I18N Gallery

[mvlcek]

The most interesting solution I know from testing another CMS is a plugin called Foldergallery able to handle many images in different categories. Categories are based on the folderstructure on the server, so they are created automaticaly if you sync the filesystem with the database in the foldergallery backend. The only thing you need to do is to upload the pictures (FTP or backend) to the correct folder/subfolders and sync the files in the plugin backend. Everything else (all galleries overview with links, single gallery thumbnails, lightbox, etc.) is created automatically. Only if you like, you can give to the single galleries and pictures labels, order them, etc.

With I18N Galleries it's only slightly slower - create a gallery giving it a title, add pictures, navigate to directory, select "Add all pictures", save.

But there are also other plugins directly using the directory structure, like Photo Gallery.

If I have created many galleries in I18N Gallery, how can I create a single page where one thumbnail (or the title) of every gallery is listed automatically and clicking on them, the single gallery with thumbnails opens? Is this possible without creating pages for the single galleries? I would love if I18N Gallery could make some steps for more automatism for the management of large numbers of galleries and pictures.

You could use PHP to get all XML files in /data/i18n_gallery, extract the tag name from the XML and display the galleries using get_i18n_gallery($name, array('thumb'=>0)). Put the code in a component and include it in your page with DynPages.

But you can also put multiple galleries on a page manually with (% gallery name=mygallery thumb=random %). Then you have more control over the order of galleries, the thumb displayed, text between galleries, etc.