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Written by Robert Chavers   
Thursday, 15 February 2007

I decided to add lightbox2 to my gallery2 (2.1.1) installation.  Want to see my example album ?


Here's how I managed to get it working:

First, you'll need to download the files at the bottom of this page.  The files should be placed in the appropriate location on your webserver.  I have *only* modified the matrix template, but looking through the code should provide hints on how to modify other themes.  Remember, you can always diff myfile originalfile

Note:

  • I had to turn joomla's cache feature off.  Admin Panel -> Global Configuration -> Cache: Caching=No
  • The path for the lightbox files is /(webroot)/gallery2/lightbox/, not /(webroot)/gallery2/lightbox/lightbox/
  • I modified the original lightbox scripts to center and scale my pictures.  You can always use the original

 


Files
Location
lightbox.zip/(webroot)/gallery2/lightbox/
theme.inc /(webroot)/gallery2/themes/matrix/
album.tpl /(webroot)/gallery2/themes/matrix/templates/
theme.tpl
/(webroot)/gallery2/themes/matrix/templates/

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