Ignite Gallery Updates

3.4.8 released

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:05:00 EDT

Component

Feature #674: Add Russian langauge.
Bug Fix #680: If 2 galleries on the same page, the magnify icon aligns incorrectly.
Change #:679 Al Ratings 2.0 option is hidden now from profile unless enabled in component options. A new built in ratings system that works in Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0 will be released soon.
Bug Fix #678: Child categories should not be able to be chosen as the parent category.
Bug Fix #676: In Joomla 3.0 admin section, the pagination items per page select box is missing.
Bug Fix #675: In Joomla 3.0 admin section, selecting all items at the top of the select column does not work.
Bug Fix #673: When thumbs set to top position, the thumb container width can not be manually set.
Bug Fix #671: The parent select box in the frontend admin section in Joomla 3.0 is too small too easily select.
Bug Fix #670: The slideshow should auto stop when the lightbox is opened.
Bug Fix #669: When search is set to show in profile, and search results are set to tagged, the results should not have any menu images on that page.

Search plugin

Bug Fix #668: If the image alt text has html entities in it, the title in the search results displays incorrect.

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Upgrade Info:

You can install the latest 3.x version of the component/module/plugin on top of any older 3.x component/module/plugin. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost. If nescessary, you can also revert to an older 3.x version by installing the older version on top of the newer one.

3.4.7 released

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:19:00 EDT

3.4.7 - 18th April 2013

Component

Bug Fix #665: Fixed bug in 3.4.5 where gallery does not work with thumbs hidden.
Bug Fix #664: When the thumb container width is manually set, the thumbs spacing is too wide.

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Version 3.4.6 released

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:54:00 EDT

3.4.6 - 17th April 2013

Component

Bug Fix #662: Fixed bug in 3.4.5 where portrait images do not align properly in lightbox when the lightbox has its size reduced.

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3.4.5 Released

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:43:00 EDT

3.4.5 - 16th April 2013

Component

Bug Fix #651: Add native Joomla 3.0 html to the 3 list views in the admin section of the component.
Bug Fix #647: Fix image sometimes jumping 1px when the image swaps and the image fade transition is on.
Bug Fix #646: Fix images sometimes not displayed at 100% sharpness since responsive layout was added.
Bug Fix #661: Import from server function shows fatal error in Joomla 3.0
Bug Fix #659: When an image is liked on facebook, and the return link is cliked on, in a some cases an infinite rederict occurs.
Bug Fix #658: In IE10 the thumbnails may wobble up and down when the gallery has been sized down.
Bug Fix #655: The image description that is sent to facebook does not display html entities correctly.

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Version 3.4.4 Released

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:28:00 EDT

Component

Bug Fix #657: Fixed bug in 3.4.3 where in Joomla 3.0 the lightbox thumbs tab in the profile settings will not display.

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Version 3.4.3 Released

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:00:00 EDT

3.4.3 - 8th April 2013

Component

Bug Fix #595: Lightbox should be responsive in regards to browser height as well as browser width.
Bug Fix #654: New profile page should have native joomla 3.0 html.
Bug Fix #652: The edit image details page should have native Joomla 3.0 html.
Bug Fix #642: Sometimes the return url of a facebook like or comment does not go back to the right image.
Bug Fix #653: Remove index.html files from folders as this is no longer a requirement.
Bug Fix #650: Fix email notify new image uploaded or new category created not working in Joomla 3.0
Bug Fix #654: Upgrade plupload to 1.5.6
Bug Fix #644: Read more link in Jcomments latest comments module does not load correct image.
Bug Fix #641: Fix content plugin not being inserted if jquery is loaded in Joomla 2.5 admin section.

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Version 3.4.2 Released

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:19:00 EDT

3.4.2 - 25th March 2013

Component

Bug Fix #632: In version 3.4 and 3.4.1, if there are no menu images, the layout is incorrect.
Bug Fix #629: Added correct Joomla 3.0 markup for the new category view.
Bug Fix #622: Magnify gif sometimes displays in wrong place in chrome.
Bug Fix #617: Horizontal bar shows if thumbs set to left or right and gallery sizes down a lot.
Bug Fix #608: In IE the back button on the first image goes to the last image, not the previous page.
Change #603: Sliverlight and Browserplus options removed from plupload. These options are rarely used and cause the gallery install to be rejected by some server security modules.
Bug Fix #590: When image tags are shown, and the link is clicked on, the destination tagged page should not show menu images.
Bug Fix #638: Fix open lightbox and show correct thumb when the facebook like link within facebook is clicked and main image is hidden.
Bug Fix #636: When a image is directly linked to with a hash in the url, the rating for the first image is shown.

