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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
- scale thumbnails optional proportionally or cropped
- works with and without JavaScript
New in Version 1.6.0:
- the option to set the gallery width in percent has been given up
- the plugin creates and saves scaled thumbnails AND images
- optional set a maximum height for images
- optional scale thumbnails proportionally or cropped
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.
Notice:
If you modified the stylesheet vsig.css, you should save it because it gets overwritten during an update.
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 images and 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: 1.6.2
- Set-Buttons work never-ending
- dropped drop-shadows
- Stylesheet tightened
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.
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.
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plg_vsig_1.6.2.zip
I get this message when I want to add an album:
Very Simple Image Gallery:
Could not find folder /customers/rp-originals.nl/rp-originals.nl/httpd.www/joomla/images/stories/DTMpics/PresscoDdorf08/
What am I doing wrong, as I followed the guideline steps and what do I need to do to get the album visible?
Hi Relin!
The most common reason for this error is - that the folder does not exist. Please check the path and foldername for typos. The other possible reason is that the directory permissions prevent the plugin from seeing the folder. Please check the directory permission (should be 755).
Best regards
Andreas
It is very simple and great gallery. I have photo in swf format? Can it be support?
photos in swf are generated from krpano.
Hi Wilco!
No, the plugin supports jpg, png anf gif only.
Best regards
Andreas
It seems to me that VSIG breaks images proportions in IE, I digged code, and you are using MS browser specific way of loading images, why? Do you have any fix for that?
Hi MaxDao!
What is the "MS browser specific" way you mean? And - could you please provide a link to the page?
Best regards
Andreas
hello, I have other one question to ask you. In Internet Explorer, sometimes the image shows a horizontal white rectangle and when you clicking again, this disappears. you know why this happens? from now, thank you very much !
Hi Andreass!
Please provide a link to the page, I will have a look at it.
Best regards
Andreas
Hi, thank you very much for this plugin. it is really fantastic. I have a doubt. I have a gallery and now I want to change the images. i don´t know how doing that. I uploaded the picture again but do not show me the right thumb thank you.
Hi Andreass!
If the image that replaces the old one has the same name, proportion and file type, the plugin does not recognize the change. In this case, just delete the created image and thumbnail in the subfolders of the image folder (or delete them at all). In this case the plugin will create the new image/thumbnail automatically when called the next time and use the new image.
Best regards
Andreas
It's a very good and more flexible plug-in, just only some question about image loading while adding content url on Facebook is not shown.
Thanks
Hi eRakII!
I confess, I have no idea what specific situation you are talking about and how to reproduce it. Could you point me to an online example and post the steps to reproduce the behavior?
Best regards
Andreas
Muito fácil de instalar. As imagens podem ser carregadas por ftp. Basta ter todas as permissões nas pastas. E a facilidade de colocar a galeria onde quiser no artigo dá muita facilidade para trabalhar.
Parabéns pelo plugin. Simples, prático, e muito funcional.
Love this plug in. I've got a site for an art gallery and they are managing it on their own. They can't seem to figure out the caption code. Is there a way to get the title of the file (example myphoto.jpg) to show up has the caption?
Hi Paul!
Please have a look at the page "Howto Plugin Code" (menu at the left). Section C. It explains how to use the feature "Captions" and the provided samples show how to set default and/or specific captions.
Best regards
Andreas
I noticed in your how to page it read "If you don't want to show captions, you may use them to set the attributes "alt" and "title" of your images. If the plugin finds a set caption for an image, it uses the title-line for ALT/TITLE of the image even when captions are not activated.
Using this behavior you have also the possibility to deactivate file names as ALT/TITLE with an empty default-call for your gallery."
How can I set something like this up. And do you know how to make a set caption for a photo. Thanks for your speedy reply.
Hi Paul!
No, this function isn't part of the plugin and it will not become part of the plugin because it leads to image file names that try to tell stories and file names with special characters, blanks and so on are a real pain (at least in my opinion).
Maybe you want to have a look at the page Howto Plugin Code (menu at the left) or even better, point the site admin to this page. It explains how to use the feature.
Best regards
Andreas
first of all - I love the gallery, easy to install, easy to use, perfect! :)
I have run into a question... How do I limit the size of the pics? I don't want the same width of the standing as the laying pics... The lying is 500 pixles wide and the standing is 333... but now the gallery is making the standing bigger - I don't want that... is there a way to avoide that and keep the original sizes?
Kind regards and hope you all have a great summer!
Hi ekwall!
To set the maximum image height you could try to set the parameter "max. image height" *g*
Have a look at the page "Howto Plugin" and/or the page "Sample 06" (both manu at the left), they explain the usage of this parameter.
Best regards
Andreas
Gibt es irgendeine Möglichkeit, in der Galerie auch den Überblendeffekt zu verwenden, wie er in der Slideshow integriert ist?
Hallo Peter!
Ich habe vor, in der Zukunft auch eine Slideshow in die Galerie zu integrieren, vielleicht kommt der Überblendeffekt dann quasi als "Abfallprodukt" auch. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt prinzipiell aber auf Funktionen, die sowohl mit als auch ohne JavaScript nutzbar sind - und im Moment auf der Erstellung einer Version für Joomla! 1.6. Daher kann ich Dir auch nicht sagen, bis wann Du mit einer solchen Funktion rechnen kannst, und da ich das hier in meiner Freizeit betreibe - möchte ich das auch garnicht. Wenn Du diese Funktion bald brauchst, dann würde ich demzufolge zu dem überdimensionierten Plugin raten.
Gruß
Andreas
Das ist schade, denn dann wäre das genau das, was ich brauchen würde: einfach zu bedienen und doch superpraktisch. Ansonsten müsste ich nämlich irgend ein überdimensioniertes Plugin verwenden, nur um diese eine Funktion zu nutzen.
Kommt diese Funktion evtl. bzw. wenn ja, bis wann in etwa?
Hallo Peter!
Nein, bislang habe ich keine derartige Funktion integriert.
Gruß
Andreas