Yoxview Lightbox Image Viewer Module for Drupal 7

published by Ross-Hunter on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 10:48
Yoxview

Yoxview is a wicked rad jQuery lightbox-style image viewer. I recently stumbled across this plugin while looking for a lightbox module for Drupal 7, only to discover that there was no D7 support yet. So I searched on some terms until I found the Yoxview Image Viewer plugin. Unfortunately, the Drupal module is broken. Searching through the issue queue you can find that there is a simple patch that fixes the module for the latest D7 releases. The module is super simple and simply adds yoxview to the displays that you can apply to content fields. There is no configuration options inside of Drupal itself, but all the options for yoxview are easy to configure via javascript.

I added these configuration options directly to the yoxview.js file included in the module. I'm sure there is a better way, but I figured since I had patched the module, I was already altering the module anyway. My yoxview.js file for this site looks like this

Yoxview also contains a ton of gallery options and can even play videos and slideshows. I haven't used many of these options yet. I just love the animation and the functionality of the image viewer.

Have you used Yoxview? What about other lightbox style plug-ins? Do you have an alternative that is currently supported on Drupal 7?

Tags: 
Drupal
jQuery
Web

Comments

Ross-Hunter

Thu, 12/09/2010 - 10:14

Let me Clarify that Drupal 7 doesn't seem to use the Title Tag for images by default. You can easily add title tags in D6.

Ross-Hunter

kendall (not verified)

Mon, 01/10/2011 - 16:50

Which version of yoxview are you using, the dev or the alpha? and what release date? I can't get it to work. It won't use the specified image size on the page, or open the image in a lightbox.

Thanks.

Ross-Hunter

Fri, 03/11/2011 - 10:54

Sorry for the late reply. Now I am using 1.1. I remember at one point I had to upgrade to the Dev in order for it to function.

Ross-Hunter

whatdoesitwant (not verified)

Tue, 09/13/2011 - 13:28

I noticed on their demo page that currently the vimeo video doesn't properly stop playing on moving to next slide. Only reloading the vimeo slide, does the audio halt. Do you know of a solution? I'm currently weighing yoxview against colorbox and shadowbox. I'll ask on their page as well but I got to your blog via http://drupal.org/node/1088314.

Ross-Hunter

Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:35

FWIW I use Colorbox when building client sites. It has wider Drupal support and is easier for end users to configure. YoxView has some cool features though if you aren't afraid to write your own JS.

Ross-Hunter

Julie (not verified)

Fri, 09/14/2012 - 11:31

Sorry for my late, late reply!

I've got the same problem with my vimeo's videos slider using Yoxview, tha audio doesn't stop playing on moving on the next slide, even when I close the lightbox. I wrote them an email for help because I'm a beginner in development ^^, I thought I could remove the function next/previous but I don't know how to do that...

JH (not verified)

Fri, 11/16/2012 - 21:55

I love yoxview. Use it on several sites. Haven't found another I like as much.

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