Reviews

Current Version


Review posted by pbell1 on at

Easy to use! Best use of $15!

I am very new to code, and did not want to spend a ton of time figuring something like this out. This block is easy to use and a huge timesaver. It is completely worth the $15!
Review posted by leinteractive on at

Covers all the basics

leinteractive
Does everything I need it to do. I just wish there was a tableless layout for it so I don't have to go hack up the view.php file to make it output with divs.
Review posted by iTrendesign on at

Easy to use

iTrendesign
Perfect Gallery tool for most of my projects. Easy to install and use, and best of all, easy for my clients to use!
Review posted by malthoff on at

No complaints so far - it just works

malthoff
It's simple, it's open for enhancement. Thanks a lot!
Review posted by cbasservices on at

Not bad but do have a recommendation...

I have used this for a couple sites now. It does what I have been needing it to do - up to a point.

My complaint: removing all whitespace and documentation from the jquery-lightbox.js file makes it pretty much impossible to tweak the code to better suit my needs.

Not cool dude.
Review posted by genkilabs on at

Good simple block is nice for customers

genkilabs
This was the first add-on I bought through the market place. Of course implementing a js-lightbox is no big deal, but it was definitely worth the cash to save my time.
More importantly is the nice feature of choosing a collection of images based on sets. Once I show someone how to upload an image and add it to a set, they are gtg.
Would be cool if there were some more options involving spacing and such, but thats all fixable in CSS anyway.
Review posted by osu on at

@sirsyco

osu
Before you rate someone's work as a one-star piece of 'crap', you should learn some CSS.

By a quick 5 second look at your site as shown in the link, I can see that your theme (Tranquility) is setting the width of all images in your content div to 620px:

#content .entry img {
width:620px;
}

Did you ask for support in the forums before rating this?

To fix the problem, you might try taking that out, but be aware that any other images in your content div will *not* be forced to have 620px widths if you do this. You should be ok if you prepared your images properly before uploading them.

PM me if you need help doing this.
Review posted by sirsyco on at

Crap

Why do all the images show up stretched, and F'd up. I bought this gallery, because The Galeria image gallery did messed up all the images as well. In fact all the images that I have ever put on the site have been messed up. I had to manually set the dimensions to a completely wrong number for them to not be skewed. I really wish you guys would fix this. In the options under the Gallery add-on I set the thumbnail size at 25X25px, and the images are skewed to at least 600x25PX, is there any patch for this? If not I'm going to have to dump you guys. Odd thing is, they look fine when you click on them.

Look at it here:

http://www.ericdsawyer.com/examples/photography/...
Review posted by sirsyco on at

Crap

Why do all the images show up stretched, and F'd up. I bought this gallery, because The Galeria image gallery did messed up all the images as well. In fact all the images that I have ever put on the site have been messed up. I had to manually set the dimensions to a completely wrong number for them to not be skewed. I really wish you guys would fix this. In the options under the Gallery add-on I set the thumbnail size at 25X25px, and the images are skewed to at least 600x25PX, is there any patch for this? If not I'm going to have to dump you guys. Odd thing is, they look fine when you click on them.

Look at it here:

http://www.ericdsawyer.com/examples/photography/...
Review posted by djes on at

Bug

djes
I had a bug when adding from a collection (on a french language site). I had to change the $fakID controller line :
$fakID = $this->db->getOne("SELECT fakID FROM FileAttributeKeys WHERE akName <> ''");
Review posted by c5mix on at

Second that

c5mix
Yeah, I would love a developer's license on all the blocks in the marketplace. Think it would be a great feature.

The gallery block is great and is pretty easy to customize (even for a non-PHPer like me).
Review posted by gregdorrian on at

Developer Lisence?

gregdorrian
Hi I'm just wondering if you'd sell this great block with a developers lisence so we can use it on more than 1 site without having to buy it again??
Review posted by jgarcia on at

great block!

jgarcia
This is the best $15 I've spent in a while...just saved myself quote a few hours worth of coding. plus as with all blocks, the ability to edit the view.php file makes this very customizable. love it!
Review posted by Jeroen on at

Paypal?

Although this isn't really a review, I'd like to comment anyway. I just wanted to buy this add-on, which I cannot do! Quite frustrating. I don't have a creditcard (and don't want one) and would rather pay with Paypal. Why isn't this possible (yet)?

Any other way how I could get this add-on within a day? :-)

Kind regards,
Jeroen Smit
Review posted by alain on at

Description

alain
Is it possible to include the description portion of an image (like from the file manager) to this block?
Review posted by bcorn on at

nice Add-on

Pros:
Its a nice add-on. Saves you alot of time.

