Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[izonmedia]

OK, total noob to zen cart needs help.

I jumped in to help a friend on their site and while getting more familiar with zen cart, found this contribution, thought it would be a great fit.

Downloaded, renamed the folders, uploaded to server, seemed easy.

No luck, images still pop up in a new window.

At this point, don't know a great deal about the zen cart install. Also, reading this looong thread is not much help as a lot of it is greek to me.

Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

http://www.pdplay.com/

[godspeed27]

I go to your site but where are you trying to get this to work, I don't seem to see your cart...not that I looked much but if you could provide a link to the cart, it might be better.

[izonmedia]

Thanks for your reply.

The site is using zen cart to display their catalog of products, not as an actual shopping cart. Here's a link to one of the product display pages that has a link to a larger image.

http://www.pdplay.com/atlantis.html

[CrystalKoi]

I think that is your problem, thats not a zen cart link right there. A link to a product would look more like index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=2 something like that. That page you put up is an html page...so if you want that page to have lightbox then you need to work that from the original lightbox code. You can google it to find it. You can also tie in the links to html pages to the files in the module for lightbox, it takes some hacking of the code but not to hard. That is not a zen cart link...sorry and good luck

[izonmedia]

Thanks for the reply, but that is a zen cart link. All of the individual product pages (.html) are generated on the fly by zen cart.

I did not do the initial installation for this site, so I'm not sure how this is accomplished, but it is no different than another zen cart website that was shown as a working sample earlier in this thread:

http://rafcamera.com/

If I'm not mistaken, the product links on that website are also dynamically generated html pages, here's a sample:

http://rafcamera.com/novar-anastigma...5cm-p-566.html

This great lightbox contrib is working on that website.

[Woodymon]

I think that is your problem, thats not a zen cart link right there. A link to a product would look more like index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=2 something like that. That page you put up is an html page...so if you want that page to have lightbox then you need to work that from the original lightbox code. You can google it to find it. You can also tie in the links to html pages to the files in the module for lightbox, it takes some hacking of the code but not to hard. That is not a zen cart link...sorry and good luck

@Crystal: Look at the source. Looks like Zen Cart to me

I think they are just remapping using SEO URL's and substituting html instead of php extension (hides the language used to output the html).

@Izon: Just a hunch but maybe some other JavaScript you are loading is conflicting? Maybe temporarily disable the other scripts to test.

That is a nice looking highly customized site. If you can I suggest communicating with the original developer for ideas.

Woody

[Woodymon]

@Izon: Just a hunch but maybe some other JavaScript you are loading is conflicting? Maybe temporarily disable the other scripts to test.

The other two loaded scripts:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/kuzmenu.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/rollovers.js"></script

I'm not familiar with kuzmenu.

See here:
http://pdplay.com/pint-size_play_rsm-1.html

You have a mouseover enabled on the additional image (the drawing thrumbnail) which maybe conflicting with Lightbox function. Disable the mouseover on that image to test for conflict. (easiest to test by temporarily disabling rollover script).

Woody

[izonmedia]

Woody,

Thanks for your efforts. I wish I could go back to the original developers but that's not an option. I'm not familiar with kuzmenu either and could not find anything online.

I guess it could be a javascript conflict, but I would expect to see some sort of error message.

The other reason I question this is that, when I look at the source code, for the image popup, I see

  <a href="images/RSM-1-7501.jpg" target="_blank">(Larger image)</a>

I would expect to see something similar to this

<!-- begin lightbox v1.1 aclarke 2006-09-06 -->
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><!--
document.write('<a href="images/scl/novar-75mm.jpg?zenid=e12b280870a919e950bf31c29c2152e6" rel="lightbox[gallery]" title="Novar Anastigmat lens 3.5/7.5cm"><img src="images/scl/novar-75mm.jpg" alt="Novar Anastigmat lens 3.5/7.5cm" title=" Novar Anastigmat lens 3.5/7.5cm " width="133" height="120" /><br /><span class="imgLink">larger image</span></a>');
//--></script>
<!-- end lightbox v1.1 aclarke 2006-09-06 -->

which is from the source of a working installation.

If it were a javascript conflict, wouldn't the code still get output correctly to the browser, then probably throw an error?

Given the above, I would think there is some problem with my install?

Again, I really appreciate your time and effort.

[godspeed27]

@Crystal: Look at the source. Looks like Zen Cart to me

I think they are just remapping using SEO URL's and substituting html instead of php extension (hides the language used to output the html).

@Izon: Just a hunch but maybe some other JavaScript you are loading is conflicting? Maybe temporarily disable the other scripts to test.

That is a nice looking highly customized site. If you can I suggest communicating with the original developer for ideas.

Woody

Well thats pretty nifty...never looked at that before and didn't look at the source code. Will have to check that out more... Thanks, learn something everyday on here.

[Zinfandel]

I was hoping for a better solution to the large image pop-up and then I ran into the Zen Lightbox!!

Beautiful thing.

It seems to work in unison with IH2 and haven't seen any problems there.

I also have the CSS horizontal drop down menu.

Question:
Regardless of whether it's an IH2 zoom image being displayed, or the faded out background with lightbox, the menu text behind shines right thru!!

Before I go off to kill another day experimenting with the code, does anyone know why this might be the case and how to change it??

Thanks!