Fual Slimbox (Lightbox) - Ver 1.0 Support

[dalopey]

I would like to go back to the problem with the additional images not showing up...

Oh - BTW - nice work!!! I first encountered this effect in NetFlix, and I knew one day I would want to use it!!!

Anyway - regardless of the changes that I make from the suggestions above, I still have a problem... which I SORT OF fixed... I'll explain.

I do NOT have the old litebox
I'm using ZC 1.3.7.1

The additional images seem to want to be in /www/images/large (well - slimbox seems to think they should be there, because when I hover over them, that is the path it shows)

However, the page only "picks them up" or displays additional images if they are located in /www/images

The SLIMBOX will only DISPLAY them if they are in BOTH places:
/www/images
/www/images/large


I will keep playing with it and if I find anything will post it here.

Thanks!!!

[banswidthjunkie]

Yeah that is the way that zencart works. The image in /images is the smaller image that gets displayed on the page, then the large version is in /images/large, this is what goes into the lightbox, that is why you need two images.

There isn't anything that can easily be done about that. Images really need to be totally reworked in zencart.

[MeltDown]

Does someone have an example of this add-on in use on a live site?

Thanks

[dalopey]

Yeah that is the way that zencart works. The image in /images is the smaller image that gets displayed on the page, then the large version is in /images/large, this is what goes into the lightbox, that is why you need two images.

There isn't anything that can easily be done about that. Images really need to be totally reworked in zencart.

Oh - that does suck...

BUT - what I was saying is that I needed the SAME image in both places... are you with me?

So say i have PRODUCT-1.jpg

I need these <b>3</b> images

/www/images/PRODUCT-1.jpg
/www/images/PRODUCT-1_LRG.jpg
/www/images/large/PRODUCT-1_LRG.jpg

See how the last 2 are duplicates? Is it functioning as designed still?


All my images are the same size... it's really just different aspects, or zoomed in, or front/back - type images that I want... So kind of silly to have a place for large and medium files - especially when you can carve up the whole images directory in sub-directories (or categories) - you know?

[banswidthjunkie]

Oh - that does suck...

BUT - what I was saying is that I needed the SAME image in both places... are you with me?

So say i have PRODUCT-1.jpg

I need these <b>3</b> images

/www/images/PRODUCT-1.jpg
/www/images/PRODUCT-1_LRG.jpg
/www/images/large/PRODUCT-1_LRG.jpg

See how the last 2 are duplicates? Is it functioning as designed still?


All my images are the same size... it's really just different aspects, or zoomed in, or front/back - type images that I want... So kind of silly to have a place for large and medium files - especially when you can carve up the whole images directory in sub-directories (or categories) - you know?

This isn't anything to do with the lightbox, even with it uninstalled you would still need three images.

Personally I use phpthumb (http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/) to manage my images, this means that I only have one image per image. It is a good solution, but you will have to code it yourself.

You could try the image handler mod. I don't use it, so I can't say how it works or how good it is, but it seems to be very popular.

[dalopey]

nice - thanks man!

I will try that PHPTHUMB...

I'm still wrestling with this other problem though... I had it working in DEV, but i tried in PROD and its still having issues... oh well...

But thanks - I will figure it out for sure - I always do!

[cate_kroft]

What would I need to do to enable this on my images on my ez pages?
Thanks, it's a great mod!

[banswidthjunkie]

What would I need to do to enable this on my images on my ez pages?
Thanks, it's a great mod!

copy includes/modules/pages/product_info/jscript_slimbox.php to includes/modules/pages/page and then add

rel="lightbox[gallery]"

to each of the links that you want to display in a lightbox.

[cate_kroft]

Thanks!

[dalopey]

This isn't anything to do with the lightbox, even with it uninstalled you would still need three images.

Personally I use phpthumb (http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/) to manage my images, this means that I only have one image per image. It is a good solution, but you will have to code it yourself.

You could try the image handler mod. I don't use it, so I can't say how it works or how good it is, but it seems to be very popular.

so - I looked into this phpthumb... looks good...

My question - is there a lot of overhead on the box to use it? Does it rescale images on the fly?

(sorry - I didn't really PLAY with it yet or i would probably already know the anwsers to those!)