazing me!

Go for it! It's good!
For us the possibility to play movies from within was it's most important part and it works really good (modal and popup).

Yeah! This is very good component. But can i add all files in the folder into my category automatically?

Very good work. I'd like more layout theme for the future

Thank you for this beatiful extension.

This is a simple and easy to use extensions. Works without any problem! Thanks!!!

Wonderful component! I recommend everybody to use it!

After being 1 week searching and trying some components, I have taken this: Phoca Download.

Easy installation and administration, clean, elegant and good support.

Recommended 100 %

Regards

This component is great, don't get me wrong. It does everything it claims to do, and it does it very well. But if your template requires modifying Phoca's CSS file, put on a hat right away, because you'll be pulling your hair out in no time.

I've created dozens and dozens of Joomla sites with templates from all over the place. I have never seen more complicated CSS in my life. If you need to so the simplest thing, like change the color of the text in the front end component, you'll have to manually add the CSS yourself. Some of the images are called from the CSS file, others from php files that are so buried in the package, you'll need a flashlight to find them.

Actually, no amount of words can do justice to the amount of frustration you're going to experience trying to customize the CSS. Just go ahead and try. You'll see what I mean.

Again, just to be clear, the component seems to be rock solid and extremely useful. Definitely worth more than the price (free). But the CSS? My goodness, it should be an example of exactly how NOT to style a site.

yeh its nice and easy to setup, install etc. It looks nice. It would be better if it had the option to add sub-catagories/folders but all in all v good work guys!!

The same as for Phoca Gallery. I use both Phoca Gallery and Phoca Download for displaying and downloading my images for my customers. I want to thank Phoca developers for great support which I needed for creating my site

Registered purely to write this review. I can't recommend this component highly enough. Does everything it says it can do. Highly customiseable. Support on Phoca forum is top notch for a non commercial entity.

For me Phoca Download looks very sophisticated an gets *****. But one missing feature takes it IMHO to ***.

Why? Well, it has categories and sections. I can administer licenses and global settings. Even statistic are included and it looks very nice but what´s extremly missing for me is the pathway-inclusion. Only the title of the menu-item (don´t know what´s the right name in English) IMHO is not enough when having categories and sections.

yet another totally free, totally wicked, extension by Phoca! Thanks.

Phoca Download was the first downloading extension I evaluated. All of the extensions I tried worked, and they all had very different features that separate them. Phoca Download was by far the easiest to setup, no tweaking of template files to get a nice clean look that fit the page. I enjoyed the option of direct linking as we have a second domain that is specifically used as a file warehouse. It is also nice that you can either use an icon or a thumbnail with each file entry. I could go on, and on, but the bottom line is there are a lot of good features, and it is very versatile.

The only downside (and extremely minor at that) is creating Phoca Download menu items. The only option you have is listing by section, not category, or file. In all defense there is an article in Phoca forums that covers the reasons why, but I’ve found using external link type is an easy workaround. I can’t stress this is very minor hopefully the experts will figure it out.

Support is good. I had an issue with setting up the forums account and found 2 of my email services (AT&T Yahoo, and HostGator.com) are blocking the emails from Phoca.cz. I ended using a Gmail account and Jan fixed the accounts on the forums board promptly.

There are also other plug-in and modules that add to the functionality.

Jan – This is an awesome product, great job!

I spent several days combing the Internet for a download manager extension for Joomla! After testing out several different possibilities, Phoca Download proved to be both the most reliable and contain the most features that I was looking for.

I'm very content with this Joomla!Extension.
The support of the developper is very good.
Annelies

i searched a lot for finding a good extension for download. at the end i find the perfect tank's for phoca developer

Hi, first of all,its a nice component and I can say,it can bypass Docman in its looks. Still needs some more features;

1. Download button should be hidden for unregistered members and they should be opted to REGISTER.

2. ALL FILES DISPLAY FROM A SPECIFIC CATEGORY should be added to MENU ITEM options.

Thats it. I would like to see these two options soon.
Thanks..

I like this extension. But there are not two important items: search plugin and latest documents module. It's not possible to reduce detail and downlod buttons?