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:

The Syntax

Below is the HTML syntax that you will have to use. Simply place this into your articles.

<a href="images/stories/colorado/image1.jpg" rel="rokzoom[colroado]" 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> 

RokZoom - The Guide

How to implement RokZoom

RokZoom galleries or single images can be inserted in Content and Custom modules. By utilising a few simple commands, you can easily insert a gallery onto your page.

Step 1 - Login

Login to the Joomla! Administration Control Panel. Go to www.yoursite.com/administrator. Enter the Administrator's Username and password.

Step 2 - Navigation

Navigate to the Article Manager. Once you have logged in, hover over the Content link on the top taskbar, scroll down to Article Manager.

Step 3 - Article Content Manager

When you have selected the Article Manager link, you will be sent to the Article Manager control panel. Select either Edit or New, depending on whether you want to add rokzoom to an existing or new item.

Step 4 - RokZoom Commands

You now need to enter the syntax into your content editor. This should resemble the screenshot below. The syntax, in both HTML can be found at the section located here.

The Examples

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:

<a href="images/stories/photos/image1.jpg" 
rel="rokzoom[colroado]" title="Image 1">
<img src="images/stories/colorado/image1_tn.jpg" 
alt="image1" class="album" /></a>

If we wanted to load photo1.jpg, photo2.jpg and photo3.jpg as part of an album, we would use the following syntax:

<a href="images/photos/image1.jpg" 
rel="rokzoom[photo]" title="Image 1">
<img src="images/photos/image1_tn.jpg" 
alt="image1" class="album" />
</a>

<a href="images/photos/image2.jpg" rel="rokzoom[photo]" title="Image 1">
<img src="images/photos/image2_tn.jpg" alt="image1" class="album" />
</a>

<a href="images/stories/photos/image3.jpg" rel="rokzoom[photo]" title="Image 1">
<img src="images/stories/photos/image3_tn.jpg" alt="image1" class="album" />
</a>