Quote Originally Posted by thec0wboy View Post
Hello Everyone.

I'm a very new user to Zencart, but after reading what lightbox can do, I thought it sounded great and decided to download the file.

I fear I may have completely installed both lightbox & imagehandler incorrectly.

First problem. The readme instructions ask me to rename some files. Problem is I don't know what my "template" is anymore! I have both cherry_zen and Cherry Zen 1.8 showing up in my files. Is there any way to determine which I'm actually using?
in admin go to the tools tab and choose template manager?? something like that, it will show you the template you are currently using

goint to the link I saw nothing using image handler at all neither when i clicked on one of the category links there...after uploading did you go to admin and install it---tools/image handler 2?


2) When I upload the includes & image folder to my server, do the files need to go directly into the zencart folder on my server?
now anytime you upload files from any mod you are uploading the entire folder---that will overwrite your original folder. You open up the folder on your desktop and grab the files in it...upload those to the exact same path as your computer folder has them

like the includes may have a classes folder inside, then you grab the contents of that classes fodler and put them on your server in the exact same folder includes/classes/put your files in there

hope that did not confuse you more---I am best at confusion


I initially had dropped them into the zencart folder itself, but wasn't sure if that was wrong.
you probably want to put them into the images folder---if you have your store files loose then yes but if you hae your store file iin another fodler then they will go into it like store/images you will se it right above the includes folder

3) Although I can see that lightbox is somewhat working on my website, there are glitches?

- The box size around my images doesn't match up (see link here - http://beautifulexpressions.hwyman.c...products_id=11

- When I added a page to my ezpage - I thought that it was supposed to get a lightbox, but it isn't.
http://beautifulexpressions.hwyman.c...page=page&id=7
when I clicked on the image of the airplanes there -- the image came up in the lightbox effect so it is working right. if you mean that sort of drop shadow around your image...that may be the way it is coded in the template...apple zen template has many different features to it and that drop shadow is an image not something in the stylesheet file.

There is a code in the readme tht you can add to your ez-pages where you add the image so you can get the lightbox effect there, I think.
Lastly, If someone could please explain how I can use lightbox to create some sort of an image gallery it would be greatly appreciated.


Please forgive me for so many seemingly 'silly' questions, but I'm really that new to all of this! I did backup my site before starting, so hopefully I haven't gone and screwed anything up.

Thanks again!

the best thing you did was backup the store before doing anything...yay you. Keep that up and anytime you get worse problems you will be able to revert back should there not be a fix.