You can configure Phoca Gallery to your own wishes. In the configuration of Phoca Gallery you can set a lot of things. This document will explain each setting. You can change the setting here:

Components » Phoca Gallery » Control Panel  » [Parameters] button.

You can change the settings also per menu-item. So you can style Phoca Gallery per menu item. You can change the parameters per menu item here:

Menu » Main Menu (e.g.) » Phoca Gallery Categories (e.g.) » Parameters - Component.

If you are using Joom!fish, then you can set the parameters for the menu link in Joom!fish for selected translation.

For Phoca Gallery versions prior to 2.1.0 you need to change all text parameters in each menu item. The settings are not taken from the Phoca Gallery global configuration. For more information see: Component's Parameters settings, in different locations, using Itemid in Joomla! 1.5

You can change the following parameters:

 

 

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Categories View Setttings (Category list)

Number of Columns (Categories view) Phoca Gallery Parameters - Number of Columns
Equal Percentage Column width Set this parameter to yes, if you want all the columns in Categories View will have the same width.
   
Display Categories Style

Set style of displaying Categories View:

  • Categories without images (only list of categories will be displayed)
  • Categories and images (thumbnails will be displayed next to category name)

 Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Categories Style

  • Categories, Images and detail information - the ordering of the boxes will be vertically

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Categories Style - Description

  • Categories, Images and detail information (Float) - the ordering of the boxes will be horizontally - float boxes will be displayed

 

Categories Box Width If the category box will be displayed as float box, you can specify the width of the box (50% means there will be displayed two columns, 33% means there will be displayed 3 columns in Categories View)
Image size next to the category name Phoca Gallery Parameters - Image size next to category name
Categories Image Ordering If image will be displayed next to category name in Categories View, you can set which image from the category will be displayed (first, last, random, ...)
Display Avatar As Category Image User's avatar can be displayed as image of the category (e.g. in cases, the category is assigned to some user)
 
Display Subcategories Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Subcategories
Display Empty Categories Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Empty Categories
Hide Categories You can hide some categories in Categories view. These categories will be not displayed in category tree. This parameter is important if you work with plugin too. Let's say, we have two categories. First category includes subcategories and we want to display it in category tree in our gallery. Second category includes images which we want to display in article (content). If we will create menu link to gallery, we set that category which includes images for using in plugin will be not displayed. Then the category tree will not include images which are assigned only to display in article.
Display Unaccessible Categories You can display or hide categories which user cannot access in categories view.
Pagination Default Value (Categories View) Set pagination default value for Category View
Pagination (Categories View) Set pagination values for Categories View

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Category View Setttings (Image list)

Font color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Font Color
Background color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Background Color
Background Color (mouseover) Phoca Gallery Parameters - Background Color - Mouseover
Image Background Color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Image Background Color
Image Background Shadow Phoca Gallery Parameters - Image Background Shadow
Border color

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Border Color

If you want to have no border, just set 'transparent' value for this parameter (Border color: transparent).
Border color (mouseover)

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Border Color - Mouseover

If you want to have no border, just set 'transparent' value for this parameter (Border color (mouseover): transparent).
Margin Box

Set margin of the box (in px)

Setting margin can exert influence on number of displayed thumbnails on the site.
Padding Box

Set padding of the box (in px)

Setting padding can exert influence on number of displayed thumbnails on the site.
 
Display Name Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Name
You can:
  • Display category name and image name
  • Hide category name and image name
  • Display category name and hide image name
This parameter is used in case you want to display name of categories (albums) but not name of images (as categories are displayed e.g. with folder icon, it is good to display their name below the folder icon image).
Display Detail Icon Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Detail Icon
Display Download Icon

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Download Icon

  • Show - detail window with original image will be displayed and user can download this image by clicking right mouse
  • Show (Direct Download) - the original image will be downloaded directly
Display Folder Icon Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Folder Icon
 
Font Size of Name Phoca Gallery Parameters - Font Size of Name
Number of Characters in Name Phoca Gallery Parameters - Number of Characters in Name
Image Box Space Phoca Gallery Parameters - Image Box Space
   
Display Categories in Category View

Set if categories (subcategories) should be displayed in Category View or not.

