Quick Lightbox Plus Demo

Lightbox 2.1 added a new HTML DOM parser. However due to a memory leak in PHP 5.1.x and 5.2.x and an improper use of the garbage collection routine a rather glaring bug was introduced in which all content was replaced by information about the programmatic object.  Version 2.2 addresses this issue and correctly cleans up the memory and outputs the content as a result.  The issue was partly my fault and partly PHP 5.1.x/5.2.x fault.

Version 2.2. also reintroduces PHP 4 functionality for those of you still stuck with PHP 4 which is long since (as of 8/8/8) unsupported by the PHP developers.

See after the jump for the change log details.

2.2

• Fixed ”Object id #”, ”Object”, ”Object #” errors with PHP 5.1.x.
  • Problem was due to circular memory leak in PHP 5.1 and 5.2 and HTML DOM object not being cleaned up.
  • Altered way the content is returned to allow for closure and cleaning of object sooner eliminating memory leak.
• Due to overhwhelming demand I added PHP 4 functionality back in but it is not officially supported.
  • If you were seeing an error that looked something like Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /path/to/plugins/lightbox-plus/classes/shd.class.php on line 86 you have PHP 4.
  • Option is automatically set to use legacy method if you have PHP 4
  • You will have to manually select the option to use the PHP 4 Auto Lightbox Method if you are using PHP 5.X and wish to use legacy method.
• Fix for images with upper case file extension not being auto-lightboxed.
• Probable fix for XML Parsing Error: no element found likely caused by memory leak
  • Unable to reproduce error but research indicates memory leak is a likely cause.

Please get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.2 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

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Lightbox Plus Quick Demo

Lightbox Plus is now up to version 2.1 which replaces the regular expression method for adding lightboxes to content with a new HTML parser method.  Thus far it seems to be much more accurate in interpreting HTML and correctly identifying elements to lightbox.  I also added the option to have your styles live outside of the Lightbox plugin directory which will enable custom styles sets that don’t get removed during upgrades.  There are some other changes as well, follow the jump for all the details.

2.1

• Now requires PHP 5+, no PHP 4 support.
  • PHP4 reached it’s end of life on 8/8/2008 nearly 2 years ago.
• Fixed problems with initialization and re-initialization of the plugin not working under various circumsanstances.
  • Add code for activation/deactivation of the plugin
• Added true HTML parser instead of regular expressions
  • Using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser for parsing HTML
  • Should mitigate issues of not consuming the HTML content and correctly modifying it
• Change method for finding and selecting styles
  • Added option for stylesheet directory to reside outside of plugin directory
  • Lightbox Plus no longer stores stylesheet path in options, it is now pulled from global definitions
  • It should now be easier to use on multiple servers with different paths.
• Added support for multiple galleries on a single page displaying separate slide shows
• Updated ColorBox to version 1.3.9
  • Fixed a bug in IE where iframed youtube videos were not opening correctly.

Please get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.2 directly.

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Lightbox Plus Quick Demo

A major flaw was pointed out to me by Milan Petrovic in that the styles (and really the scripts too) in the admin panel were being queued up all across the admin panel. While the scripts were really causing any problems the styles were an issue for plugins that used jQuery UI. I’ve corrected this issue and made a few other modifications while I was at it including some streamlining of code and reduction of JavaScript sizes.

Get the full details and download link after the jump.

2.0.5

• Rewrote the way the plugin is instantiated.
  • Provide better conrol over how actions and filters are added by Lightbox Plus.
  • Provides fix for jQuery UI styles loading on all admin panels.
  • Prevented jquery.colorbox.min.js from loading on admin panels other than Lightbox Plus.
• Rewrote several functions to provide better compaibility with other plugins.
  • Admin scripts are now enqued correctly.
  • Admin and plugin styles are now enqueued correctly.
• Fixed slideshow always auto-starting if slideshow enabled.
• Changed several variables and related fields
  • Do Not Auto-Lightbox Images using auto_lightbox to no_auto_lightbox to accurately reflect it’s use.
  • Do Not Display Image Title using display_titles to no_display_titles to accurately reflect it’s use.
  • Use Class Method using class_method to use_class_method to accurately reflect it’s use.
  • If you use any of these settings you will need to re-check them and save your settings.
• Reduced size of inline JavaScript and converted all to jQuery.
• Reduced size of some scripts using old toggle method for help.

2.0.2

• Add quick fix/hack for a big interface issue on the admin panel. See roadmap for long term solution.
  • jQuery UI themes were overloading other plugins that were using the jQuery UI
  • Lightbox Plus specific themes and scripts should only load on Lightbox Plus panel
  • The exception is colorbox.min.js will load in any admin panel due to the way it is initilized. Expect version 2.0.5 to address this.

