The bretteleben.de "CSS Gallery" Plugin for Joomla! 1.5 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.
When called first, the plugin creates to subfolders in the referenced folder. In one of them the plugin stores the scaled images, in the other the scaled thumbnails. Scaling follows your settings, the original images stay untouched.
Whenever called, the plugin checks, if the stored files still match your settings. If you have changed your settings, the plugin creates the corresponding images/thumbnails automatically.

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 1.3.2:

- image file names in calls for links and captions are caseINsensitive

New in Version 1.3.0:

- additional options to align: float:left, float:right
- sort images A-Z, Z-A, old-new, new-old, random
- set parameter "limitstart" in onPrepareContent to "0" to avoid errors when used with different content2module-extensions
- creating thumbnails supports transparent GIFs and PNGs
- possibility to link each single thumbnails
- set the "target" attribute for every single link
- option to use a default-link for a whole gallery

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

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 1.5.6, 1.5.9 and 1.5.15. 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: 1.3.2

- image file names in calls for links and captions are caseINsensitive
- try to remove blanks and linebreaks between code-lines
- new configuration panel

Support

If you have questions or suggestions, please use the comment-function.

If you use this extensions, please post a rating and a review at extensions.joomla.org. Furthermore I appreciate everyone, supporting me with a link back to www.bretteleben.de on his/her website. The extension itself does not produce any hidden links, eastereggs or whatever.

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 new installation and upgrade.

Downloads:

File	Last Modified
plugin_becssg_1.3.2.zip	2010-01-03