Phoca Gallery Parameters - View Categories in Category View

Display Subcategories on each page

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Subcategories on each page

In case the pagination is enabled, you should set if subcategories will be displayed on each page.

Display image instead of folder icon

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Image Instead Of Folder Icon

Category can be displayed as folder icon or instead of folder icon there can be displayed image from this category.

Category Image Ordering If image will be displayed instead of folder icon in Category View, you can set which image will be selected (first, last, random, ...)
Display Back Button

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Back Button

Set if link to parent category should be displayed or not.

Display Categories View Back Button

Display Categories View Back Button

Set if link to Categories View (list of categories) should be displayed or not.

Pagination Default Value (Category View) Set pagination default value for Category View
Pagination (Category View) Set pagination values for Category View.
   
Display Image Description in Box

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Image Description in Box

Display or hide image description in image box (in Category View)

Font Size of Image Description Set font size of image description displayed in image box (in Category View)
Box Height of Image Description Set height of image description displayed in image box (in Category View)
Number of Characters in Image Description Number of characters which will be displayed in description
   

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Categories View in Category View

Display Categories in Category View

Set if categories (subcategories) should be displayed in Category View or not. But be aware, there are two parameters with the same name.

  • Display Categories in Category View (Thumbnails)

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Categories in Category View

  • Display Categories in Category View (Categories)

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Categories in Category View - Categories

If you want to display categories (subcategories) in Category View and you want not the categories will be displayed the same way as thumbnails but above the thumbnails, you should set:
  • Display Categories in Category View (Thumbnails) to NO
  • Display Categories in Category View (Categories) to YES.
Display Subcategories On Each Page Subcategories are displayed only on the first page but you can display them on every page or nowhere
Display image instead of folder icon

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Image Instead of Folder Icon

Category can be displayed as folder icon or instead of folder icon there can be displayed image from this category.

Category Image Ordering If image will be displayed instead of folder icon in Category View, you can set which image will be selected (first, last, random, ...)
Display Back Button

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Back Button

Set if link to parent category should be displayed or not.

Display Categories View Back Button

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Categories View Back Button

Set if link to Categories View (list of categories) should be displayed or not.

   
Number of Columns
Set number of columns for categories in Category View (Categories in Category View - categories above thumbnails)
Display Image Beside Category Name You can display or hide image next to category name (Categories in Category View - categories above thumbnails)
Image Size Beside Category Name Set the images size (medium, small) for categories displayed in Category View (Categories in Category View - categories above thumbnails)

 

 

Detail View Settings

Detail Window Phoca Gallery Parameters - Detail Window
You can display detail image in:
  • Standard Popup Window
  • Modal Box
  • Modal Box (Image only) - without buttons
  • Shadowbox
  • Highslide
  • Highslide (Image only) - with Highslide JS buttons
  • JAK Lightbox (standard, vertical, horizontal)
  • No Popup
Detail Window Background Color (Modal Box)
Phoca Gallery Parameters - Detail Window Background Color
   
Modal Box Overlay Color (Modal Box)
Phoca Gallery Parameters - Modal Box Overlay Color
Modal Box Overlay Opacity (Modal Box - 10%)
Phoca Gallery Parameters - Modal Box Overlay Opacity
Modal Box Overlay Opacity (Modal Box - 90%) Phoca Gallery Parameters - Modal Box Overlay Opacity
Modal Box Border Color (Modal Box)
Phoca Gallery Parameters - Modal Box Border Color
Modal Box Border Width (Modal Box)
Phoca Gallery Parameters - Modal Box Border Width
   
Shadowbox Slideshow Delay
Set delay for Shadowbox (in seconds), use zero for disabling slideshow
Shadowbox Slideshow Language
Set language for Shadowbox.
   
