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FBoxBot			plugin
Rating 15 votes	Developer:	Guessous Mehdi	Version:	1.0 (Updated 36 days ago)
	E-mail:	This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it	Compatibility:
	Views:	30,002	License:	GPLv2.0
	Favoured:	17	Type:	Non-Commercial
			Date Added:	Sep 24, 2006

Initially, FBoxBot bot/plugin was inspired by the extension lightThumb. The main idea is to help the user to create easily thumbnails from any pictures, and when you click on the thumbnails a nice popup appears that show the image at its original size. So what makes this package so special ? Firstly: I've written the associated popup script, frontbox, which I wanted to be lightweight, polyvalent, reliable. And Secondly: I made the process of creation of thumbnails easier than never: inside your favorite wysiwyg editor insert a picture, resize "manually" (see picture on website), save, publish and the bot will do the remaining job for you ! But it has also some other nice features I discuss on the website ...

Download link: scroll at the bottom of all explanations. You must have javascript activated in order to download the file.

Update: if for any reason the "lightbox effect" refuse to work , please take a look at the last new section "troubleshooting" of the page. This is a temporary fix, and this one will be improved in future.

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User Reviews (11)

Great Job by mr.Zeno, November 22, 2007

This is a great plugin. It is easy to install and works right out the box.
The only bad side of it is, that it has a pretty slow fade in effekt when the lightbox pops in. Does anybody know how to speed up that effect or how to deactivat the fade in?
Thank you

Small, fast and reliable! by MarHaj, August 22, 2007

Well, I cannot but compare FBoxBot with JCEutils 1.30.

Both (FBoxBot and JCEutils) are very similar in functionality.
JCEutils is based on mootools js (or alternatively on jquery) library which is the future Joomla! 1.5 javascript platform and FBoxBot is based on author's own script. So it seems JCEutils is more perspective.

But: JCEutils takes 60kB, FBoxBot 16kB.

Besides FBoxBot saves a great deal of content manager's time due to its built in automatic thumbs creation.

So it is difficult for me which one I will choose. If it were not been for Joomla! 1.5 dev team decision about mootools I will choose FBoxBot definitely.

Its excellent!

Finally. An everyday bot tool. by josh123guy, July 11, 2007

It took several searches before I came across FboxBot. I was looking for a EASY automatic way for thumbnails of DIFFERENT sizes to be handled along with the very cool lightbox effect. This script does both without errors.

Using JCE as the editor, I am able to construct an online portfolio using Joomla's built in articles/categories that looks great and functions much better then a thumbnail sheet. I am able to emphasize a photo and make 1 thumbnail larger then the rest.

Improvements:
Would be nice to be able to limit the bot to a category or section of the site.
Make the bot work better inside of JCE by automatically loading the last thumbnail.
Get a "DEMO" button up on Joomla.ORG

Amazing! by chocogirl35b, July 11, 2007

I tried it on my travelblog and it works perfect!

I will definetly use it more.

It's easy to install it, easy to use it... I just love it... My definite fav and must have... Thanx for sharing it!

Does What it says! by Robert_Vining, June 23, 2007

This bot does NOT use CSS to resize in your browser, it actually creates a new thumbnail to size you manually set when creating the article and saves it with the watermark on it to view the larger file in a popup lightbox.

Install it, publish it and forget it. It's automatic and perfect for adding single thumbs that have a cool lightbox effect to your content.

Great Job and THANKS!

Only resizes the image with CSS by CT Internet, June 18, 2007

0 of 1 people find this review helpful:

This component is fine in as much as it works for visually resizing the image. But it does it with CSS and thus does not actually resize the image.

This means that if you upload an image that is 800x600 and insert it and scale it down - the end user will still end up downloading that huge image but it will be DISPLAYED smaller.

This also means that the browser has to resize the image, whith not very good results.

Owner's reply:
Well, if the full image is downloaded,

this just mean that the plugin didn't work for that picture. If by default you don't see the watermark, then nothing has be done to the picture.

Possible reasons:

* improper url. Only urls corresponding to your joomla site are accepted (or relative path).

* the plugin is not even activated.

* url encoded path to image, not supported yet.

* The gd2 library failed to handle a corrupted image ...

If you wish to discuss further the issue, please contact me.

Perfect by Bocio, May 31, 2007

Simply installed and goes like a rocket.
No pain, no hassle and you can visually control your thumbnail just with your mouse.
Just great!

Worked but then stopped by armstead, April 18, 2007

It's a great concept. First time I used it was perfect.

However, when I tried again, it no longer worked. The images just sat there.

I didn't do anything differently after the first time, but it no longer wanted to work for some reason.

Maybe it's me. Maybe it's a bug. Dunno.

As I said, it's a great concept if I can get it to work more than once.

Super BOT!! by lala_ina, January 3, 2007

2 of 2 people find this review helpful:

I think it's a MUST BOT for Joomla!! The best lightbox mambot ever!!!!! You can resize the picture "manually", have all your caption (even if it's a looooong one), it has maximize/minimize actions, lightweight.... WOW... it just does everything it says!! And it's so easy to install.

Thank you so much... God bless you ^_^

This is a killer bot ! by therm, December 13, 2006

It is the only lightbox-like picture handler I know that allows the user to close the picture by simply clicking on it instead of clicking an icon at the bottom of the pic and THAT is clever. Another killer feature is the automatic resize to fit small screens.
Only missing thing is that all texts (next, close etc) are in english without any multilnguage possiblity.

Great app!

Excellent Mambot... by jdude, September 26, 2006

Great powerful and easy to use mambot which is priceless for a magazine type site. Keep up the good work bro!

JD

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