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Phoca Gallery

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Developer(s)
  
Jan Pavelka

Operating system
  
Cross Platform

License
  
GPL

Stable release
  
4.3.1 / 2016-07-28

Platform
  
PHP

Website
  
www.phoca.cz/phocagallery/

Phoca Gallery is an open source project, an image gallery run in Joomla! CMS. It is programmed in PHP and run on web server with enabled PHP support and installed Joomla!. It includes component, modules and plugins and allows users to display images or YouTube videos in many different styles.

Contents

Phoca Gallery allows displaying images uploaded on the server or from Google Photos, Google+, Picasa or Facebook applications.

For displaying images on the website with help of Phoca Gallery, only component needs to be run. Images can be displayed in articles created by Joomla! with help of Phoca Gallery plugin. Phoca Gallery Image module displays images from Phoca Gallery in Joomla! module positions

Phoca Gallery is standard Joomla! extensions and it can be extended by plugins and modules. There are many different modules and plugins for Phoca Gallery listed on Joomla! extensions directory.

History

Phoca Gallery 4 is the current release of Phoca Gallery. It is based on Phoca Gallery 3 and overwritten for Joomla 3. Phoca Gallery 4.3.1 was released on July 28, 2016.

Phoca Gallery 3 is a complete rewrite of Phoca Gallery 2 and works in Joomla 1.6 or 1.7 or 2.5. Phoca Gallery 3.2.3 was released on December 30, 2012.

Phoca Gallery 2 was released on September 28, 2008. Many new features were added to Phoca Gallery 2, so Phoca Gallery was not more a simple gallery but full featured gallery for Joomla! CMS.

Phoca Gallery 1 was released on September 20, 2007. It was simple image gallery which didn't include many features.

Requirements

Phoca Gallery 4 is running under Joomla! 3, so it requires:

  • MySQL 5.1 or greater, or MSSQL 10.50.1600.1 or greater, or PostgreSQL 8.3.18 or greater
  • PHP version 5.3.1 or greater
  • Joomla! version 3 or greater
  • Phoca Gallery 3 requires:

  • MySQL 5.0.4 or greater
  • PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
  • Joomla! version 1.6 or 1.7 or 2.5 or 3.5 or 3.6 or greater
  • Examples

    These are examples of websites using Phoca Gallery:

  • Phoca Stock Photo Demo Site
  • Phoca Wallpapers Demo Site
  • Phoca Joomla! 3 Demo Site
  • References

    Phoca Gallery Wikipedia