mavik Thumbnails 
Version
0.9.9.8 (last update on Nov 15, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
150
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
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 installed on Joomla 1.5.9.
Works great. Simply to use. Just the right amount of functionality and no more. Very well thought out.
Apparently, there's an incompatibility with 1.5.9 - When you have more than 4 articles that use mavikThumbnails, the website theme gets fried for that category and when you go to the blog-view, it shows only one article in the upper-left hand corner of the browser window.
I reported this to Vitaliy and he fixed it for me -- immediately.
I don't know what he did to fix it, but I'm sure he'll report it here for others who may have the problem.
Works great. Simply to use. Just the right amount of functionality and no more. Very well thought out.
Apparently, there's an incompatibility with 1.5.9 - When you have more than 4 articles that use mavikThumbnails, the website theme gets fried for that category and when you go to the blog-view, it shows only one article in the upper-left hand corner of the browser window.
I reported this to Vitaliy and he fixed it for me -- immediately.
I don't know what he did to fix it, but I'm sure he'll report it here for others who may have the problem.
What a great timesaver. No more making thumbnails by hand for your articles. No paramenters, you just insert your full size image and resize it. The plug-in senses it and creates the thumbnail invisibly behind the scenes. It's MAGIC!
I am using the Joomla Modal setting in the plugin because the Slimbox had a small conflict.
Important: If all you see is a link instead of a thumbnail, just use JoomlaXplorer or similar component to change the thumbnail component to writable.
Rowby
I am using the Joomla Modal setting in the plugin because the Slimbox had a small conflict.
Important: If all you see is a link instead of a thumbnail, just use JoomlaXplorer or similar component to change the thumbnail component to writable.
Rowby
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.
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