FBoxBot 
Version
1.2 (last update on Mar 29, 2009)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
50
Favoured
44
License
GPL
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
79569
Date Added
24 September 2006
Download link: scroll at the bottom of all explanations. You must have javascript activated in order to download the two files (support for joom 1.5 & 1.0x are in separate files).
Last update: automitically add next/previous action on images in same article (can be disabled), improved naming of thumbnails, better support for fcke and more.
If you update fboxbot, I advise you delete your cached thumbnails to free some disk space (naming of thumbnails changed a bit).
bychicomangh on November 22, 2009
Thank you so much for this. I needed a Picture handler to handle my investment charts for my website. All other solutions were becoming tedious work and very time consuming. This allows me to add charts of any size to my signals and articles and makes it way easier to style the article pages with the use of thumbs. All my users have to do is click and a larger more detailed chart pops up. If i have more than one chart to display it automatically shows them all with a next / previous button - Fantastic! now I can spend more time delivering my advice and articles instead of fudging with the way it looks. Perfect for joomla newbies like me.
Make sure to turn it on in the plugins manager - that's it.
Download it now
Install the zip
Enable it in plugins
GO!
Thank you for this!
Make sure to turn it on in the plugins manager - that's it.
Download it now
Install the zip
Enable it in plugins
GO!
Thank you for this!
bypixelyo on November 14, 2009
Congratulations for your FBoxBot plugin. I'm definitely a fan. It's so simple to use and so powerful.
byprosenfeldt on November 10, 2009
Fantastic, just has to add the GD module to the php installation and it works perfectly !
Thanks so much !
Thanks so much !
byBoxingChaos on November 7, 2009
Great, Awesome, easy to use. Thank you for showing how to use this here on the main page. Just enable, write article, drag to resize and wala! You are the best! I have tried others and they were so complicated, I could learn to fly a helicopter before figuring what they were saying.
FBoxBot
IS THE BEST!
Trust me!
FBoxBot
IS THE BEST!
Trust me!
byhfourie on October 28, 2009
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
-Eric
byShowMeCreative on October 21, 2009
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.
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.
bysn00ze on August 17, 2009
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).
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).
byvlad.belogrudov on June 19, 2009
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!!!!
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.
Even worked with images on my server but outside my Joomla folder.
bypixgirl on March 30, 2009
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.
byayyoub on March 29, 2009
This plugin really saves me time. Easy to install and operate. Thanks a lot mehdi. Waiting for more plugins.
byPatClark on March 25, 2009
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!
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!
byrafnsson on March 5, 2009
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.
This bot just looks, feels and acts great. What more can I say?
Excellent!
Thank you, Mehdi.
bythaddeus on February 24, 2009
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
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.
bySteve Hards on June 12, 2008
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.
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
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
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