Support fancyBox2

I would also love to see this implemented. I have a great need for a responsive modal box system in Drupal, fancyBox 2 would be a great solution.

Fancybox 2.x requires jQuery 1.6+. Even with Drupal 7 + jQuery Update, you only get jQuery 1.5.x. So it is not evident...

Looks like #1386294: Fix jQuery 1.7 for Drupal 7 is pretty much there now.

we have now jQuery 1.7 in 7.x-2.x-dev

#1386294: Fix jQuery 1.7 for Drupal 7 is now fixed.

I'll postpone it until we find someone who is willing to work on this task

I love the fancybox and I'm the maintainer of the Gallery Link module but I don't fancybox 2 cause of the new license.

fancyBox licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license.
You are free to use fancyBox for your personal or non-profit website projects.
You can get the author's permission to use fancyBox for commercial websites by paying a fee.

Should we really support that?

Why not? Fancybox is still open source. We even support close source solution (MS SQL driver for Drupal is an example).

Yes we should. Dude has done a great job, made improvements and sells a good product. The licence for commercial sites is very reasonable as well.

Okay that's true. But how should we implement this? The code you need to trigger the fancybox and the options are different. Should the fancybox module detect which version of fancybox is installed (in libraries directory) and display the suitable options?

Detection sounds good to me but I'd go a step further and add some help text to the admin page explaining that the settings displayed are as a result of library version detection (hopefully that'll save a few support issues).

It's the responsive bit i'm interested in. Tried the demos and loved it.

How's the progress going on upgrading fancybox to fancybox2?

Any updates on this? Also very interested.

@yannickoo:
Code/options to trigger different minor versions (1.3.1 vs 1.3.4) was also different, thats why I lost interest in supporting such an unstable JS. Version 1.3 is buggy and it makes no sense to support it when there are better replacements such as Colorbox.

Anyway, fancybox2 should be different branch 7-2.x. I wouldn't mix both codes.

@kingfisher64 & @CinemaSaville:
No updates, everyone is waiting for magic to happen :) Are you willing to fund development?

I'm using colorbox. There's a licence fee associated with fancybox. Although it's great and the creator deserves to receieve funding, to pay for a lightbox solution everytime it's used, to me is not plausable. sorry.

I will be working on getting a stable branch for fancyBox 2 up. As bas.hr mentioned, it will be on the 2.x branch.

As of now, since this is a fairly simple module and the differences between version 1 and 2 of FancyBox are so extreme, I doubt the module will be upgradable from 1.x to 2.x. You'll just have to uninstall and reinstall the stable 2.x version.

Development is underway...

This is postponed again as fancyBox2 requires at least jQuery 1.7 (as mentioned earlier in this topic), and Drupal core provides 1.4.4 and the jQuery Update module provides 1.5.2. There's talk of 1.7, but there's still some work to do.

For 2.x jQuery Update will have to be a dependency (once they update to 1.7).

FYI jQuery Update provides 1.7.x in the latest development snapshot (there is an option to chose 1.5/1.7).

Okay, please test 7.x-2.x-dev. You can find the download on the project page. See the readme for installation and usage instructions. You will need the dev version of jQuery Update.

The functionality is largely inspired by the Colorbox module, so it should be easy to switch between the two. Let me hear your thoughts about it. Feel free to create a new issue.

These features are planned:

• Insert module integration
• Views integration

Any requests or comments?