Comments on: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

By: eqIXtuPTnCubuL59

eqIXtuPTnCubuL59 — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:53:08 +0000

Lightbox and Coppermine plugins at sirjohn.co.uk

By: kristin

kristin — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:43:32 +0000

Hello, have you considered using http://vikjavev.no/highslide/? If I knew php, I would do what you did with the coppermine script and lightbox and combined the two. I’m going to look at your code though to see what you did and see if maybe this problem of mine will be my intro to php. I personally think the functionality of the highslide script is far superior to the lightbox script.

By: Tim (admin)

Tim (admin) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:15:46 +0000

Strange. I’m not sure what’s going on then. I don’t think my changes are probably very robust, they just work for me and the imagefixthumb method. I’m moving away from Coppermine anyway so not really looking at it.

If it’s any help I’m using Coppermine 1.4.8 and Wordpress 2.0.4

By: Anja

Anja — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:09:39 +0000

Hi Tim,
I tried it with the lightbox version you used and the imagefixthumb version (thanks for the help with finding the ID). Unfortunately it is only working for one single picture of three pictures in the post that I tested. Weird! Is it maybe that you have a different coppermine version (I mean the gallery)? Maybe the plugin is not working with the gallery vs.1.4.4…? *sad*

By: Tim (admin)

Tim (admin) — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:36:48 +0000

If you view an image in Coppermine with the file information shown you should get a URL field in the file information, something like this…

http://www.sirjohn.co.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-1507

The number on the right is the permanent ID (ignore the ‘-’).

It’s recommended to use the URL to link to images generally in case you move images around your gallery, as this URL is permanent so long as you don’t delete the image.

By: Anja

Anja — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:49:01 +0000

Hi Tim,
thanks for your tips, I’ll give it a new try Will let you know if it works or not.
How and where to find the permanent image ID in coppermine though?

By: Tim (admin)

Tim (admin) — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:40:01 +0000

The version of Pightbox Plus I’m using is 0.3 which I got from here…

http://zeo.unic.net.my/notes/wp-lightbox-plus-wordpress-plugin/

To get lightbox to work with the coppermine modifications you need to make sure the coppermine script is defined for lightbox…

define (’CPGSC_SINGLEIMAGE_LINK’, ‘lightbox’);

Also I probably haven’t got it working for all the methods the coppermine plugin supports. It works if I use thumbnail links direct to the image ID in coppermine, e.g.

[cpg_imagefixthumb:1507]

It probably needs work for some other methods though I though it should work for cpg_image. Needs some investigation, though maybe Brad who wrote the coppermine plugin can get lightbox working officially in his next version.

By: Anja

Anja — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:49:51 +0000

Hi Tim, thanks for the quick answer. I saw your answer after my second message
I now tried 6 different lightbox versions (lightbox2, lightbox2.02, wp-lightbox05plus, wp-lightbox062, wp-lightboxJS_latest, wp-lightbox-Plus-latest) but none of them let your modified coppermine script work. It worked for all other photos on my blog, but not the ones, that are linked to my gallery with code in the post like: [cpg_image:60,picname.jpg]. On a click, lightbox loads and never stops loading…strange…I almost had it…any idea? Hmm…would be so nice to get it to work…

By: Anja

Anja — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:16:31 +0000

Another question: Is it working with lightbox 2 (vs.0.6.2)? There are many different versions, can you please say which one works with coppermine 1.4.4?

By: Tim (admin)

Tim (admin) — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:36:47 +0000

I used the Lightbox Plus Plugin but it should work with either. It just depends whether you want the extra features of the ‘plus’ version. The modifications to the Coppermine plugin just simply uses the “rel=’lightbox’” attribute in links which is what triggers lightbox when you click on an image.