Uploading Images

You can upload images:

• via FTP or
• via Media Manager (Site » Media Manager) or other File Manager
• via Phoca Gallery ( [New] or [Multiple Add] in Components » Phoca Gallery » Images ) - Single File Upload, Flash Upload, Java Upload
• in Frontend ( User Upload) ) - with help of Single File Upload, Java Upload.

FTP

You need to upload images into the images/phocagallery directory in your server. Phoca Gallery will automatically create thumbnails of these images when you add them to a category.

Ideally, put your photos into separate folders within images/phocagallery. e.g. images/phocagallery/holidays, because adding images to different categories will be easier then.

There can be problems with image names (folder names) on some servers. Before you upload your images into a server, please check the image names (folder names). They shouldn't contain spaces or some bad characters (', ", #, ...), diacritics or special national characters.

Image (File Name)	Image name.jpg	Image-name.jpg ImageName.jpg
	Image.name.jpg	Image-name.jpg ImageName.jpg
	Image's name.jpg	Image-s-name.jpg ImageSName.jpg
	Изображение.jpg	Izobrazhenie.jpg
Folder (Folder Name)	New folder	New-folder NewFolder
	Name's folder	Name-s-folder NameSFolder

Uploading images in Phoca Gallery

In New: Go to Components » Phoca Gallery » Images  » [New] and press the [image] button besides filename.
In Multiple Add: Go to Components » Phoca Gallery » Images  » [Multiple Add]

You'll get a screen with 3 boxes. In the first box you see a screen with the files and folders present on you server in images/phocagallery. If you want to upload the image to an existing folder, click on that folder. If you want to upload the image to a new folder, go to the 'folder' box and type the folder name and press [create folder].
Next go to upload files, press [browse], select the files you want to upload and press [start upload].

Now the images are uploaded to your server, but they aren't added to a category yet. See next chapter 'Adding images'.