I'm quite desperate... All day I'm trying to get fancybox (or shadowbox) working. But I can't get my head around it.
The main goal: opening inline HTML-elements, external links and forms in a modal (pictures are a nice addon ;-) )

But whatever I'm trying: the content still opens as a normal link (or with the inline-elements: the screen moves to the anchor).

Things I've done:
* hardcoding all necessary javascript and css-files into templates/page.ss (on top of the body, on the bottom, in the head)
* disabling all other .js-functionality as is suggested here http://silverstripe.org/archive/show/187021?start=0#post187321
* enabling all other .js-functionality
* enabling all other .js functionality except prototype.js as UncleCheese is doing in the ImageGallery-module
* including all necessary javascript and css-files with public function init() { Requirements::javascript(..); }
* restarting wampserver as well as way too many /db/builds
* I even plainly copied what UncleCheese did in the ImageGallery-module (off course without any luck)

Oh, and off course I had $(document).ready(function() { }); as a part of the necessary javascript-files and all the tags fancybox and shadowbox require added to the <a>

Is there someone out there who got a modal working and can help me out?
Or maybe it's a wamp-problem?

Thank you.

I'm on 2.3.0 and still putting things like that as requirements in init().
Are you suggesting that's not the preferred solution anymore?

I read something about <% required %> tags, but I can't find documentation on it...

It would be in general very usefull to have a tutorial how to implement some lightbox or fancybox or shadowbox in the best way

Hi all!

I know this thread is quite old but I still hope to get some replies. I too have the problem of a non-working shadowbox (outside of image_gallery module - all works fine there) but I also need to link one or two images outside of the gallery module to open up in a shadowbox (if possible)

what I did was:
- downloading the latest shadowbox and putting it into my mysite/javascript folder
- put this <% require javascript(mysite/javascript/shadowbox-3.0.3/shadowbox.js) %> into my page.ss head underneath other js code like cufon (which works like a charm btw)
- in my backend I used a html-dialog to code the shadowbox gallery where I wanted it to be like so:

when all of that didn´t work (the linked image opens in a new window) I searched the forums and found a threat about some init () commands. that´s when I tried putting this:

in my page.php underneath the parent::init(); but still without success....what am I doing wrong? Or am I doing anything right at all??? pls help!

kind regards