For large repositories of photos, we recommend that you use Phoca gallery. A great feature of the component, by Phoca, is the automatic generation of galleries - and thumbnails - based on the directory structure on the server. You place the folders with images in the images/phocagallery folder. Please ensure that there are no spaces in the names of the pictures, otherwise it will not work. We also had to change the permission of the thumbs folder to 0755 in the folder where we placed the images. In addition, we were struggling a while to get SEF working with the component. We initially got 404 errors when we clicked on a thumbnail using the article plugin that comes with the component.
This plugin allows you to insert a gallery in an article (see below).
To solve the SEF issue with the plugin that allows you to place a gallery in an article, you need to do the following:
Step 1: Create a new menu item (or a new menu) and make a link to the Phoca Gallery Component.
Step 2: Go to the modules section and enable the new menu if you have created one for this purpose.
Step 3: Use a menu position such as Phoca (one that does not exist in your template) if you do not want to display the menu in a template position. We used the position Phoca so we can load a menu in this article using load position.
Below is an example of phocagallery with pictures we took of the launch of the STS 129 Space Shuttle. For this example we linked the phoca gallery component directly to a menu item - not using the plugin.
We recommend you that use any the "simple gallery" plugins if you want to use a gallery in an article and that you use Phoca gallery for large photo depositories linked to a menu. Please click on the link below to see Phoca Gallery in action linked to a menu item:
From NASA:
Commander Charlie Hobaugh will lead the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Atlantis. Barry Wilmore will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Robert Satcher, Michael Foreman, Randy Bresnik and Leland Melvin. Wilmore, Satcher and Bresnik will be making their first trips to space.
The mission will return station crew member Nicole Stott to Earth. STS-129 is slated to be the final space shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the space station.
Atlantis will deliver parts to the space station, including a spare gyroscope. The mission will feature three spacewalks.
STS-129 is the 31st shuttle mission to the station.