Zen Lightbox addon [Support Thread]

Where do you see IH5? The latest version I could find was IH4 for 1.5.x: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1380

And our website works fine with IH4 and 1.5.5.f. I just wanted to try out Lightbox so that additional images could load on the same page, without opening a new window. But right now, that's exactly what it's doing: opening the image in the browser window and taking users off the main page.

Not sure if it's a misconfiguration on my part, or missing software.

Jeff_Mash:

Where do you see IH5? The latest version I could find was IH4 for 1.5.x: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1380

And our website works fine with IH4 and 1.5.5.f. I just wanted to try out Lightbox so that additional images could load on the same page, without opening a new window. But right now, that's exactly what it's doing: opening the image in the browser window and taking users off the main page.

Not sure if it's a misconfiguration on my part, or missing software.

Back when I used to use this such an issue related to installation. The sequence of installation also plays a factor as described in the instructions between the two plugins.

The only thing I saw in the IH4 installation readme was that if you're installing Lightbox, then use the additional_images.php file from the Lightbox installation. I have done that, so there shouldn't be any conflict between the two modules.

I just don't know why it's not working. My version if Lightbox is 1.7.0. IH4 is 4.3.2.

Has anyone tried installing this with ZC 1.5.6? We recently updated from 1.5.1 and are now using IH5 but any products with additional images are causing a partial white screen just after the final attribute on the product info page. We used to have IH4 installed with this module and everything worked great but now I'm not sure if I need to install this in order to fix the template from breaking as it is now.

IIRC most people changed to Colorbox when it was released.

https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1322

I got lightbox working but can't seem to get additional images to appear. The additional images section underneath the main image doesn't appear and the list of additional images near the end of the product_info_display causes a partial whitescreen and keeps the rest of the page from loading. I commented out the call to additional images at the end of the product_info_display in order to get rid of the whitescreen issue but it still won't show additional images underneath the main image.

Time to take a look at https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?124-blank-page. One of your changes probably inserted a wrong code or you need to escape a special character like /.

I figured that bit out, turns out I hadn't installed Additional Product Images on the site yet! Oops! My additional images appear at the bottom of the product page but we used to have a slider underneath lightbox that displayed them. They aren't there for some reason... I tried reinstalling lightbox and that didn't fix it.

Hello,

I have a problem with my zencart 1.5.6c install and zenlight box 1.6.5. When i try to edit the options for in admin , some options only show a blank area where you edit the options for it. And it creates a mydebug file for it

[10-Apr-2020 22:00:27 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"27,88,67"' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in /home/user/domainfolder/admin/configuration.php(207) : eval()'d code on line 1

[10-Apr-2020 22:00:27 America/Los_Angeles] Request URI: /admin/configuration.php?gID=55&cID=1447&action=edit, IP address: 162.234.204.230
--> PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"27,88,67"' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in /home/user/domainfolder/admin/configuration.php(207) : eval()'d code on line 1.

How do i fix this ?

jasonshanks:

Hello,

I have a problem with my zencart 1.5.6c install and zenlight box 1.6.5. When i try to edit the options for in admin , some options only show a blank area where you edit the options for it. And it creates a mydebug file for it

[10-Apr-2020 22:00:27 America/Los_Angeles] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"27,88,67"' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in /home/user/domainfolder/admin/configuration.php(207) : eval()'d code on line 1

[10-Apr-2020 22:00:27 America/Los_Angeles] Request URI: /admin/configuration.php?gID=55&cID=1447&action=edit, IP address: 162.234.204.230
--> PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '"27,88,67"' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING) in /home/user/domainfolder/admin/configuration.php(207) : eval()'d code on line 1.

How do i fix this ?

Is this normal for the plugin with zencart 1.5.6c and php 7.3 ?

Zen Lightbox is pretty old and currently, to my knowledge, unmaintained. Might I suggest using Zen Colorbox (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1322) instead?

lat9:

Zen Lightbox is pretty old and currently, to my knowledge, unmaintained. Might I suggest using Zen Colorbox (https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=1322) instead?

Thank you , I will. It honestly worked great excepted for the issue outlined with the missing buttons in admin and the mydebug files when i clicked them. Thought maybe it was so sorta easy fix. Thank you again @Lat9 for helping me so much.

So two years later , I am wondering if there is a 1.5.7 compatible version of this ? Or is Magic zoom at 65$ ( https://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoomplus/modules/zen-cart/#installation) the only real option for this and the current zencart ? It seems both zen lightbox and colorbox are not updated anymore ? Or maybe there are github pages for them I am not aware of ?

I recently installed Zencart 1.5.7d and reinstalled LIghtbox but its not accepting it.
I get this error:
[06-Oct-2022 17:52:01 America/New_York] Request URI: /snorE-Mpu-spilL/index.php?cmd=display_logs&action=delete, IP address: 173.173.237.156
#1 require_once(/snorE-Mpu-spilL/includes/init_includes/init_zen_lightbox.php) called at [/includes/autoload_func.php:37]
#2 require(/includes/autoload_func.php) called at [/snorE-Mpu-spilL/includes/application_top.php:37]
#3 require(/snorE-Mpu-spilL/includes/application_top.php) called at [/zc_plugins/DisplayLogs/v3.0.0/admin/display_logs.php:35]
#4 require(/zc_plugins/DisplayLogs/v3.0.0/admin/display_logs.php) called at [/snorE-Mpu-spilL/index.php:23]
--> PHP Warning: Undefined array key "gID" in /snorE-Mpu-spilL/includes/init_includes/init_zen_lightbox.php on line 86.

Is there anyway around it?

First of all, CHANGE YOUR ADMIN FOLDER'S NAME NOW!

rayvnuno:

--> PHP Warning: Undefined array key "gID" in /snorE-Mpu-spilL/includes/init_includes/init_zen_lightbox.php on line 86.A PHP Warning should not stop the operation of the mod or the cart. If the mod or cart are failing, it is for some reason that is not being reported.

Please see lat9's post just a couplle of posts before yours. https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?45314-Zen-Lightbox-addon-Support-Thread&p=1367616#post1367616

Has anyone managed to get this running and working with the responsive_classic template?

Have tried on both version 1.5.8a and 2.1.0, and everytime, this plugin causes the product page, and the right hand column of the website to vanish. Just the product title stays.

Also, tried the Colorbox plugin as well, and the same thing happened.

No errors in the logs either.

I know the plugin isn't supported anymore, and hasn't been updated for some while, but wouldn't mind a go, at trying to get this working.

Any help or suggestions, on what might be causing this not to work with the responsive_classic template, would be very much appreciated.

Running on PHP 8.2

Kind Regards,

Andy

Andy, why? Responsive classic in 2.1.0 has the modal popup with the subdued background already. what would be the point of lightbox or colorbox?

Hi Barco57,

Thanks for your advice.

To be honest, our live site is currently running on V1.5.8a, and I set up a test environment also, where I have been trying out these old plugins on V1.5.8a, with no success.

I did finally update the test site to V2.1.0, but they didn't work there either; but to be honest I haven't had chance to go through V2.1.0 in full detail yet, to see the differences between this latest version, and the older V1.5.8a version.

Does the modal popup, allow for scrolling through additional images with a left to right button?

The only thing I have noticed is that on V2.1.0 any product with additional images, is not showing the additional images, but I expect this will be likely to me needing to go into the configuration settings, and make a change there.

Kind Regards,

Andy

Does the modal popup, allow for scrolling through additional images with a left to right button?

no, it does not, unfortunately. scrolling through the additional images really is the only thing missing.