FBoxBot
Version
1.2 (last update on Mar 29, 2009)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
78
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
205369
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).
Images
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
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ^_^
Thank you so much... God bless you ^_^
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!
Only missing thing is that all texts (next, close etc) are in english without any multilnguage possiblity.
Great app!
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