RSGallery2 
Version
2.2.1 and 3.1.0 (last update on Jan 24, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
134
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
527502
Date Added
5 March 2006
Users can upload their images via frontend and backend, via single file upload, batch upload or ftp upload. Galleries containing images can have as many (nested) subgalleries as you want. Galleries and images can be moved around easily. Three graphics libraries, used to make display and thumbnail images, are supported: GD2, ImageMagick and Netpbm. Images can have a watermark. Images can be regenerated after the settings for display image size and thumbnail image size are changed. The site administrator can set permissions for usergroups to be allowed to upload images, create galleries, edit, delete, (un)publish both images and galleries, vote and comment on images, just like the permissions for Joomla core components are set. View access for galleries can be set by the site administrator just like view acces for Joomla Categories. The look and feel can be customised by creating your own RSGallery2 templates.
RSGallery2 has been around since the Mambo days and was originally developed by Ronald Smit. Since then, RSGallery2 has evolved into what it is nowadays.
Support/discussions: www.rsgallery2.nl!
RSGallery2 has always been a free extension and will always be a free extension! We're all volunteers!
Note:
- Version 3.0.1 will not work on Joomla 2.5.x, but 3.1.0 will!
- Use version 2.x on Joomla 1.5.x.
Major changes in v3.1.0 with respect to v3.0.1
- Added View Access Level to galleries
- Comment and Vote permission can be set per usergroup and per gallery.
- Captcha option for commenting on images: now uses Securimage 3.0 by Drew Philips (www.phpcaptcha.org)
- Added the possibility of using parameters in Slideshow Parth. Think of slideshow transition effects, setting background and text colors and setting the size of the slideshow.
- Added choice for menu-item that links directly to the slideshow.
- Fixed meta description and page title.
Maintenance changes
- Fixed one Backwards Compatibility issue for Joomla! 2.5. The Joomla! team has done a really great job in making Joomla 2.5 backwards compatible with respect to 1.6 and 1.7. However, there are a few Backwards Compatibility issues and one of them does affect RSGallery2 3.0.1.
- Created sliders for Configuration’s tab Images.
- Removed some unused settings in the Configuration.
- Moved Configuration setting FTP Path to Image Upload section and corrected base path information.
- Upon Save in Configuration now using Joomla messages instread of RSG2 printAdminMsg
- New gallery saves by default to first position, text describing this in Gallery New screen was wrong.
Language
- Added full italian (it-IT) translation available thanks to user Scioz.
- Corrected missing language strings showing in pagination when you have a paginated list of galleries in the front-end.
- Hardcoded textstring “(ex. C:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe)” now translatable.
- Removed directory
Images
Even though it is still marked as alpha, ATM it seems to be the best gallery for Joomla. Its development is also progessing nicely and the support is good. All in all a very promising project, that is already very usable for many applications.
This is a realy nice component, I am using this component for a while on my site now and I got great support from the developer. I have installed the newest version 1.12.2.
I like:
category index, even the third category is showing up in the main index by numbers and random images.
The zoom if you click on an image.
The discription, vote, EXIF info and comment by each image
mod_rsitems (showing random, latest, populair, latest comment etc.)
What I see as a improvent in the future is:
Joomla has the future that you can change the name of the author in an article. On my site I place a lot photo's of members on my site, it would be nice if I can change my name in their name, so that you can see the foto/category is made by the one who made the photo.
cbplugin is not what it has to be. It shows only you own categories and no random pictures. It would be also nice that the public can see what the latest photo is a user uploaded.
I like:
category index, even the third category is showing up in the main index by numbers and random images.
The zoom if you click on an image.
The discription, vote, EXIF info and comment by each image
mod_rsitems (showing random, latest, populair, latest comment etc.)
What I see as a improvent in the future is:
Joomla has the future that you can change the name of the author in an article. On my site I place a lot photo's of members on my site, it would be nice if I can change my name in their name, so that you can see the foto/category is made by the one who made the photo.
cbplugin is not what it has to be. It shows only you own categories and no random pictures. It would be also nice that the public can see what the latest photo is a user uploaded.
Since my freelance business is picking up I needed an easy gallery solution for my Joomla installs. The last iterations of this component were buggy and full of errors. The recent few wouldn't even install. I decided to give this one more shot. I'm glad I did. More polished and VERY easy to use.
This component is really good however, it does have a few bugs that need to be worked out.
