Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

Thanks a million mate!:clap:
-Kind of obvious now...:blush:

That caption-thing is a pity though!
How do that other shop achieve this? They are also using an ordinary lightbox what I can see?...

Troll:

Thanks a million mate!:clap:
-Kind of obvious now...:blush:

That caption-thing is a pity though!
How do that other shop achieve this? They are also using an ordinary lightbox what I can see?...

There is actually a caption of sorts, it shows your product name, but in order to have custom captions for each image they'd have to be entered in the database somewhere. Right now your additional images are just uploaded to the server with the proper suffixes and with no additional database info needed. Not sure where the custom captions would come from.

thoughts?

niestudio:

There is actually a caption of sorts, it shows your product name, but in order to have custom captions for each image they'd have to be entered in the database somewhere. Right now your additional images are just uploaded to the server with the proper suffixes and with no additional database info needed. Not sure where the custom captions would come from.

thoughts?

Yes I know what you mean.
There is a mod I looked into, but I found the idea to fetch the caption from a text-file even more complicated to handle, then adding text to the picture directly...

I guess for this to be practical, it would have to be done directly in admin - add new product.
Having the possibility of adding additional images with a string "caption" connected to the img file, written to the database...

Even better if we could fetch the information directly from the img file! Exif?... :p

Sorry, I'm not in that league... :cool:

Troll:

Yes I know what you mean.
There is a mod I looked into, but I found the idea to fetch the caption from a text-file even more complicated to handle, then adding text to the picture directly...

I guess for this to be practical, it would have to be done directly in admin - add new product.
Having the possibility of adding additional images with a string "caption" connected to the img file, written to the database...

Even better if we could fetch the information directly from the img file! Exif?... :p

Sorry, I'm not in that league... :cool:

me either :)

maybe you could suggest option 1 to the zen cart team for future updates

I'm using this mod and it works great and I preloaded my customers images for him, now he's been at it updating products and is loading HUGE images that are sometimes 2000 x 3000 pixels and he's complaining that the images are too big to see ... I concur. Is there any any to make changes to this add-on to limit either the width and or height without changing the aspect ratio of the image?

jjj0923:

I'm using this mod and it works great and I preloaded my customers images for him, now he's been at it updating products and is loading HUGE images that are sometimes 2000 x 3000 pixels and he's complaining that the images are too big to see ... I concur. Is there any any to make changes to this add-on to limit either the width and or height without changing the aspect ratio of the image?
Install Image Handler.. Lightbox mod is a display enhancement mod, not an image manager.. It won't help you optimize images, it only enhances their DISPLAY. Image Handler does JUST what you are asking about and it's got specific instructions for installing it with Lightbox (which it works PERFECTLY with)

DivaVocals:

Install Image Handler.. Lightbox mod is a display enhancement mod, not an image manager.. It won't help you optimize images, it only enhances their DISPLAY. Image Handler does JUST what you are asking about and it's got specific instructions for installing it with Lightbox (which it works PERFECTLY with)

and with even installing IH3 the images would be better if kept at a minimum like 1000x1000 max and low kb too

be kind to your server...lol

I agree.. In addition to installing Image Handler, better to teach your client to re-size his images BEFORE uploading them. However, this line of discussion is now OFFICIALLY off topic for the Lighbox support thread.. Any additional questions on this should be posted in a new seperate thread..

DarkAngel:

and with even installing IH3 the images would be better if kept at a minimum like 1000x1000 max and low kb too

be kind to your server...lol

jjj0923:

I'm using this mod and it works great and I preloaded my customers images for him, now he's been at it updating products and is loading HUGE images that are sometimes 2000 x 3000 pixels and he's complaining that the images are too big to see ... I concur. Is there any any to make changes to this add-on to limit either the width and or height without changing the aspect ratio of the image?

