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I have been trying to integrate ThickBox or GreyBox modal popups into CMSms but haven't really gotten very far.
EDIT:
Before anyone asks: I am not trying to make photo albums, I am trying to display actual CMS content pages in a popup.

This was my approach (with ThickBox):
- Create a 'Popup' template for all the pages that I want to show in the modal popup window.
- This template calls my simple UDT which simply adds the ?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=250&width=400 to the URL
- Associate all my popup pages to this template
- When linking to a popup page, I have to click the chain icon in Tiny and enter the URL manually and set the class to 'thickbox'

This does create a ThickBox popup window for me but fails to show the contents of the popup page plus I see this other issues:
- I would much rather use the CMSSelfLink tag so I don't have to copy/paste (or memorize) the url of the page I want to popup
- I have to set the class to thickbox everytime
- I am not sure if pretty URLs mess things up


Has anyone had tried to implement this into CMSms?

Thanks

I use Thickbox on my site http://www.vaughnsphotoart.com/index.ph ... -additions but only to pop up images, not pages the way you describe. I did test the page popups though and they worked. I don't know if that is encouragement or not, but there it is.

Hi,
thanks but yeah, I want to popup pages and want to try to make it simpler for the end user to create such popups, rather than having them edit the HTML directly.

hexDJ if you looked recently a light box module has been added, maybe something like that can be done with thickbox talk to calguy1000 or take a look at the code

hey sportman
I know about cal's lightbox module but it only works for images which is not what I am after

i was saying look at the code for that and we just modify it for thickbox

Are you wanting to do this only for links placed in pages, or for menu links as well?

vaunght:

both

I'll take a look at this if I ever get some time.

Ah. If it was just for within pages, I was going to suggest hacking the TinyMCE CMSMS-link plugin might be your best bet. But for both... don't have an idea.

couldn't he modify something in the menu template in menu manager?