Gallery Extensions for TYPO3 - an up-to-date comparison
Since Daniel Lienert and I am currently working on a new gallery extension for TYPO3, we tried to find out which extensions are currently available for photo management in the TYPO3 Extension Repository (TER) and what are their "dos and don'ts". Currently, yag is on place 21 regarding downloads if you search for "gallery" in TER.
So what are the problems regarding the other 20 extension available. Here is a comparison of them with a comment regarding problems from our point of view:
Shop System (tt_products) | ||
15.8.2011 | >60.000 | OK - we have a shop system with a product gallery here - not really a gallery though... |
Gallery (lz_gallery) | ||
10.8.2004 | >40.000 |
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Photo Book (goof_fotoboek) | ||
3.9.2010 | >40.000 |
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SmoothGallery for TYPO3 (rgsmoothgallry) | ||
7.9.2011 | >30.000 |
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wt_gallery (wt_gallery) | ||
30.4.2010 | >18.000 |
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Website Photo Gallery (jm_gallery) | ||
3.8.2011 | >13.000 |
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DAM Photo Gallery (hl_dam_gallery) | ||
4.1.2007 | >8.000 |
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Photogallery (ce_gallery) | ||
15.6.2011 | >7.000 |
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DAM gallery with Liteshow (dam_liteshow) | ||
22.10.2007 | >7.000 |
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Another simple gallery, show all images of a direc (chgallery) | ||
11.8.2010 | >6.000 |
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Ecodev: DAM photo gallery (eco_gal) | ||
16.4.2011 (set as obsolete) | >6.000 |
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Advanced FLV Player & Video Gallery (bddb_flvvideogallery) | ||
23.3.2009 | >5.000 |
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Simple Gallery (ch_simple_gallery) | ||
8.5.2003 | >5.000 |
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Gallery2 ( gallery2 ) | ||
25.8.2009 | >5.000 |
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Simple Javascript Fotogallery (mbit_gallery) | ||
15.1.2007 | >4.000 |
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Simple Photo Gallery (photo_gals) | ||
25.8.2006 | >4.000 |
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Javascript Slideshow (vc_javascriptslideshow) | ||
20.7.2009 | >3.000 |
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Realty Manager (realty) | ||
13.8.2010 | >2.000 |
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BAHAG Photo Gallery (bahag_photogallery) | ||
31.10.2006 | >2.000 |
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harz2night.de Flickr Flash Show (harz2night_de_flickrflashshow) | ||
4.11.2006 | >2.000 |
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Some problems, all current gallery extensions face
- No theming concept - Look and Feel of gallery can only be modified by HTML templates
- No advanced resolution handling: Only "thumb" - "single" - "cover" resolutions can be configured
- No API for using gallery from within other extensions
- None of the galleries is based on a modern framework like Extbase
- All but one of the extensions does not have a backend module. The one that has a backend module is a bridge to gallery2 - hence there is no standalone moule in TYPO3 look-and-feel
Features of other galleries not yet implemented in YAG
- Worst of them all: We still don't have a category system. We once thought that having gallery-album-images would be enough... stupid though...
- We cannot use PIDs for BE access restrictions. Everything goes to PID 0 atm
- We do not have a DAM integration yet. Mainly this is because there will be something called FAL - File Abstraction Layer - that will replace parts of DAM and we wanted to wait for this new feature that will be available in TYPO3 4.7
- tt_content integration: You cannot use YAG for displaying "image with text" in a standard content element atm. This is something we hope to ship with version 1.5.0 of yag
- Rating and commenting is not yet available in YAG, as we think that this can easily be integrated using any 3-rd party extension or service like Disqus