Highslide JS Class Set class of Highslide JS (design of Highslide JS popup window)
Highslide Opacity Set opacity of Highslide JS (opacity of area outside the popup window)
Highslide Outline Type Set outline type of Highslide JS popup window (rounded or standard border)
   
Highslide Full Image Set if full image or thumbnails should be displayed in Highslide JS popup window (can be set only for Highslide JS - image only method)
Highslide Close Button Display the close button in Highslide JS popup window (can be set only for Highslide JS - image only method)
Highslide Slideshow

Set type of slideshow used in Highslide JS (can be set only for Highslide JS - image only method)

  • standard
  • slideshow with small thumbnails
JAK Lightbox Slideshow Delay Set delay for JAK Lightbox Slideshow
JAK Lightbox Thumbnails Orientation

Set orientation of thumbnails displaying in JAK Lightbox Slideshow

None

Vertical

Phoca Gallery Parameters - JAK Lightbox Thubmail Orientation - Vertical

 

Horizontal

Phoca Gallery Parameters - JAK Lightbox Thubmail Orientation - Horizontal

   
JAK Lightbox Description Set style of JAK Lightbox description. Description is displayed only in case the JAK Lightbox is to Vertical or None value
JAK Lightbox Description Height Set height of description box (description displayed with JAK Lightbox)

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Description Settings

Display Description Set if the description will be displayed below the image or in a Lightbox.
Display Title in Description Title will be displayed in description (Title - Description)
Standard Description
Font Size of Description Phoca Gallery Parameters - Font Size of Description
Font Color of Description Phoca Gallery Parameters - Font Color of Description
Description Height Phoca Gallery Parameters - Description Height
Lightbox Description
Font Size of Description Lightbox Phoca Gallery Parameters - Font Size of Description in Lightbox
Font Color of Description Lightbox Phoca Gallery Parameters - Font Color of Description in Lightbox
Background Color of Description Lightbox Phoca Gallery Parameters - Background Color of Description in Lightbox

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Slideshow Settings

Slideshow Delay Slideshow Delay in seconds.
Slideshow Pause If user goes over the image and this parameter is enabled, the slideshow will stop (pause).
Slideshow Random The slideshow will begin with random image.
Display Buttons (Display Buttons in Detail View) Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display Buttons

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General Settings

Phoca Gallery Width You can set the fixed width of Phoca Gallery box.
Phoca Gallery Center
Phoca Gallery can be centered but before you will set this parameter to yes, you need to set fixed width for the Phoca Gallery (see parameter above)
Category Ordering

Set ordering of categories:

  • Ordering Ascending
  • Ordering Descending
  • Title Ascending
  • Title Descending
  • Date Ascending
  • Date Descending
  • Id Ascending
  • Id Descending
Image Ordering

Set ordering of images:

  • Ordering Ascending
  • Ordering Descending
  • Title Ascending
  • Title Descending
  • Date Ascending
  • Date Descending
  • Id Ascending
  • Id Descending

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User Control Panel Settings

Enable User Control Panel
Enable or disable User Control Panel (User can create category and upload images here).
Enable Avatar Uploading Enable or disable Avatar uploading
Enable Avatar Authorization If user will be able to upload avator, administrator can decide if this avatar will be displayed for public or if it must be authorized first
Enable User Category Authorization If user will create category in frontend, administrator can decide if the category will be displayed for public or if it must be authorized first
Enable User Subcategory Authorization If user will create subcategory in frontend, administrator can decide if the subcategory will be displayed for public or if it must be authorized first
Maximum Count of Subcategories Set maximum count of subcategories which users can create in frontend
Maximum Category Description Characters Set maximum of characters, they can be written by users into description form

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Upload Settings

Enable User Upload Image Authorization
If yes, the uploaded image will be set as not authorized and must be authorized by administrator. If no, the upload image will be set as authorized
Maximum Description Characters Set maximum of characters they can be written by users into description form.
Maximum Upload Size (in bytes - front,admin upload) Maximum Upload Size of an image.
Maximum Resolution - Width Set maximum resolution width of uploaded image
Maximum Resolution - Height Set maximum resolution height of uploaded image
Maximum Size of all User's Images Set maximum size of all user's images which can be uploaded
   
Enable Java Uploader

You can enable or disable Java Uploader for the frontend.

