Photo Gallery
 | The Photo Gallery module contains a set of contemporary and handy tools that you can use to create and manage photo albums or image galleries right on your site. This module makes building a gallery a real breeze for any large web project. Use the bulk upload function to easily upload many photos. Let visitors rate photos and add their comments! |
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Overview
Photo Gallery enables users to:
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Details
Image Upload Tools
- Bulk upload: using ActiveX for Internet Explorer, or Java applet for FireFox. Internet Explorer for Mac and Opera are not supported.
- Conventional upload using web forms.
Active-X and Java Plug-in Features:
- Fast and easy navigation through local files and folders.
- Automatic creation of thumbnails of files in the following formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG.
- Capability to upload files and even folders.
- Single and multiple selection of images.
- Automatic thumbnails and resized copies.
- All operations: thumbnailing, resizing, labelling – are performed locally! Only processed and resized images are sent to the server!
- Capability to resume broken uploads.
- Upload progress dialog.
- EXIF metadata support.
Image Processing
- If image upload is performed via the conventional web form, image processing is performed at the server side (requires the GD2 library).
Component Parameters
- Maximum size of image files.
- Maximum dimensions (width and height) of image thumbnails.
- Parameters of full size images.
Album Management
- Catalogs of unlimited nesting depth.
- Single user mode (user group based permission assignment).
- Permissions for albums are assigned in the containing information blocks.
- Variety of photo album covers.
- Thumbnails of album images for photo album covers.
Album View
- Album browser.
- Photo list view.
- Detail view (thumbnails and properties).
- Full image view.
- Group operations (deletion).
- Options for image background shadows (in the full image view).
Other Options
- Integration with the built-in search engine.
- Tag cloud.
- SEF URL support.
Comments
- Comments for photos in blogs.
- Automatic blogs for photos.
- Support for CAPTCHA in comments.
Votings
- AJAX-enabled votings
Site Design Integration
- The photo gallery is implemented as a complex component (2.0).
- Developers can create their component templates or visual themes.
