Getting Lightbox To Work in RN 2.4.0.1

dad7732 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:41 pm

I thought that maybe copying over /fckeditor and /jquery from the previous version that worked that it would work in 2.4.0.1 .. nope, just a blank page for the index page. So, maybe there is another directory to copy over or what? I'd really like to get LB to work.

Thanks

nuken · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:20 am

Try this one. It uses the built in colorbox in RavenNuke 2.40.01

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dad7732 · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:35 am

Sweet!!! And faster than Lightbox, nice looking border as well.

Thanks!!

Yikes, just noticed that you can scroll through all images as well in the colorbox.

nuken · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:47 am

Only if you select to group them. If they are not grouped it only shows the one image.

dad7732 · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:58 am

Just went with the default which the first line is "group". In the old Lightbox this didn't happen .. Nice !!

dad7732 · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:03 pm

Ok, gonna get myself in trouble again .. but .. Will installing Colorbox where Lightbox is installed work or do I have to uninstall Lightbox first. Colorbox is soooo much nicer!! Smile

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5996

They should work together. It won't hurt to uninstall Lightbox.

dad7732 · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 7:32 am

Experimented with it last night. I had to remove the /includes/directory and /jquery/ and then re-up the latest RN 2.4.0.1 /includes/ and /jquery/ followed by removing the script lines in the messages where the lightbox/jquery scripts were placed. Then uploaded colorbox and worked just fine. However, on another domain, all that was necessary was to remove the script lines in the beginning of the messages that called lightbox and load colorbox. Each installation of lightbox has it's own nuances.

"Colorbox" is sooo much easier to install and use.

Cheers

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 5996

I tested 16 different lightbox / modal scripts before selecting Colorbox (which I didn't discover until I had already tested the others).

Not only is it easier to install and use, but it also has much more robust functionality than the others I reviewed - at least those with open source licenses. There was another tool (ShadowBox) that was also pretty good, but didn't have a license compatible with RN.

The difficult part about selecting these types of scripts is that they continue to evolve - in both good and bad ways. Today's best pick might not be the best tomorrow... (though I suspect Colorbox is around for the long haul). Fortunately, many are implemented the same way (as we found with some of these lightbox scripts), which makes it easier to plug and play when a better script comes along...

dad7732 · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:15 am

Well, I am one that doesn't upgrade just for the sake of upgrading. The reason why some of us are in the support venue is to fix those things that are broken by upgrading .. Smile

Everytime Firefox and Thunderbird "upgrade", the support arenas are filled with "my addon no longer works" ... Wink

Cheers

dad7732 · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:01 pm

Anyone with an idea how to get Colorbox to work on an image posted in the forum?

rel="colorbox' doesn't do it. And yes, "rel" is an accepted tag in the forum config along with other necessary tags, etc.

Cheers

spasticdonkey · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:22 pm

rel="colorbox" should work if you load the proper JS in the head... I might change it to something else though, something like

$("a[rel='forumimage']").colorbox({transition:"fade", width:"85%"});

I just added mine to includes/jquery/jquery.colorbox.php
or you can create your own includes/addons/head-xxx.php file to make upgrades easier... so if you added to jquery.colorbox.php might look like:

Code:

$inlineJS = '<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
   $(".colorbox").colorbox({opacity:0.65, current:"{current} of {total}"});
   $("a[rel=\'forumimage\']").colorbox({transition:"fade", width:"85%"});
   $(".colorboxSEO").colorbox({opacity:0.50, width:"750", height:"300", iframe:true});
});
</script>'."\n";
addJSToHead($inlineJS,'inline');

or you can use the default css colorbox class on your links as well

a class="colorbox"

nuken · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:47 pm

Here is a way to use the forums attachment in a colorbox too.

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dad7732 · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:45 pm

class="colorbox" did the trick and was by far the easiest and less typing/thinking, etc. And now that I remember, that's what I did for lightbox in posts. Smile

adding the script to jquery.colorbox.php caused the site to come up with a blank page.

Cheers