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Enable Java Uploader

Enable Java Uploader In Administration You can enable or disable Java Uploader for the administration.
Java Resize Width Set width if you want Java Uploader will resize original images before upload
Java Resize Height
Set height if you want Java Uploader will resize original images before upload
Java Box Width Set width of Java Uploader Box (for frontend)
Java Box Height
Set height of Java Uploader Box (for frontend)

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Rating Settings

Display Rating of Categories
Display or hide rating pane where users can rate category
Display Rating of Images
Display or hide rating of images (enable or disable rating of images)

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Comment Settings

Display Category Comments Display or hide comment pane where users can add a comment for the category
Display Image Comments Set if image comment (icon below the thumbnail to comment form) will be displayed and enabled
Comment Box Width Set width of comment box
Maximum Comment Characters Set maximum of characters they can be written by users into comment form
   
External Comment Extension Enable or disable external comment extension (e.g. JComments)

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Cooliris Settings

Enable Cooliris support
Start Cooliris Button Phoca Gallery Parameters - Start Cooliris Button
You can display or hide the Start Cooliris Button below the image. Cooliris slideshow can be started by users who have no Cooliris support in their browser with this button.
Cooliris Image You can set if the main image displayed in Cooliris slideshow will be the original image or the large thumbnails (it should depend on image size).

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Switch (swap) Image Settings

Switch Image Enable or disable Switch (swap) image behaviour.
Switch Image width Width of main Switch image.
Switch Image height Height of main Switch image.

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Overlib Effect Settings

Overlib Effect Enable or disable the Overlib effect. Display:
  • Image
  • Description
  • Image and Description
Overlib Border Color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Overlib Border Color
Overlib Background Color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Overlib Background Color
Overlib Text Font Color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Overlib Text Font Color
Overlib Caption Font Color Phoca Gallery Parameters - Overlib Caption Font Color
Overlib Overlay Opacity Set opacity for overlib effect.
Overlib Image Size Set overlib image size. Image displayed in overlib can be transformed (resized with HTML parameters) by rate

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Watermark Settings

Create Watermark Phoca Gallery Parameters - Create Watermark
If yes, watermark will be created in your images. For creating watermark you must upload your own watermark image (PNG format) into your category folder placed in /images/phocagallery/ folder. For each category and for each thumbnail size (large, medium) you can select different watermark image. Name of watermark image must be 'watermark-large.png' (large thumbnails) and 'watermark-medium.png' (medium thumbnails).
X-Position of Watermark Horizontal (X) Position of Watermark image: left, center, right
Y-Position of Watermark Vertical (Y) Position of Watermark image: top, middle, bottom

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Virtuemart Settings

Display VirtueMart Link Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display VirtueMart Link
You can assign an image to a product from your VirtueMart e-shop. Go to Phoca Gallery » Gallery » New or Edit. Add ID of a product into the VirtueMart Product Id input box. Go to Default Settings or to Parameters Component (if you have created a link to gallery) and enable this parameter (Display VirtueMart Link).

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Statistics Settings

Display Statistics Pane Display or hide statistics pane.
Display Main Statisctis Display main statistics (number of images, category viewed)
Display Last Added Images Statistics Display last added images.
Number of Last Added Images Set number of displayed last added images.
Display Most Viewed Images Statistics Display most viewed images.
Number of Most Viewed Images Set number of displayed most viewed images.

