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If you have Joomla 1.5, and you need a photo gallery. It doesn't get much better for a clean intuitive photo gallery application.

Once you get it installed, check out phoca's FAQ on PicLens. If you use Flickr, it's a must have!

I have been searching for an image gallery managing solution for Joomla for over a year, and continually had to compromise with clunky code, bad UI, or just not the exact features I wanted.

You can add images to the Phoca folder via FTP, add them to the catagories quickly via the component, have auto-thumbnails, image descriptions, AND (important!) your users can download the images easily (a problem that few developers seemed to care about). With the other Phoca modules this is a powerful gallery tool indeed.

Phoca is clean, neat and well-documented. I will be implementing it on the not-for-profit sites I help maintain, and making a personal donation when I can afford it, because work like this really deserves recognition. Thank you for developing such a worthwhile extension!

Easy to install and use yet powerful to use. Out of the box it looks very clean on the website.

The few questions I had were answered by the comprehensive demo examples and text information provided. Also forum replies were very quick.

Cheers Jan!!!

A surprisingly simple gallery / slideshow component with a great look. Setup is straightforward and logical; display options are reasonable, if not comprehensive. Wish-list: collaborative additions to galleries from the front-end.

I have little words words to descripe this component...
I is simple the best this ever!!! beste ever!
simple to install
simple to work with, just dump all your pictures in the folder phocagallery en it does everuthing for you with ease.
Thank you so much for this! :)

Finally found a Gallery that a dummy like me can get working!

Up and running in 15 minutes. No errors like I've had trying other Gallery components in 1.5.


Thanks

This is one hell of a component! Not only is it a real native Joomla! 1.5 component, unlike many others who claim they are but actually aren't, but it's easy to deploy and administer. Apart from that, Jan the architect gives excellent support and is open to suggestions.

I give it a 8 out of 10! It is the best gallery for joomla if you don't need multiple user support. Simple to use and looks good too. I have been waiting for something like this! My only complaint is there is currently no support for generating square thumbnails like gallery2 does. When it has the ability to make all the thumbnails the same size I will vote it a 10!

thanks. easy to setup.
only problem i had was i cant create categories in IE7
found out i coud be done in other browser
i used prism ( from mozilla labs)

I love this gallery. I tried getting some of the other galleries that I've used in J! 1.0.X sites that were 'now supported' in 1.5, and I had nothing but problems with them. I decided to go try something new. Phoca Gallery was supported so I gave it a whirl.

I was impressed of the bat. Uploading images is simple. I love that I can do it with a simple FTP Client. No zipping up images like you have to do with RSGallery for mass uploads or anything like that. very easy and simple to use.

I would suggest to the wonderful developers to support categories/sub categories, though. For the site I'm building right now it was necessary to have this function, but I've figured out a way to get around it. Its a bit more clumsy, but it will work.

A++ Gallery here!

I have been following Phoca Gallery since its earliest release and I can safely say that it is THE BEST gallery to use with Joomla! CMS! Easy install, easy configuration and overall front end best functionality and usability.

If you want a gallery for your Joomla! install, look no further, just type phoca in Joomla extension search bar and download your copy if this great gallery. Finally, and best of all, the gallery developer is very helpful.

My english is not very good, but to your extension i am writing. I am arrived here at joomla! I did download a lot of
extensions to 1.5 rc4. A lot of extensions work more or less, others as xmap are good and nice, but your extensions is a espectacular demonstration of what we need to show here. Easy Instalation, no difficult to download (without a lot o registrations and other things), for my installation did work perfectly and if you need a translate to portuguese, i can do this, i haven´t much time, but is possible. Good luck and a lot of thanks!

Exactly what we needed, no hassle & looks nice (business site). Combined with the plugin, allows us to show our wares within an article.

Great job Jan!

This component is EXACTLY what I need for my website. This component is brilliant, easy to use and simple to install. The only fault is that images in the gallery disappear when fluid width is selected from my template.

And the most important thing... it works!

I tried another gallery extentions.. very impressive in demo web.. but in the end it doesn't work... error in installation... and configuration...

This PhocaGallery... works!

Great job!

simple, beautiful solution,
installed real quick & easy to configure.

had some issues displaying full pictures,
their forum pointed me in the right direction & it turned out to be a hosting issue
[if you're with godaddy - PHP 4.3.11 needs to be upgraded to PHP 5 in your control panel]
after that was updated it all came together & works like a dream.

this products seems to be in constant development so i rekon the best is yet to come:)

if you're looking for a gallery solution - THIS IS IT.

Installed easily, was simple to configure. Overall, for what this is, it's a nice little plugin. I haven't seen a better one for Joomla! 1.5 yet.

However, it was not quite adequate for my needs because of one small omission. When viewing the photos large, there is no facility to show a title and/or a description of the photo.

When these are added, it will be awesome!

Just to let to know others about my experiences: no troubles with installation, simple image handling and management, appealing appearance. I just give preferce of this component for others offered. Thanks very much for this contribution.

First of all, this is a great component with excellent menu support and a good set of options. I have two issues with the gallery.

1. The title is displayed only with the thumbnail. This would be a great option for the modal or popup.

2. The modal window (which I don't use because of the IE thing) is always max-height on the screen. Adjustable? Less than max even slightly would be nice. Part of the frame is hidden if I've got firefox searchbar open.

G'Day,

I was looking for a simple way to integrate my photos into Joomla and this is it. Very nice. Before moving to J! I had a PHP script that scanned a directory creating a sumary page of all the folders it contained and then the thumbnail view was of all the images it contained. This meant all I had to do was upload my images and I was done. This extension is as close to that as I could find.

I did notice a few bugs though with 1.1.0:

- Under IE the thumbnail view has both horizontal and vertical scrollbars which should not be there. Firefox does not exibit this behaviour:

FF: http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8586/phfirefoxuy1.jpg
IE:http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2730/phinternetexplorerls0.jpg

- As already posted the popup lightbox viewer also has scroll bars under IE where it shouldnt.

Feature Requests ;-):

- Ability to set the pixel size (height and width) of the thumb nails
- Ability to specify the number of columns in the thumbnail view
- Ability to show EXIF data from images either as a mouse over (thumbnail) or with the image (thumbnail, full size)
- Ability to invoke the thumbnail generation explicitly
- Ability to download and/or email the full sized original image
- Some form of client side application that would allow you to do category creation, file upload, gallery add without having to do it manually through the J! web interface (Do you have an API document somewhere?)