Content plugin

Bug Fix #615: If an index is done in Joomlas smart search component, and the gallery content plugin is enabled, and error occurs.

Jcomments plugin

Bug Fix #635: The links provided to the Jcomments latest comments module link to only the first image in the gallery.

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Version 3.4.1 Released

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:48:00 EDT

3.4.1 - 26th February 2013

Component

Bug Fix #620: Fixed 3.4 bug where lightbox image displays incorrect on second lightbox open.
Bug Fix #618: Fixed 3.4 bug where facebook like button does not share image with facebook.
Bug Fix #611: Fixed 3.4 bug where the magnify icon does not align correctly in chrome/safari.
Bug Fix #607: When multiple galleries on a page, and main image hidden, and hash in url, only one lightbox should auto open.
Bug Fix #609: In Joomla 3.0, jquery should not be added in the backend to plupload, as jquery is already there.

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3.4 Released

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:23:00 EDT

Component

Joomla 3.0 is now supported
Feature #77: Responsive layout added. The gallery will now resize to fit the width of the space provided by the template. The gallery lightbox will resize to fit the window width.
Change #606: Internet Explorer 7 is no longer supported. IE7 does not support the modern css needed to do responsive layouts.
Bug Fix #579: Facebook like button is now done with xfbml instead of the iframe method. This allows facebook to add a share or comment link when the image is liked.
Bug Fix #580: Twitter button is now done using standard twitter button javascript/html not the iframe method.
Bug Fix #589: Back button problems when navigating back through images fixed.
Bug Fix #596: The image shared with facebook or googple plus should be the big image not the thumbnail.
Bug Fix #588: With sef urls on, and Joomla 2.5.6 or later, deleting an image in the frontend will not work.
Bug Fix #584: Gallery should have a css class representing the profile.
Bug Fix #583: All links to images/css/javascript files should be relative urls, this fixes some issues on https sites.

Content plugin, Editor Button Plugin, Module, Search Plugin

There have been no changes to these, but their version number has been updated to 3.4 to avoid future confusion.

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3.3.1 Released

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:41:00 EDT

3.3.1 - 6th November 2012

Component

Bug Fix #565: In combination with a small number of templates, a php error is raised reporting the router.php file has not included a class.
Bug Fix #561: In IE9, when the thumbs are scrolled, content beneath the thumbs may move down the page.
Improvement #489: The hash change in the url now works on lightbox image swap. Also, if the main image is hidden, and there is a hash in the url on page load, the lightbox will auto open and show the correct image.

Content plugin

Bug Fix #564: Content plugin should read Joomla 1.5 legacy article code when ‘classic’ is the gallery type.

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Version 3.3 released

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:00:00 EDT

3.3 - 16th October 2012

Component

Feature #563: Added basic Joomla 3.0 functionality. Some major 3.0 features like a responsive layout have not been completed, the gallery is not fully Joomla 3.0 ready, but in version 3.3, the basic functionality has been completed.
Requirement Change: Version 3.3 requires Joomla 2.5.5 to function. This is nescessary to make a dual Joomla 2.5/Joomla 3.0 version.
Joomla 3.0 preperation #548: Put install/uninstall methods into a scriptfile.
Joomla 3.0 preperation #549: Remove all calls depreciated Joomla functions except JError and JRequest.
Joomla 3.0 preperation #550: Remove all calls to depreciated mootools functions.
Bug Fix #551: Gallery template files should not use php brackets as these make editing of the template files harder.
Bug Fix #545: Hash of first image should be added to url on page load.
Performance #543: Removed all recursive database calls from backend display functions.
Bug Fix #534: Pagination limit in profile should not effect limit set in module
Bug Fix #525: When module/plugin display menu images, the links on the menu images don't have the same sef url as the component.
Bug Fix #546: When module/plugin display menu images, empty categories should not be shown.

Module plugin

Feature #556: Added Joomla 3.0 compatibility.

Content plugin

Feature #559: Added Joomla 3.0 compatibility.

Editor Button plugin

Feature #560: Added Joomla 3.0 compatibility.

Search plugin

Feature #557: Added Joomla 3.0 compatibility.

Image Inserter plugin

Feature #558: Added Joomla 3.0 compatibility.

Upgrade Info:

You can install the latest 3.x version of the component/module/plugin on top of any older 3.x component/module/plugin. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost.

