Recently I decided to set up a blog for my family. I came across BlogCFC and quite liked it (thanks Ray!). I also liked Samuel Birch's Lightbox plug-in for Mootools and decided I could do with an integration into BlogCFC.
I put the two things together and the Lightbox plug-in for BlogCFC was born.
The plug-in enables you to easily integrate a lightbox collection into a blog, just use <lightbox name="aCollectionName"> in your entry, and you end up with something like this:
Looks like a very happy codling indeed!
Screenshot of the admin section
All you need to do is upload an image. The plug-in will create a thumbnail for you, will resize based on your settings, and can even add text or a watermark to the full image.
Requirements:
- Coldfusion 7.x
- BlogCFC version 5.9.001 (haven't tried it on other versions, might work/might not)
You can
download the plugin here. Full installations instructions are included and can also be
found on this page.
Have fun with it and let me know if it works ok for you.
I'm running BlogCFC on CF8 ...
have you seen any problems running your plug-in with CF8?
Also, I am using CFlickr as well ... are you aware of any incompatibility issues?
Thanks
Edward
I do not expect any problems with CF8. The only thing that *might* cause problems is the included functionality for image manipulation. This makes use of the java.awt package. Java 6 ( as included with CF 8 ) should be backwards compatible (at least). This site is running on Java 5 and I have no problems. I am not sure about the CFlickr, have never tested it but to be honest I can't think of a reason why it shouldn't work. :-)
Thanks for the great plugin! We love it here and are planning to implement it.
We have noticed, a seeming conflict in IE6/7: when a user posts a flash video (e.g., youtube)
to the blog, IE throws an error and won't display the page at all. Sometimes this happens
when browsing the post's individual page, sometimes not. I am a complete newbie when it comes to javascript
so I was wondering if anyone had heard of this and had any thoughts on how we might fix?
We are on blogcfc 5.9.004
and cf7 and 8 (prod & dev servers respectively).
This is not a horrific dealbreaker but if we could fix it, I'd love to know how! Thanks -- and thanks
for indulging my ignorance!
I need lunch!
Thanks
Amy
Could you send me a link to a age that throws the error in IE ?
You can email it to me (contact page) if you don't want to leave the link in the comments here.
Edit by jax: The above gibberish is a spam message which came from 88.249.98.46 It appears to be some lame ass based in Turkey. At this moment it is not listed in the honeypot database. Let's see how long it takes.. :-)
edit: more spam from
88.249.98.46 in Turkey..
The second thing you have to keep in mind is that you need to have a descriptive XML file in the root of the lightbox dir called metadata.xml
The XML file should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lightbox>
<formalname/>
<captions/>
</lightbox>
The Lightbox entry should then automatically show up in the lightbox admin section of blogcfc.