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Phoca Gallery 190
Phoca Gallery
Development status Active
Written in PHP/MySQL
Available in Multilingual
Type web application
License GPL
Website Phoca Gallery [1]
Phoca Gallery is a Joomla! gallery - image gallery for Joomla! CMS. It includes component, modules and plugins
and allows users to display images or Youtube videos in many different styles. [2]
For displaying images users can use the component (Joomla! component) only. If users wants to display images in
Joomla! articles, they can use Phoca Gallery Plugin [3] (and Phoca Gallery Button plugin [4] - for easier adding of
images into Joomla! articles). Images can be displayed as slideshow in Joomla! articles with help of Phoca Gallery
Slideshow plugin [5] or they can be displayed on module positions in Joomla! (with help of Phoca Gallery Image
module [6] ). [2]
With Phoca Gallery users can show their pictures in different categories and subcategories. Phoca Gallery does not
display an image of the files stored on server, but users can decide what image belongs to which category. An image
can also belong to multiple categories. With the multiple add function it is still possible to create a category from a
folder on server in case it is aked. The category can be updated that way too.
Phoca Gallery creates 3 types of thumbnails to show the pictures. Those thumbnails are created with the help of the
GD library (which needs to be enabled on server). The smallest thumbnail is used when users want to display a list
of categories. The medium thumbnail is used when users want to display the images in a category and the large
thumbnail pops up when visitors click a medium thumbnail. Visitors can also start a slideshow to view the images
which belong to a category. The original image is used to create thumbnails from and a link can be displayed that
visitors can display/download the original image. The advantage of using also large thumbnails is that users can add
watermarks to their thumbnails, all large images are the same size (maximum). Users can define the sizes themself.
There are a lot more features. [7]
Requirements
Joomla!1.5 (stable or any later version) PHP 4.4.1 (or any later version) with GD library (graphics library for
thumbnails creation).
License
Phoca Gallery is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
External links
• Phoca Gallery main site [1]
• Phoca Gallery Themes [8]
• Phoca Gallery Demo [9]