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Information Settings

Display Camera Information Icon

Display Camera Information Icon link. After clicking this link, information from camera (EXIF) will be displayed in Popup window (popup, modal box, highslide js, ...)

Phoca Gallery Parameters - Display EXIF

EXIF Information

You can display EXIF information of an image in Popup window.

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You can set all possibles EXIF information here. As default there is set the following code:

  • FILE.FileName;
  • FILE.FileDateTime;
  • FILE.FileSize;
  • FILE.MimeType;
  • COMPUTED.Height;
  • COMPUTED.Width;
  • COMPUTED.IsColor;
  • COMPUTED.ApertureFNumber;
  • IFD0.Make;
  • IFD0.Model;
  • IFD0.Orientation;
  • IFD0.XResolution;
  • IFD0.YResolution;
  • IFD0.ResolutionUnit;
  • IFD0.Software;
  • IFD0.DateTime;
  • IFD0.Exif_IFD_Pointer;
  • IFD0.GPS_IFD_Pointer;
  • EXIF.ExposureTime;
  • EXIF.FNumber;
  • EXIF.ExposureProgram;
  • EXIF.ISOSpeedRatings;
  • EXIF.ExifVersion;
  • EXIF.DateTimeOriginal;
  • EXIF.DateTimeDigitized;
  • EXIF.ShutterSpeedValue;
  • EXIF.ApertureValue;
  • EXIF.ExposureBiasValue;
  • EXIF.MaxApertureValue;
  • EXIF.MeteringMode;
  • EXIF.LightSource;
  • EXIF.Flash;
  • EXIF.FocalLength;
  • EXIF.SubSecTimeOriginal;
  • EXIF.SubSecTimeDigitized;
  • EXIF.ColorSpace;
  • EXIF.ExifImageWidth;
  • EXIF.ExifImageLength;
  • EXIF.SensingMethod;
  • EXIF.CustomRendered;
  • EXIF.ExposureMode;
  • EXIF.WhiteBalance;
  • EXIF.DigitalZoomRatio;
  • EXIF.FocalLengthIn35mmFilm;
  • EXIF.SceneCaptureType;
  • EXIF.GainControl;
  • EXIF.Contrast;
  • EXIF.Saturation;
  • EXIF.Sharpness;
  • EXIF.SubjectDistanceRange;
  • GPS.GPSLatitudeRef;
  • GPS.GPSLatitude;
  • GPS.GPSLongitudeRef;
  • GPS.GPSLongitude;
  • GPS.GPSAltitudeRef;
  • GPS.GPSAltitude;
  • GPS.GPSTimeStamp;
  • GPS.GPSStatus;
  • GPS.GPSMapDatum;
  • GPS.GPSDateStamp

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Geotagging Settings

Google Maps API Key Set your Google Maps API Key.
Display Geotagging (Categories) Display Geotagging in Categories View (instead of standard list of categories).
Categories - Geotagging Longitude Set longitude.
Categories - Geotagging Latitude Set latitude.
Categories - Geotagging Zoom Set default zoom.
Categories - Map Width Set width of the map.
Categories - Map Height Set height of the map.
Display Geotagging Icon Display or hide Geotagging icon in image box in Category View.
Display Geotagging (Category) Display Geotagging in Geotagging pane, in Category View.
Category - Map Width Set width of the map.
Category - Map Height Set height of the map.