Such as the waterdrop. It works in ONLY one gallery, but if you have more than one, you receive an error. It could be my fault, the servers, or the script, it's hard to tell; but overall, I am very impressed.
I enjoy using this very much, so please keep up the good work.
Thanks!
~Lucas
Such as the waterdrop. It works in ONLY one gallery, but if you have more than one, you receive an error. It could be my fault, the servers, or the script, it's hard to tell; but overall, I am very impressed.
I enjoy using this very much, so please keep up the good work.
Thanks!
~Lucas
The idea is good, and the component shows promise, but it is limited by some bugs and user controls. I found that registered users can upload files to any gallery even if the permissions are turned off. There isn't a global feature set yet implemented for permission settings on all galleries. There are some good hacks being done to give it the functionality it needs in some areas, like scrolling galleries, but none of these are yet implemented in the base. On the plus side, it requires no bridge. Just can't use it yet for a production site. I am trying the alpha, which is supposed to have bug fixes over the current stable release. I can't imagine they removed functionality, so, take the review for what it is worth.
I have been a Zoom user for about a year and was quite happy, I'd tried other gallery components but they either didn't work or were too basic. I had even tried RSgallery but with little or no luck.
I regularly check for install updates and recently updated Zoom it was a disaster it looks good but users have found it awkward and incredibly slow and the modules caused all sorts of validation errors, I didn't know what to do but get on joomla and investigate the possibility of a new gallery, I tried Gallery2 but too much faffing about, that's ok if you just have one site but when your handling 20 plus it's far too time consuming. I noticed RSgallery and sighed if only it would work, I downloaded the zip then uploaded the file to my site, BINGO! it worked straight away and at first look is absolutely perfect!
A gallery should be practicle and present your pictures clearly after all they are what you want people to look at as opposed to a graphically complex gallery that takes forever to load.
Thanks RSgallery simple, clean, fast and very praticle with enough features to keep me happy
I regularly check for install updates and recently updated Zoom it was a disaster it looks good but users have found it awkward and incredibly slow and the modules caused all sorts of validation errors, I didn't know what to do but get on joomla and investigate the possibility of a new gallery, I tried Gallery2 but too much faffing about, that's ok if you just have one site but when your handling 20 plus it's far too time consuming. I noticed RSgallery and sighed if only it would work, I downloaded the zip then uploaded the file to my site, BINGO! it worked straight away and at first look is absolutely perfect!
A gallery should be practicle and present your pictures clearly after all they are what you want people to look at as opposed to a graphically complex gallery that takes forever to load.
Thanks RSgallery simple, clean, fast and very praticle with enough features to keep me happy
If you are looking for a gallery to plug into your site, this is the one - look no further. When I set up my joomla site, the gallery selection was daunting. After trying several galleries, RSGallery2 was the easiest to install and configure. Sure it has a couple of small bugs, but nothing that will impact your site. The developers are working hard to make this the best gallery for joomla. If nothing else, since this gallery is so easy to install, its worth a look.
I've checked out easy gallery, zoom, gallery 2 bridge, and RSgallery2. RS2 was my favorite of the lot. I liked zoom but alot of the functions had buggs and didn't work. Gallery 2 bridge was nice but it was hard for me to customize. Easy gallery was as advertised but with limited functionality. I would reccomend RS2.
Installed without any hassle.
Configuration was easy and error-free. Nice javacript effects.
I've had problems with gallery2 and coppermine but this one installed without any problem and works great.
Of course like any other extension, more can be done to make it even better. A lot more features can be added to it.
5 out of 5 from me
Configuration was easy and error-free. Nice javacript effects.
I've had problems with gallery2 and coppermine but this one installed without any problem and works great.
Of course like any other extension, more can be done to make it even better. A lot more features can be added to it.
5 out of 5 from me
I was quite pleased with this component, till I upgraded it to version 1.0.10. There were some problems with the layout on my website, thats wy I upgraded.
Now, some improvements to the components are made. But my browser (IE6) hangs when opening a picture. It says: fatal error bla bla...
I've seen no solution to this problem, so wait for it to come and then install this component, it has some great potential.
Now, some improvements to the components are made. But my browser (IE6) hangs when opening a picture. It says: fatal error bla bla...
I've seen no solution to this problem, so wait for it to come and then install this component, it has some great potential.
