Phoca Gallery

Phoca Gallery is an open- source project a web gallery that runs in the content management system (CMS ) Joomla. Phoca Gallery is programmed in PHP and runs on web server with PHP support is enabled and installed Joomla. The project includes the basic component and numerous modules and plug- ins that allow users to display images or Youtube videos, for example, in many different views.

Phoca Gallery allows both the display of images on the server, as well as the display of images from Picasa or Facebook applications.

For the display of images on a web page with the help of Phoca Gallery only the base component is required. Images can be viewed using a plug-in directly into Joomla articles. Another module displays images of Phoca Gallery in the module positions of Joomla.

Phoca Gallery is a standard Joomla! Application and can be extended with plug-ins and modules. Many different modules and plug- ins for Phoca Gallery are listed in the Joomla Extensions Directory.

History

Phoca Gallery 1 was released on 20 September 2007. It was a simple gallery with a few features.

Phoca Gallery 2 was released on 28 September 2008. Many new features have been added, so that was Phoca Gallery from a simple gallery to a fully equipped gallery for Joomla CMS.

For version 3 Phoca Gallery has been completely rewritten to work in Joomla 1.6 or 1.7. Phoca Gallery 3.1.1 was released on 28 October 2011.

Requirements

Phoca Gallery 3 needs:

  • MySQL 5.0.4 or higher
  • PHP version 5.2.4 or later
  • Joomla version 1.6 or 1.7 or higher

Further Reading

  • O'Reilly: Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites, by Ron severdia, Kenneth Crowder. ISBN 978-0-596-80494-7.
  • Apress: Beginning Joomla, by Dan Rumia. ISBN 978-1-4302-1642-1.
  • Wiley Publishing: Joomla! Bible, by Ric Shreves. ISBN 978-0-470-50957-9.
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