25 December 2007 - Looks like Saint Nicholas dropped a new upate to MGM on the server last night... there is now a full installer for MGM version 0.96p2 for new installations and a patch component to be applied against an existing installation of MGM. Both resolve problems with MySQL 5 and RG_emulation no longer needs to be enabled in Joomla. As an added measure of assurance, MD5 Checksums are now provided. Please use these to verify the integrity of these downloaded files.

This release includes three new table-less templates, an improved Help page, improvements to the mambot and various other bug fixes and enhancements. More info will be added in the future as time permits.

Best Wishes for the Holidays to All,

 Jon Tebbs

If you've tried any of the other photo gallery add-ons for Joomla, you'll probably know at least three things: some can be really, I mean really, challenging to install, some of them can be very complicated to use and lastly they all leave you thinking there just has to be something easier.

MGM Joomla! Gallery Manager is set to change all that ... MGM is different from the other gallery add-ons. For a start, it's not complicated. MGM has been developed for ease of use. It's easy to install and administer just like Joomla! MGM doesn't even require the user or administrator of the system to know Rocket Science to operate it once it's up and running.

MGM galleries are "inline" - they are displayed right inside of your pages, just like these examples below. And thanks to the many MGM users around the world, MGM is becoming multi-lingual. MGM was originally written by Marco Antonio Regueira and released with a Spanish translation. A German translation has been provided by Fabster and just recently there has been an offer to provide a Dutch translation.

The current release of MGM Joomla! Gallery Manager is v0.96p1 and is available for download from here . Development work is currently under way for v0.97 and will feature a new interface to make MGM even easier to use. Some of these new features will be released as patches to v0.96 in the interim.

IMPORTANT! Anyone still using MGM v0.96RC1 please download and install this Security Patch . 

Example 1 

This gallery is representative of the "No Template"  selection and "Click to Close" pop-ups

Cincinnati Nature Center - Flowers

Blue Flowers Honey 'Suckle Lavender Flowers White Flowers Pink Flowers

Example 2 

This gallery is representative of the "Basic Blue" selection and "Click to Close" pop-ups

Cincinnati Nature Center - Turtles
Box Turtle	Painted Turtle	Turtle & Fish	Painted Turtle Closeup	Box Turtle Closeup

Example 3

This gallery is representative of the "Static" template with "Content Page" and "Click to return"

Cincinnati Nature Center - Scenes
Canada Geese	Waterfall	Pond
Frog 2	Frog 1
Trail	Frog 3	Field

Example 4

This gallery is representative of the "Info Pop" template

i	Just One Door Open Sesame My Baby Sunday Driving Moon Roof

Example 5

This gallery is representative of the "Orange Box" template and "Click to Close" pop-ups

		1958 Isetta 300
		Right Rear Left Rear Left Front Right Front

EXAMPLE 6

This gallery features the new Brushed Aluminum template and is entirely CSS based

Turntable Idler Wheels

Finished Idler

Hub Front

Hub Rear

Original & New

Bits-n-Pieces

EXAMPLE 7

This gallery features the new Blue Divs template and is entirely CSS based

Flowers

Trumpet Lily

Trumpet Lillies

Hollyhock

Butterfly

Trumpet Lillies

Toad