Image Galleries with zOOm!
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Written by John Pitchers
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Saturday, 04 August 2007 |
zOOm
Media Gallery is a gallery system that can store images (photos), video
files (all streaming formats supported), audio files (with mp3
playback) and documents (Word and PDF files). It's clear why zOOm is the premier gallery chose for Joomla! systems.
Click here for an example of zOOm Media Gallery in action featuring a popup Lightbox.
Following is a very long list of features.
- Create multiple galleries with infinite levels of depth. This way you can order your media in a hierarchal method.
- Upload your media in four different ways: file-per-file, multiple files as one ZIP file, Drag 'n' Drop (JUpload by Mike Haller <http://www.jupload.biz>), scan directories/ remote location and select which media to upload after scanning!
- Manage
all your galleries/ media with the user friendly Gallery Manager and
Media Manager; intuitive user interface and perfect Mambo/ Joomla!
integration.
- Let
users access the Media Manager and/ or Gallery Manager once you assliign
various privileges to them! You can choose if they can upload/ edit or
delete media and create/ edit or delete galleries.
- All ZMG features can be turned on and off.
- The ZMG layout is completely customizable through CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid layout
- Classic and modern layout options to fit your site template
- PDF files can be indexed (with the cross-platform software 'Xpdf ') and with this feature turned on, a user can search inside the PDF files as well.
- ZMG can create thumbnails of your video files as well, once the cross-platform software 'FFMpeg ' is installed on your server.
- Create thumbnails from images with GD1.x, GD2.x, ImageMagick and NetPBM .
- You
can set the maximum image size to match your template and ZMG resizes
it to 'viewsize' for you, but leaves the original file intact for
donwload.
- Rotate images 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise with photos taken as portraits.
- Add names, descriptions and keywords to media and galleries.
- Mistakenly misplaced media can be moved to its right place.
- All galleries are managed through a single-page interface, utilizing Ajax technology.
- Gallery ordering is done via Drag n Drop.
- Galleries can be published and un-published.
- Select which kind of users may view a specific gallery or medium by adding them as members.
- Galleries can be password protected.
- ZMG can also be used when SAFE-MODE = ON.
- Images can be viewed in a popup lightbox (Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar <http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/> )
- Hotlink protection so visitors cannot hotlink image from your site
- Users/ visitors can rate each medium.
- Users/ visitors can leave comments at each medium.
- Users/ visitors can view all images in a gallery as a slideshow.
- Users/ visitors can navigate through each gallery with media-player like navigation buttons.
- Users/
visitors can add media to their own session-bound lightbox and download
them all at once as a ZIP file when their done browsing your gallery.
- Users/ visitors can zoom in and out of an image. Why else would this product be called zOOm Media Gallery? (tjpzoom by Valid <http://valid.tjp.hu/zoom/> )
- Users/ visitors can send each medium as an eCard to a friend.
- Four alternative views: Top Rated, Last Submitted, Last Commented, Top Rated.
- MP3 files can be played online with the Flash - zOOm Player (Flash mp3 Player by Jeroen Wijering <http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash+MP3+Player>). Moreover, the user can create a playlist from his/her lightbox at play multiple files at once!
- If a video file is supported for streaming, it will be playbacked when a user presses the 'Play' button.
- Read and write EXIF data from jpeg images. (source: PHP JPEG Metadata Toolkit by Evan Hunter <http://electronics.ozhiker.com>)
- Read ID3v 1/2 data from mp3 files and other kinds of metadata from all audio/ video files. (source: getID3() by James Heinrich <http://www.getid3.org>)
- Include images from your galleries into your news items with the zOOmThumb mambot.
- Display images in five different methods as a preview with the zOOm module. (by Per Lasse Baasch <http://www.skycube.net >)
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