See Phoca News site to list all new features of Phoca Gallery.
Main features of Phoca Gallery:
- Unlimited count of categories
- Different methods of displaying detail of an image (No Popup, Standard Javascript Popup, Modal Box, Modal Box (image only), Shadowbox, Highslide JS, Highslide JS (image only), JAK lightbox)
- Automatically creating of thumbnails
- Commenting images and categories (using external comment system like JComments possible)
- Cooliris support
- Rating images and categories
- Multiple adding of thumbnails
- Different methods of image upload (FTP, Java Upload, Flash Upload, Standard Upload, using other media manager or file manager in Joomla!)
- Frontend Upload
- Frontend managing of images (upload, delete, publish, unpublish)
- MVC pattern - Phoca Gallery templates can be overriden by Joomla! template
- Rotating of images
- Recreating of images
- Option to installing different Themes
- Changing design easily in parameters or in Themes
- Pagination
- Displaying EXIF information
- Geotagging support (displaying Google Maps with images or categories)
- Youtube support (Youtube videos can be displayed in detail view)
- Statistics
- Description of images and categories
- Creating external links (e.g. to download)
- Creating link to VirtueMart
- Overlib effect
- Slideshow
- Different Modules, Plugins and Languages available
- Watermark
- Standard and advanced SEF support
- User rights (displaying, uploading, editing, publishing, unpublishing)
- Breadcrumbs support
- See Parameters and documentation for other features.
History:
Phoca Gallery 1 was released on September 20, 2007 - simply gallery for Joomla! 1.5 CMS
Phoca Gallery 2 was released on September 28, 2008 - full featured gallery for Joomla! 1.5 CMS
Phoca Gallery 3 was released on July 22, 2011 - completely rewritten for Joomla 1.6 (Joomla! 1.7) CMS
Phoca Gallery 4 (4.3.2) was released on November 28, 2016 - written for Joomla! 3.7 CMS