Dispalying additional fields in Lightbox2 display

I don't really plan on implementing this. However you can achieve the same effect by loading image nodes in a lightbox as you say. You can customize the image node page using a page-node-lightbox2.tpl.php template file in your theme's directory, as documented at http://drupal.org/node/252260 However, you could also create a node-lightbox2.tpl.php and use that to configure which node fields should appear and where they appear. So you could display just the image and the dimensions, but not the body if you so wished. Check out the contemplate module, which is very useful for creating the necessary customized template files.

Cheers,
Stella

You get that error because the sample template file is for the default garland theme. You'll need to customise it to suit your own. Try modifying it and remove the call to phptemplate_get_ie_styles().

You need a page-node-lightbox2.tpl.php to prevent the sidebars and header from appearing.
You need the node-lightbox2.tpl.php file to customise where and which fields should be displayed. Using your own node.tpl.php file is a good start. Likewise you could use your page.tpl.php file as the starting point for your own page-node-lightbox2.tpl.php and remove the sidebars and header from that.

@glassman3000 , I feel your pain. Trying to add a few fields to lightbox2 seems to be major surgery.

You should also check out #474454: Views lightbox2 custom field handler (update)

@stella, Thank you very much, I am investigating getting captions and (maybe) other possible items to display in lightbox2 with node_gallery. The requests have driven me to looking for an option that everyone can enjoy with some level of ease.

BTW, I just love the lightbox2 mod, The advanced options are really neat. I see many of them just set to black.. I have it set to red with 05 overlay(a neat look) for my test site.
I looked at the items on your site, you are a very talented artist. I always liked one of a kind pieces.
Thanks again for the tip, I'm gone reading and learning more!

I'd love this capability! It's exactly what I need: To be able to display the body, say, in the bottom area of the lightbox pop-up. Is there any headway on this? I looked at the work-arounds mentioned and they look quite time-consuming (curve-wise) for a noob like me.

Great module!

OK, I figured out another work-around on how to put the body of the image node into the lightbox display.

All you have to do is to create a custom module, implement a theme hook_image_display to put the body as the title attribute of the image thumbnail, make a very minor modification to auto_image_handling.js and voila! Problem solved. It has the additional benefit of displaying the body information when the mouse hovers over the image. If there are images that you still want the title to display there (i.e. non-gallery images), you could simply put body=title.

Here's the code for the custom module:

/**
 * Implementation of hook_image_display.
 * 
 * Put the body of the image node in the Title attribute.
 * This along with a minor modification of the auto_image_handling.js
 * line 164 (added "<br /><br />" + img_title to the rel)
 * rel = rel + "[" + alt + title_link + "<br /><br />" + img_title + "]";  
 * allows the body of the image node to be displayed in the lightbox2 image 
 * box/ 
 * 
 */

function andrea_image_display($node, $label, $url, $attributes) {
  //$title = isset($attributes['title']) ? $attributes['title'] : $node->title;
  $title = isset($attributes['title']) ? $attributes['title'] : check_plain(strip_tags($node->body));
  $alt = isset($attributes['alt']) ? $attributes['alt'] : $node->title;
  return theme('image', $url, $alt, $title, $attributes, FALSE);
}

The only change to auto_image_handling.js is on line 164 (added breaks and img_title to the rel)
rel = rel + "[" + alt + title_link + "<br /><br />" + img_title + "]";

You know this is a difficult challenge. I wanted multiple lines of text. What I ended up doing was adding <br /> tags to my title. I'm close to understanding... line 204 on my lightbox2.formatter.inc:

$caption = $image_title;

I know to do this:

$caption = $image_title . '<br />' . $image_subtitle;

But I do not know how to define $image_subtitle, at least dynamically so that it changes based on the node. I tried inserting php code in the body section, but that did not work.

Cheers