Comments on: New symfony plugin: sfLightWindowPlugin

By: af4ng

af4ng — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:34:23 +0000

Hi,
I’m a newbie in symfony. I just installed the sfLightWindowPlugin and it worked successfully when i click a link (using lw_link). My problem is that i want to show the lightwindow when my textbox lostfocus (onBlur). The action is it will refer to ‘module/action’. Same like lw_link. But i can’t using lw_link inside the input_tag. Can you suggest me what i have to do?

Thanks a lot.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:16:21 +0000

Hey how would I use a flash video (flv) instead of the swf?

Thanks

By: Carl Edwards

Carl Edwards — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:24:45 +0000

I have a page where I click on a lw_link button that pops up a lightwindow. This has several buttons and links in it and currently you click an option then click a “continue” button.

Clicking the selected option runs a javascript function in the original window that sets a hidden form variable. I now want to change the page so that I only have to click on the option in the lightwindow and it calls the javascript function and then closes the lightwindow. I am finding this impossible to do! If I have “rel=deactivate” and “class=lightwindow_action” in the option link in the lightwindow, all that happens is the lightwindow is closed, the a href=”javascript:myfunction();” never actually fires!

I’ve tried doing “mylightwindow.deactivate()” in the javascript function I call and it just says “mylightwindow is not defined”. I’ve tried doing “lightwindow.deactivate()” and it says that is not a function…

I’m lost! Surely this is possible to do?

By: MG-Programmer

MG-Programmer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:14:27 +0000

@Symbiat:
Did you solved your Problem? I’ve got the same one. In LightWindow it just appears a blank window and if I load the page normally it works fine…

By: Symbiat

Symbiat — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:33:21 +0000

The player loads and plays normally if I load the play action page in my browser directly. If I load the same page into LightWindow I get an empty (blank) window.

By: Scott Meves

Scott Meves — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:42:57 +0000

I don’t think it’s related to javascript. You might want to try and get the videos working without the symfony helpers and just do it the way Kevin does by hand (http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/). That way at least you can rule out any issues with the symfony plugin.

By: Symbiat

Symbiat — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:34:22 +0000

Hmm… I took out the EMBED tag inside the “player” DIV and all I see now is a blank lightwindow. So it looks like JavaScript is not running inside the LightWindow. I vaguely remember reading about scripting being switched off by default in symfony helpers so maybe that’s it? Does this ring any bells?

By: Scott Meves

Scott Meves — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:38:30 +0000

@Symbiat: Interesting. I'm not sure exactly what is happening, although I can see a problem with this:


" height="getHeight(); ?>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" wmode="
opaque" flashvars="file=getUrl(); ?>&displayheight=getHeight(); ?>&displaywidth=getWidth(); ?>&autostart=true" />

I'm not sure if this is something with the comment filtering on this blog or if your embed src really does have a width set like this: width="getWidth(); ?>" . That's no good! Make sure you are passing the parameters into the helper properly, it looks like in this case it's not parsing the PHP and instead is actually putting the function text "getWidth(); ?>" inside the width parameter....

By: Symbiat

Symbiat — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:39:14 +0000

Yes, Ive read through the template. Im playing an FLV file. My template contains a partial that contains this:

getThumbnail(), array(‘width’ => 144, ’style’ => ‘border:2px solid #fff’)), ‘@playvideo?id=’ . $item->getId(), array(‘title’ => ‘Video: ‘ . $item->getTitle())); ?>

When I click the link, the lightwindow loads a template that contains this:

” height=”getHeight(); ?>” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” wmode=”
opaque” flashvars=”file=getUrl(); ?>&displayheight=getHeight(); ?>&displaywidth=getWidth(); ?>&autostart=true” />

var so = new SWFObject(‘/flvplayer.swf’,'player’,'getWidth(); ?>’,'getHeight(); ?>’,'7′);
so.addParam(“allowfullscreen”,”true”);
so.addVariable(“file”,”getUrl(); ?>”);
so.addVariable(“image”,”getThumbnail(); ?>”);
so.addVariable(“width”, “getWidth(); ?>”);
so.addVariable(“autostart”, “false”);
so.addVariable(“height”, “getHeight(); ?>”);
so.write(‘player’);

The problem is the video appears to start playing before the loading has finished but then it starts playing again a second later after it has finished loading. Im just trying to figure out why that happens.

By: Scott Meves

Scott Meves — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:05:12 +0000

@Symbiat:

check out the demo page (http://symfony.stereodevelopment.com/sfLightWindow). All you have to do is set the ’src’ attribute to the .swf file.