Fual Slimbox (Lightbox) - Ver 1.0 Support

About
Slimbox is a next generation Lightbox able to display images and iframes with totally customisible Mootools effects and CSS style. "Lightbox" was the original engine for the now famous effect that has spread like wildfire around the web over the past year or two, becoming the defacto Web 2.0 method of displaying images. However, as with most things, more efficient copies come along.

Motivation
At only 30kb Slimbox is a much smaller download than than Lightbox which weights in at over 100Kb. Since JS tends not to be cached so well by browsers this offers genuine speed increases to users. In addition it is powered by Mootools effects, making it much more customisable than Lightbox. This mod also deals with the slow DOM load issue that caused images clicked to early to be loaded in a new page.

Acknowledgments
Props to: Christophe Beyls (http://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox) for writing Slimbox, Yukio Arita (http://homepage.mac.com/yukikun/software/slimbox_ex/) for extending it to work with iframes and Alex Clarke for the original ZL plugin which inspired me to write this.

Extra
The mod contains a patch to make it compatible with Zen Lightbox. The patch is non-destructive (in the sense that it doesn't stop Zen Lightbox from working and if you have both this and Zen Lightbox installed and switched on Zen Lightbox overrides Slimbox).

Download
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=830

-- I would appreciate it if a few people could try this out to see if it works ok. I have done a fair bit of testing, but maybe I forgot to put a file in the download or something. Since it is new it might be better to wait a week or two for people to try it out before loading it onto your main server; that will give me a chance to iron out any bugs that may show up.

A live demo site would be helpful.

yellow1912:

A live demo site would be helpful.
The download has an example of the effect in the documentation. I don't have any spare hosting space to demo it on at the moment and it will probably be a few months until my site goes online. Maybe someone will integrate it into their site and put a link here. That is the best I can do for now I'm afraid.

I'll set this up on my site soon. I'm also a fan of moofx.

Cool, the admin has a lot of options, so there is a lot of tweeking potential.

This mod does not work for me. When you install it and then install the
slimbox_install.sql everything installs fine, but when you go to your site and click on a picture it takes you to another page with just the picture. I don't know what going on with it.

I have downloaded and installed it on a fresh install of ZC and I have found a minor bug: if the jscript folder in your directory is empty (except for slimbox), then it will be unable to find the slimbox files.

I have fixed this and posted it up (might take some time to get on the site)

@countrycharm <- Are you sure you renamed your folders correctly? Can you tell me what the javascript error message says?

It don't show an error message. When you click on the image to make it bigger, it just goes to another screen with the picturet. You have to press the back button to go back to my site.

A Link to that particular page would be helpful to debug.

I uninstalled it for right now. I will take a look at it in the near future.

countrycharm:

I uninstalled it for right now. I will take a look at it in the near future.

I see that you have Zen Lightbox installed (what version?), did you patch it using the fix I provided? If not then there is no way to switch ZL off, so you will have both lightboxes trying to control the image and that will result in an error, meaning that the link will revert to default behaviour and display the picture as normal.

Thank you for the reply. I uninstalles zenlight before I tried this and I couldn't get it to work except what I have already explain. Do you think since I use zenlight and uninstalled it for this mode I still would have to install the patch before it can work.

countrycharm:

Thank you for the reply. I uninstalles zenlight before I tried this and I couldn't get it to work except what I have already explain. Do you think since I use zenlight and uninstalled it for this mode I still would have to install the patch before it can work.
No, but the point is: did you uninstall it completely (sql, php/js files, edits made on template)

@countrycharm <- the patch I have written for ZL simply wraps all the javascript includes in an if clause, so that the js can be switched on and off, it also puts all the code in one place, rather than repeating it, so as long as you have ZL 1.4 it doesn't really do anything so should be safe to apply.

The other thing is that Slimbox uses a bit of code from the ZL mod, these files are contained in the zip and if you have ZL installed they just copy over the identical files, so it is possible that you may have deleted these files that are needed by the mod.

The thing to try is to apply the ZL patch, then after renaming the folders copy over the includes directory and install the sql patch, switch off ZL and see what happens

Hello,

please advice me. I installed this slimbox and have a little problem with additional images. I am not able to see second or third image.

Is it possible to set up slimbox to close image also by clicking anywhere (not only on close x)?

Thanks for any advice.

ZC. 1.3.8

Do you have a link to the site?

If you put the mouse on the left of the image it will give you a link to the previous image; on the right it will give you a link to the next.

Clicking on the overlay will close the image (this is the default behaviour).

Basically Slimbox functions exactly the same as Zen Lightbox, except it has a much smaller download for the user and has customisable effects.

this is the solution for my problem

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=459749&postcount=792

Ah ok. I took a skim through the Zen Lightbox thread and it seemed like there was some sort of problem with image handler 2 that the additional images file fixed, so I included that to try and circumvent that issue. I have only tried it on a default ZC install and that worked fine on the Big Linked A bugs life page which has additional images, so I presumed everything was ok.

Do you know if there were any javascript error messages in firebug?

Hi banswidthjunkie,
I just installed this mode but when I click on the image to enlarge, I can see my top menu navigation showing on top of the image. My navigation menu is a mod by Jettrue (CSS Horizontal dropdown menu). Do you know If there is something I can do to resolve this?
Thank you!

I just installed this on a project I'm working on and it works great so far.

Thanks for this great add-on.