Art Sexy Lightbox

Joomla! popup for photos, galleries, external pages, Picasa album photos, Flickr photos, Photobucket and inline content

GENERAL INFORMATION
Art Sexy Lightbox is the extension f or Joomla! CMS created by Artetics company. The extension allow s to show popup f or photos, galleries, external pages,
Picasa album photos, Flickr photos, Photobucket and inline content.

FEATURES
Can display photos, photo groups, external pages, Flickr photos, Picasa albums, inline content w ith f ancy lightbox eff ect
6 themes: black, w hite, new _black, new _w hite, spanish_black, spanish_w hite
User-f riendly - comes as module and plugin
Can display photos f rom local f older
Can display Flickr photos
Can display Flickr photo sets (requires Flickr API)
Can display Photobucket albums
Can display Picasa album photos
Can display external pages and articles in a lightbox
Can show gallery f rom remote images (requires additional f ile to placed on that server)
Supports multiple galleries on the page
Carousel/Image slider option
Cloud Carousel - autorotation of images, image ref lection
Can display new s and articles in a f ancy w ay
Several customizable properties
Can be modal or not
Can use f older path to build gallery f rom images in the f older/can use use path to thumbnails
Supports sorting of images in ascending/descending order
Thumbnails can be taken f rom specif ic f older or generated by changing image dimensions w ith saving aspect ratio. Thumbnails can be resized, rotated,
cropped, cropped & resized to f it your needs
Can show single thumbnail w hich w hen clicked w ill show f ull gallery
Can show specif ied number of images f rom local f older
Can display inline content: w rap content w ith plugin code and use singleImage or singleText attributes to show the link or thumbnails
Automatically adds descriptions f or Flickr images. Descriptions f or images f rom local f older can be added by placing artsexylightbox.txt f ile to image
f older
Slideshow support
w 3c compliant
Internationalization support
alt tags are automatically generated
Can show dow nload link in a lightbox
This is evolving extension, w e f requently add new f unctionality per customer requests
Strong community. Thousands of customers. Several imitators w hich is a good sign too

Us ing the e xte ns ion

Extension comes as module and plugin. Af ter you receive the dow nload link you need to install both plugin and module in Extensions -> Install/Uninstall in your
Joomla! back-end

M odule
Module allow s you to place image gallery in a module position. To manage module settings go to Extensions -> Module Manager -> Art Sexy Lightbox

Show - the type of gallery. Each gallery type is conf igured in appropriate section (i. e. if you are show in images f rom local f older you can conf igure this
in "1. Local images options" section). Can be:
1.

Local im age s - show images f rom local f older on server

2.

Flick r fe e d - show photos f rom Flickr photo f eed

3.

Flick r photo s e t - show Flickr photo set. Requires Flickr API

4.

Picas a album - show images f rom Picasa album

5.

Photobuck e t album - show images f rom Photobucket album

6.

Inline conte nt - show any HTML in a lightbox

7.

Im age s from e xte rnal s e rve r - show images that are stored on external server. This requires imglist.php f rom installation archive to be
places to images f older on external server

8.

Ne w s and article s in a lightbox - specif y the category, section and show new s and articles in a lightbox

9.

Exte rnal page - show external pages, articles in a lightbox

Load jQue ry library - in order to use the extension jQuery javascript library should be loaded on the page. If your page already includes this library
there is no need to load additional one. Usually this should be "Yes", set to "No" if you already use jQuery library on your pages
M odal - should lightbox be modal or not. Modal lightbox does not allow click any page elements w hen lightbox is show n. Non-modal lightbox is closed
w hen you click any element on the page
The m e - lightbox theme. Can be: black, w hite, new _black, new _w hite, spanish_black, spanish_w hite. It's possible to use only one theme on the page

Dow nload link - if true then link to image w ill be show n in a lightbox
Show duration, Clos e duration, M ove duration, Re s ize duration - this is the speed of lightbox eff ects im milliseconds
Show e ffe ct, Clos e e ffe ct, M ove e ffe ct, Re s ize e ffe ct - lightbox eff ects. Dozens of values are available

Thum bnail w idth - w idth of thumbnail

Thum bnail he ight - height of thumbnail
De fault lightbox w idth, De fault lightbox he ight - lightbox dimensions that are used betw een show ing images
Ge ne rate thum bnails - This option sets w hether the thumbnails are generated f rom f ull size images or are created by simply resizing the f ull size
images. Set to "Yes" if you w ould like to save aspect ratio of images and indicate either "Thumbnail w idth" or "Thumbnail height" or both. Thumbnails are
generated w hen page is accessed f irst time and saved to images/artsexylightbox_tmp f older (this f older should have w rite permissions). All
subsequent times thumbnails are taken f rom cache
Conve rt im age - if "Generate thumbnails" is set to "Yes" you can generate thumbnails by resizing, cropping or both cropping and resizing. Either
"Thumbnail w idth" or "Thumbnail height" or both should be indicated
Angle to rotate thum bnails - if "Generate thumbnails" is set to "Yes" you can specif y the angle to rotate thumbnails
Num be r of im age s - number of images to show . If not specif ied then all available images are show n
Show caption - if "Yes" then each thumbnail has title show n below the image. To add title to image/thumbnails artsexylightbox.txt f ile needs to be
placed to image f older. File structure should be the f ollow ing:
1.jpg=Description 1
2.jpg=Description 2
3.jpg=Description 3
w here 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg are your image f ilenames.

