Phoca Gallery version 3.2.8 has been released. This version is designed for Joomla! 2.5.

Download: Phoca Gallery download site.

Demo: Phoca Gallery and Joomla! 2.5 site.

Changelog:

• Fixed typo error in setBoxSize method
• Changed JSite to JFactory::getApplication()
• Minor changes in some SQL queries to optimize them

If you find any bug, please report it to Phoca Forum. Thank you.

Phoca Download component version 3.0.5 (Joomla! 3) has been released.

Download: Phoca Download component download site.

Documentation: Phoca Download component documentation site.

Demo: Phoca Download demo site

Changelog:

• Optimized SQL queries
• Changed upload settings to not lowercase the uploaded files
• Added loading of JFile class to frontend user model class
• Fixed problems with unique download link and access rights
• Fixed problems with redirecting page after login

If you find any bug, please report it in Phoca Forum, thank you.

Phoca Cart component development version 3.0.0 Alpha2 has been released.

Changelog (in comparison to Alpha1):

• Added Recreate Thumbnails function for Categories
• Added missing translation strings into Sys language file
• Added new parameter - Display subcategories in Categories View
• Finished Batch for products and categories
• Finished ACL feature for categories, products, shipping, payment and form fields
• Added new parameter - Display category description in Categories View
• Added links to product items
• Fixed minor langauge typo errors
• Added new parameter - Display New Icon
• Added new parameter - Product Ordering
• Added new parameter - Category Ordering
• Added pagination and ordering parameters to category view
• Added new parameter - Display Ordering Select Box in Category View
• Finished attribute feature (if required, must be selected first - in Category View, Item View)
• Finished deleting feature in administration
• Finished stock handling feature
• Finished minimum order quantity feature
• Added order status handling
• Finished stock movements feature (changing order status)
• Finished emailing feature (changing order status, include sending order, invoice or delivery note)
• Added Payment Rules: Amount, Country, Region, Shipping
• Added Payment costs (no tax, including tax, excluding tax)
• Finished Shipping method and Payment method rules.

What does Alpha2 mean:

• this version is designed for developers and testers
• the component is not ready yet, some features are still missing, e.g.

   - payment methods
   - possible Xml or Pdf outputs

• all features are developed from scratch (there can be a lot of possible problems)
• calculation should be thoroughly tested
• of course such version cannot be used on production site.

What is and what isn't Phoca Cart:

Phoca Cart is simple shopping cart solution for Joomla! 3 CMS. It is not robust e-commerce solution like VirtueMart is. If you are looking for robust e-commerce solution, you should use VirtueMart not PhocaCart (in addition, there is a long way to make Phoca Cart stable and ready).

Why has been released a not completed extension:

Shopping cart solution is really complicated system (for example calculation: inclusive VAT, exclusive VAT, fixed VAT value, percentage VAT value, discounts on all items, on selected items, on selected categories - fixed or percentage, shipping rules based on region, country, amount or weight values, shipping VAT, payments, etc. - all this in various combinations) so it needs to be heavily tested.

If you find any bug or you have some feature request idea, please post a topic to Phoca Forum. Thank you.

For now there are three modules:

• Phoca Cart Cart module - displaying a cart in module position
• Phoca Cart Currency module - displaying currency selector in module position
• Phoca Cart Compare module - displaying selected products to display them in comparison list.

Screenshots: Phoca Cart screenshots site.

Demo: Phoca Cart demo site.

Download:

Phoca Cart component download site.

Phoca Cart download site.

To test Phoca Cart, you need to run Joomla! 3 and template with Bootstrap 3 design, see Phoca Gweld:

Phoca - Joomla! 3 Templates

Inside Phoca Gweld installation package you will find Phoca Upgrade plugin - install this plugin and enable it in your Plugin Manager - it is a system plugin which tries to change Bootstrap 2 design (rendered by Joomla! 3) to Bootstrap 3 design.

See this article: How to install sample data in Phoca Cart to easily test the component.

Phoca Gallery version 4.1.1 has been released.

Download:

Phoca Gallery download site

Demo:

Phoca Gallery and Joomla! 3 demo site - categories view

Phoca Gallery and Joomla! 3 demo site - category view

Changelog:

• Fixed language typo errors
• Fixed minor problems when displaying a message after redirect (in administration)
• Fixed parts of code caused Strict standards warnings
• Fixed problem with displaying rating in Categories View

If you find any bug, please report it to Phoca Forum. Thank you.