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Reason for Poor Review:

1. no support options what so ever. Created forum account at authors website, however all forum topics are locked, replies are locked, there is no way to get support. Other than to submit a ticket which you cant do for the free version.

Now i know what your thinking, "hey its free what do you expect?" right...Well i expect to at least be able to interact with other users in the forums on the authors website.....

If the author reads this, please contact me, correct the issue and ill correct the review.

Firstly, this is a great component, as it makes it sooo simple to add images to a gallery. The problem is that it severely restricts you on the number of photos you can use.

The reason for this is that the module, from what i can see does not read sub-directories under the photo folder. So there is no way to organize your photos at all. this creates a situation where you end up with hundereds of images on the gallery over time, which severely slows your page loads.

The component needs to allow you to use directories in the photo folder for organization.

for instance;

components/com_hpalbum/album_sources

is where the module wants you to put your photos, however, you should be able to use;

components/com_hpalbum/album_sources/2009
components/com_hpalbum/album_sources/2009/1-2009
components/com_hpalbum/album_sources/2009/2-2009

etc, and have the module display those folders first if there are any. Then when a user enters a folder from the component page, he sees any images in that folder.

As it stands right now, this is a VERY simple to use gallery with absolutely no way to organize anything.

Make this change developer and ill change rating to 5 stars.

I am not exactly sure why you would take andrew young's module, which i have on several sites, and which works flawlessly...Then rewrite it into a mambot, and remove instead of add functionality.

The original module works in articles, or modules. This one does not work on Module positions, only works if you publish to an article...Which is kind of worthless considering i think most of us use this module for QOTD, or reviews boxes on joomla sites.

My rating will go to 5 stars as soon as it publishes to modules as well as articles.