Basically I have a slightly non-standard implementation of FancyBox. By default you have to include a link to the large version of the
image so that the Lightbox can display it. However, in my implementation, the
image link URLs point to a script rather than directly to the
image file. So for example, instead of:
<a href="mysite/images/myimage.jpg" rel="gallery">
I have:
<a href="mysite/photos/view/abc123" rel="gallery">
The above URL points to a function:
public function actionPhotos($view)
{
$photo=Photo::model()->find('name=:name', array(':name'=>$view));
if(!empty($photo))
{
$this->renderPartial('_photo', array('photo'=>$photo, true));
}
}
The "$this-renderPartial()" bit simply calls a layout file which includes a standard HTML tag to output.
Now when the user clicks on a thumbnail, the above function is called and the large
image is displayed in the Lightbox.
Now if the user right clicks on the thumbnail and selects "open in new tab/window" then the
image is displayed in the browser as per normal, i.e. just the
image. I want to change this so that it displays the
image within a layout.
In the above code I can include the following and put it in an IF statement:
$this->render('photos', array('photo'=>$photo));
This will call the layout file "photos" which contains the layout to display the
image in.
I have a specific limitation for this - the
image URL must remain the same, i.e. no additional GET variables in the URL. However if we can pass in a GET variable in the background then that is OK.
I will most likely need to change my function above so that it calls a different file for this functionality.
EDIT: To demonstrate exactly what I am trying to do, check out the following:
http://www.starnow.co.uk/KimberleyMarren
Go to the photos tab and hover over a thumbnail - note the URL. Click the thumbnail and it will open up in the Lightbox. Next right click on that same thumbnail and select "open in new tab/new window". You will notice that the
image is now displayed in a layout. So that same URL is used for displaying the
image in the Lightbox and on its own page.
The way StarNow have done this is using some crazy long JavaScript functionality, which I'm not too keen on replicating.
