RokZoom is a custom ground up script written in motools 1.1+ that has the features
of slimbox with an exciting zoom effect transition to give your image galleries and popups
an added flair. Chromatophore fully integrates the JavaScript and the CSS for RokZoom so all
you have to do to utilize this technique is install the RokZoom mambot and add an extra
element to your image link.
Check out the demo below:
This mambot is available for download in the members area of the RocketTheme Template Club. It will also be made available on joomlacode.org soon.
RokZoom is accompanied by a GPL mambot for Joomla! v1.0x that is WYSIWYG safe and does not require you to enter any HTML code directly.
The Syntax is {rokzoom}image_url{/rokzoom}
If you want the image to be part of an album, you can use the syntax
{rokzoom album=|albumname|}image_url{/rokzoom}.
To provide text descriptions, please use the syntax
{rokzoom title=|your description|}image_url{/rokzoom}.
You can also use both album and title in the same tag.
{rokzoom album=|colo|}images/stories/colorado/image1.jpg{/rokzoom}
{rokzoom album=|colo| title=|some title|}images/stories/colorado/image4.jpg
{/rokzoom}
{rokzoom}images/stories/colorado/image3.jpg{/rokzoom}
The above syntax only operates when the RokZoom mambot is enabled.
Therefore, if you do not have the mambot or wish to have more control
over the rokzoom script than the mambot provides, there is still the
HTML option. The syntax below is the code form of the examples shown
above.
<a href="images/stories/colorado/image1.jpg" rel="rokzoom[colorado]"
title="Image 1"><img src="images/stories/colorado/image1_tn.jpg" alt="image1"
class="album" />
</a>
An exemplified preview is constructed below to aid your understanding of the HTML format of rokzoom
<a href="main image url(relative path)" rel="rokzoom[album name]"
title="Title"><img src="thumbnail url(relative)" alt="Image name"
class="album" />
</a>
The new RocketTheme RokZoom mambot helps to dynamically create Photo
galleries with minimal effort from yourself. This great utility also
produces thumbnails of your selected photos/images, which, on
selection, generate the whole image/photo in a javascript based window.
It is the perfect tool to showcase photographs and other gallery images
in a professional environment.
How to implement RokZoom
RokZoom galleries or single images can be inserted in Content, Static
Content and Custom modules. By utilising a few simple commands, you can
easily insert a gallery onto your page. For this tutorial, we will be
using the TinyMCE editor and be inserting rokzoom images into a Static
Content Item. The procedure is identical with ordinary content and
custom module.
Navigate to the Static Content Manager. Once you have logged in, hover over the
Content link on the top taskbar, scroll down to Static Content Manager.
When you have selected the Static Content Manager link, you will be sent to
the Static Content Manager control panel. Select either Edit or New,
depending on whether you want to add typography to an existing or new item.
You now need to enter the syntax into your content editor. This should resemble the screenshot
below. The syntax, in both HTML and mambot formats can be found at the section located
here.
For the examples of the rokzoom command, all images are located within
the directory images/stories/photos. If we wanted to load image1.jpg by
itself, we would enter:
{rokzoom}images/stories/photo/image1.jpg{/rokzoom}
If we wanted to load photo1.jpg, photo2.jpg and photo3.jpg as part of an album, we would use the following syntax:
{rokzoom album=|colo|}images/
stories/photo/image1.jpg{/rokzoom}
{rokzoom album=|colo|}images/
stories/photo/image2.jpg{/rokzoom}
{rokzoom album=|colo|}images/
stories/photo/image3.jpg{/rokzoom}
To change the settings, hover over Mambots on the top taskbar. This
will highlight Site Mambots which you will select. You will then be
taken to the Mambot Manager. You will notice the Mambot called,
"RokZoom". Select the name to edit the bot.
The screenshot below shows you all the configurable options that
RokZoom is capable of. The mambot itself allows you to switch between
the latest RokZoom script or the other popular scripts, Slimbox,
Litebox and Lightbox.
- The thumbnail extension field controls what suffix, the thumbnails shall take. For example, image.jpg with the default settings will have a thumbnail, named image_thumb.jpg
- Thumbnail class refers to the CSS of the script itself, the default is set to album.
- The following field gives you the option to have a directory for your thumbnails
- Custom thumbnail directory is the name given to the folder where the thumbnails are stored if the above setting is activated.
- The last settings control the width, height and quality of the thumbnails themselves.
The latest Rokzoom allows you to create custom thumbnails as well as the automated procedure witnessed in previous versions.
The process itself is extremely simple. You need to create 2 images. The first, for example photo1.jpg
will be the main image that will be loaded in the RokZoom Screen. The
second, will be the custom thumbnail, it must contain the suffix _thumb or the suffix you defined in the Mambot configuration.
The images need to be contained within the same directory as your main
images unless defined in a thumbnails only folder as seen in the
Configuration for the mambot.
Therefore, in the container where your images are stored, you should see photo1.jpg and photo1_thumb.jpg