Ultimate Fade-In Slidehow Support thread

Hi,

As I did the install with a fresh install of v1.5 I didn't use Winmerge.
I'll reinstall my test shop and work with Winmerge and see what happens.

It's odd that you would need to use winmerge, as there are no modified files in the download, only new files. What file(s) did you need to "merge"?

This is probably a dumb question but I am good at asking them ....... where do I find the 3 images to download on the Dynamic Drive website ??

from instructions ... "Download the three images from the Dynamic Drive website and save them in /includes/templates/your_template/images/."

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restore.png
loading.gif

cheers,
Mike

found the images :blush:

shags38:

found the images :blush:

Now have the slideshow working - it is really great - good job well done to all concerned.

cheers,
Mike

Is there a way to have the slide show show up in the header, but ONLY on the home page.

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I have the slide show in the header and I like where it is but I can't get it (or know if it is even possible) to only show up on the home page and not on every page.

Any thoughts. On this is on v1.39

You have the old version of the fade-in slideshow. The new version is set by default to only display on the homepage, so the easiest thing might be to install that instead. The latest bugfix update has not been activated yet (the devs are busy getting the new forum straightened out), so you will need to add quotes " " around the PHP code snippets mentioned in posts 65 & 66 above.

darkmarauder:

Hi,

As I did the install with a fresh install of v1.5 I didn't use Winmerge.
I'll reinstall my test shop and work with Winmerge and see what happens.

I had the same problem after I had finished installing the files. I found that in jscript_fadeshow_setup.php there was a : used instead of a ; on IMG03 (I think). Hope this helps.

Thanks for finding that. I need better glasses:) (seriously:) Between black keyboards designed to be unreadable in the dark, and some fonts with minimal distinction between details like :/; , I need to double-check files before use.
I'll add that fix to the zip revision.

Hi,

I have my site in 2 languages, English and French, is it possible to have 2 different image groups, one should only show for English visitors, and the other only for French visitors?

The new code supports different caption text for each language, but not different images. That said, it might be possible to have a different instance of the fadeshow for each language, each with its own set of images. Or you could add some coding to jscript_fadeshow_setup.php to set the image for the fadeshow depending on the language, such as replacing

["includes/templates/your_template/images/yourimage0.jpg", "", "", "<?php echo FADESHOWTEXT_1_IMG00;?>"],

with

["includes/templates/your_template/buttons/<?php echo $_SESSION['language'];?>/yourimage0.jpg", "", "", "<?php echo FADESHOWTEXT_1_IMG00;?>"],

and saving the images like
/includes/templates/your_template/buttons/english/yourimage0.jpg
/includes/templates/your_template/buttons/english/yourimage1.jpg
/includes/templates/your_template/buttons/french/yourimage0.jpg
/includes/templates/your_template/buttons/french/yourimage1.jpg

There are other similar ways of doing this as well.

Thanks gjh42 for your post, I've tried to do it but nothing changed, do you have any other tip?

If done correctly, that will work, unless javascript needs some escaping before the PHP can be read. My code editor (Notepad++) highlights the inserted PHP correctly, but I don't know for sure as I am not proficient in js and how it interacts with PHP.
I would need to see exactly what you did to tell what went wrong.

darkmarauder:

After adding the quotes as mentioned, my shop front end still remains blank :-(

Hey Dark, what version did you download?

Ultimate Fade-In Slideshow - Version: 2.4.1
Fixed quotes in setup file.

areichard - > I found that in jscript_fadeshow_setup.php there was a : used instead of a ; on IMG03 (I think).
You may have found this in the older recent version of the mod, but it does not exist in the v2.4.1 fileset I uploaded, neither the : nor the IMG03.

gjh42:

The new code supports different caption text for each language, but not different images. That said, it might be possible to have a different instance of the fadeshow for each language, each with its own set of images. Or you could add some coding to jscript_fadeshow_setup.php to set the image for the fadeshow depending on the language, such as replacing

["includes/templates/your_template/images/yourimage0.jpg", "", "", "<?php echo FADESHOWTEXT_1_IMG00;?>"],

with

["includes/templates/your_template/buttons/<?php echo $_SESSION['language'];?>/yourimage0.jpg", "", "", "<?php echo FADESHOWTEXT_1_IMG00;?>"],

Do i need to enter like this: <?php echo $_SESSION['english'] instead of 'language'?

Absolutely not. The exact syntax I posted is what will get the correct current language that has been selected by the user.

Wow, thanks gjh42 for the help, syntax works perfectly, you are great!

I'm hoping to use Glenn Herbert's Ultimate Fade-in Slideshow to create a page that will display either all products or specified category items.

Apparently niestudio is developing a script based on color box to be able to do this, but in the meantime I'm wondering how difficult it would be to populate the two .js files of Slideshow (jscript_fadeshow_setup.php and fadeshow_defines.php) from the products_description and products tables.

So that for example, all products, all specials, etc could be contained within a slideshow.

Any input or insight greatly appreciated.

Since jscript_fadeshow_setup.php is a PHP file, you could add PHP code to it to look up product info from the database and populate that into items for the slideshow. It would require decent proficiency with PHP and MySQL, but would not be terribly difficult.