The bretteleben.de "CSS Gallery" Plugin for Joomla!1.5, Joomla!1.6 and Joomla!1.7 is an easy to configure plugin, that enables you to display a gallery with thumbnails in a content item. Unlike other gallery-plugins the CSS Gallery works with pure X-HTML and CSS without JavaScript, Flash or any other script/player.

Features:

- supports .jpg, .png und .gif
- can be aligned in your content item left, right, centered, float left or float right
- as many galleries per content item as you want
- every gallery can be configured individually (Parameter Overrides)
- optional show title and/or text with every single picture (Captions)
- optional show default title/text for the whole gallery
- optional link every single thumbnail to a different target (Links)
- optional use a default link for the whole gallery
- works without JavaScript

New in Version 1.3.5:

- first version available for Joomla!1.6 and Joomla!1.7
- configure the image root folder in the backend
- optional scale images proportionally or cropped
- optional scale thumbnails proportionally or cropped
- choose the space between the thumbs
- the backend check the availability of the PHP GDlib

Installation and Usage

A step by step tutorial on installation and usage can be found at Howto Plugin .
The possibilities the code inside the article offers can be found at Howto Plugin Code .

Demo

          Title           Text           TitleOf course it's possible to use some more text. The crossfade stretches to fit your needs.           Title and Text of the next image are intentionally empty.                      Default-TitleDefault-text           Default-TitleDefault-text           Default-TitleDefault-text           Default-TitleDefault-text           Default-TitleDefault-text Title

Limitations/Preview

Joomla!1.6.0 seems to be buggy as far as the cache is concerned. If you use this plugin, make sure the cache is disabled!

This version of the plugin uses one script, doing the whole work. This may cause - when using very large image-files - the maximum execution time of PHP to be exceeded on your server. If this happens, the script fails with an error.

In this case, just refresh the page one or two times. This should be enough to get all images scaled. As soon as the plugin in configured and all images are scaled, everything works fine and your visitors will not be affected.

Not all browsers support the feature of hiding the main image on mouse:hover. This works with IE7, IE8b, FF and Opera. Google Chrome, Safari and IE up to version 6 don´t.
This is of relevance only if you have images with different proportions (width<>height) in one set. In this case the first image should be one, that does not use the full given space, this way ensuring, that it is covered by the other images.

Requirements

The plugin requires the PHP GD library to generate the thumbnails and images.

Compatibility

The plugin is tested successful with Joomla 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. Anyway, using it aside with one or another existing plugin/modul/component may bring to light problems i haven't foreseen.
I suggest a test run before using it on a live site and stand by for your questions and suggestions.

License

The plugin is licensed under the GNU Public License (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

update Version: 1.3.5

- first version available for Joomla!1.6 and Joomla!1.7
- configure the image root folder in the backend
- optional scale images proportionally or cropped
- optional scale thumbnails proportionally or cropped
- choose the space between the thumbs
- the backend check the availability of the PHP GDlib
- minor improvements

Support

If you have questions or suggestions, please use the comment-function. Please include the installed Joomla! version and if you have problems - if any possible - the affected page in your comment.

If you need additional features or customizations for your project that exceed the scope of support offered through the comments, you are invited to submit your requirements specification and the planned budget by email (menu item "Contact" in the menu at the top).

Download

The ZIP-archive contains the plugin, by downloading it you agree to the terms of the GNU Public License. The ZIP-Archive can be used for both, upgrade and fresh installation. Please choose the file that fits your Joomla! installation. _J1.5 for Joomla! 1.5.x, _J1.6 for Joomla! 1.6.x and _J1.7 for Joomla! 1.7.x

J!1.5.x - plg_cssgallery_v1.3.5_J1.5.zip Downloads: 35.614

J!1.6.x - plg_cssgallery_v1.3.5_J1.6.zip Downloads: 12.715

J!1.7.x - plg_cssgallery_v1.3.5_J1.7.zip Downloads: 5.979


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