Phoca Forum

Hi,
First of all Thanks so much for this Phoca Gallery!
I am starting to get fond of Phoca Gallery, but to totally enthusiastic please help me with these issues:

1) I would like that the slide show can display larger images up to 900 pixel wide.
take a look at this one: http://starcraft2.com/art.xml?s=94
I would like the navigation buttons to be with: back, quit, stop, play/pause and forward buttons.

2) I want to be able to display a description in slideshow with settings shaddowbox. For example: the image is of a group of 20 students. I want to write the names of each of them in the description. If I do that now with the lightbox and other display options the names will be below the frame or in some cases partly hidden behind the navigation buttons of the slideshow. In Shadowbox there is no description at all, but that way of display is my preferred way, as it looks coolest in my opinion. How do I put description under the navigation buttons?

3) I would like that by clicking on the photo itself or a button of some kind, then the visitor can see the original size (xtra large), of the photos.

4) When I have uploaded the images to the galleries, I would like to be able to insert them into articles. So in the article I select image insert, and then I can choose directly from the Phoca galleries I have uploaded (and if possible also resize the image to what ever size I like).

5) Is it possible to move the "tree" into the right/main column, so that the category names can be read, and not just the first 2-3 words.

I am impressed with the Phoca Galleries so far, and they are much better than the gallery that comes with the joomla package, but I need the above options in order to be wildly enthusiastic.

Hi,

1) you should test all possible detail methods, every method can have different behaviours, e.g. highslide can display original images, the slideshow are different in every method

2) Shadowbox method doesn't have any place for description. Try to see e.g. Highslide, which does:
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/highslide-description

3) you can use external links (link to original image) or you can use Highslide to see the original image

4) See Phoca Gallery Plugin and Phoca Gallery Button Plugin:
https://www.phoca.cz/phocagallery-plugin
https://www.phoca.cz/phocagallery-button

5) if you mean the tree module, this depends on your Joomla! settings where you will display the tree and it depends on your template if the tree will be displayed Ok

Jan

Hi Jan,
thank you so much for the answer. I have 2 questions now:
You wrote: 3) you can use external links (link to original image) or you can use Highslide to see the original image
I would like Highslide to see the original, ... how do I do that? Does it do it automatically or do I adjust settings to do it? I have put it to highslide, but am not sure that it displays full size yet. How can I be sure?

Another issue:
In Media manager there are no top menues/navigation after installing Phoca Galleries, and below the folders there is this error message:
Fatal error: Call to a member function authorize() on a non-object in /home/site/public_html/administrator/components/com_media/views/media/tmpl/default.php on line 64

I found a solution to:

Another issue:
In Media manager there are no top menues/navigation after installing Phoca Galleries, and below the folders there is this error message:
Fatal error: Call to a member function authorize() on a non-object in /home/site/public_html/administrator/components/com_media/views/media/tmpl/default.php on line 64"

The solution is a patch, and you find the patch and how to use it if you follow this link:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=430&t=423159

So now I only need reply to the first part - about original size....

Hi,
see parameters - just set the displaying of orginal image instead of thumbnail in Highslide JS parameters:

https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... -menu-item

Jan

Hi Jan,

Do you do cutom work for users of Phoca Gallery?
I am building a site, where there probably will be hundreds of photos after some years.

I must be able to make a long description under each photo when shown in large format, with readable size of font. Example: a class of 25 pupils with long names like: Angelita Maria D. Lopez, ....+ 24 others.
Additionally the text (names) in the discription must be able to have link to each persons profile-webpage on the site.

I am not a wild enthusiast of pop-up displays of images, as I am not able to display adverts in those. (I might not use ads, but I want to be able to use them, and also the links to the rest of the site are inaccessable if it is pop-up display.)

I would like that each gallery displays like on this page which I find extreemly pleasing to my eyes - plus it is embedded into the page.

I must admit I did sign up with them, but theirs has so many bugs and I find it easier to use your hierarchical structure than that of the ignite gallery. I find myself between two chairs, but have greater faith in Phoca Gallery, so if you can do this for me, please email me or reply here.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I am not a wild enthusiast of pop-up displays of images, as I am not able to display adverts in those. (I might not use ads, but I want to be able to use them, and also the links to the rest of the site are inaccessable if it is pop-up display.)

You can display ads in the popup, see:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/45-phoca- ... ca-gallery

or you can display the detail as not POPup, see demo:
https://www.phoca.cz/templatedemo/phoca- ... escription

infos:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... -menu-item

I must be able to make a long description under each photo when shown in large format

There are a lof of ways how to display description, see parameters:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... -menu-item

...

...
You can set description height and height of description font, you can set if it will be below the image or inside the image:
https://www.phoca.cz/templatedemo/phoca- ... l/15-biavo
https://www.phoca.cz/templatedemo/phoca- ... l/14-acero
You can set if this description will be displayed in popup (modal box, highslide js, highslide js (image only):

https://www.phoca.cz/demo/highslide-description
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/jak-lightbox-vertical

or in overlib:
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/overlib-transparent
etc.

Thanks for your reply!!

or you can display the detail as not POPup, see demo:
https://www.phoca.cz/templatedemo/phoca- ... escription
>> I like this, : https://www.phoca.cz/templatedemo/phoca- ... l/15-biavo
1 image is on the page - not popup
2 good space for long description
3 description is below image

next reply

https://www.phoca.cz/demo/jak-lightbox-vertical
which led me to google for horizontal:
https://www.phoca.cz/demo/jak-lightbox-horizontal
>> horizontal I like (the thumbs below, is better than vertical thumbs AND visitor can see slideshow OR pic photo by choice)
4 IF it can be displayed inside a page like #1
5 IF description can be above the thumbnails
6 IF I can put Adsense above large image and below thumbnails

Please reply IF all 6 are possible in ONE solution, with out extra programming, or if custom programming is needed, and pricerange of the job.
Thanks.

+ question: Is it possible to ftp upload one folder with subfolders and sub-sub-folders all with images and afterwares to go in to write descriptions and gallery-category-names? I have all structured nicely on my computer.

Hi,

+ question: Is it possible to ftp upload one folder with subfolders and sub-sub-folders all with images and afterwares to go in to write descriptions and gallery-category-names? I have all structured nicely on my computer.

The advantage of Phoca Gallery is, you can create a tre of folders, subfolders and images on your PC, then you can upload it into your server by FTP and go to Multiple Add, Phoca Gallery will automatically convert folders to categories, subfolders to subcategories and creates thumbnails from images.

1) yes, you can display image in popup but you can display it as not popup
2) yes
3) yes
4) JAK is a POPUP method, so the image in JAK is displayed in POPUP
5) in JAK, this needs to be customized in JAK JS/html/css (didn't try it yet)
6) you can paste AdSense to these methods:
- standard popup javascript
- modal popup
- no popup
- highslide js popup as these are frame methods
you cannot paste it here:
- modal popup (image only)
- highslide popup (image only)
- shadowbox
- JAK Lightbox as there are only image methods.
see:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... -menu-item

Jan