Hi

I just bought this module and I had high hopes for it however I am struggling a lot to to the sheer amount of options that I have and I am not really sure where to begin even after reading the documentation.

Basically I to know the easiest way for me to create a range of thumbnail images on a page/article that when you click on a thumbnail it shows an article/content in a lightbox.

I bought this module in the hope it would be easy for my client to use to add his own thumbnails from his images and then click each thumbnail to a article to show in a lightbox, but if I am having trouble trying to work it out then the client certinally is going to have no idea.

Any straight forward and easy to follow help would be fantastic please.

Also have you guys considered creating a few Youtube videos for the main features of this module to help people like me follow along to get their module up and running would mean less support for you guys in the future and would allow people like me to get up and running a lot faster, just thought it might be a good idea to try it.

Many Thanks

Rab

Hello,

It is possible to use "ARI Sexy Lightbox" module to show article when a user clicks by an image. You can read how to do it here.

It is also possible to use "System - ARI Sexy Lightbox Anywhere" plugin. This feature is described here.

In brief, if you want to use "System - ARI Sexy Lightbox Anywhere" plugin to show an article into the lightbox when a user clicks by an image, add the following plugin to code to an article (or other content):



Where ARTICLE_ID is ID(s) of article(s) which you want to show into the lightbox, IMAGE_LINK is a link to an image.

Regards,
ARI Soft

Hey

Thanks for the quick reply.

That's not really what I wanted sorry if I didn't explain that correctly.

I wanted a way to automatically create thumbnails/gallery from a images folder and then when a thumbnail is clicked on it opens a lightbox with the article inside.

I have tried doing this using the a CSV file inside my images folder and using the module. It works to a point where it shows the images in a thumbnails which is great but when you click on a thumbnail it shows a lightbox of that image and then when you click on the image inside the lightbox it brings you to the article but not inside the lightbox.

I want to be able to click on the thumbnail and straight away show the article inside a lightbox.

Here is what I have done so far:

Demo page

Thanks

Rab

Rename "Link" column to "LightboxLink" in CSV file and use link in the following format:


index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=ARTICLE_ID&tmpl=component&TB_iframe=1&width=800&height=600


Where ARTICLE_ID is article ID.

Regards,
ARI Soft

Wonderful stuff thank you it works like it should now.

One last question and hope you can help with this too when I look at the lightbox in Internet Explorer 9 it shows a scrollbar on the left and in Firefox there is no scrollbar. Any ideas how to remove this scrollbar in IE?

The template which I made myself is already set to not show scrollbars so not sure why this is coming up, I have adjusted the height of the lightbox several times to all sorts of sizes and even made it much bigger than the article like double the size but it still shows up.

Thanks again for your help, once I get all this sorted out I will definately be leaving a review of JED.

Thanks

Rab

About scrollbar issue, this problem with the following CSS rule in <joomla_directory>/templates/rhuk_milkyway/css/template.css file:

html {
height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 1px;
}

use the following CSS rule:

html {
height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

PS: We would be very grateful for a review.

Regards,
ARI Soft