Cons:
if you put 2 seperate galleries on one page it still act like 1. I know that you kan change this in the real lightbox release but it dosent seem to work on this add-on. If they fix this it would really help.
Review posted by mario on at

Great Add-on

mario
I agree with some of the feature recommendations (a la captioning and uploading as sets), but I have to say that this is a great time saving add-on out of the box. Makes life truly easier for them and for me. Especially for clients who can't create thumbnails to save their life. Well worth the price.
Review posted by bryanlewis on at

Need support

bryanlewis
The pics aren't loading in internet explorer. Once I get support I'll let everyone know if I like the block or not
Review posted by Matt on at

Well worth supporting the cause.

Nice add-on. Works well with the file manager. Very good 'out of the box' config. Spend the money and support the cause. It's worth it.
Review posted by brandonkem on at

Works Great!

brandonkem
Installed easy and simple to use.
Makes and effective Gallery.
Well worth the $15
B
Review posted by cleuenberg on at

Tableless would be great

cleuenberg
Installs and setups very easily but it would have been nice not using tables in the markup. Luckily the view.php can be customised quickly :-)
Review posted by Dicoma on at

Validate

In order to make this block validate, you have to change some code in the view.php (you missed TD tags)

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" class="ccm-gallery">
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td>
         <?php  for($i=0;$i<count($images);$i++){ ?>
            <?php  $imgInfo = $images[$i]; ?>
            <?php  $f = File::getByID($imgInfo['fID']); ?>         
            <?php  $caption = array_key_exists('caption', $imgInfo) ? $imgInfo['caption'] : $f->getTitle();?>            
            <?php  if($i % $thumbnailPerRow == 0) {?>
               </td>
         </tr>
         <tr>
            <?php  } ?>      
            <td id="file_<?php echo $imgInfo['fID'];?>" class="galleryImages">
               <a href="<?php echo $f->getRelativePath()?>" title="<?php echo $imgInfo['caption']?>"><?php  $ih->outputThumbnail($f,$thumbnailWidth,$thumbnailHeight,''); ?></a>
Viewing 15 lines of 20 lines. View entire code block.
Review posted by ebchang on at

OK, got it to work

Finally got it to install, after wiping out everything and reinstalling version 3.0 from scratch. Fortunately this was with an experimental installation, not a developed site. Once working, the block is a reasonable start on a gallery application. Some useful additions would be 1) provide for a gallery title/caption to be displayed in the block; 2) let a gallery of a set of images be activated by a single displayed thumbnail or other link; 3) allow use of separate, or cropped, images as thumbnails; 4) allow a gallery to consist of a single image. Note: I know there's the "Zoom Image" block, but trying to download the newer version produces a database error.
Review posted by gsownsby on at

Works for Me - Gallery Block

gsownsby
I don't agree that it's a waste of money at all. Perhaps there is a configuration issue somewhere?

I have used the Gallery Block extensively and the only glich I've had was when adding images using sets.

Quick way to add photos.
Review posted by ebchang on at

A waste of $15!

When I try to make it available (by copying into the blocks directory), I get fatal errors when selecting "Add Functionality" from the Dashboard. Since this "product" cones with ABSOLUTELY NO DOCUMENTATION, not even a simple README file, I have no way to guess what might be wrong.

I would be happy to pay more for a properly documented product. As it is, it's worthless.
Review posted by ideasponge on at

Great first run, needs some tweaking.

ideasponge
Pros:
$15 is a great buy. Easy to install. Simple Options. Love the way the Larger view of the images doe not take you to a new page but allows for a nice slideshow like display that even responds to arrow keys.

Cons:
If your gallery has a lot of pictures, it is good to use the new "Sets" feature in 5.3, but adding them to a Set can be a pain in the butt if your site has lots of pictures to organize. If there was a way to Add Images to a Set during the mass upload phase, that would take care of this problem.


All in all, this new Block rocks but i hope they tweak it a bit.
Review posted by drugo on at

Nice block

drugo
A very good block, it work nice and it's easy to customize.
Review posted by gsownsby on at

Add Captions to Sets - Gallery Block

gsownsby
Once a gallery block has been finished using a photo set, it does not appear to be possible to add captions. It would be helpful to be able to do so.
Review posted by izysmith on at

single thumbnail

The gallery works well. I hope new features will be added to it, such as the ability to show just one thumbnail, for which clicking on it then triggers a whole gallery. I don't always want a grid of pictures in my page composition.
Review posted by gsownsby on at

Agreed - I Bought It Too

gsownsby
'Purchased last night; installed and in use in about 10 minutes or less.
Review posted by sebastienj on at

Nice gallery

sebastienj
Easy to install and configure. Thanks
you must see in action here :
http://www.esquissedujardin.be/projet/urbain/...
Review posted by frz on at

love it

frz
i love it.. go figure.

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