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MooGeo geolocation, reverse geocoding and content analysis – a simple MooTools plugin that answers most of your geo questions.

With MooGeo you can get information from visitor IP’s using W3C geolocation API, get the place from an IP number, get geographical data from text, get all kind of data from a latitude/longitude pair, grab your IP and place on the map and more.

table2chart - Mootools plugin which allows you to easily create a pie chart from valid data tables.

Simply add the script to the end of the body and it will convert all tables with a class ‘toChart’ to pie charts. You can define the chart size and the chart color within the class like:

class="toChart size700x300 color29b34f"

table2chart is a light-weight plugin, only 1Kb compressed and gzipped.

Mootools Message Class – an excellent and simple Mootools class to send a message to the user, or ask a question by using the ask method, or even to create a tool tip, or to create a comment box pop up.

This class requires the Mootools Javascript Framework 1.2.4, and it’s dependent upon these plugins: Element.Position, Element.Measure and Element.Shortcuts.

Tested in IE7+, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome.

Bumpbox – a MooTools based lightbox clone with a few advantages – it supports not only all common media types like FLV, SWF, images or HTML content, but also MP3 audio files and PDF’s.

Integration and implementation is very simple. The script works for local and remote files, automatically detects what kind of filetype you wish to show in the box with a nice bump effect, so you do not need to specify the type.

MooTools FileManager – a MooTools based File Manager for the web that allows you to preview, upload and modify files and folders via the browser.

Features include:

• Browse through Files and Folders on your Server
• Rename, Delete, Move (Drag&Drop), Copy (Drag + hold CTRL) and Download Files
• View detailed Previews of Images, Text-Files, Compressed-Files or Audio Content
• Upload Files via FancyUpload (integrated Feature)
• Option to automatically resize big Images when uploading
• Use it to select a File anywhere you need to specify one inside your Application’s Backend
• Use as a FileManager in TinyMCE

View Demos:

FileManager + Simple Image Selection + Localized FileManager

TinyMCE Integration

MooTooltips – JavaScript Tooltip with MooTools. Easily display tooltip messages from HTML elements, Ajax calls or text added manually.

View Examples

The script gives you the possibility to display tooltips either by passing the parameters on the rel parameter or by setting them manually when instanciating the class. When creating a class instance, you can set both types, inline tips and manually set ones.

BySlideMenu – Mootools plugin which allow you to easily create a beautiful accordion menu (sliding menu) on any element you want (ul/li, div, p …) using images and/or text.

Horizontal and vertical accordion support. The container width/height can be adjusted automatically. Menu is expandable by mouseover or by click. Can be used with any elements (ul/li, div, p…).

The OmniGrid component for MooTools is inspired by two similar components: FlexGrid jQuery and phatfusion sortableTable and partly use their source code.

It’s developed because of lack of powerfull DataGrid for Mootools 1.2 library.

Tested on Firefox 3, Chrome, IE 6 and 7.

QuickBox – a Lightbox clone written for the MooTools Javascript framework.

QuickBox was written for speed, allowing you to zip through images as quickly as possible, captions can be localized for other languages. QuickBox also let you use the mouse wheel to scroll through images.

View example of Captions in Other Languages

mParallax – a Mootools framework adaptation of jParallax jQuery plugin ( mentioned here at V-B).

With mParallax it’s easy to create and customize parallax effects. You can also easily add rounded corners to your parallax element by creating img elements and injecting them with the adopt() function.