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This is a very powerful and clean gallery. I used it for a 300+ (and growing) gallery website and it's integration into articles is nearly flawless.
There are even some nice goodies like PicLens support or various ways to display the full images in the gallery component, as well as some extra modules and plugins (The Random Image module is just great!)

All I wish to be added some day is the ability to have a "auto-size" lightbox which adjusts according to the image resolution instead of a fixed lightbox size.

Kudos for this great component. By far the best gallery I've tested till now. Easy install and config. Great support. I recommend.

Gallery installed with no problems, works great without any snags.
Frontend is limited to single pic uploaded at a time.
Backend is limited to single uploaded unless you using ftp to upload directly to server.
I still like it.

Finally! If you want to create photo gallery's and have your user's access via the front end - this is it look no further! BOOK MARK THIS! Its perfect. Simple, sweet. I spent way too much time looking for this, this is awsome!

Very nice, worked out of the box (joomla 1.5)
Thanks to the developers

I tried few galleries before this one, and all of them had many bugs and weren't up to my expectations. This gallery is really great, quite stable, has many options and piclens suppport, which is really useful.
Support is incredbile, Jan is always there to answer questions and help you, which really means a lot, especially if you are a newbie.

Phocagallery 1.8.6 is good enough that I'm now transitioning off Gallery2 with the bridge. I have 6000 photos so we'll see how it goes. I have a short list of other features I'd like to see but I'm not at all worried about them being implemented because the developer Jan is a super human programmer capable of coding at the speed of sound. The releases were coming out so fast I couldn't keep up.

In comparison to other galleries Phocagallery has the advantage of being 1.5 native, not a bridge and capable. The code is solid, it's simple to use and install and has good features. I expect it to continue to mature and become THE gallery for Joomla 1.5. I used RSGallery2 for a short time and have been using the Gallery2 bridge for years. Phoca doesn't do everything the others do yet but the code is cleaner and new development is happening much faster. I think Phocagallery is the future.

With Phocagallery 1.8.6 you can now rotate images and recreate thumbnails. In addition to the already present features of having as many categories as you want (and nested too) with the ability to have a theme you have a good base to create nice galleries. In the future I'd like to see more powerful theming, and some new modules..

Grant

I've been looking for an good gallery component for a long time, but most components are full with bugs or they seem to be death and not been updated for months and months.

This component is been edited very well! loads of updates and really good future's.

The "piclens" support is awesome.

However there is 1 thing that is not completed, the multiple upload future that's important for me is not working as it should be in my eyes. I hope this will get developed in the future.

It's really amazing, does everything I want a gallery to do, it's fully customizable, tested on FF2, Opera 9.5, IE6, IE7, Safari.

It's easy and has great support on Phoca's website, this is far best ever extension I used for Joomla, I wish that every extension I'm using had such a great support and was so customizable.

This is a great extension! Easy to install and to configure! Does what it suppose to do.
If you're stuck, simply follow the instructions on their website.
Keep up the good work.

i do love this gallery it works as advertised and the option to simply upload a folder within the main folder and it will automatically create categories for said folders, however a downside to this is there is ( not that ive found ) no way to set global permissions upon these new categories so when i create them im stuck with running an SQL query to get them all set to public viewable in one swift move

other than that this extension is growing in new ways with each release and only gets better each time.

Thanks a lot for this amazing gallery...

After *paying* for another gallery which I've spent a week trying to get running, reading their support forum, having questions or thread posts go on deaf ears, I finally gave up and figured my purchase was a 12 euro donation.

I downloaded Phoca Gallery, buzzed through the very well laid out documentation, installed the component, and was up and running with a fully functional gallery, just as advertised.

No headache, no frustration.
Just a functioning gallery.

This is a superb Gallery, simple to install and super quick to set up with a load of images in no time flat. I've used other galleries that are quite complicated, but this little beauty is smooth and user-friendly even for a novice. The ability to change colours/backgrounds/borders etc to suit ones website design is magnificent. A Gallery that truly integrates into Joomla 1.5. Well done to the developers - genius!

I'm using phocagallery with the plugin for a couple of months. I really appreciate the good and fast support on the phocagallery forum. Further more I like the aspect of enlarging images in the modal box with a slideshow feature. The only feature request I have is to have multiple language support for the descriptions...

This is a really nice solution if you want to have a gallery on your Joomla 1.5 website. If you want to have images in your article with a possibility to enlarge them, use this in combination with the phocagallery plugin.

After a long struggle with another gallery I finnaly looked for alternatives. Phoca was like finding a treasure! Thank you very much for this great gallery.

Amazing job : professionnal, documented, works perfectly. Thanks a lot!!!

This is a really, really easy component to install and use. I had a few issues with it on my hosted site where I could not make thumbnails but Jan was incredibly helpful and, although I could not solve the thumbs problem, I found a workaround and now the site looks fantastic.
All credit to Jan for his swift help.

Good integration into Joomla, no bugs encountered yet.
UserInterface could be a bit more intuitive, though. Gallery is list of foto's and categroy is a gallery, imho. But once this is clear, no pain and a lot of gain! Well done.

This is an extremely easy to use plugin for Joomla 1.5. The interface is just so simple and seems to be the new way of things for Joomla plugins since the 1.5 incarnation.

The interface is extremely simple to use and whilst the options available are not overwhelming they are certainly enough to provide for 99% of your needs.

It integrates well with Joomla 1.5's SEO capabilities and requires the upload of images through Joomla's default media manager (maintaining a standard workflow).

Excellent component!!