FAlbum Lightbox with Pre-load

PHP August 14th, 2006

I’ve finally gotten around to updating my FAlbum lightbox mashup. This version adds a feature that several people have been asking for… pre-loading images so that users don’t click on them before the lightbox is loaded. I can’t take all the credit for this one, in fact I can probably take very little. All the ground work was done by Matthew Litherland and it appeared on his blog first.

I have also fixed a bug that has been in FAlbum for a while (I will be submitting a patch soon) which only allowed the default style to be selected in the Admin Options panel. You can now add more themes as you see fit. To celebrate this fix I have included a free style, for your use and abuse, called hemingway… after the name of the theme I’m using on this blog by Kyle Neath.

There is a slight bug when using IE to view the thumbnails, in that the image overlay doesn’t sit in the top left (as it should). This is because IE doesn’t play nicely with CSS as it works correctly with both Firefox and Opera. If anyone has a fix for this please send it over and I’ll be sure to credit you in the next release.

I’ve now stopped providing just the diff files as it was a right royal pain sorting them out and as I’m now including a modified wp-lightbox2 plugin - for the flickr link and image pre-loading - its a whole lot easier to bundle the whole lot together.

The new mashup can be download from here or my downloads page.

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13 Comments to “FAlbum Lightbox with Pre-load”

  1. Martin | August 20th, 2006 at 10:27 pm

    Hi GrinGod! Man this is great plugin. I already use it together with Hemingway. Modded it aswell. One annoying thing though, you are having the same trouble on your site I noticed, when you enter the Falbum image page, like so plugins/falbum/wp/album.php?show=recent&page=1&photo=217144937 there is a javascript error wich I never saw before. Can you help me out? Using IE6. Thanks.

  2. gringod | August 21st, 2006 at 10:00 am

    I’ll just go grab a copy of Portable IE6 and take a look at it. I had noticed that the lightbox didn’t seem to be working on the single photo pages but I hadn’t had a chance to figure out why.

  3. Martin | August 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am

    Exactly my problem! I will have a go at it aswell. On my site the script error mentions line 720. But that could differ at yours. It’s probably a js.script, one of the scriptaculous scripts? Maybe you can debug using the FF script debugger, wich I don’t have right now. Anxious to hear from you.

  4. Martin | August 21st, 2006 at 8:48 pm

    Just noticed that Matthew Litherland (neuinc.com) has the same problem. Maybe you can contact him about it. Just a thought.

  5. Martin | August 28th, 2006 at 8:27 am

    Hey gringod, did you happen to pay any attention to the above problem? Just wondering…

  6. gringod | August 29th, 2006 at 10:03 am

    Hi Martin,

    I only just got around to grabbing a copy of standalone IE and I’ve figured out what the problem is. I should be able to get that sorted out today and put the fix online.

    I’ll let you know when its ready.

  7. Martin | August 29th, 2006 at 10:24 am

    Hi Gringod(is that your real name?), Thanks a bunch man. Really appreciated. I can see you’re a busy man :). I’ll wait in anticipation…. hehe

  8. GrinGod [dot] Com » Blog Archive » FAlbum & Lightbox Bug Fix | August 29th, 2006 at 12:14 pm

    […] I’ve updated the latest version of my FAlbum with LightboxJS2 mashup in order to fix a bug that was brought to my attention by Martin. The error caused lightbox to fail to load when viewing the individual photo page. I have not bothered to update the version number as neither FAlbum nor WP-Lightbox versions have been updated. […]

  9. joachimott | journal » Blog Archive » Flickr-Wunderwelt | October 19th, 2006 at 11:34 am

    […] Das ist wahrscheinlich das Flickr-Album für Wordpress, das es am längsten gibt. Ich habe es schon vor geraumer Zeit benutzt, als die Lightbox-Funktion noch nicht integriert war. Dafür gabs irgendwo (ich glaube das war hier, zumindest gibts da heute eine Lösung) einen Hack, und seither funktioniert das so. In den neueren Versionen ist Lightbox wohl noch immer nicht inklusive. […]

  10. Simon | November 12th, 2006 at 10:03 am

    Hi,

    This is a long shot but I don’t suppose you would share the love on that proload trick you do. I went to Matthews site but there was no blog entry for what he suggested. I’m sure you busy but I would really appreciate it for what its worth. Just point me in the right direction I’m not a complete idiot (i hope)

    Thanks
    Simon

    ps. I need it for another non wordpress site

  11. simon | November 13th, 2006 at 9:33 am

    Ignore the last entry, I’ve figured it out. easy really

  12. gringod | November 13th, 2006 at 11:34 am

    Hi Simon,

    Good to hear you got it figured out. I was planning on getting back to you at lunch time but I guess I don’t need to now.

    If you need a hand with anything else give me a shout.

  13. Koka | October 7th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

    I always get the same error, when I click on Options -> FAlbum (after having activated the plugins): First Steps: Error:
    I already tried older wordpress versions and older falbum versions, but nothing helped. Can you help me?

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