Pretty Box Joomla Gallery Module

Actualizado em 04 Abril 2009 Escrito por Daniel Silva

PrettyBox is an extremely flexible and effective module gallery for Joomla. It can display images from a folder you nominate in a module or in your content using the loadposition code for Joomla 1.5 or the mosloadposition for Joomla 1.0. It combines the Smart Image resizer by Shifting Pixel and Pretty Photo.

PrettyBox Gallery Features:

• Upload images to a folder and have them display on your website.
• Crop the images to any size or width height ratio you desire.
• Display images titles, description, date or author.
• Options for when the image is clicked include open in a lightbox, open in same window, open in a new window, no link, open a content item or open a blog category.
• All options for the images are defined in the image title (see below.)
• Multiple galleries per page.
• Unlimited number of images per gallery.
• Display jpgs, pngs or gifs.

Gallery example:

Isthmus

Uluru

clouds

coastline

sunset

trees

waterfall

Setting up the module:

Titles, descriptions, date, author and links.

The information for each image is controlled in the image title itself. The module will discern each of the variables above plus the item id and article id for links according to the way that you name the image.It essentially splits the image name in to sections according to where and how you place hypens in the title.

For example the template looks like this:

imagetitle-imagedescription-imagedate-imageauthor-articleid-itemid.jpg

A real world example might look something like this:

Lotus-Flowers symbolising renewal-December 2008-Unknown-30-12.jpg

If you have no need for anything other than the title of the image then there is no need to include any of the other details in the image name. However if you need to display the title and the date then you will still need to include some text for the description even though you wont be displaying that information.

A real world example would look like:

Lotus-Flowers-December 2008.jpg.

The flowers text wont display on the page but the date still needs to be the third snippet of text in the image name.