[TYPO3-dam] New extension "damlightbox" - sounds interessting?

Tue Mar 25 13:50:56 CET 2008

P.S.:
Debugging everything looks correct. The DAM media info including the 
fullPath is correct.

Dr. Ronald P. Steiner schrieb:
> Hi Torsten,
> 
> thank you for your reply.
> 
> Your reply already solved my first problem:
> I uninstalled most other extensions and the problem of the missing 
> header data is solved. So possibly some other extension causes the problem.
> 
> Regarding the second problem, that in place where the image should be 
> there is only a white field I could not find a solution now. The html of 
> the lightbox is empty between the <body>-tag.
> 
> So the error must be somewhere before the image is processed?
> 
> greetings
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> Torsten Schrade schrieb:
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>>> 1) The extension kind of overwrites the header data. So title, 
>>> stylesheets, is removed after including the pmkslimbox-damlightbox 
>>> template.
>>
>> Strange - the pmkslimbox-damlightbox TS only adds to page.headerData 
>> at .1231 (some embedded styles) and .1232 (some custom .js). It should 
>> not override anything whatsoever... The two includes are necessary 
>> after .1230 which gets added by pmkslimbox. For a start, check the 
>> following four things:
>>
>> 1) Is the damlightbox / pmkslimbox-damlightbox TS included AFTER 
>> pmkslimbox and css_styled_content?
>>
>> 2) Check your page.headerData with and without pmkslimbox-damlightbox 
>> for differences. Where is your CSS (page.headerData, page.includeCSS) 
>> normaly included?
>>
>> 3) Check your config object with and without the TS. For the <title> 
>> to be dropped you would have to set this at config.noPageTitle but 
>> damlightbox doesn't touch this.
>>
>> 4) Are there any other extensions installed that may modify 
>> CSS/title/tt_content.image? Maybe there's a conflict...
>>
>>> 2) The lightbox opens with meta information and correct sice, but in 
>>> place where the photo should be it's just empty.
>>> You got any idea for the reason?
>>
>> This almost certainly happens due to a wrong filepath. Open the 
>> lightbox and check the HTML by doing rightclick > show frame source. 
>> Is the <img> tag there? Where does it point to? Is there an img at the 
>> specified location (either fileadmin or typo3temp)? Turn on debugging 
>> for the lightbox in the CONSTANT EDITOR and check the fullPath 
>> property in the metadata register.
>>
>> Maybe the img gets lost when processed to typo3temp. Another test can 
>> be to try it with an image that is smaller than the values given in 
>> plugin.damlightbox.maxW/maxH (800/600). If things are set up currectly 
>> this image should be opened directly from fileadmin...
>>
>>> P.S.:
>>> Dose your extension support a feature pass the photos through a 
>>> GIFBUILDER for e.g. to use effects or to include a watermark on the 
>>> photos?
>>
>> Since damlightbox is 99% TS based, that is certainly possible ;) You 
>> just need to modify the DAM_IMAGE marker. Here is a working example 
>> that will render the DAM copyright information on the images:
>>
>> damlightbox.10.10.renderObj.20.marks.DAM_IMAGE.10 {
>>
>>     file >
>>
>>     file = GIFBUILDER
>>     file  {
>>         XY = [10.w],[10.h]
>>         quality = 100
>>         format = jpg
>>
>>         10 = IMAGE
>>         10.file {
>>                        import.cObject < temp.getDAMvalues
>>             import.cObject.cObject.value = 
>> TSFE:register|tx_damlightbox|metaData|{register:currentImg}|fullPath
>>                        width.cObject < temp.getDAMvalues
>>             width.cObject.cObject.value = 
>> TSFE:register|tx_damlightbox|metaData|{register:currentImg}|hpixels
>>                        height.cObject < temp.getDAMvalues
>>             height.cObject.cObject.value = 
>> TSFE:register|tx_damlightbox|metaData|{register:currentImg}|vpixels
>>                    }
>>
>>         20 = TEXT
>>         20.text.cObject < temp.getDAMvalues
>>         20.text.cObject.cObject.value = 
>> TSFE:register|tx_damlightbox|metaData|{register:currentImg}|copyright
>>         20.text.data = TSFE:register|tx_damlightbox|metaData|0|copyright
>>         20.text.noTrimWrap = |(C) ||
>>         20.align = left
>>         20.offset = 20,30
>>         20.fontSize = 20
>>         20.fontColor = #FFFFFF
>>         20.nicetext = 1
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> Hope this helps to solve the problems. Greetings and nice Easter Monday,
>> Torsten