Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[guile]

Hi Dark Angel,

I have Image Handler 2 installed and it does appear to work. The larger image appears larger now, but Lightbox still not functioning at all. The large image appears in the same window.

What I find confusing about Lightbox is that v1.5 has an install script that seems to automate everything yet v2.0 does not. You simply copy a bunch of files to your template and it's supposed to work. V1.5 also shows up in the ZC Admin page but my v2.0 does not. Is this normal?

As to my template, I grabbed it off of rubikintegration.com. It's called RI_TEMPLATE_07. I liked the look of it so I used it.

ps - Lightbox does not work even when switching over to the default ZC "green" template.

Any ideas greatly appreciated!! :-)

[Techiescot]

Hi Everyone

I managed to get my lightbox installed and working - except for the additional images bit ... so I went over the additional images tutorial again and made sure that I had everything in the right place in terms of images ... but it still doesn't work.

I then looked at the folder which I had placed my additional_images.php file - again it seems to be right .... but it still is not showing additional images.

I know it will be something simple but can't figure it out so far ...

Thanks in anticipation

Gillian

[Techiescot]

Hi

Sorted that problem - I knew it would be something simple ...

I had named my original product image kendal_lrg.jpg and my additional images kendal_01_lrg.jpg ....

Of course, the main image should have been kendal.jpg and the additional images kendal_01.jpg etc ... It was looking for additional images for kendal_lrg and additional images for that file name didn't exist.

It doesn't take much to stump me ...

Have a great day, everyone ...

Gillian

[Techiescot]

Hi mpforum

The cut and paste worked for me without any problems. Just make sure you cut and paste the right file ...


Gillian

[mpforum]

I'm desperatly wanting to install this mod to my site, but I'm just worried about running into problems. I can see that people are getting errors when they run the SQL script (with cut and paste) because they need to add something somewhere. So my question is what needs to be put into the SQL script, and where?

The prefix for my tables is 'zen_'

[Crunch]

I'm desperatly wanting to install this mod to my site, but I'm just worried about running into problems. I can see that people are getting errors when they run the SQL script (with cut and paste) because they need to add something somewhere. So my question is what needs to be put into the SQL script, and where?

The prefix for my tables is 'zen_'

Backup your Zen Cart database before running this SQL patch.

Your database prefix should only have to be added to SQL statements when installing contribution SQL patches from phpMyAdmin. This isn't the preferred method.

It's recommended to run the SQL from the Zen Cart admin "Install SQL patches" as you do not need to use your database prefix (Zen Cart already knows about it - if your configure.php files are setup correctly).

Open the install.sql file in a plain text editor, highlight and copy all the text inside the file. Go into your Zen Cart admin > Tools > Install SQL Patches and paste what you copied into the query box and click Send.

NOTE: I believe many problems encountered are due to attempting to upload the actual install.sql file instead of copying and pasting the text inside.

[DarkAngel]

Sometimes that is the problem, people use the "find" feature to upload the file...I did not when I encountered that problem as others did.

We copy/pasted the information for the user is right...the software should already know the prefix, but sometimes it goe amnesia prone and does not work so

then we are forced to add the prefix and upload throught myphpadmin --- also by copy/paste.

Try it through admin of your store then if it does not work copy/paste the code from a few posts before yours. I think the one I posted was for zen_ prefix...if not then give a yell

[jamielife]

Hi, if someone has a minute could they take a look at my site in either IE7, or IE8's Compatibility View feature...

My product info page is at first displayed fine in IE7 but once the lightbox is activated my main page's image borders get resized and pushed away, and the product info table gets moved closer to the main image.

Afterwards if you select an attribute they get placed back to normal, but youll see the info table is affected as well.

I have set up a seperate stylesheet for IE7 to fix problems else where, I just cant figure out what is going on with the lightbox.

Here a product link:
http://thegearvault.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=207

Everything works fine in IE8... I don't get it.

[DarkAngel]

jaimielife:

I just took a look at it in IE8 and have no problem at all with the page on my laptop with 1280 screen. the lightbox opens properly andappears right and closes with either clicking the close button or clcking on the image

you have a unique store fron there, do all the category tabs work yet?

[jamielife]

The issue is with IE7.
If you switch to compatibility view, youll see what I mean. The product info page goes crazy when the lightbox is activated. This only happens in IE7 and probably lower and I'm going crazy trying to figure out why.

And thank you; All the categories link to the right place, it's just that not every category has products yet.