Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I have set up my site to share knowledge and applications, and am trying to make this feature work. This is what I am trying to do:
Assuming a user is browsing my forum, when he/she clicks on a thread, I want it to open into a lightbox. In the lightbox, i want page to be shrunk to fit the lightbox. I have already made it so the blocks are disabled on all /node/*
So in essense, I am asking, how can I make it so when a user clicks on a thread, for it to open in a lightbox. And I am asking, how can I format the node to fit into the lightbox.
How can I do that stated above?
My site: http://theappshare.com
Comments
Comment #1
stella commentedYou will need to give each link the attribute
rel="lightframe". Then see http://drupal.org/node/252260 for two different ways to open node content in a lightbox. You don't need to disable your blocks on all node/*. You just need to create a custom page.tpl.php file in your theme for those pages. See the docs for more details - particularly the second half.Comment #3
jager commentedThanks for the help.
I am back again, trying to achieve the same task..
I want all my topics in my forum to open in a lightbox, without any blocks or anything. My problem is is that I do not know where to edit so that all my topic links open in a lightbox. I tried looking in the forum-topic.tpl.php but i could not find the url to edit the link to the topic.
If you guys could possibly give me a a little more information as to what files to edit, and to place what where.
Thanks in advance!
Comment #4
stella commentedYou could do it in the theme layer possibly, not sure. You'll need to use a theme override or hook into forum module to make the change to the links. Afraid I don't have time to help you with other modules.