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RSGallery2, by whazzup - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Galleries

The Component is In the process to get J!4 ready
(State see rsgallery2.org)


Bugfixes for J!3 version already on github

Reliable gallery supporting user galleries on the frontend besides the standard features like watermarks and sub galleries.
It is accompanied by modules and plugins so it can be as lean as needed

RSGallery2

RSGallery2 is a component of the "early" days of Joomla!.
Actually it has reliable functions and runs without hassle in Joomla! 3x and up to PHP7
* Started in 2003 (Mambo, launched here in 2005)
* Runs on Joomla 3.6 and PHP7
* 2016 Complete redesign of the backend

Features

The component and several plugins / modules feature following functions
* Gallery view with sub galleries
* User galleries on front end
* Slideshow(s)
* Latest images
* Several additional modules and plugins
* Module LatestGalleries: Module to show latest galleries from RSGallery2
* Module LatestImages: Module to show latest images from RSGallery2
* Module RandomImages: Module to show random images from RSGallery2
* Module ThumbScroller: Module to scroll selected thumbnails from RSGallery2 images
* Plugin DisplayImage: Displays a single image in an article
* Plugin DisplayGallery: Displays a single image in an article
* ...

Description

RSGallery2 is a full featured, easy to use, highly customizable, gallery component for Joomla!

  • Users can upload their images via frontend and backend, Backend upload with drag and drop (more than 40 images at once) Frontend/Backend upload upload over zip upload or ftp upload.
  • Galleries containing images can have as many (nested) sub galleries 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.
  • Detailed access rights management
  • User galleries on front end The site administrator can set permissions for user groups 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 access for Joomla! Categories.
  • Maintenance
    • Check state of images (database) and repair
    • Raw edit of config variables
    • Repair zone: Regenerate display images

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.

RSGallery2 4.4.1 for Joomla! 3.x released

The RSGallery2 team is pleased to announce the release of RSGallery2 4.4.1 for Joomla! 3.x.
Improved features
* New backend design
* Upload with drag and drop added

  • complede recoding of upload functions

RSGallery2 has always been a free extension and will always be a free extension!

RSGallery2



Posted on 22 February 2008
RSGallery2 Component is one of the best tool which integrates a powerfull image Gallery system in your joomla website,However it currently in progress to work with joomla 1.5 Natave component,but we can still use it by using Lagecy Mode enable.



Such a good component.
compatible with joomla 1.13 y 1.5 , multi-language and more...

this is excellent...

I have tried many galleries but for me this is the best gallery so far... it has cool interface and easy to use.

Absolutely Awesome



Posted on 09 January 2008
This is a fantastic component. Downloaded and Installed it, worked first time perfectly just what i wanted and much more without any issues. Thank you to the development team of this component. AAA+++++

Troubles with templates



Posted on 05 January 2008
I like it and I don't want to change (I already uploaded more thn 200 pictures) I like the plug in for the gallery in the content.



My only trouble are the templates: the only that I can use are "micromacro" and "supersimple", but they are too "minimal" for me.

I wuold like the voting system,the comments and the gallery divided in different pages!!!

Is it possibile to have different templates?



What should I repair to make the other templates function correctly?



Thanak you.
Owner's reply: The default Semantic template has voting and commenting. If you have problems using it please post on the forums at http://rsgallery2.net/
I've tested several galleries (zoom, easy, etc.) and none of them gave me such a pure functionality as the RSGallery2.



But there is one BIG trouble using RSGallery2. It stores all the images from your galleries into ONE directory. There are directories thumb, original and display for the versions of images but still the only one directory for all images throughtout all your galleries.



Anyhow I wish to use the RSGallery2 for it's great functionality I must leave it outside until its storage is better organized.
I have been reluctant to put photo galleries into my client's sites because there hasn't been any that have really worked all that well and I've tried most of them. I tried RS Gallery a long time ago and had given up on it too...



But I decided to give it another try and wow, I'm impressed! Very professional and feature rich. It's not too complicated (I'm looking at you Gallery2) and it integrates seamlessly into Joomla and becomes part of your site. I did have to use a nightly build version to rid this release of some of the bugs but it works great!



Hats off to the developers and I'm sure with the skills you've demonstrated so far, RS Gallery is only going to get better and better in the future!

Critical: no SEF support ?!



Posted on 11 December 2007
One MAJOR flaw of this component is it doesn't have constantly updated sef extensions. Since, the developers are the only persons who really know the structure of their component/database, they are surely responsible for updating those extensions.



On your forums, I've read nothing but blaming other people, like developers of all those SEF components, for not updating their extension list with one for RSGallery.. This could really be a big problem for this component.



Also, the developers of this component are also responsible for keeping their content elements files (for JoomFish), the same reason as above..



Oh yes, I almost forgotten another very important thing. While I was trying to somehow develop the SEF extension for myself (since no extensions found on the internet were good enough for me) I've realized you are using $catid and $limitstart variables (altogether with page=inline) to display a singe image. Is this really necessairy? For example, you could use only $id (like for download link) and from that $id you can do a single SELECT statement and retrieve those $limitstart and $catid from the #__rsgallery2_files table..



And what is gained using id in URL instead of catid, limitstart, and page? Well, if you think about it a bit, you'll see that your links for displaying a certain image, remain the same no matter if user changes ordering of image in a gallery, or if the user moves the image in another gallery. That way you will be able to get the sef extensions written by other people in your email inbox, to save your time, but this way, there is no way to create good SEF links if your links to a certain image change a lot, depending on the user actions on that image..

So close it hurts!



Posted on 30 November 2007
First let me say I love this component! It has so many of the features in a gallery that the others are lacking; resizing of the original - a MUST have IMO, multi-upload, bulk-upload from a zip file, and the presentation of the gallaries is perfect! I know all of the lightbox and slideshow stuff looks cool, but on a website where you're trying to present galleries, alot of times it just isn't effective. RSG2 gives clean, simple, effective presentation of top level galleries, then clicks down to similarly presented details within those galleries. Perfect!



I'm not thrilled that the pics are all stored in one massive directory. As other b4 has said, if a user drops, removing their pics is an admin nightmare. Next I've encountered problems uploading pics. It's not that I've reached any maximum number of allowable pics or anything, and I can see the pic in the "monster" pic directory, it just wont show in the gallery or anywhere in the component. Of course the component is in alpha so some of these things may yet be worked out.



All-in-all its worth a closer look.

Problems with Large Galleries



Posted on 29 November 2007
I had about 100 hi-res photos to upload, and the upload feature simply wouldn't work with them. It was either maxed by the PHP limit on uploads, or they had to be manually uploaded. So, for anything that approaches more than a few lower resolution pictures, you may need to look elsewhere.
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RSGallery2

Version:
4.4.1
Developer:
whazzup
Last updated:
Sep 25 2021
3 years ago
Date added:
Mar 05 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
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Compatibility:
J3
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