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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!

This component has some really nice features.. but if you're considering using it for a high-traffic site, or for very large galleries, you should move on.



Aside from the already-documented issues using the FTP “upload” routine (frequent PHP memory issues when processing large photos) and the fact that the photos are all stored in one bin (you’ll need to name your photos well to have any home of subsequent management), the fatal flaw we’ve discovered, unfortunately in production, is that the program can’t deliver photos properly under high load situations.



When more than one user tries to view photo close-ups in the gallery within the same fraction of a second, the application cannot determine the difference between users, and serves back the same photo to all of them. In practice, what this means is that users click thumbnail A in album X, but are served close-up B in gallery Y – because someone else online had clicked thumbnail B within the same second.



Also, the on-the-fly watermarking routine breaks down under load, and delivers distorted photos. It has to be disabled when traffic is high.



These problems won’t bother you if you have a low-traffic site, but we unfortunately had 500 visitors to a customer’s site within an hour, and that was enough to find out the hard way that this isn’t a long-term solution.
Owner's reply: The FTP upload routine works fine, but PHP must be configured to allow the length of processing needed.

I'm sorry to hear about your high traffic problems. This is related exclusively to the watermarking routine which is not meant for production use. With watermarking turned off you would have been fine.
I tried them all, gallery2, coppermine, zoom...etc...etc...etc... But RSgallery2 had everything I needed and is well put together. If your looking for a gallery for joomla stop now because you've found one!

This is it!



Posted on 04 May 2007
I have been looking for a gallery for quite a while and after I got this installed, I lept for joy. Literally! It works with my custom joomla skin almost perfectly out of the box and it does everything I need. Plus it is super easy to use which will be perfect for my client.



One note, when I first installed, I was getting errors, but a quick trip to the forums told me I needed to upgrade my joomla version (was 1.0.10, needed to be 1.0.11 or higher). I upgraded to 1.0.12 and bam, it worked flawlessly. I am so pumped. THANK YOU!!!
This is just what I was looking for. Auto scaling, easy setup, auto thumbing, option to keep original image, easy folder structure (galleries in recursive structure)... AND NOT LEAST, BATCH UPLOAD!!!



Great job and credz to the programmers.

Yeah it was so easy!



Posted on 21 April 2007
I needed a simple image gallery for my website and after trying the others RS2 has to be the easiest to use. It was very straight forward and I had a gallery 5mins after it was installed. Top Stuff. Highly recommended!

So close



Posted on 01 April 2007
The main thing wrong with rsgallery2 is that every every single release is bug ridden, most of them trivial and fixable but everytime you ask a question on the forum you get told to upgrade to the latest SVN...



The same bugs then seem to reoccur in later releases or you get another irritating bug. I spent a month or so with no batch upload, then uploaded to the latest version and something equally critical just didn't work... its a huge shame because its so close.... it just never works and new features are added in front of stability.. my experience was I had to patch it and upgrade more than any Joomla component just to get help on the forum and then soon as you do its a new problem.. after loosing your data for the n'th time its just tiring.

The best so far



Posted on 15 March 2007
I've tried many, many gallery compo's, but this is the only one that deserves max. rate.

Looks promising



Posted on 14 March 2007
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.

Nice component



Posted on 23 February 2007
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.

Much improved.



Posted on 18 February 2007
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.
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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:
c
Compatibility:
J3
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