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Thumbnail Creation Settings

Pagination Thumbnail Creation This is very important parameter. If you set it to 'no', thumbnails will be created from all images you add to your gallery. If you set it to 'yes', thumbnails will be created only from images which will be listed in Gallery list. This is helpful if your server doesn't have CPU resources for thumbnail creation of all images at a time or you have a lot of images in your gallery. E.g. you want to add 100 images into your gallery via Multiple Add function. You know, your server doesn't create all images at a time, so you go to Phoca Gallery --> Images (Gallery in v.1.8.x) and at the bottom of your site, you select e.g. 'Display Num 10' (only 10 images will be listed). In 'Default Settings' you set 'Pagination Thumbnail Creation' parameter to 'yes'. Then you go to 'Multiple Add' function and add 100 images into your gallery. All 100 image filenames will be stored in your database but thumbnails will be created only from first 10 images. If you want to create thumbnails from the next 10 images you go to the second site in your Gallery list site and thumbnails of the next 10 images will be created.
Clean Thumbnails If you set this parameter to 'no' (default), thumbnails of images which are not more on the server disc will be not removed. If you set it to 'yes', thumbnails of images which are not more on the server disc will be automatically removed. Please, be aware, because if you enable this parameter and your gallery is extensive, it can take time and CPU resources to find the unused thumbnails. It is recommended to disable this parameter and delete the unused thumbnails manually.
Enable Thumbnails Creation You can stop the thumbnails creation while processing. Then you can enable it in Default Settings.
Crop Thumbnail
You can set if your thumbnails will be cropped or not
JPEG Quality Set compression quality of thumbnails which are created from JPEG (jpg) original images
Enable Picasa Image Loading Set if Picasa image loading will be enabled. Picasa image loading works only with support of JSON functions and allow_url_fopen parameter enabled in php.ini. Enabling this function and loading large albums from Picasa can slow down server. Loading images can be cancelled because of not enough memory or not enough time. If you will load Picasa images into a category, all previous Picasa images and their settings will be removed in this category as images and their settings are managed in Picasa albums.
Picasa Loading Pagination Set pagination for Picasa image loading. (This is recommended if you want to upload information from Picasa album which contains a lot of photos)

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Icon Settings

Icon Format This parameter will be used in relation to Themes. You can set if the used icon images are GIFs or PNGs.

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Images and Window Size Settings

If you want to change Thumbnail settings (width and height), you must do it before uploading and adding images into the galleries. Or you must delete all thumbnails in your images/phocagallery folder (if any exist) before making these changes. If you set the image size for your large thumbnail to e.g. 200px x 200px, large thumbnails will be created with size 200px x 200px. You must change the settings in: Components » Phocagallery » Control Panel (Gallery v1.8.8) » [parameters] button.

Versions prior to 2.1.0: If you want to display them in this size in the front end, you need to change the parameters in Parameters Component too.

Large Image Width Used in Detail window in BACKEND, FRONTEND (Javascript Slideshow)
Large Image Height Used in Detail window in BACKEND, FRONTEND (Javascript Slideshow)
Medium Image Width Used in Categories view (image next to category) in FRONTEND, used in Category view in FRONTEND, used in Image select in BACKEND
Medium Image Height Used in Categories view (image next to category) in FRONTEND, used in Category view in FRONTEND, used in Image select in BACKEND
Small Image Width Used in Categories view (image next to category) in FRONTEND, used in Phoca Gallery - Gallery view in BACKEND
Small Image Height Used in Categories view (image next to category) in FRONTEND, used in Phoca Gallery - Gallery view in BACKEND
Administration Detail Window Width
Set width of modal box used in BACKEND
Administration Detail Window Height Set height of modal box used in BACKEND
Front Detail Window Width Set width of detail window in FRONTEND (Popup Window, Modal Box, Highslide JS, ...)
Front Detail Window Height Set height of detail window in FRONTEND (Popup Window, Modal Box, Highslide JS, ...)

 Security Settings

 

Folder Permissions

Set foder permissions - permissions of folders which are created by Phoca Gallery except the main phocagallery folder (image/phocagallery). This folder is created during the installation and is set to 755 (you can change it manually in your ftp client), see:

Permissions Change since version 2.5.2

JFile Thubmnail Creation
Set if thumbnails will be created by JFile method or not. Using JFile and FTP layer can help you on server where you have not sufficient permissions (write thumbnails to folders)

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Information about newest options (parameters) you can find in this updated article: Options (Parameters)