Comments on: Using the Joomla Lightbox

By: Joomla lightbox Hack | Code Q

Joomla lightbox Hack | Code Q — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:33:35 +0000

[...] Some time ago I found a hack for using Joomla’s backend light box(which is an implementation of Harald Kirschner’s Squeeze box which can be found on his website) on the frontend. The hack can be found on this website: http://dvector.com/oracle/2009/02/05/using-the-joomla-lightbox/ [...]

By: one1

one1 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:51:35 +0000

@one2

I think that it should but have not verified it as I am not running 1.6 yet. Noticed that the versions of Mootools and Squeezebox were bumped so that the mentioned patch should not be needed.

You could probably make it even easier and just add:

into your template instead of what is shown in the original article.

The rest should work the same.

By: one2

one2 — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:25:26 +0000

does this work for joomla 1.6?

By: one1

one1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:54:49 +0000

@Wybielanie

Honestly, it sound more like you need a plugin. What you want is a call to squeezebox from the window.onload event. See http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1902862 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559150/best-practice-for-using-window-onload

The trick is ‘once per each user visit’. This will take additional code that is beyond the scope of squeezebox usage.

By: Wybielanie

Wybielanie — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:21:25 +0000

Hi,

Good tutorial! But I have a question:

>Basically, you are creating a link and the link opens the lightbox content.

I have such link:
Go!
And it works correctly, but do You know how to open it automatically once per each user visit ? (without clicking on the link)

By: one1

one1 — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:45:12 +0000

@Kathy Keating
Not finding a valid page at:
http://www.tricalyx.com/unisex-sizing-chart?tmpl=component
Guessing this is not really your link but as modified by WP Comments.

But besides that, the link is not correct to make a call to the lightbox. It should be of the format:
LINKTEXT

By: Kathy Keating

Kathy Keating — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:25:58 +0000

Would love to implement this, but the JS is failing. I’m getting an error that says “el.set is not a function” (coming from mootools.js).

I’m linking to another Joomla page, here’s the html for that link:

sizing is unisex

Thoughts?

By: one1

one1 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:22:42 +0000

@marico
Which version of IE. I viewed the site in IE7 and IE8 without any image distortions. IE6 is poorly behaved.

By: Marcio

Marcio — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:16:15 +0000

What’s happening with my installation of this (on the bio page of the http://www.rodeiro-art.com website) is that in IE, the images get reduced for some reason and it distorts the text written on fireworks. It looks fine in both FF and Chrome.

By: one1

one1 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:56:03 +0000

@Q_the_novice

Good find. Not so much a novice after all?