Slimbox Image Gallery Plugin for Joomla! v 1.5 
Version
1.0 (last update on Mar 24, 2008)
Rating
Compatibility
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66
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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Date Added
15 February 2008
I love this plugin and use it all the time. My rating would be excellent, except that the claim "You can have multiple {slimbox x,x,x } galleries." in a single page doesn't ring true.
When I try to do it, I get to the end of the first slide show and instead of stopping, or looping back, it goes straight into the next slide show.
Maybe you need to be more specific in the instructions how this is done?
When I try to do it, I get to the end of the first slide show and instead of stopping, or looping back, it goes straight into the next slide show.
Maybe you need to be more specific in the instructions how this is done?
Hi guys, I'm not for quarrel, argues, just reading all dos & don'ts I'm wondering what are we supposed to put down here in fact, what are reviews for!? As I remember, about 2-3 of my replies out of 4 have been rejected along time.
Well now, my problem is I have a suckerfish menu, and the top level options are plainly visible upfront in the large image display layer. Have anyone encountered the same bug? I tried some
style="z-index:999;"
in all the divs, both .php, and .js, yet to no avail.
Moreover, as I try to click on the navigation buttons, the sublevel menus popup in front, covering the slimbox buttons.
Any fix, any idea if you please?
Well now, my problem is I have a suckerfish menu, and the top level options are plainly visible upfront in the large image display layer. Have anyone encountered the same bug? I tried some
style="z-index:999;"
in all the divs, both .php, and .js, yet to no avail.
Moreover, as I try to click on the navigation buttons, the sublevel menus popup in front, covering the slimbox buttons.
Any fix, any idea if you please?
Awesome plugin, I love it. So simple to use and with a little work to the css you can achieve your desired results.
Worked out of the box. I had used the similar Jquery based version of this, so I was somewhat familiar with the plugin.
I did encounter 2 issues:
- syntax must be precise. I had an extra space before the fist image, and this caused the first image ONLY look as if it was loading endlessly. Make sure to only have 1 space after the "slimbox" literal.
-If you are using multiple images, leave the last semicolon ";" off of the last image. If you leave it on, it will display an extra empty image at the end of your thumbnails! I could not figure out why there was an empty anchor link for a while. So, just LEAVE THE " ; " off at the end. 'nuff said...
Thank you so much for making this a easy plugin to use w/ Joomla!
I did encounter 2 issues:
- syntax must be precise. I had an extra space before the fist image, and this caused the first image ONLY look as if it was loading endlessly. Make sure to only have 1 space after the "slimbox" literal.
-If you are using multiple images, leave the last semicolon ";" off of the last image. If you leave it on, it will display an extra empty image at the end of your thumbnails! I could not figure out why there was an empty anchor link for a while. So, just LEAVE THE " ; " off at the end. 'nuff said...
Thank you so much for making this a easy plugin to use w/ Joomla!
Nice plugin, simple and up to the point.
Got pretty much the same commets as everyone else, and as someone pointed out it's just to add a
.slimbox img { padding: 5px; }
to any css file and the spacing is ok.
I found one bug, the plugin tries to render one to many pictures leaving a blank
Got pretty much the same commets as everyone else, and as someone pointed out it's just to add a
.slimbox img { padding: 5px; }
to any css file and the spacing is ok.
I found one bug, the plugin tries to render one to many pictures leaving a blank
Now this would have been nice if combined with Simple Image Gallery.
Simple Image Gallery: Nice CSS, creates thumbnails automatically, unfortunately thumbnails can't be centered and can't add captions
Slimbox Image Gallery - Nice that you can add captions, would have been nicer if you could add titles too. CSS needs some work.
And somewhere I saw a plugin that adds a Simple Image Gallery button to your editor. Imagine an upload button to go with that!! Now we're talking!!!
A challenge?
Simple Image Gallery: Nice CSS, creates thumbnails automatically, unfortunately thumbnails can't be centered and can't add captions
Slimbox Image Gallery - Nice that you can add captions, would have been nicer if you could add titles too. CSS needs some work.
And somewhere I saw a plugin that adds a Simple Image Gallery button to your editor. Imagine an upload button to go with that!! Now we're talking!!!
A challenge?
Owner's reply
As per our convo - go for it! If you want to also maintain the extension with those improvements, that would be cool. Love your ideas!
Good point: it works easily
Bad point: no alt= tag, so won't validate
Thumbnail spacing can be changed by amending a .css file. Adding the line
.slimbox img { padding: 5px; }
worked for me.
