ARI Fancybox is Joomla! lightbox module and plugin which provide ability to view image galleries, Flickr photos, external pages, HTML content and Flash objects in fancy popup.

Main features:

* User friendly interface;
* Can display external pages, Flash objects, inline content, Joomla! articles and modules;
* Provides ability for creating image galleries based on images from specific folder(s). Can generate thumbnails and cache data for decreasing server loading. Supports gallery mode (shows all image on page) and single image mode (shows the first thumbnail and provides ability for navigations between gallery images);
* Provides ability to create fancy links by CSS selectors (for example shows menu items in the lightbox);
* Can display Flickr photos based on Flickr photoset ID(s), collection ID(s), user ID(s) and group ID(s);
* Can display Picasa photos based on Picasa user and album name;
* Supports navigation with mouse scroll;
* Provides different gallery themes;
* Highly customizable;
* Can be used with image maps;
* Supports possibility for showing additional image parameters (such as description, title and other) which you can define in CSV file;
* Provides ability to use different description files for different site language;
* You can change gallery layout. It requires minimum HTML knowledge;
* Provides the following methods for generating thumbnails:
  - resize - resize an original image to necessary size with saving aspect ratio;
  - crop - get part of an original image with necessary size and offset;
  - crop and resize - get part of an original image with necessary size and offset and resize it to necessary size.

• Can rotate thumbnails and apply grayscale filter;

• Can display lightbox automatically when page is loaded. It also provides ability to display lightbox on page load only once;

  • Can display module in Joomla! articles with help ARI Fancybox plugin;
  • The following extensions support integration with ARI Fancybox:

     ARI Image Slider - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow/13262
     ARI Cloud Carousel - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-rotators/13384
     ARI Slick Gallery - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-gallery/13770
     ARI Orbit Slider - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow/14537
     ARI Magnifier - http://bit.ly/eM3PTM
     ARI Zoom - http://bit.ly/ebxTgA

  • Works in modern browsers: IE6+, FireFox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and other;
  • It is open source and under GNU/GPL license.