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The bretteleben.de "Very Simple Image Gallery" Plugin for Joomla! 1.5 is a downgrade of the ingenious plugin "Simple Image Gallery" from Fotis Evangelou und George Chouliaras back to a "Web 1.0" gallery. The modified version comes without a lightbox, the plugin shows one large image, followed by thumbnails.
Why? Look, as stylish and usability-oriented the whole category of "Web 2.0" galleries may be, they have - from my point of view - a serious disadvantage. The hide the web page from the visitor. If you run ads on your site, this is a not-so-desired effect. You don´t care about search engine optimization, keywords, backlinks and so on to see your banners, skyscrapers, rectangles and link blocks disappear behind a black curtain - out of sight and unclickable. Features:- supports .jpg, .png und .gif
- can be aligned in your content item left, right, centered, float left or float right
- thumbnails optional below or right of the main image
- optional split galleries into multiple sets
- 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 image to a different target (Links)
- optional use a default link for the whole gallery
- works with and without JavaScript
New in Version 1.5.4: - configure the image root folder in the backend
- default-buttons get installed automatically
- configure the folder for custom buttons in the backend
- remove blanks and linebreaks between lines of code
- image file names for captions and links are caseINsensitive
- the backend check the availability of the PHP GDlib New in Version 1.5.0: - "Sets" offer the possibility to split a gallery into multiple sets.
Choose the number of thumbnails shown with one set
Navigate between sets with automatic generated links/buttons
A counter shows the number of available sets
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 .
In addition you find some samples in the menu at the left. Demo
 Set 1/2 
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. Anyway, the next version of the plugin will come with an extra-file, doing the work of scaling.
Requirements
The plugin requires the PHP GD library to generate the thumbnails. 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 Following the guidelines of the original, the "Simple Image Gallery", the plugin is licensed under the GNU Public License (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). update Version: 1.5.4 - configure the image root folder in the backend
- default-buttons get installed automatically
- configure the folder for custom buttons in the backend
- remove blanks and linebreaks between lines of code
- image file names for captions and links are caseINsensitive
- the backend check the availability of the PHP GDlib
- improved inline JavaScript (smaller source)
- HTML-Links (right mouseclick - open in new window) are working now
- different source code improvements 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, upgrade and fresh installation.
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plugin_vsig_1.5.4.zip
The "gallery number" is the number of the gallery. If your article contains - lets say - three galleries, the plugin gives them numbers automatically. It starts with the first gallery it finds in your article and numbers this one "0", the next found gallery gets the number "1", the the next the number "2" ... and so on.
If your article contains only 1 gallery, your code should look such as:
{vsig}examplegallery{/vsig}
{vsig_c}0|testone.jpg|my example caption - more text|{/vsig_c}
{vsig_c}0|d.jpg|name example|etc etc{/vsig_c}
{vsig_c}0|e.jpg|third picture name|{/vsig_c}
Please also note the trailing vertical bars in the lines where the second part of the caption (the text-line) is omitted. The vertical bar has to be present anyway.
Best regards
Andreas
I have 3 pictures in a gallery:
{vsig}examplegallery{/vsig}
{vsig_c}0|testone.jpg|my example caption - more text{/vsig_c}
{vsig_c}1|d.jpg|name example|etc etc{/vsig_c}
{vsig_c}2|e.jpg|third picture name{/vsig_c}
Is the gallery-number the picture? I am assuming in my above example my 0 is my first picture, my 1 is my second picture and my 2 is my third picture?
You have:
Gallery-number:
The galleries within one content item are numbered automatically by the plugin according their appearance in the article starting with 0.
This setting is obligatory.
I must be doing something wrong. Can you give an example of what i should have in my article page for one galler with 3 pictures with captions?
I really love it i will try for my website today
http://www.siliconeclub.com
Tim
You find the plugin's stylesheet at /plugins/content/plugin_vsig/vsig.css. just change the colors of backgrounds and borders to fit your needs.
Best regards
Andreas
Yes, the width you set is always the width of the gallery and up till now the images get scaled by the browser. Starting with version 1.6 (online within a week) not only the thumbnails but also the main images get resized using the GDlib and displayed with exactly this size without further scaling done by the browser.
Best regards
Andreas
Im using the vsig, but I have problems with distort of
the image. Im set the WITH tag with 420px, the same dimension
of the image - 420px.
This image not be show with the real quality, because your
dimensions ara modifyed whet show...
Can you help me?
Fernando
Du bist nicht der Erste, der diese Funktion vermisst und deshalb ist sie - neben anderen neuen Features - Teil der Version 1.6.0, die ich soeben fertiggestellt habe und die bis in spätestens einer Woche (die Seiten müssen noch aktualisiert werden) online sein wird.
Gruß
Andreas
ich kann mich den anderen positiven Kommentaren anschliessen: Ein feines Plugin!
Allerdings vermisse ich eine Anpassungsmöglichkeit - nämlich eine Begrenzung der Höhe. Solange die Bilder in der Galerie alle das selbe Seitenverhältnis haben, fällt dies nicht ins Gewicht. Wenn allerdings auch hochformatige Bilder in der Gallerie sind, "springt" das angezeigte Bild in der Höhe. Ein unschöner Effekt, wie ich finde. Dem angezeigten Bild einen festen Rahmen in x und y-Richtung geben zu können, wäre schön.
viele Grüße
Thomas