Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[Steeeeve]

Great contribution but I am having a slight problem getting more than just the main image to display. I click next and it just keeps "loading" forever. I am running 1.3.7 and thought (keyword ha) I installed everything correctly.

http://www.sffclub.com/store/index.p...roducts_id=181

There is a link to a product on my site (note the store is not operational yet)

Thanks for anyones help

[barco57]

try reloading the additional_images.php and make sure you use the correct directory tree includes/modules/YOUR_CUSTOM_TEMPLATE_NAME/additional_images.php

[Steeeeve]

try reloading the additional_images.php and make sure you use the correct directory tree includes/modules/YOUR_CUSTOM_TEMPLATE_NAME/additional_images.php

tried that out...didn't work

[Steeeeve]

could this be a problem with the 1.3.7??

[barco57]

Wouldn't be a problem with 1.3.7 cause I have a development 1.3.7 site up with lots of additional images and everything worked straight out of the box..........well it was a 1.3.6 site and upgraded to 1.3.7 during developement.....So I don't know if that makes any difference

[Steeeeve]

I installed Image Handler 2.0 and it worked fine.

[Alex Clarke]

Of course, now I see how you have a problem with hardcoding in the lightbox.js file

Where it says:

//
//	Configuration
//
var fileLoadingImage = "includes/templates/template_default/images/lightbox/loading.gif";	
var fileBottomNavCloseImage = "includes/templates/template_default/images/lightbox/closelabel.gif";

There's no easy way of doing that without hardcoding. I suppose the best way to work this if you want to conform as much as possible to the templating scheme of zen without creating a lot of work... is to do this:

//
//	Configuration
//
var fileLoadingImage = "images/lightbox/loading.gif";	
var fileBottomNavCloseImage = "images/lightbox/closelabel.gif";

and move the two image files to the main image directory.

All just suggestions!

- Steven

Steven,

Just wondering if you managed to find a solution to the problems with values contained within lighbox.js and altering them.

I'm currently testing a few 'ideas' out but coming up with nothing!

BTW - The new version of Zen Lightbox is almost ready to be released.

[boylan]

Alex -- I've disappeared for a bit, but I'm working on a new site, so I tried to catchup since the Image Handler release. Reading your last post, what is the reason to avoid Steve's suggestion of just moving the images to the images folder?

While it doesn't technically fall into the "templating override" - most people will be copying their image folders between upgrades. I think its the simplest solution - calling the template folder from zen-cart in the JS would require more complicated work-arounds.

You could also make the js file a php file that serves up js. I do the same thing for my business, but in .NET. Can you call <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/(whatever PHP code to get template directory)/jscript/lightbox_prototype.php"></script>? It should work fine.

Well, that's my humble opinion anyway.

I'm looking forward to the latest release.

Chris

[Alex Clarke]

Chris,

Great to see you back and I hope the work on the new site is going well.

I can call the example you provided. However, I really want to be able to call php from the main lightbox js file. This isn't just to allow me to correctly use the template override system, but also to let me change certain lightbox settings.

Regards,

Alex

[s_mack]

Alex... I just did what I suggested in the quote. But I like what (i think) Chris is suggesting... use a PHP file to generate the js on the fly and ditch the .js file altogether! More work, but ultimate flexibility and control.

Whenever you have js that needs to reference php variables it gets tough, and generating it on the fly is often necessary.

But my suggestion is MUCH simpler. The only downside, of course, is that the user can't override the two graphics files in their templates because its in the root images folder instead of the template's images folder. Obviously the user can change the images by replacing them... but if they want different "loading" and "closelabel" images for a (example) Christmas template or whatever, they lose the benefit of the zen templating system. I think this is a very minor concern since its only these two images and they are pretty universal images. Its not like they are front page banners or anything.

- Steven