Comments on: Using Lightbox with CakePHP

By: Cocoa Crusty

Cocoa Crusty — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:26:19 +0000

I placed the images in the webroot/img folder in their own subfolder, but you have to modify the JavaScript and CSS files to point to their location.

By: Jens Wiese

Jens Wiese — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:40:16 +0000

I have a last question: Where have you placed the image folder of Lightbox2 ?

By: Cocoa Crusty

Cocoa Crusty — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:40:49 +0000

Yeah, same here, r0sk. There is a lot to learn. Hopefully, I will be there some day!

Jeff

By: r0sk

r0sk — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:48:21 +0000

I’m starting learning CakePHP too, I found same problem with AJAX. When I tried to use AJAX functions CakePHP displayed an error “Unable to use $javascript”.

After reading some documentation, I saw the “helpers” solution. It’s easy to develope under CakePHP, but I must learn a lot.

By: Cocoa Crusty

Cocoa Crusty — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:02:45 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Ryan. I will definitely use this inclusion of JavaScript in the app_controller.php file. I am working on another site that needs JavaScript included in every page due to some mouse over image swapping. This will help a lot.

Thanks again!

Jeff

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:31:38 +0000

Oops, my php was stripped out, so here it is:

class AppController extends Controller
{

var $helpers = array(’Javascript’);

(+ other functions you might want in all controllers such as session checking, etc)

}

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:30:24 +0000

If you need to add the Javascript helper to all of your controllers, you can add them to a app_controller.php file in the app directory:

Since all the controllers inherit from this class, it will inherit the inclusion of any helpers you specify in it. Saves you from having to chase up every controller. You can still specify additional helpers in each individual controller.