Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[bloomingvine]

woohoo! I uninstalled and reinstalled it and it now works... awesome plug-in. I'm just getting started setting things up, but you can see it work on my site http://bloomingvinedesign.com/zencart/index.php

Thank you for creating this tool. It is really great.

[jeffrey_davis]

This thread (though 238 pages long) seemed like the best place to post... :-)

I just installed Zen Lightbox on my dev environment and on my hosting environment (GoDaddy, yes, I know, I know but it's what I have to work with at his time) . Both environments are 1.3.9h. My dev worked great and yet my hosting environment install has Zen Cart working just fine but the lightbox is not working.

What is strange is that the Zen Lightbox menu item under Configuration in the Zen Cart admin isn't there on the hosting environment. I have checked the file install three times and even looked at the MySQL tables and they match.

No idea why it is still not working...

Any ideas?


Thanks,

Jeff

[DarkAngel]

in the one that is does not show under config menu--- did you get any errors when installing the sql?

did you install the sql from store admin or from phpmyadmin and did you remember to add the table prefix if any?

This thread (though 238 pages long) seemed like the best place to post... :-)

I just installed Zen Lightbox on my dev environment and on my hosting environment (GoDaddy, yes, I know, I know but it's what I have to work with at his time) . Both environments are 1.3.9h. My dev worked great and yet my hosting environment install has Zen Cart working just fine but the lightbox is not working.

What is strange is that the Zen Lightbox menu item under Configuration in the Zen Cart admin isn't there on the hosting environment. I have checked the file install three times and even looked at the MySQL tables and they match.

No idea why it is still not working...

Any ideas?


Thanks,

Jeff

[jeffrey_davis]

DarkAngel, thanks for the hints. There were errors so I uninstalled and reinstalled the sql for Lightbox and it seemed to go fine - until I checked the full tables spaces in each environment which helped me figure out why this is happening. The GoDaddy install creates the MySQL database (93 tables) with every single table name prepended with "zen_"!

The Zen Lightbox install.sql file was writing to the original tables (without the "zen_" added) that I had uploaded from my dev environment. Once I edited the install.sql file for Lightbox to write to the "zen_" tables, it worked.

Which means I now have 186 tables in my database. I can probably delete the original 93 since they are not being used but why does GoDaddy or any other host modify the table space anyway? Any Add-on SQL script will need to be modified to make the install work - as in this case...


Hmm...


Jeff

[DarkAngel]

DarkAngel, thanks for the hints. There were errors so I uninstalled and reinstalled the sql for Lightbox and it seemed to go fine - until I checked the full tables spaces in each environment which helped me figure out why this is happening. The GoDaddy install creates the MySQL database (93 tables) with every single table name prepended with "zen_"!

The Zen Lightbox install.sql file was writing to the original tables (without the "zen_" added) that I had uploaded from my dev environment. Once I edited the install.sql file for Lightbox to write to the "zen_" tables, it worked.

Which means I now have 186 tables in my database. I can probably delete the original 93 since they are not being used but why does GoDaddy or any other host modify the table space anyway? Any Add-on SQL script will need to be modified to make the install work - as in this case...

Hmm...

Jeff

glad it worked. some hosts do that especially if you used their istallation software...i always manually upload and install---and still sometimes something goes wrong lol

[DivaVocals]

Which means I now have 186 tables in my database. I can probably delete the original 93 since they are not being used but why does GoDaddy or any other host modify the table space anyway?

Not the place to discuss the merits of using a table prefix (which BTW is the default option when installing Zen Cart), but I will say this, this last part is not true..

Any Add-on SQL script will need to be modified to make the install work - as in this case...

When installing Zen Cart addd-ons, if the SQL is written correctly you should be able to run it via the Zen Cart Admin's SQL update tool and it will properly add the table prefixes

[jeffrey_davis]

Though I am not a newbie to database structures (admittedly old-school - yes I programmed with punch cards freshman year in college), I certainly am a newbie to both PHP and Zen Cart so I do appreciate the info.

I stand corrected on both counts... http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/images...s/big_grin.gif


Thanks again for the help!

Jeff

[Luxifer]

I really like how this mod works, but I'm having one SERIOUS problem.
I have an English/French website.
In English, everything works as planned.
in French, not only does it not work at all, it hides ALL my images.
I have duplicated all the english folders to the french, so I have
includes/templates/My_Template/buttons/...english and french
includes/languages/.... english and french

Is there something I'm missing?