LightGallery - an extension in it's early stage

AlexL

Hi, since this is still very much in development and just an early alpha version, I didn't want to add it to the Addon-List yet. Nevertheless I want to show you what I created :-) Download, Info & Demo: http://gallery.baldursoft.de/ Requirement: You need GD2 enabled! Most hosters have done so. Additional Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GD_Graphics_Library I tested it with php 5 and vanilla 1.1.2 Alex

Stash

That looks promising.

How about making the lightbox part a separate Vanilla extension (like I did with JQThickBox) and then enabling the admin to choose whether they want to use LB or TB (and others as they get added)?

AlexL

I'm going to try out ThickBox, bot so far it seems LightBox is really much much better for image-only-purposes However a separate extension should be possible, I'm gonna look at JQThickBox to see how it's done there :-)

mis-one

Very nice start. Any chance to allow users to upload with ThickBox?

Stash

I've just completed a Lightbox extension beta if people want to hammer on it...

AlexL

Alright, so what I got is: LightBox
and a new version of LightGallery which now depends on LightBox

LightBox can be included by
$Head->AddScript('js/prototype.js'); $Head->AddScript('js/scriptaculous.js'); if(!defined('LIGHTBOX_EXTENSION')) die('ADMIN: please make sure to include the LightBox extension BEFORE this one. Simply uncheck both and include in the correct order<br><a href="' . GetUrl($Context->Configuration, 'settings.php', '', '', '', '', 'PostBackAction=Extensions') . '">Settings -> Extensions</a>'); includeLightBox();
I'm not really satisfied with this way one has to include LightBox, maybe something nicer will come up ;-)

@[-Stash-]
As far as I can see without actually having your script, you just included LightBox into Vanilla's header?
I don't like having scripts included on every page, so mine has to be told to show up. And I added a small Settings page

Alex

Wanderer

I've always thought LightBox was much more elegant than ThickBox.
Nice work.

Posted: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 at 7:31AM

Stash

AlexL and I had a bit of a chat about this and he's figuring out some great stuff. Hopefully he'll release it soon for us all to see His extension was miles better than mine, but I may have learnt something, so it's all good.

P.S. he cheated as he can actually code PHP :P

AlexL

Last update before putting both on the AddOn list tomorrow :) LightGallery 0.0.0 gamma moved settings to ExtensionOptions Friendly-Urls-extension.php-bug avoided LightBox 2.03.3 - b developers: LightBox auto loads prototype and scriptaculous moved settings to ExtensionOptions http://vanilla.baldursoft.de/

Stash

Might want to change that no known issues at the moment as I get this when I hit save when trying to change the settings with PrettyURLs on.

Settings saved

Notice: Undefined index: REWRITE_extensions/LightBox in exhibitq.com/talk/library/Framework/Framework.Functions.php on line 530

Notice: Undefined index: REWRITE_extensions/LightBox in exhibitq.com/talk/library/Framework/Framework.Functions.php on line 530

LightBox js and css created

Interestingly enough, it appears to write out the files just fine...

Also, I'm getting paths with double slashes in var fileLoadingImage="http://exhibitq.com/talk//loading.gif"; var fileBottomNavCloseImage="http://exhibitq.com/talk//closelabel.gif" I'm sure it doesn't really matter, but...

Also, I'm getting no images... it's requestinghttp://exhibitq.com/talk//prevlabel.gifand it needshttp://exhibitq.com/talk/extensions/LightBox/prevlabel.gifProbably a Pretty URL thing...

AlexL

LightBox 2.03.3 - c released :-) tested with web_root "/" and "/forum/" with Friendly-Urls extension enabled and disabled

AlexL

Extensions online --> Addons --- closed --- :-)

mis-one

edit - post moved