May
25
2005
Media Gallery Feature Comparison
Last Modified: Friday, 31. October 2008 23:52
Written by Graham Spice, Kai Tomalik   
The Gallery-Addon team has done a lot of research to put together this feature comparison of media gallery components available for Joomla....but its obviously not finished! If you are a user or developer of one of these scripts and would like to fill in the gaps in our table, please use this form or send the info to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Gallery Feature Comparison

 Gallery1 [-]Gallery2 [-]Pony Gallery ML [-]MorfeoShow [-]Phoca Gallery [-]RSGallery2 [-]Expose [-]Datso Gallery [-]Coppermine [-]
Joomla 1.0.x
Joomla 1.5
PHP version > 4.1.0
PHP version < 4.0.4pl1
safe_mode on
exec() disabled
Compatible Graphics ToolkitsGallery 1Gallery 2Pony Gallery MLMorfeoShowPhoca GalleryRSGallery 2ExposeDatso GalleryCoppermine
ImageMagick
NetPBM
GD
Media (Images, Video, etc)Gallery 1Gallery 2Pony Gallery MLMorfeoShowPhoca GalleryRSGallery 2ExposeDatso GalleryCoppermine
supported filetypesjpg, png, gif, avi, movimages, video, documents, audio, RAW images, own MIME types, but it can`t generate thumbnails for all formatesjpg, png, gifjpg, gif, pngjpg, jpeg, png, gifjpg, gif, png.jpg .jpeg .flvjpg, png, gif 
edit Title
edit Caption
edit Description
edit Keywords
user-Defined fields
edit Thumbnails
Video Thumbnails
Search
Rotate
Move
Delete
Hide
Reorder
Copy
User comments
Voting
Watermark
Zoom in/out
Popups

depends on Theme
Lightbox

Detail image window

Large image size

Automatic Thumbnail Creation
image resizing
image rotation
Microthumb navigation
Email Friend
Ecard
Cart/Lightbox
URL Rewrite module
EXIF
IPTC
AlbumsGallery 1Gallery 2Pony Gallery MLMorfeoShowPhoca GalleryRSGallery 2ExposeDatso GalleryCoppermine
Nested/Subalbums
edit Album title
Slideshow
dynamic tree view
edit Album description
Rename
Move Album
Hide Album
Reorder Album
Delete Album
User Permissions
Mirroring
UploadGallery 1Gallery 2Pony Gallery MLMorfeoShowPhoca GalleryRSGallery 2ExposeDatso GalleryCoppermine
Web-based form
URL
Webserver directory scan (FTP)
Java applet (drag-and-drop)
Multi-pic upload
Multi-user
Upload approval
Allows user uploads from the frontend
Remote
Win XP Webpublishing Assistant
JoomlaGallery 1Gallery 2Pony Gallery MLMorfeoShowPhoca GalleryRSGallery 2ExposeDatso GalleryCoppermine
Joomla Login
Joomla Users
Joomla Layout/CSS
Joomla Language
Joomla search
User Uploads
SEF support
Community Builder support
modules available
Templating system
OtherGallery 1Gallery 2Pony Gallery MLMorfeoShowPhoca GalleryRSGallery 2ExposeDatso GalleryCoppermine
multilingual support
Notes exec() is not required if GD is available. But you will lose some additional featuresA Demo
is available here
 Upload via FTP or Media ManagerMigration options for many galeries.Flash Based  
tested, stable Version1.5.92.32.5.11.2.01.6.41.14.34.6.21.61.4
WebsiteLinkLinkLinkLinkLinkLinkDeveloper's Website
Win XP Webpublishing Assistant		LinkLink
under active development
 * If you would like to fill in the gaps in our table or suggest any changes, please use this form.

For all Features and a fully G1 - G2 Comparison please visit the official Feature Chart!

Special thanks to: Danial Taherzadeh, Sascha Hopf, TomH, Jürgen Schwaninger , Manfred Dennerlein, Andy Staudacher, Antonio Melé, Daiji, Andrey Datso, Daniël Tulp, Jonah, Aravot
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