Using lighbox java and missing image

[Mitchell]

Hi all,

I am using the following code to load images with Lightbox javascript.

<%if $photo !="$tpl_base/images/transparent.gif" %><A href="<%$photo%>" rel="lightbox"><%thumb file="$photo" width="170" height="120" crop="true" window="true" link="false" html='class="img float" border="0"'%> </a>
<%/if%>

I am using the “transparent.gif” so if users don’t have an image it uses that file, however I think since I installed 1.3.3 (I might be wrong) “transparent.gif” is not working and if user doesn’t upload an image I am getting a smarty error message on the detail page and in fact detail page doesn’t load at all.

Any idea what the problem could be or why it is not working?

Many thanks in advance
Mitchell

[Bruceper]

does $tpl_base/images/transparent.gif exist? Check it with your browser.

Some hosts will not display images that have write permissions on them. If that iamge comes up as a 404 make sure to set the file permissions to 644 and try viewing it again in the browser.

Also as a tip, it might be easier to use the following

<%if $photo|file_exists%><A href="<%$photo%>" rel="lightbox"><%thumb file="$photo" width="170" height="120" crop="true" window="true" link="false" html='class="img float" border="0"'%> </a>
<%else%>
<img src="<%$tpl_base%>/images/transparent.gif" />
<%/if%>

[Mitchell]

Thank you Bruce, that was great, it works perfectly now.