mavik Thumbnails 
Version
0.9.9.8 (last update on Nov 15, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
262
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
317912
Date Added
17 October 2008
Editor's Note
- The additional script Highslide JS is not free for commercial use
Features:
- create thumbnail and replace original image to thumbnail;
- add link for pop-up window: Slimbox, Highslide (for non-commercial sites - http://highslide.com/#licence) or Joomla Modal;
- add link to full text for blogs and frontpage (Compatible with: native Content, MyBlog, IdoBlogFree. It's easy create adapters for others components.);
- default sizes for full text and for blogs (and frontpage);
- proportions: keep aspect ratio, cut to fit, keep area, stretch;
- include/exclude images with the specified classes;
- works with remote images;
- show magnifying glass (image or cursor) at thumbnails;
- compatible with Mootools 1.1 and 1.2;
- compatible with Joomla 1.5 and 1.6.
Languages: English, Germany (Alexander Bredo), Russian, Ukrainian, France, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic, Nikola Arezina), Bulgarian (Alexandr Sidorov), Turkish (Burak Güner), Spanish and Catalan (lluis Jaime López), Greek (George Betsis), Estonian (Rivo Zängov), Italian, Polish (Paweł Zaremba).
Requires: PHP5, GD2.
Images
Just a note for potential users that this plug-in does not work with images in modules -- even custom HTML modules, but only content items. You also can't "fool" it by using "include content item" to publish a content item to a module position. Too bad!
At last! After hours of trying different gallery plugins, I found that mavik Thumbnails is a nice simple plugin that simply does what I simply want to do - throw up a larger image in a lightbox if I have resized it. Brilliant!
With it enabled you add your picture to your content normally, resize it from the original, change the default alt text (usually picked up from the file name) to what you want the viewer to read when they click on the picture, and save.
Set and forget! Easy! Thanks!
With it enabled you add your picture to your content normally, resize it from the original, change the default alt text (usually picked up from the file name) to what you want the viewer to read when they click on the picture, and save.
Set and forget! Easy! Thanks!
For those who would like to change the default thumbnails dir: don't forget to set write permisions on it.
Ideea for improvement: the full size picture appears over when you hold mouse over it some time (no clik). The problem would appear when the picture is bigger then your screen size :) . If not, the full size picture should disspear when you move the mouse away of the thumbnail area.
Anyway... it is excellent in this version also!
Thanks'!
Ideea for improvement: the full size picture appears over when you hold mouse over it some time (no clik). The problem would appear when the picture is bigger then your screen size :) . If not, the full size picture should disspear when you move the mouse away of the thumbnail area.
Anyway... it is excellent in this version also!
Thanks'!
I ran into minor difficulties whilst implementing this plugin - some of the images were being resized, others weren't, so I dropped a quick e-mail to the author and got a response within minutes and he had solved the issue in no time! Luckily this issue helped him spot a little bug with relative URLs and this should be implemented in the next release.
So very easy, I even have my end users creating their own lightbox images! I have always had to have my users upload their images then tell me and I would encode them. This you just upload and insert image, then size the thumbnail. Major time saver.
My own wish is to stop it from interfering with the Google Maps plugin.
My own wish is to stop it from interfering with the Google Maps plugin.
This plugin is superb. I had no issues using it. If you already have rel"lightbox" it will use those. It reads and displays "captions" if you have any set when inserting your images.
Note: This is only for individual images, I have yet to figure out an easy way to make a gallery from it.
Note: This is only for individual images, I have yet to figure out an easy way to make a gallery from it.
I can't believe that this small plugin (only 17KB) can do such a fantastic job!
It offers another feature for thumbnails generating, since we can set different size for each single thumbnail.
Thanks to the author.
It offers another feature for thumbnails generating, since we can set different size for each single thumbnail.
Thanks to the author.
If your images have then extension in uppercase, for example image.JPG instead of image.jpg, then, the plugin doesn't work.
To solve this, you need to change 2 lines of code in the plugin.
You need to open the file /plugins/content/mavikthumbnails.php with the eXtplorer, and modify the lines 169 and 189, this is the code that you need to change:
switch ($ext)
change to
switch (strtolower($ext))
then save and then bug was solved!
Thanks to share!!!
To solve this, you need to change 2 lines of code in the plugin.
You need to open the file /plugins/content/mavikthumbnails.php with the eXtplorer, and modify the lines 169 and 189, this is the code that you need to change:
switch ($ext)
change to
switch (strtolower($ext))
then save and then bug was solved!
Thanks to share!!!
Owner's reply
Thanks, it's fixed in current version.
I just have to comment... So simple and so elegant!! I've been searcing for this plugin for long, long... It's so elegant that it should be incorporated into Joomla core.
Since there is no user interaction to make the plugin work I don't know if this suggestion is possible to implement, but anyway: It would be really perfect if the article author could choose that no link shall be created at all, only the thumbnail.
Btw: I use FCKeditor and it works perfect.
Since there is no user interaction to make the plugin work I don't know if this suggestion is possible to implement, but anyway: It would be really perfect if the article author could choose that no link shall be created at all, only the thumbnail.
Btw: I use FCKeditor and it works perfect.
... but it appears to conflict with the YooGallery plugin so I can't use it on the site I wanted to. Top marks for this though if you're not using YooGallery, very easy to install and use. Am sure this will be a VERY popular plugin.
Install and publish plugin... when you insert the images in your article (or content) select the displayed size (example 150 x 150). This plugin in automatic create a image's thumbnail with size selected, and link this thumb at your original images!!!
Independent by editors (work perfect in JCE) !!!
For standard user this is a marvelous plugin!!! No more attention at image size...
Independent by editors (work perfect in JCE) !!!
For standard user this is a marvelous plugin!!! No more attention at image size...
Flawless. Couldn't be easier to implement. Works well in both Slimbox and Joomla Modal. Thanks!
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