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For testing I have recently installed a number of galleries, this one seems to be one of the best. Good job, Pavelka, krasna galerie.

This is the best gallery extension that one is likely to find for Joomla and it's free!

It is a great component with many, many options that allow you to configure it the way you want it to work and display.
Because it has so many options, it is mandatory that one reads the documentation carefully to get the combination right.
One is not likely to have one's gallery up and running in 5 minutes from installing the component. This is a large piece of software and one must know how the options are interrelated. Once it has been properly set up, though, it will work great for both back-end and front-end.
Pair it with "Phoca Gallery Button" or " Phoca Gallery Slideshow" and you get the easiest way of adding images to your articles with lots of options.

A lot of work has been put into this and user feedback and requests have obviously been implemented.

The developer certainly deserves recognition and support for all his hard work.

Am rating it good only because it is obviously a good extension and I can see the developers have put a lot of hard work into it and I don't want to take that away from them.

I was however very dissatisfied with it as I couldn't get the rating system to work and the posts within the Phoca forums didn't address this issue where it was raised by previous users. Indeed I applied the advice given i.e setting image rating both in global settings and via the menu item, neither of which worked.

Good component, looks good and serves a good purpose just wasn't good enough for what I needed.

It does just about everything I want out of an image gallery. Love it! The only problematic area is the admin menu. Finding what you want in that mile long list of options can take some time. Dividing the menu into smaller, more manageable chunks would be welcomed.

Just WOW! I can honestly say that this is the best component for image gallery i have seen until this moment. He is very simple and powerful. The documentation is very clear, if you installed this component first time so you can get all the information for every single step. Also there is a lot of configurations and customizations so it can satisfy a lot of needs. Choose the color,size,type of pop up window and of course many more options. As well I was looking for any component which can help me to organize the youtube gallery and compare to others I will definitely use Phoca.
Thank you very much to developers, keep going to update it.

Installation is very smooth, and the documentation is good. I've been using this for several months now, and I'm very happy with it. I've also installed a few plug-ins that relate to Phoca Gallery; one of the strengths of Phoca Gallery is that there are many additional plug-ins you can add that will extend the functionality of your photo gallery. Since I first installed it, there have been updates. Updates go very smoothly. All you have to do is use the "install" page in your extensions menu, and you'll get two options on your screen, one for a fresh install, and one for an update that will keep your current data intact. Even though it is free, the quality is such that I felt very motivated to make a donation to support the future development of Phoca Gallery.

Phoca Gallery really makes image gallery tasks easy. All the options may be intimidating initially but it is worth the end result.

I really cant explain how much I love this component. Its a complete image gallery solution. 2 thumbs up

I was building a site for my dojo and needed a flexible gallery component that the non-technical staff can administer and one that did not require a separate menu or article for each category/gallery to show the images. I tried many of the free ones and few trials but each had some weaknesses or/and shortcomings. The only one that really met all of my requirements was Phoca's; extremely flexible, many config options, and has a built-in batch image upload manager to boot (Java based)! I only installed the component part as it is the only thing I needed.
I ran into one problem with thumbnail display, emailed the developer and received a response within a few hours with a suggestion where/what to look for. His suggestion led me to discover a feature of the RocketTheme template I was using that injected invalid height and width attribs into the img tags; once I tweaked the template's feature everything worked great. (thank you Jan for the speedy support!)
For those needing to remove the credits from the footer; just make a small donation to support the developer and keep this great product alive. For my need, this one worked better than some expensive commercial extensions.

Just what i am looking for. Straight forward and incisive. Big UP!

This is probably the most comprehensive and well maintained gallery for Joomla.

And, it is free! Thank you Jan.

However, I would appreciate if we could turn off the link to Phoca. If all extension developers included a link to their site, all our sites would look like link farms.

This is the sole reason why I do not use it.

This extension is really the best, but I think it miss one function for picasa.
For each new picture I must go to category and load.
I want to add picture automatically (by a script called every hour for example).
I'm looking for that and I will send you my modification if it's work perfectly but I don't know exactly what to change!

The one of the most engaged developer I ever seen. Extension with a lot of features that is free but extremly proffessional like Jan.
Well done!
My first comment here but need to be posted cause of his job.

Overall well done. I've been looking for a photo gallery that is easy and quick to use front-end. Most of the features are very well done however the flow process of creating categories, subcategories and populating them with images becomes a tedious process with this approval process that you can't disable. Honestly, if the approval process wasn't there, I would be giving 5 stars and just repeating my utmost love for this extension. Although unfortunately, the approval or "authorization" just adds too much complexity to something so simple. It simply takes too much time and overhead from the end-user and administrator's point of view to populate galleries produced by this extension with images. Below are a couple examples:

The upload feature itself is nice and easy to use, however the approval process after you upload the images is nice if you need an approval process. If you don't need an approval process, it becomes very annoying to say the least. Basically everytime a new image, you need to click approve for each individual image that is uploaded. There should be an option to automatically approve every new image that's uploaded on the front end.

Simple things like creating new categories from the front-end are not easy to do, unless you have a Joomla Administrator on duty. Even for the administrator, it becomes a little tedious when you have to manually create a storage directory for each category. Automatically creating storage directories for new categories and sub categories is something that should be done by automatically.

Good job overall but the flow from an end-user and administrator's point of view is definitely lacking. Although keep up the good work, this is a very good photo gallery, allow the Joomla Administrator to disable the approval process and this will be a fantastic extension.

I downloaded and simple started using on my portal. Even templates are very nice. I really recommend this gallery, do not look for sth else.

I also thank you Phoca for support.

If you ask me why i put this 5 Star, of course because it's worth trying this component. I've tried to use other gallery module as well, but not to my taste. But this one module, worth trying. Great job for putting efforts on making this gallery. Oh btw, thanks for not commercializing this module :P

I will say that this is the best image gallery I have ever used. Highly configurable and easily managed.

Absolutely fantastic gallery! Finally i was able to customize my photo gallery according to my imaginations. You can also have lot of useful plugins which help with better integration into joomla site. Last but not least is perfect documentation and active forum. Only one sad thing is that don't exist more templates, but with this we can help ;o)

The support offered in the help-forum is outstanding. Phoca-gallery gives many ways to show images. I had no problem finding solutions to beginners-problems and got answers to my questions real quick and to the point.

I think I tried all the photogalleries,
and between the free ones I can say that Phoca is the best