Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

[balticccreations]

if the 4 statements were processed then that should not be the problem, but you said you made the renames and then zipped the files back up and uploaded to your server? And then unzipped? At first blush, that I think is source of the crash. Rezipping and then FTPing the rezip and then unzip to populate the directory trees with the files is not a good idea. The files should be uploaded in native form after you have completed any work locally that needs to be done, such as the renaming of the directories. I'm not saying your method doesn't work, I'm just saying it looks like an invitation for problems .. just my two cents.

I think you are right. any other modules I have tried to do that with had problems too. So I manually added them. I think I'd need to do the same thing with this one. Learned my lesson on that one!

[balticccreations]

Glad they got it fixed!
What other add-ons do you have installed?
I'm curious about that install procedure you used. To me that sounds like it could have replaced your includes folder with the one in ZLB1.6 instead of merging it like a good ftp program would.
if that was the case it for sure would have fried your site.

can you give any more info on how that works?

daniel

It probably did, I have optional shipping insurance (that one took a while had to manually add each file), stock by attributes, layaway (a pointless mod) and I think that's it.... my reasoning for even trying to add this mod is my background picture shows in all my pop out boxes. thats really driving me nuts lol

[niestudio]

I think you are right. any other modules I have tried to do that with had problems too. So I manually added them. I think I'd need to do the same thing with this one. Learned my lesson on that one!

Lesson learned for sure :)

1) invest in a good FTP program they are really your friend with stuff like this.
even uploading these add-ons manually would be time consuming and possibly problematic.

a good ftp program( I like Transmit $34 for the mac) (maybe a pc user can point you to one if you need that) will have a Merge feature where it will analyze the folders that you are uploading and load the new files INTO the includes folder rather than overwriting the entire includes folder rendering your site useless.

2) always backup (and label them) before making these mods. It only takes about 1 minute to make a good backup with cpanel!


daniel

[finlander]

FTP program FileZilla for windows has always worked perfectly for me .. and it's free.

[niestudio]

FTP program FileZilla for windows has always worked perfectly for me .. and it's free.

free is always good!
I guess thats why we're all here at Zen Cart :)

g'nite

[balticccreations]

Lesson learned for sure :)

1) invest in a good FTP program they are really your friend with stuff like this.
even uploading these add-ons manually would be time consuming and possibly problematic.

a good ftp program( I like Transmit $34 for the mac) (maybe a pc user can point you to one if you need that) will have a Merge feature where it will analyze the folders that you are uploading and load the new files INTO the includes folder rather than overwriting the entire includes folder rendering your site useless.

2) always backup (and label them) before making these mods. It only takes about 1 minute to make a good backup with cpanel!


daniel

Oh I back up before I do any changes but even my backups were going crazy. I have filezilla not sure why it didn't work right. But thinking I need to invest in a better program

[finlander]

baltic,

for future reference, it probably isn't that filezilla isn't working right .. it's unzipping the package on your remote server that was the problem .. that likely created a new includes directory with only the lightbox files in it.

As daniel mentioned, that would fry a site. Just unzip locally, as you have done, and then FTP the unzipped files and directories all at once to your server. In filezilla, local directories on the left pane and remote directories on the right, and of course make sure you are in the same root in each pane when you do it, and then bingo, all goes well.

[balticccreations]

baltic,

for future reference, it probably isn't that filezilla isn't working right .. it's unzipping the package on your remote server that was the problem .. that likely created a new includes directory with only the lightbox files in it.

As daniel mentioned, that would fry a site. Just unzip locally, as you have done, and then FTP the unzipped files and directories all at once to your server. In filezilla, local directories on the left pane and remote directories on the right, and of course make sure you are in the same root in each pane when you do it, and then bingo, all goes well.

ah good to know! I got the zip back up from one of the read me's so figured I was supposed to do it on all of the downloads. from now on I'll do it that way then maybe I won't have this problem. I'm sure I jumbled it all up!

Thanks for the help!

[JerMe1]

Hi Daniel,

Although, the "hover navigation images" option sounds great, I still have the same problem with the images appearing at all. This is a compatibility issue and only occurs with Chrome. The navigation buttons show in all other major browsers. Please check again with the newest Chrome browser and see if you get the same reaction.

If you choose a model from the featured section at the bottom of the home page, there should be an additional image tab with those products. I can see the link appear at the bottom of the page when I hover in the correct area, but I get no image.

Sorry for the delay in getting back with you, I was looking for a PM and didn't check main forum until now (my bad).

Thanks!

[DarkAngel]

Hi Daniel,

Although, the "hover navigation images" option sounds great, I still have the same problem with the images appearing at all. This is a compatibility issue and only occurs with Chrome. The navigation buttons show in all other major browsers. Please check again with the newest Chrome browser and see if you get the same reaction.

If you choose a model from the featured section at the bottom of the home page, there should be an additional image tab with those products. I can see the link appear at the bottom of the page when I hover in the correct area, but I get no image.

Sorry for the delay in getting back with you, I was looking for a PM and didn't check main forum until now (my bad).

Thanks!

You do mean the store in your signature...right?

I went there and both my mac with older Firefox and the pc with lates browsers I get the lightbox to work...

do you have more than one image for your products? IF so then where are they located---same folder as the main one

are they named right, with the nameofimage_01.jpg (or the extension of the main one), nameofimage_02.jpg

does the extension for them match the main image .jpg for main should have additional ones .jpg also or they will not show up at all

no spaces in name or special characters either


also if there are no additional images and just the main one then the prev/next buttons are not going to show--or shouldn't anyway