Se tting up m inim al configuration

To set up minimal conf iguration indicate "images/banners" as "Path to images f older" and enable the module

Othe r configuration
Other conf igurations like Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, inline content, external page, carousel, cloud carousel, etc. are conf igured in appropriate sections of
module settings

Plugin
In order to use plugin you need to make sure it is enabled in Extensions -> Plugin Manager -> Art Sexy Lightbox. Plugin is used by putting plugin code into the
article. Go to Content -> Article Manager to create new article or edit existing one.

Good practice is to insert plugin code in plain text mode since some WYSIWYG editors can place inappropriate characters, like replacing " w ith &qout;

Plugin code e xam ple s

Show im age s from local folde r:

{artsexylightbox path="images/my_images"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show im age s from local folde r + s e t w idth and he ight for thum bnails :
{artsexylightbox path="images/my_images" previewWidth="100" previewHeight="100"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show im age s from local folde r + thum bnails from anothe r folde r:
{artsexylightbox path="images/my_images" thumbnailPath="images/thumb_folder"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show galle ry w ith s ingle thum bnail:
{artsexylightbox singleImage="images/google/google.png" path="images/google"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show Flick s fe e d im age s (de m o):
{artsexylightbox flickr="FLICKR_USER_ID" flickrLargeImages="true" flickrNumberOfImages="7"}
{/artsexylightbox}
Show Flick s photo s e t: (de m o)
{artsexylightbox flickrApiKey="API_KEY" flickrNumberOfImages="25" flickr="FLICKR_USER_ID"
flickrImageSize="o" flickrSet="PHOTO_SET_ID"}{/artsexylightbox} (PHOTO_SET_ID can found:
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/105434)
Show Picas a album : (de m o)
{artsexylightbox picasaUser="PICASA_USER" picasaAlbum="PICASA_ALBUM"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show Photobuck e t album :
{artsexylightbox photobucket="PHOTOBUCKET_ALBUM_URL"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show inline conte nt:
{artsexylightbox text="click to show lightbox" hideContent="true"}HTML content{/artsexylightbox}
Show ne w s /article link s (de m o):
{artsexylightbox section="1" category="1" articleContentOnly="true" previewWidth="700"
previewHeight="500"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show im age s in a carous e l (de m o):
{artsexylightbox path="images/slb" previewWidth="100" previewHeight="100" color="new_black"
carousel="true" carousel_visible="3"}{/artsexylightbox}
Show im age s in a cloud carous e l (rotating crous e l) (de m o):
{artsexylightbox path="images/brands" cloudCarousel="true" autoRotate="true"}{/artsexylightbox}
Autom atically ge ne rate thum bnails from full-s ize im age s s aving as pe ct ratio (de m o):
{artsexylightbox autoGenerateThumbs="true" path="images/img_folder" previewWidth="100"}
{/artsexylightbox}
Autom atically ge ne rate thum bnails from full-s ize im age s s aving as pe ct ratio + rotate im age by any angle (de m o):
{artsexylightbox autoGenerateThumbs="true" convertImage="rotate:30" path="images/img_folder"
previewWidth="100" previewHeight="100"}{/artsexylightbox}
Autom atically ge ne rate thum bnails from full-s ize im age s s aving as pe ct ratio + crop im age s (de m o):
{artsexylightbox autoGenerateThumbs="true" convertImage="crop" path="images/img_folder"
previewWidth="100" previewHeight="100" previewHeight="100"}{/artsexylightbox}
Youtube vide o (de m o):
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u1zgFlCw8Aw?&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=800"
rel="sexylightbox"/>Youtube video example</a> {artsexylightbox color="new_white"}{/artsexylightbox}

Virtue M art
In case you w ould like to use Art Sexy Lightbox in your Virtue Mart f lypage it's possible w ith the steps below :
1. Copy flypage _art_s e xy_lightbox.tpl.php f ile f rom instllation package to components/com_virtuemart/themes/def ault/templates/product_details in your
Joomla! installation
2. Go to Components -> Virtue Mart -> Products -> List Categories -> Select your category in Joomla! administration
3. Select flypage _art_s e xy_lightbox.tpl as your Category Flypage
4. You should be all set now how ever if you use Virtue Mart 1.1.4 or earlier there is a bug in Virtue Mart that can be easily f ixed w ith this help

Support
In case you need support or customization there are several w ays:
Demos and attribute descriptions
Forum
support email
Ve rs ions
The are some variations f o the Art Sexy Lightbox extension:
Art Sexy Lightbox Lite Edition - Free lite version that show s images f rom local f older
Art Sexy Lightbox CB Edition - Free version that show s images f rom Community Builder component
Is s ue s

If you get javascript error: try turning off "Load jQuery library" option
If you need customization or help please don't hesitate to contact us or look through the f orum
If you purchased extension w ith similar name f rom some another site. It's a pity w e cannot help you in this case. There are several imitators w hich try
to copy Art Sexy Lightbox and do this rather unprof essionaly. We recommend to contact the company you purchased the f orgery f rom