[cent]

Hi All,

I've taken the latest version of Thickbox and turned it into a Pligg mod.

There are some incompatibilities between having Thickbox and Scriptalicious running at the same time. I've tried to address this by turning off Thickbox when in the admin_config area. As everyone set up may be different, its easier to have this as a module and restrict it than to simply include it site-wide which some people have done. Also, it keeps things a little more tidy.

There may be issues with Lightbox and Thickbox running together, though I honestly haven't tried it as we won't have private messaging enabled on our site.

You can download it here:
http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=34

Best,
Cent

[kbeeveer46]

Cool. Hopefully this can be used in addition to future modules. You have any luck with that image upload module?

[dollars5]

Thanks - how does it compare to the existing lightbox in size, performance etc?

Good work - me waiting to see your images upload mod very soon - this is becoming a mot wanted feature for everyone.

[cent]

Hi KB... actually, its pretty much done. Just going through the module to add comments and remove debugging code. So far, in my own testing, the module keeps the image intact when voting and viewing the story. I think some people had cases where hard-coded code worked on submission but the image data got erased from the db.

Please keep in mind this module only allows for a photo to be uploaded with a submission. It doesn't allow the user to put a URL to a photo from another site.

So far the module supports:
- Admin option for image directory
- GD Version support
- Selectable JPG quality (for resizing large images to fit max W or H)
- Use Thickbox or not (can also be used with Lightbox if necessary with minimal changes)
- Show thumb in story or fullsize image
- Max thumb width x height (if showing thumbnails)
- Fullsize filename prefix (ie. start all image filenames with "img_");
- Fullsize width x height (scales larger images down)
- Fullsize max toggle (used to set a max width or height of full size image)
- Selectable field for image filename (ie. link_field10)
- Thumbnail legend text (ie. click thumbnail for larger version)
- Custom selectable thumbnail generator (thumbnails generatred on the fly but you can swap out my class for phpthumb or some other thumbnail generator)
- CSS code for thumbnail/image configuration
- and finally language support

TODO list:
- Photo caption
- Store original file name in database. Currently only stores new image name using uniqid(); Thinking of saving both the original file name and saved file name in an array, imploding it and storing it. This will still allow for both names to be stored in a single field. Actually, this could store the photo caption, original filename and new filename together. Not sure if you would be able to search and pick up stuff in this field though.

Best,
Cent

[kbeeveer46]

Sounds awesome. Did you say that using this mod will probably cause issues with people using private messaging because of lightbox? Maybe we can look into changing lightbox over to thickbox now that you have written that mod.

[cent]

hi dollars5,

i think thickbox is easier to use. while the original lightbox was for photos and there have been modified versions of lightbox written, i think thickbox is far simpler and the jquery is a lot more compact. you can easily do a photo gallery, inline (scrollable content), iframe, custom sizing of "lightbox" window on a link by link basis pretty easily.

Best,
Cent

[cent]

Hi KB...

not sure. I'm going to test lightbox/messaging in conjunction with thickbox/image upload to see how they work together. if they do work together, its a lot of JS being downloaded between lightbox (at its dependencies) and thickbox (thickbox.js and jquery.js). I know there have been some threads on making things smaller, this will probably start a whole new bunch of convos.

Personally, i think thickbox is more compact and offers everything lightbox does. once i get some free time, i may put together a thickbox/messaging module unless one of the devs beats me to it.

Best,
Cent

Originally Posted by kbeeveer46

Sounds awesome. Did you say that using this mod will probably cause issues with people using private messaging because of lightbox? Maybe we can look into changing lightbox over to thickbox now that you have written that mod.

[Simon]

I believe we might be able to switch all effects over to using jquery eventually, and this would really help cut down on the amount of javascript being downloaded. If thickbox is going to be used for things like video mods and other effects, then using it in place of lightbox for messaging might also be a good idea.

Better to use 1 library than many.

[mbs348]

any examples of this mod working on a pligg site?

[Geoserv]

Up until now I was very happy with this mod.

I have discovered though that this prevents other js from working. For example: editting in admin > modify lang. also, the sidebar effects do not owrk now, also the js effects when you click on a members name in their story to see profile and the save this mod doesn't work now either.

Is there a way around this?

You can test this out at http://www.newsdots.com/story.php?ti...rtual-wardrobe


All of this was working up until I installed this.
Geoserv