A photo gallery component from Phoca: more than 200 display options, front-end image upload, comments and ratings, WebP and AVIF formats, plus a set of modules and plugins.
Phoca Gallery is an image gallery component developed by Jan Pavelka as part of the Phoca project. It works both for plain photo albums and for sites where visitors upload, comment on and rate pictures themselves. The gallery is responsive, and the detail view can be shown in one of several ways.
Features
- More than 200 parameters controlling the look and behaviour of the gallery.
- Over 10 extra plugins and several modules for showing images elsewhere on the site.
- Front-end image upload by users.
- Comments and ratings for images and categories; external comments through Facebook and JComments.
- WebP and AVIF support.
- Images from external sources: Google Photos, imgur, Picasa.
- ACL permissions, EXIF data, download, zoom, maps, links to online store products.
Compatibility
The 5.x branch runs on Joomla 5 and 6 without the backward compatibility plugin; the 4.x branch covers Joomla 4, and JED also lists Joomla 3. JED shows builds 4.4.3, 4.5.0, 5.1.3 and 6.0.0, last updated on 4 December 2025.