Please grab the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.2 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

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Lightbox Plus Quick Demo

I just released Lightbox Plus version 2.0.1. Didn’t even get a chance to post about version 2.0 before I did an update. This version includes a number of new features such as the ability to add a secondary lightbox that can include video or flash and inline lightboxes that allow the display of inline content. I also made some improvements to the admin panel on its way to a new interface. See the full list of changes from version 1.6.9.7 to version 2.0.1 after the jump.

2.0.1

• Fixed several interface issues in the admin panel.
  • User feedback was not reporting updates because admin scripts were not loading properly – this hs been fixed.

2.0

• Added secondary lightbox option
  • There is no auto-lightboxing for the secondary lightbox
  • Allows the creation of a secondary lightbox with iFrame capabilities
  • Allows lightboxing of video, flash, and content that resides elsewhere
• Added inline lightbox options
  • There is no auto-lightboxing for the inline lightbox
  • Can have multiple inline lightboxes (up to 20)
  • Can be used to display hidden inline content, forms and more…
• Improved interface in admin panel.
  • Added better feedback for users
• Added backend test/demo areas
  • Allows user to test lightbox settings in the admin panel
  • Provides demos and examples for secondary lightbox using video,external webpages and interactive flash
  • Provides demos and examples for inline lightbox using inline content
• Fixed issue with saving setting and changes not being reflected.
• Updated ColorBox to verion 1.3.8
  • Fixed a bug in Chrome where it would sometimes render photos at 0 by 0 width and height (behavior introduced in recent update to Chrome).
  • Fixed a bug where the onClosed callback would fire twice (only affected 1.3.7).
  • Fixed a bug in IE7 that existed with some iframed websites that use JS to reposition the viewport caused ColorBox to move out of position.
  • Abstracted the identifiers (HTML ids & classes, and JS plugin name, method, and events) so that the plugin can be easily rebranded.
  • Small changes to improve either code readability or compression.

1.7

• Updated ColorBox to verion 1.3.7
  • $.colorbox can now be used for direct calls and accessing public methods. Example: $.colorbox.close();
  • Resize now accepts ‘width’, ‘innerWidth’, ‘height’ and ‘innerHeight’. Example: $.colorbox.resize({width:”100%”})
  • Added option (loop:false) to disable looping in a group.
  • Added options (escKey:false, arrowKey:false) to disable esc-key and arrow-key bindings.
  • Added method for removing ColorBox from a document: $.colorbox.remove();
  • Fixed a bug where iframed URLs would be truncated if they contained an unencoded apostrophe.
  • Now uses the exact href specified on an anchor, rather than the version returned by ‘this.href’. This was causing “#example” to be normalized to “http://domain/#example” which interfered with how some users were setting up links to inline content.

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1.6.9.7

• Fixed auto-lightbox breaking links that contained manually created rel="lightbox[]" attributes.

Please grab the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.2 directly.

If you need support please go to the Lightbox Plus message board.

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• If you handcraft your links to be lightboxed make sure you have Do Not Auto-Lightbox Images checked and Auto-Lightbox Text Links unchecked.
• If you use auto-lightboxing make sure you do no handcraft links to be lightboxed.

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1.6.9.6

• Skipping of auto-lightboxing of second image when image links were next to each other in html source should be fixed. At least in my testing.
• Fixed do not display image titles to work with text links.
  • Note – must already not have title tag in links elements.
• Fixed ability to use class method in text only links and gallery.
• Added ability to specify the class name used with class method. Defaults to cboxModal for the class.
• Changed jQuery implementation of colorbox on the page to both reduce size and prepare for allowing two different colorboxes. (see Road Map)

Please download the latest release of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.2 directly.

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1.6.9.5

• No really, the IE problems should be resolved.
  • Correctly handle new settings when empty to render correct JavaScript on out put – was causing IE to choke and wierd sliding effect on lightbox in all browsers.
  • Fixed invalid function call that would prevent older versions of IE (7 or less) from rendering lightbox at all.
• Fixed issue that if admin was being accessed via SSL you could not save settings.
• Fixed some skipping of images being auto-lightboxed. May not resolve all issues – please let me know at Lightbox Plus Support.

You can get the latest download of Lightbox Plus at wordpress.org and 23systems or download Lightbox Plus 2.2 directly.

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1. Can’t change to another style besides shadowed.
2. IE specfic stylesheets not loading correctly in shadowed and elegant themes.

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