FBoxBot

Version

1.2 (last update on Mar 29, 2009)

Rating

4.83 out of 5.00 from 76 users.

Compatibility

Votes

Favoured 75

License

GPLv2 or later

Non-Commercial

Type

Views

174723

Date Added

24 September 2006

Developer

Guessous Mehdi

FBoxBot is a joomla bot/plugin. The main idea is to help the user to create easily thumbnails from any pictures, and when you click on the thumbnails a nice "lighbox-like" popup appears that show the image at its original size. So what makes this package so special ? First: I've written the associated popup script, frontbox, which I wanted to be lightweight, polyvalent, reliable. And Second: I made the process of creation of thumbnails easier than ever: inside your favorite wysiwyg editor insert a picture, resize "manually" (see picture on website), save, publish and the bot will do the remaining job for you ! But it has also some other nice features I discuss on the website ...

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 b