1.1.10-alpha looks quite promising, but it wouldn't work at all for me. Couldn't upload a single picture, couldn't get it to import pictures already on the server.
I think this all comes down to script execution time-outs, but since I have no control over the php configuration on my site there is nothing I can do about it.
If you have access to your php.ini or can override it, things will probably work fine for you.
My only gripe about the way it works is the single folder for all galleries. You can move this so that it appears under /images/stories but with a single folder reusing the images in content articles will quickly become unmanageable.
I think this all comes down to script execution time-outs, but since I have no control over the php configuration on my site there is nothing I can do about it.
If you have access to your php.ini or can override it, things will probably work fine for you.
My only gripe about the way it works is the single folder for all galleries. You can move this so that it appears under /images/stories but with a single folder reusing the images in content articles will quickly become unmanageable.
I tried to install the 1.11.10 but got some rather strange backend commands, some of the menu items were showing as variables. The 1.11.9 hasn't got that problem, it installs well and is very easy to configure. Initial setup and managing categories & media is very straight forward. I very much like the pop-up zoom shot, so much easier than opening and closing windows. Excellent extension.
There is a strange error with this component(1.11.10 english version). On IE (6 and 7) when you click on thumbnail images the browser crashes and gives a fatal error. I tried to install version 1.11.9 and 1.11.10, but the IE crashes anyway. On Opera and Mozilla it works properly however. On official forum, the RSGallery developers seem to have no solution for this bug.
There is another language error. I have a russian Joomla and when I install RSGallery it automatically tries to recognize the language of a joomla. And it is not Russian what it chooses but some Gibberish language with characters that I could'nt read and change. I had to switch to english to able to see properly the RSgallery menu.
Overall, this component is promising, but needs to fix the above problem with IE.
There is another language error. I have a russian Joomla and when I install RSGallery it automatically tries to recognize the language of a joomla. And it is not Russian what it chooses but some Gibberish language with characters that I could'nt read and change. I had to switch to english to able to see properly the RSgallery menu.
Overall, this component is promising, but needs to fix the above problem with IE.
With the 1.11.9 update, it works on my joomla now. The last didnt.
SO, no more installation errors if you had that in the prev. version.
Great work.
SO, no more installation errors if you had that in the prev. version.
Great work.
Yes, it certainly has a potential, I used it [testing] a month.
But there were serious problems - i.e. today I found some categories *disapeared* and I can't edit categories details anymore - it displays always details of 1 same category nomatter which category I click to...
And I read some frightenning articles about how dangerous RSGallery is in terms of security. It seems it's "leading" unsecure component!
But a good thing is, that there is a development and there were 2 new bugfixes and updates last 2 days (29 July), so maybe some of the topics mentioned was fixed...
BTW I found Zoom Gallery and it seems to be a "different league", it's stunning!
But there were serious problems - i.e. today I found some categories *disapeared* and I can't edit categories details anymore - it displays always details of 1 same category nomatter which category I click to...
And I read some frightenning articles about how dangerous RSGallery is in terms of security. It seems it's "leading" unsecure component!
But a good thing is, that there is a development and there were 2 new bugfixes and updates last 2 days (29 July), so maybe some of the topics mentioned was fixed...
BTW I found Zoom Gallery and it seems to be a "different league", it's stunning!
I love this component. It's simple and clean. I have been told by my users that the image upload feature of my website(using RSGallery2) is user friendly. Easier to create galleries and upload images.
As long as my users are happy, I am satisfied with RSGallery2.
BTW, I have created a simple mod that display the latest x RSGallery2 comments. You can download the mod from here: http://www.adsrite.com/mod_rsgallery2_latest_comments_1.0.zip
As long as my users are happy, I am satisfied with RSGallery2.
BTW, I have created a simple mod that display the latest x RSGallery2 comments. You can download the mod from here: http://www.adsrite.com/mod_rsgallery2_latest_comments_1.0.zip
Great potential here, but *beware*. I had to spend about 6 hours cleaning up the code to get it to work. Preview next to image detail (admin) didn't work. Preview popups on image list (admin) page didn't work. Columns on same page were messed up (filename wasn't correct, etc). These issues were related to some SELECT * statements joining 2 tables, messing up $row->name field (both tables had same field). Needed to make misc other fixes. But now, everything's working great. I wish I could send my changes to the developer so everybody can enjoy it! Check out my test site with my changes at http://www.getlife.tv/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2
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