DivaVocals:

Install Image Handler.. Lightbox mod is a display enhancement mod, not an image manager.. It won't help you optimize images, it only enhances their DISPLAY. Image Handler does JUST what you are asking about and it's got specific instructions for installing it with Lightbox (which it works PERFECTLY with)

DarkAngel:

and with even installing IH3 the images would be better if kept at a minimum like 1000x1000 max and low kb too

be kind to your server...lol

thanks - if there were no solutions I was just going to add some php code that called mogrify (i'm running on a linux box) and reduced the size of the uploaded images. I've done it before for vbulletin before they came out with their own resize (based on my code) but I'll have a look - thanks so much!

Hello,

Is it ok for the contents of the stylesheet_zen_lightbox.css to be copied over to stylesheet.css? Or doing so will cause problems?
Just trying to reduce http requests and speed the site up a bit :)

Best Regards

uncharted:

Hello,

Is it ok for the contents of the stylesheet_zen_lightbox.css to be copied over to stylesheet.css? Or doing so will cause problems?
Just trying to reduce http requests and speed the site up a bit :)

Best Regards
No reason at all.. I'd add it to the end..

Thank you

Hi guys.

I'm installing lightbox in 1.5.0.

I followed the readme.html, changed what was asked to change and uploaded the folders.
Now, when I try to execute the SQL patch, the error appears:

"WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again."

What can be wrong?

leon76:

Hi guys.

I'm installing lightbox in 1.5.0.

I followed the readme.html, changed what was asked to change and uploaded the folders.
Now, when I try to execute the SQL patch, the error appears:

"WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again."

What can be wrong?

SOLVED

There was an error in install.sql.

I ran the script in phpmyadmin and the error was clear, there wasn't a table "configuration_group". Neither the rest of the tables in that script.
They were all missing the "zen_" prefix.
Changed it and ran it and it worked.

:clap:

leon76:

SOLVED

There was an error in install.sql.

I ran the script in phpmyadmin and the error was clear, there wasn't a table "configuration_group". Neither the rest of the tables in that script.
They were all missing the "zen_" prefix.
Changed it and ran it and it worked.

:clap:Not an error in the install.sql file.. This issue was where you ran it..

If you had used the SQL installer in your store's admin (Admin > Tools > Install SQL Patches) to run the install.sql file (and NOT phpMyAdmin) you would not have had this issue..

(plus if this was an issue in the install.sql file, a LOT MORE folks would be reporting the problem..)

DivaVocals:

Not an error in the install.sql file.. This issue was where you ran it..

If you had used the SQL installer in your store's admin (Admin > Tools > Install SQL Patches) to run the install.sql file (and NOT phpMyAdmin) you would not have had this issue..

(plus if this was an issue in the install.sql file, a LOT MORE folks would be reporting the problem..)

I did ran it first in the store's admin, but the error returned didn't help, as I told earlier.

phpMyAdmin was my second choice, but provided more info about the error. At least this time I knew what was wrong and changed whatever was needed.

leon76:

I did ran it first in the store's admin, but the error returned didn't help, as I told earlier.

phpMyAdmin was my second choice, but provided more info about the error. At least this time I knew what was wrong and changed whatever was needed.And if you are running the install in phpMyAdmin, you WOULD need to add the table prefix..

The Zen Cart log file would have told you EXACTLY what went wrong in your SQL install.. (along with the error message an error log is created)

Bottomline is that for a normal install (running hte SQL from the store admin) adding the table prefix is not necessary..

I just installed this after upgrading to 1.50 but the next/prev buttons would not work, and the config panel was missing quite a few options. I have a fresh zen-cart, but using my old DB. My solution was to run the uninstall SQL and then rund the install (instead of just the upgrade, as my previous lightbox settings was still in the old db). Could be worth mentioning in the readme!

I have had lightbox installed on my site for a while and it worked beautifully but recently I re-installed my template and the pictures are not working right. Only a white bar shows. I looked in my admin and it lists zen lightbox twice. Clicking on the second on comes up empty but I am not sure where to find what is causing the duplicate (which I am thinking must be the cause of the images not showing) listing in my admin.

Any thoughts?

polishpotterystore .com/shopping

I upgraded and it seems to be working now, HOWEVER, there is no CLOSE button anymore. Should this be there or did I perhaps miss something?