Joomla 1.5 Version Status

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:19:00 EDT

With the release of Joomla 3.0 today! it is time for me to review the Joomla 1.5 version status....

3.2.15 Released

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:16:00 EDT

3.2.15 - 21st September 2012

Component

Improvement #470: If a category has child categories, and show image count is set to yes in the profile - menu tab, the amount of sub categories should show.
Bug Fix #531: After 3.2.13 changes, if the main image is hidden, and a hash is in the url, a javascript error occurs and the gallery stops working.
Bug Fix #528: After 3.2.13 changes, when an image is deleted, and Jcoments or Alratings is not installed, an error message is shown after the image is deleted
Bug Fix #533: Lightbox image not centered properly after 3.2.13 changes.
Bug Fix #530: Clicking on filesize column ordering in imagelist in backend makes a 500 error.
Joomla 3.0 preperation #532: Remove all DS constants and replace with a forward slash.
Joomla 3.0 preperation #529: Replace all calls to JHTML.menu.treerecurse with native tree functions within the gallery (helpers/tree.php).

Upgrade Info:

You can install the latest 3.x version of the component/module/plugin on top of any older 3.x component/module/plugin. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost.

3.2.14 released

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:41:00 EDT

3.2.14 - 11th September 2012

Component

Bug Fix #524: fixed bug in 3.2.13 where gallery does not display corrent in IE8.

Upgrade Info:

You can install the latest 3.x version of the component/module/plugin on top of any older 3.x component/module/plugin. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost.

3.2.13 Released

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 19:32:00 EDT

3.2.13 - 10th September 2012

Component

Feature #370: Add a twitter button for each image.
Feature #503: Each image url in the component is now an ajax crawalable url, so Google can read and index every image as a unique page. Each page has open graph tags for the image info. Technical info (which you do not need to read) is here
Feature #505: Added a component option to use legacy urls for social buttons. If you are upgrading from 3.2.12, and your social buttons already have likes, please make sure this is set to yes, and your likes will be kept. The gallery should do this automatically on upgrade. Otherwise please leave this as no.
Feature #521: Add Czech langauge support, thanks to Petr Folt�n from dreamtech.cz
Feature #507: Added a profile setting to control the width of the facebook like button as different languages have different content inside the button.
Feature #506: Added open graph tags for each gallery, including a tag for the menu image if present.
Bug Fix #440: Ratings position should be directly below image
Bug Fix #458: When an image is deleted, the record in Jcomments or Al Ratings should be deleted too.
Bug Fix #495: The left/right thumbnail arrows do not shrink down correctly when fit lightbox to window is on.
Bug Fix #496: Image list in backend should have a sortable id column.
Bug Fix #497: The menu images in the module should get their sizes from the profile assigned to the module.
Bug Fix #498: Limit in module settings does not work if pagination is on in the profile.
Bug Fix #501: In 3.2.12, scrolling to the correct thumb on page load stopped working.
Bug Fix #502: Improved the ability of the gallery to display correctly within tabs and sliders that have the gallery hidden on page load.
Bug Fix #504: Changed the size of the google plus one button to match other social buttons and removed the hide/re-display behavior of the button when the image swaps.
Bug Fix #517: Links that are auto added to the module images should be sef friendly and have the same routing behavior as the component links in all setups.

Content Plugin and Module

Feature #76: Added the new module types: show child categories, latest categories, most viewed categories, random categories. If you previously used the ‘show menu images’ option in the module, please choose one of the new module types.

Upgrade Info:

You can install the latest 3.x version of the component/module/plugin on top of any older 3.x component/module/plugin. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost.

3.2.12 Released

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:19:00 EDT

3.2.12 - 30th July 2012

Component

Feature #455: New option in profile to order images by date added.
Bug Fix #425: Facebook like button may say error before page has rendered
Bug Fix #460: Lightbox shrink may not work properly if thumbs are left and thumbs are big.
Bug Fix #463: Image list columns in gallery backend do not change display order when clicked on.
Bug Fix #464: If show amount of images in category is on, and category has no images and sub-categories, and image count of zero should not be shown.
Bug Fix #476: Facebook language locale should be auto set from Joomla locale.
Bug Fix #483: The filename should be displayed in the edit image screen.
Bug Fix #485: The plupload css/js files should be in the frontend media folder as the backend folders are sometimes htaccess protected.
Change #490: The grey border shadow is now done with css3. This is nescessary to get the lightbox shrink and future responsive layout features working correctly.

