Yes! Another mf mambot for Joomla!. With this one, you can display galleries inside your content. It's called mfGreybox and you can use it free of charge. Use this mambot to give some extra eye-candy to your website. It is very simple to use and uses AJAX with javascript. It's a pop-up window that doesn't suck. mfGreybox makes use of the great, open source script called greybox.

• mfGreybox Download

Demo Video of mfGreybox

Install

1. Log in to your back-end of the site
2. Go to "Installers", "Mambots"
3. Click on "Browse" and navigate to the downloaded ZIP archive
4. Press "Upload File & Install"
5. Go to "Mambots", "Site Mambots"
6. Search for mfGreybox and publish it

How to use

Syntax

Use the following syntax to enable mfGreybox on your images:
{mfgreybox [nr_of_images]|[gallery_name]|[img_name]|[img_title]}

The base image path is always: images/stories/mfgreybox/[gallery_name], where you can set the [gallery_name] in the mambot.

The thumbnails should always have the same name as the original and placed in the following folder: images/stories/mfgreybox/[gallery_name]/thumbs

For example, I would have an image called "marcofolio.jpg" with the size of 400 x 300 pixels in the gallery called "my_gallery". The thumbnail, also called "marcofolio.jpg" but now with the size of 100 x 75 pixels is placed in the "/thumbs/" folder.

Create the folders mfgreybox/my_gallery and mfgreybox/my_gallery/thumbs in your images/stories folder, or else the scipt will not work.

Directory architecture:
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/marcofolio.jpg (Original image)
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/thumbs/marcofolio.jpg (Thumbnail image)

Your syntax will be: {mfgreybox 1|my_gallery|marcofolio.jpg|Visit Marcofolio.net!}

Adding more images

If you want more images added to your gallery, change the first number and add more images and their decription. Here's an example showing three images called "img1.jpg", "img2.jpg", "img3.jpg". All of them have a discription.

Directory architecture:
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/img1.jpg (Original image #1)
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/img2.jpg (Original image #2)
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/img3.jpg (Original image #3)
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/thumbs/img1.jpg (Thumbnail image #1)
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/thumbs/img2.jpg (Thumbnail image #2)
images/stories/mfgreybox/my_gallery/thumbs/img3.jpg (Thumbnail image #3)

Your syntax will be:
{mfgreybox 3|my_gallery|img1.jpg|Visit Marcofolio!|img2.jpg|Greybox is cool|img3.jpg|Another description}

All parameters must be filled.

Download

• mfGreybox Download

Don't forget to download mfSyntaxHelper if you need some help with the difficult syntax from this mambot.

All sample images are from socwall.

Feel free to give feedback about this mambot. Enjoy using it!

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Pablo   | 201.254.124.xxx | 2008-02-18 18:04:57 Hey, it's me again. I'm having a problem with this one. When I set a gallery of 6 images, it turns into a 12 images one, with the six images in the directory twice. Any idea? Click on the website I've submitted in order to see and understand clearly what i'm saying. Thanks a lot for this awesome bot! Reply | Quote 0   0

alberto - another newbie   | 201.236.133.xxx | 2008-06-09 17:19:46 Hi: Thanks a lot for this mambot! please excuse my ignorance but Im very new to computers, and I lack of any knowledge about web design or programing, I am a photographer and for the momment the only thing im able to do is retouching. I have been trying to have a decent website but my friends never have enough time to helpme building it, fortunately one of this friends introduced me to joomla and i have spent the last tree days learnig how it works ,and even i installed a photo gallery but in my website the image gallery is one of the most important parts so I prefer to use mfgreybox, but at the moment I dont know how to do it. I downloaded the syntax helper but didnt work because an error saying that there already exists a file whith that name on /home/eldiadet/public_html/mambots/editors-xtd/mfsyntaxhelper.php but i can't see it ,so i at this time i have not been able to publish it. i have taken a picture of the mambots secreen an i will send it on a next email . um well i have allready created the directories and i think they are ok ,but i dont know how do I asign the galley to my main menu? ok man . I am an absolute newbie an I dont want this to be time comsuming for you I am thankfull allready for all the work youve already done bringing this mambots to the people, so if you can send me some links to the proper documentation I will search for it and keep trying. TAnks a lot!! and my best whishes!! Alberto Reply | Quote 0   0

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