This is exactly what I was wanting. Some other tools make you install other complicated things first. This just works. Install, Enable, Works...and make my site look very nice. Thanks-A-Plenty!

I just downloaded this plugin and am amazed. Granted, I'm not the website guru, but I have been looking for a plugin/bot that I could just download and have it create thumbnails and pop up in a lightbox format. I downloaded at least 10 others and all were either too complicated, or just took too much time. I had this downloaded and my pics just right in 5 minutes. Thank you so much for this plugin!

-Eric

I used this plugin alongside seber cart and obtained excellent results! Does exactly what it says right out of the box. Highly recommended. 20 second setup.

I like the ease of use.

Just a side note, if you're using any css/js compression bots be sure to add the fbox_conf.js and fbox_engine-min.js to the exclude list.

THanks, the ability to resize the thumbnail while having the image popup look (like Simple image Gallery) ticked the boxes.

Maybe help for other users: I had to chmod 777 my /plugins/content/fboxbot/thumbs directory to get the thumbnail creation working. Before this, just image name showing (no thumbnail).

I was long time compiling my article with lots of pictures... Formatting was ugly, big pictures were out of page, small ones were horribly blended... I have recalled some of nice capabilities of professional sites where clicking on small image makes thumbnails magically grow. I have searched, installed and immediately used this wonderful feature, that helped to finish my article (it's in Russian :)


Many thanks, great work!!!!

Just what I wanted. Worked straight out of the box.

Even worked with images on my server but outside my Joomla folder.

This is a great bot that does exactly what it advertises. I had a small issue that I couldn't figure out and had to send an email for support. I got a response within hours that gave me a simple fix and I was back in business. It is developers like this that make me love Joomla more and more every day.

This plugin really saves me time. Easy to install and operate. Thanks a lot mehdi. Waiting for more plugins.

Basically, you don't have to do ANYTHING except install it and publish it. It just works. All your old content is automatically handled just the way you would want, IMHO.

Images derived from larger ones are automatically displayed in their full size when you click on them.

I did find one bug, which will probably be easy for the author to fix: if the name of the image contains a space, it doesn't work.

Bravo!

This bot saved me, as I previously had another plugin installed to do this job, but this stopped working.
This bot just looks, feels and acts great. What more can I say?

Excellent!

Thank you, Mehdi.

I have little experience with Joomla! and often find several problems when trying to add an extension or plug in that will do what I want without having to register at 101 different sites before I can download the new software, or find after having done that that the software is NOT FREE but requires some sort of payment. Once you actually have the software and try to install it, you get errors or there is little documentation to help you.

This plug-in is brilliant, as it does exactly what it says on the box.

Download it and install it.

and you only have to publish it, after uploading the software to the backend from the zip file, just go to plug-ins and click the red "un-published" icon to publish it and for most parts it works 100% straight away.

I found that if my files were "name.jpg.jpg" then I had to enable the "don't clean html" code as described and had to use the fb:src="name.jpg.jpg" to get it to work, but this is avoidable if you use good file names and extensions. Renaming the files via FTP was quicker and automatically made the pop up work for these images.

Easiest software to install and use, documentation was very good and not to long, but with good examples.

WELL DONE, now if only ALL Joomla! software was done this way, it would be a very quick way of adding option software to your CMS site without the hassle of having to go through loads of bad software to fine the diamond in the crap heap

Wow, I wasn't looking for this, I just stumbled upon it and it is SO welcome! Great straight out of the box extension. Great work guys! Thanks.

I just wanted something quick and simple to show an enlarged map when people click on it. I'm using a mootools javascript enabled theme but the mootools plugin I was trying to use previously threw up conflict errors in IE and I spent a lot of time trying to fix them. Switching to this non-mootools plugin solved the problem immediately.

I think a previous reviewer asked about changing the popup background colour from black - you can simply do this by editing the fbox_bg properties in the fbox_css.css file.

It's lightweight and perfect for what I need it for. I don't even have to make any adjustments to the existing content on my site which is awesome. Great work!

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

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!

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

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!

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!