Yui2_lightbox is a project mainly written in PHP and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.
A lightbox created with the help of YUI2
This is a lightbox that is created with the help of YUI2. It purposely does not use YUI's Panel. Panel is nice sometimes, but it comes with some baggage I find annoying. Likewise, I don't always use YUI for every possible interaction, such as setting styles. All my target browsers support the same syntax for that action. The one exception is opacity which is not the same across browsers. Basically, I use YUI to make dealing with the hard parts of javascript easier. Nothing more, nothing less. For a live example, see http://brian.moonspot.net/lightbox/.