mod_thumbsup

14 Décembre 2007

Thumbsup module displays article list with thumbnails. The first image in the article is transformed in a thumbnail image with the given parameters for each module. You can vary the image size, the crop ratio (1:1, 3:4, 16:9, etc...) the thumbnail alignment and so on. Look at the examples at the bottom of this page.

The code is under GPL Licence and is based on Smart Image Resizer 1.4.1 by: Joe Lencioni (http://shiftingpixel.com)

Registered users can now use the support ticket system in the right menu to report bugs and issueDownload the stable version of the module Thumbsup Module 1.3 ( 2009-02-17 01:09:33)

Version 1.4 RC1  Thumbsup Module 1.4 RC1 ( 2009-04-08 15:39:52)Changelog

Version 1.4

• fixed the broken default image
• thumbnails code now validates with the W3C parser;
• tested in Windows (Uniform Server)

Version 1.3

• added possibility to link independantly the thumbs, the titles and the intro text to the related article;
• added horizontal mode;
• added feature to exclude some articles from the beginning of the list (leading articles);
• added reverse ordering feature;
• fixed a html validation bug;

Version 1.2

• added distant images processing;
• bug fixes

Version 1.1 has many improvements.

• Added custom path to images (in Advanced parameters) needed for some virtual hosts configurations;
• Added author and hits;
• Added switch on/off of titles, thumbs, introtext, date, author and hits;
• Added ordering of the displayed information (title, author, intro text, date, etc);
• Read More link after the intro text;
• Added additional ordering options (most readed items, archived items);

You can custumize the module look by copying the css styles to the template css file. You can assign a different class set to different modules by adding suffixes to the original class thumbsup

.thumbsup-image img {
    padding-left:0px;
    margin-left:0px;
    border: 1px solid #f8c122;
    background: #f1f1f1;
    margin-right:4px;
    margin-top:-1px;
    }

.thumbsup-image {
    border-bottom: 1px #999 solid;
    margin-bottom:10px;
    padding-bottom:3px;
    padding-top:3px;
    padding-left:0px;
}

.thumbsup-title {
    font-size:15px;
    font-weight:bold;
}

.thumbsup-intro {
    font-size:10px;
    font-weight:normal;
}

.thumbsup-text {
    border-bottom: 1px #999 solid;
}

.thumbsup-text a {
    font-weight:normal;
}

.thumbsup-date {
    font-weight:normal;
    font-size:10px;
    padding-bottom:0px;
}

Troubleshooting:

Q. The module is not installing 

A. Sometimes the download is resulting in a corrupted zip file. Please, try to download again. 

Q. Thumbnails are not displayed

A:

• Check you have the GD library activated;
• Try to setup manually the path to the joomla installation in the module preferences (i.e. /home/www/joomla/ or something like this, ask your service provider about it if you don't know)
• Right click the thumbnail and display it in another window (use Mozilla Firefox). Send the error message to the support

If you like this module you may consider a donation for the further development.