| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4.67 / 5 |
| Reliability | 4.83 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 4.67 / 5 |
| Documentation | 4.5 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 6 |
The Lightbox2 module is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on most modern browsers. The module places images above your current page, not within. This frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths. It keeps... [More...]
| Maintainer: | bugz_nz |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Content display, Javascript Utilities, Media |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.8 | 2008-Jun-29 | Download | Recommended for 6.x |
| 5.x-2.8 | 2008-Jun-29 | Download | Recommended for 5.x |
| 4.7.x-1.1 | 2007-May-08 | Download | Recommended for 4.7.x |
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2008-Sep-06 | Download | Development snapshot |
| 5.x-2.x-dev | 2008-Sep-06 | Download | Development snapshot |
| 4.7.x-1.x-dev | 2007-Jun-29 | Download | Development snapshot |
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Lightbox is becoming more and more prevalent in sites and this module makes integrating with Drupal very easy. Creating a Lightbox through views is so simple. With the ability to show other content (besides images) inside of the Lightbox, this module is, simply put, amazing.
I love the lightbox effect. It is a great way to display larger versions of images without making the visitor leave the page and it works great for galleries.
This module ticks all the boxes and works well but the jQuery Lightbox does the exact same thing and can use the jQuery library that is already loaded with Drupal so it is probably a bit more efficient.
Its hard to come across "GEMS", or small little projects that change your life. This is one of them. Wow!
i just got the memo that this is much better than thickbox. wish i had seen this in the first place. still wondering why every tutorial on imagecache and imagefield always shows thickbox, when this module is much better? why does the US still use imperial measurements? who knows! probably the same answer to both questions.
Previously I was using Thick box mainly because it could show the login box in the thick box itself. But I was searching for something better. I crashed into Lightbox V2 which in the past used Prototype and Scriptaculous java script framework but now uses the Drupal Native Jquery framework.
Navigating thorough the features I found it very feature rich, customizable, flexible and supporting various media. But when I landed on this http://drupal.org/node/266126 comparisons page I was amazed. This module has it all. Its available from Drupal 4 - 6. I'm using it in Drupal 5.7 but in case of Drupal 4 it might have some compatibility issue as in Drupal 4.x it still uses Prototype and scriptaculous library. This module has 10+ Features as stated in the project page like slide show, HTML content etc. It's a little in the file size aspect but good things have some drawbacks too.
The usability is easy as Thickbox but there is no out of the box solution to show HTML content like the login box until you tweak it with a rel tag. The zoom feature, link to the image node are other plus point over the other modules. Easily integrating with Image and related modules it can also handle image links embedded in nodes.
All in all, if you want a module to wrap your image or other HTML content or media this is the module to choose.
Easy to install, easy to integrate into other Drupal contributed modules, easy to setup.
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