Table of Contents Overview Version 2.0 Licenses Installation Options

Overview

The FancyBoxThumbs extension displays thumbnailed images in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page. This can create a more user friendly environment, where the user doesn't leave the page every time they click a thumbnail.

Example

Version 2.0

• Version 2 was completely re-written.
• Takes advantage of ResourceLoader
• Makes better use of JQuery for the URL rewrite.
• Upgraded to fancyBox v2
• Provides ability to customize fancyBox options

Licenses

This Extension is released under the GPLv3 license.

This project includes fancyBox JQuery Extension fancyBox is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license. You are free to use fancyBox for your personal or non-profit website projects. You can get the author's permission to use fancyBox for commercial websites by paying a fee.

Installation

1. Download the .zip file
2. Extract the files to your extensions directory
3. Rename gilluminate-FancyBoxThumbs-xxxxxx to FancyBoxThumbs
4. Add to the end of LocalSettings.php:

   require_once("$IP/extensions/FancyBoxThumbs/FancyBoxThumbs.php");

5. Installation can now be verified through Special:Version page on your wiki

Options

You can set fancyBox options by setting a $fbtFancyBoxOptions variable in LocalSettings.php after setting the require_once above.

For example:

require_once("$IP/extensions/FancyBoxThumbs/FancyBoxThumbs.php");
$fbtFancyBoxOptions = '{"openEffect":"elastic","closeEffect":"elastic","helpers":{"title":{"type":"inside"}}}';