Content plugin

Bug Fix #477: Content plugin will not insert gallery code into Yootheme Zoo article.
Bug Fix #482: after upgrading to Joomla 2.5, the content plugin should read the legacy Joomla 1.5 article code.

Upgrade Info:

You can install the latest 3.x version of the component/module/plugin on top of any older 3.x component/module/plugin. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost.

2.7.10 Released

Mon, 14 May 2012 19:56:00 EDT

Component

Bug fix #375: Fix css validation
Bug fix #376: Left/right slideshow arrows should have a mouse cursor on hover
Bug fix #382: Jquery easy plugin strips noConflict() javascript in uploader
Bug fix #389: Make facebook like wider for different languages
Bug fix #392: Ordering columns in backend image list not working
Bug fix #401: Firefox shows blue highlight when lightbox opened 2 times
Bug fix #406: Update plupload to 1.5.4
Bug fix #417: Lightbox displays incorrect in Opera when fit lightbox to window is on.
Bug fix #427: Convert image file extensions to lowercase on import.
Bug fix #428: Exif/iptc import does not read all utf characters.
Bug fix #429: If there is a link in the text under thumbs, the wrong image is shown on lightbox open.
Bug fix #430: Filenames should have underscores removed when displayed under image.
Bug fix #431: Make facebook comments width match gallery width
Bug fix #432: Lightbox shrink feature does not shrink properly on second lightbox open.
Bug fix #433: Lightbox shrink not sizing down left right slideshow arrows.
Bug fix #438: Facebook comments javascript should call FB.XFBML.parse not FB.init multiple times.
Bug fix #445: Facebook like button says error before page has been loaded

Post release notes

You can install 2.7.10 on top of any 2.7.x version. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost. To upgrade from version 2.6 or earlier, please see the common support questions.

3.2.11 Released

Wed, 09 May 2012 20:33:00 EDT

This is a quick release as 3.2.10 had a significant bug in it.

Bug Fix #443: Version 3.2.10 bug, child categories with no images are not displayed.
Bug Fix #422: If no descriptions in gallery, auto hide description part of gallery.
Bug Fix #434: Facebook comments javascript should call FB.XFBML.parse not FB.init multiple times.
Bug Fix #439: Make facebook like button wider to fit different languages.
Bug Fix #419: Preload counter undefined message in javascript console when lightbox opened twice.

Version 3.2.10 Released

Tue, 01 May 2012 02:16:00 EDT

Feature #49: Add/Remove multiple image tags function added to bottom of image list.
Feature #280: Option to show amount of images in category under menu image.
Feature #356: Paramaters in profile for alignment of main image and lightbox image.
Feature #411: Added option to show tags under thumbs.
Feature #420: Added Danish, Portuguese Brazilian, Finnish, Spainish, Italian language files.
Bug Fix #404: Upgrade plupload to 1.5.4 and jquery to 1.7.2
Bug Fix #138: Make username info easy to output in template.
Bug Fix #240: Remove html formatting if frontend image description copied into backend image description.
Bug Fix #384: Warnings show when gallery is installed and Joomla debug mode is on.
Bug Fix #385: Convert image file extensions to lowercase on import.
Bug Fix #386: exif/iptc import does not read all utf characters.
Bug Fix #388: Include site name in page title if Joomla config is set to do this.
Bug Fix #390: If there is a link in the text under thumbs, the wrong image is shown on lightbox open.
Bug Fix #391: Email field in component params does not save.
Bug Fix #393: Filenames should have underscores removed when displayed under image.
Bug Fix #394: Hide descriptions if main image is hidden.
Bug Fix #395: Breadcrumb links missing itemid.
Bug Fix #396: Make facebook like button wider.
Bug Fix #397: If lightbox opened twice in Firefox 11, some content is highlighted blue.
Bug Fix #398: If thumbs set to left, set default column amount to 1
Bug Fix #399: Fix wobble when thumbs left and scrollbar set to display.
Bug Fix #408: Clicking on main image to advance does not work if links are on some images.
Bug Fix #403: Make facebook comments width match gallery width
Bug Fix #414: Lightbox shrink feature does not work properly on second lightbox open.
Bug Fix #415: Lightbox shrink broken in Opera 11.6.
Bug Fix #418: Lightbox shrink not sizing down left right slideshow arrows.

Post release notes

You can install 3.2.10 on top of any 3.x.x version. All php/css files will be overwritten, but no content will be lost. If you install version 3.2.x of the component, you must install version 3.2 of the module/plugins. You can install the 3.2 module/plugins on top of the 3.1 or 3.0 module/plugin.