Can't get Lightbox to work with customized Matrix, Gallery 2

I'm trying to make my embedded gallery page work with lightbox. I'm following this tutorial but am hitting 2 problems.

1. When I add the stylesheet and js lines (point 8 on the tutorial) it totally screws my final page (big black square over top half of screen and a permanent empty lightbox box at the bottom). It's like the lightbox stylesheet and my own stylesheet are clashing. I tried including the lightbox stylesheet contents at the bottom of my own stylesheet but the same thing happened. I'm really in the dark on what I'm doing here. You can see the mess I've made here (it should be a 3x3 thumb grid!)
http://www.afterdarkmodels.com/gallery/gallery2Embedded.php :-/

2. Even with the above page-wrecking lightbox stylesheet in place, the actual functionality isn't working. When you click thumbnails it still loads the gallery HTML page of that image, not the lightbox version.

In the tutorial (point 10 and 11) the 2 lines of code it advises to replace seems a little out of date:

<a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">

the code in my Matrix theme is:

{capture assign=linkUrl}{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem"
arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}{/capture}

I changed it to:
{capture assign=linkUrl}{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" rel="Lightbox[gallery]"}{/capture}

and for the second link:

{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" rel="Lightbox[gallery]"}

But it didn't work. I've no idea if the syntax is right, I was just using my best guess.

Any help on this would be muchly appreciated.

Perhaps the tutorial was not written for your version:

Either way you should upgrade as there is security and other bug fixes sine then.

Dave
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Yes

That will work but might take some time. Don't forget the g2data folder and all the hidden files ( they start with a dot ).

Dave

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http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:FAQ#How_do_I_backup_G2.3F
Yes if you have some utility to zip up the data it will go faster.

Dave
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Not that I can remember. Some people miss the versions.dat file int eh g2data direcotry.

Dave
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If your DB on the old install was using a theme then the new location needs it as well.

Dave
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any help on this appreciated. I know they're the stoopidest questions, but I don't wanna mess this up! Ta.

I didn't realise there was a difference! I followed the instructions here http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Download#Upgrades which say to download, unpack and go to your gallery site. When I went there it automatically starts the installer.

Anyway, I changed the url to inlcude '/upgrade' and found the upgrader. I've run the upgrade but ran into errors at 'Upgrade Plugins'.

This was the stack trace it threw out:

At my gallery website I now just get a page saying an error occured (http://afterdarkmodels.com/gallery)

I think it may have had problems with missing files for Ajaxian, Carbon and Matrix theme, though I don't remember deleting any files.
What should be my next step?

Thanks, seems a couple of folders got missed in the FTP. Upgrade now successful.

I'm still left puzzling over the Lightbox problem though.

I realised what the clash was in point 1 of my first post. It was coz I'd left a few Lightbox script calls in the head of my page (it was butchered from another page). Also, I didn't realise you had to download a G2 Lightbox module till I read right to the bottom of the instructions. That's now d/l'd and installed.

But point 2 of my first post remains. The code I'm advised to change has different syntax to the latest Carbon theme code.

It says to find the two lines in album.tpl that contain this:

<a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">

Those lines now looks like this:

{capture assign=linkUrl}{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem"
arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}{/capture}

and:

{if $theme.params.dynamicLinks == 'jump'}
{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}
{else}

It says to replace it with this:

<a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" rel="Lightbox[gallery]">

Which I've interpreted as:

{capture assign=linkUrl}{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem"
arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"} rel="Lightbox[gallery]{/capture}

and:

{if $theme.params.dynamicLinks == 'jump'}
{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"} rel="Lightbox[gallery]
{else}

Anyone know if my syntax correct, coz the page just sits there? No Lightbox functionality at all.

Thanks alec, have amended that, still no joy though.

In Point 8 of the instructions (http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:Lightbox#Basics) it says to include a few paths to the js files in the head of templates/theme.tpl.

I've been working in a copied theme.tpl file in a 'local' directory within the theme's templates folder, so does that mean the paths to the js files need altering too?

Glad you got it all sorted.
Perhaps you can post the files that you changed to benefit others.

Dave

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