If, like me, you don't work on Joomla often, you can find the .css file by following extensions>template manager
then selecting the appropriate template and clicking "edit".
Thank you for contributing this Amy.
Bad point: no alt= tag, so won't validate
Thumbnail spacing can be changed by amending a .css file. Adding the line
.slimbox img { padding: 5px; }
worked for me.
If, like me, you don't work on Joomla often, you can find the .css file by following extensions>template manager
then selecting the appropriate template and clicking "edit".
Thank you for contributing this Amy.
This plugin does its job quite well. Some more features (e.g auto thumbnail creation) and options in the back-end to modify the appearance in the front-end would have been welcomed. However, the code is not too complex and a few tweaks in the core and css files can be made to achieve the desired results.
On the subject of tweaks, the writer of this review http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-&-images/photo-gallery/4135/details#rev-38209 has made some improvements to the plugin which I have tested and found to be quite impressive. These include:
1. Improved syntax rendition - reduces the cluttering when including multiple images resulting in text which is much more readable
2. Easily align thumbnails left, centre or right in the article text
3. Output all of the images in a directory
4. Automatic insertion of spaces between thumbnails
The user can be contacted via effrit@mail.ru. He responds quickly to queries regarding his modifications and is extremely friendly :).
Thanks to both Amy and Effrit :)
On the subject of tweaks, the writer of this review http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-&-images/photo-gallery/4135/details#rev-38209 has made some improvements to the plugin which I have tested and found to be quite impressive. These include:
1. Improved syntax rendition - reduces the cluttering when including multiple images resulting in text which is much more readable
2. Easily align thumbnails left, centre or right in the article text
3. Output all of the images in a directory
4. Automatic insertion of spaces between thumbnails
The user can be contacted via effrit@mail.ru. He responds quickly to queries regarding his modifications and is extremely friendly :).
Thanks to both Amy and Effrit :)
For all of you who need space between images without plugin recoding... Learn CSS Styling! each image is given a class id "slimbox." Just create a CSS class style named "slimbox" and do whatever the heck you want with it!!! So easy!!! Great Job Amy. I had issues using Lighbox with Internet Explorer 7 and after abandoning the actual script and going to the plugin method through Joomla, it worked great without any problems and cross-browser issues.
And for the rest of you ... learn CSS!
And for the rest of you ... learn CSS!
I love the way this plugin displays images. I usually place the code for the plugin inside a div using the html editor in order to center or float left/right.
I have a simple down side. The page were this plugin is implemented will not validate XHTML strict. I am not sure this is entirely the plugin's fault though.
It(plugin or Joomla) automatically adds the border tag to the images and leaves off the alt tag which cause the page to have errors validating for XHTML strict. If anyone has a work around, I am open to listening.
I have a simple down side. The page were this plugin is implemented will not validate XHTML strict. I am not sure this is entirely the plugin's fault though.
It(plugin or Joomla) automatically adds the border tag to the images and leaves off the alt tag which cause the page to have errors validating for XHTML strict. If anyone has a work around, I am open to listening.
Very nice and easy to insert pictures with the slimbox effect into joomla articles.
Hint for gettintg spaces between images:
edit slimbox.php, line 123
$withthis .= '';
After the you can put your amount of spaces( ) you like.
After that line you can insert the follwing for a choosen amount of pictures per line:
if ( (($j+1)%NUMBER OF PICURES PER LINE) == 0){
$withthis .= '';
}
Hint for gettintg spaces between images:
edit slimbox.php, line 123
$withthis .= '';
After the you can put your amount of spaces( ) you like.
After that line you can insert the follwing for a choosen amount of pictures per line:
if ( (($j+1)%NUMBER OF PICURES PER LINE) == 0){
$withthis .= '';
}
Usually when looking for gallery extensions, I'm looking for something that a technically impaired person would easily understand. 1. I'm not going to ask a client to make his/her own thumbnails according the dimensions of the design that I made for them and 2. I'm not going to ask them to insert the code into their content...anything that resembles code absolutely terrifies them.
That is to say, the thumbnail creation should be automatic and this should at least be a component. All and all, I love the simplicity of the slimbox gallery and I'd use it on my own for a very limited amount of images but in the end, the cross-referencing with the media gallery gets fatiguing and again, this is not for the technically impaired.
That is to say, the thumbnail creation should be automatic and this should at least be a component. All and all, I love the simplicity of the slimbox gallery and I'd use it on my own for a very limited amount of images but in the end, the cross-referencing with the media gallery gets fatiguing and again, this is not for the technically impaired.
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