Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[sigung]

Thanks you so much for great answers ScriptJunkie, sigung and DarkAngel!! *Free hugs* for you I'm so grateful that you would answer me, I even considered quitting Zen Cart and just stick to ETSY since I'm such a newbie and things are too complicated for me, but it looks brighter now. I'll do the backup and try to install the light-box this evening...

One question I forgot to ask was concerning step 4: "Upload the entire contents of the includes folder and the images folder to your server, again keeping the file structure intact." How can I manage to "keep the file structure intact"? I've unzipped the ZIP in my MAC. When I'm at the File Managers upload page, my pointer won't let me choose the entire "includes" and "images" folds, so shall I create two new folders where my zencart is located in the Filemanager and call the folders "includes" and "images" and then create and name the sub-folders within them and then upload all the files one by one into them in the same place/order they are in the ZIP file?

Yes, the file manager in cPanel can be problematical. Here is how you can get around the one file limitation of cPanel.

1) Using the cpanel file manager, upload the ORIGINAL zip file - NOT UNZIPPED - to your zen cart main directory - do NOT unzip it prior to upload The cPanel file manager sees the zip file as ONE file, so you have now worked around uploading all the files at once.

2) Once you have uploaded the zip file, select it, and then using the "Extract" icon on the top of your file manager window, extract all the files. When this is finished, you will have a new folder named "zen_lightbox-v1.6.2_20110220" (Note: you may have to hit the "Reload" button if you can't see the new folder, this will refresh the view in file manager) Navigate into this folder and delete these files:

_readme_files
readme.html
install.sql
uninstall.sql
upgrade.sql

3)You should now have ONLY two folders and one file:

images
includes
jscript_zen_lightbox.php

4) Using your cpanel file manager, click on "select all" and then on the left side use the "Move File" button and move the files up one directory into your main zen cart directory. At some point you will be asked if you want to overwrite the existing files, and your answer should be yes.

This will finish the upload part of your installation. You can now remove the empty folder and the zen_lightbox_1-6-2.zip file that you originally uploaded just to clean things up a bit.

Now complete your installation using phpMyAdmin from your cPanel as per instructions in my previous post. and you have completed your installation.

[sigung]

One more thing. I think the FileZilla thing is great too. The only reason I use cPanel exclusively now is that uploads seem to go much faster for me than with my ftp client, and there is a lot of functionality in the file manager application that puts a lot of power at your fingertips such as compression, extraction, moving files, and editing files right on the server. I personally find it easier to have all of the functionality I need right in one window, and being able to utilize the very fast speeds of the servers for all the functions I need to accomplish. My server has just been upgraded at my hosting company, it has 16 cpus, a buttload of RAM, and it's really fast. This just makes my zencart work a whole lot easier, but as you can see, there are some limitations as to how cpanel handles files, that workarounds are needed sometimes, so you should consider whether an ftp client such as FileZilla might be easer for you to use...just a thought

[DarkAngel]

Never knew there was a version of Filezilla for the Mac.. (note to self)

That said wanted to also suggest Cyberduck for FTPing on the Mac. IMHO, it was very close in functionality to Cute FTP for the PC..

http://cyberduck.ch/


Also gonna make a GENERAL suggestion.. It's great that everyone is pitching in ideas, but the support thread for Zen Lightbox is NOT the correct place for providing general information on FTPing, and other general Zen Cart how-tos.. Perhaps this discussion should be moved to a NEW thread as this discussion is a tad off topic at this point..

a fellow mac user...yay

yes there is a filezilla for the newer macs I use transmit cause it still works on the Panther version of Mac OS

when you upload the files do as they say...only the files to the includes/file target folder/then the file.

or if you want to just drag/drop the file from where you unzipped it to the destination folder just remember to load the file to its new home that has the exact name as the one on your desktop or whatever folder you saved the unarchived zip into.

[dddmx3]

I'd like for Zen Litebox only to work on the additional images. How can I do this?

[Design75]

Good afternoon all

I have a code suggestion for the autoload_default.php

on line 23 there is a <style> it would be better to change this to <style type="text/css"> it gives a validation warning

[abosch]

Good afternoon all

I have a code suggestion for the autoload_default.php

on line 23 there is a <style> it would be better to change this to <style type="text/css"> it gives a validation warning

I cannot locate <script> in my autoload_default.php file. I only have one such file: /includes/classes/zen_lightbox/autoload_default.php.
Here's my immediate problem. I just upgraded to Firefox 4.0.1 and now my lightbox has ceased to function! When the image is clicked, it just opens a blank box - no image, no buttons... nothing. Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks!

[sigung]

I'd like for Zen Litebox only to work on the additional images. How can I do this?

I don't think you can get it to work ONLY on additional images, but to get it to work with additional images, here's the tutorial

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=58

[sigung]

I cannot locate <script> in my autoload_default.php file. I only have one such file: /includes/classes/zen_lightbox/autoload_default.php.
Here's my immediate problem. I just upgraded to Firefox 4.0.1 and now my lightbox has ceased to function! When the image is clicked, it just opens a blank box - no image, no buttons... nothing. Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks!

He didn't say <script> he said <style>... As far as Firefox v 4.0 goes. I am running it and having no problems with the lightbox. Perhaps you have a popup blocker enabled in Firefox or some other configuration that is interfering with your website.

[niestudio]

I just upgraded to Firefox 4.0.1 and now my lightbox has ceased to function! When the image is clicked, it just opens a blank box - no image, no buttons... nothing. Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks!

Please update to ZLB 1.6.2

[abosch]

I found the problem! Upgraded Zen Lightbox to latest version and the problem went away. - Thanks!