Dynamic display block slideshow for drupal not working in IE and some fields don't show up. (FIXED)

First, are you using the RC6 version or the dev version of the dynamic display block slideshow module?
DDblock themes for the RC6 version are not compatible with the dev version of the module.

The dev version has only the upright10-60 ddblock themes for this version. See download section

Maybe your IE issue is that IE does only support 32 CSS stylesheets. The ddblock stylesheet is one of the last stylesheets added and could be ignored by IE when you have more then 32 CSS Stylesheets.

Setting CSS optimalization at Administer > Site configuration > Performance will give you a solution for this issue. This is what you would do when your Drupal site is in production anyway.

What causes the different result for the drupal_set_message debug_lines, is maybe a caching issue.

Do you have a link to your Internet site

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

Probably you have content permissions module enabled and did not give permissions for this field.

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Set status to fixed.
Adjusted issue title.

I am facing a similar problem. I cannot see the slideshow in IE8- they appear blank. The pager images are there. Firefox works fine.

I have uncommented the required in template.php for your reference:

stdClass::__set_state(array(
'nid' => '660',
'node_title' => 'EA CNY $8 off Promotion',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value' => NULL,
'node_type' => 'ddblock_news_item',
'node_vid' => '661',
'node_data_field_slide_text_field_slide_text_value' => 'Get $8 off every EA game above $45. All Games, all platforms',
'node_data_field_image_field_image_fid' => '993',
'node_data_field_image_field_image_list' => '1',
'node_data_field_image_field_image_data' => 'a:3:{s:11:"description";s:0:"";s:3:"alt";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}',
'node_revisions_body' => '

and

stdClass::__set_state(array(
'nid' => '660',
'node_title' => 'EA CNY $8 off Promotion',
'node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value' => NULL,
'node_type' => 'ddblock_news_item',
'node_vid' => '661',
'node_data_field_slide_text_field_slide_text_value' => 'Get $8 off every EA game above $45. All Games, all platforms',
'node_data_field_image_field_image_fid' => '993',
'node_data_field_image_field_image_list' => '1',
'node_data_field_image_field_image_data' => 'a:3:{s:11:"description";s:0:"";s:3:"alt";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}',
'node_revisions_body' => '

The code in template.php is as follows:

/*!
* Dynamic display block preprocess functions
* Copyright (c) 2008 - 2009 P. Blaauw All rights reserved.
* Version 1.6 (01-OCT-2009)
* Licenced under GPL license
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
*/

/**
* Override or insert variables into the ddblock_cycle_block_content templates.
* Used to convert variables from view_fields to slider_items template variables
*
* @param $vars
* An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
*
*/
function whitejazz_preprocess_ddblock_cycle_block_content(&$vars) {
if ($vars['output_type'] == 'view_fields') {
$content = array();
// Add slider_items for the template
// If you use the devel module uncomment the following line to see the theme variables
// dsm($vars['settings']['view_name']);
// dsm($vars['content'][0]);
// If you don't use the devel module uncomment the following line to see the theme variables
//drupal_set_message('

' . var_export($vars['settings']['view_name'], true) . '

');
//drupal_set_message('

' . var_export($vars['content'][0], true) . '

');
if ($vars['settings']['view_name'] == 'news_items') {
if (!empty($vars['content'])) {
foreach ($vars['content'] as $key1 => $result) {
// add slide_image variable
if (isset($result->node_data_field_image_field_image_fid)) {
// get image id
$fid = $result->node_data_field_image_field_image_fid;
// get path to image
$filepath = db_result(db_query("SELECT filepath FROM {files} WHERE fid = %d", $fid));
// use imagecache (imagecache, preset_name, file_path, alt, title, array of attributes)
if (module_exists('imagecache') && is_array(imagecache_presets()) && $vars['imgcache_slide'] <> ''){
$slider_items[$key1]['slide_image'] =
theme('imagecache',
$vars['imgcache_slide'],
$filepath,
check_plain($result->node_title));
}
else {
$slider_items[$key1]['slide_image'] =
' '" alt="' . check_plain($result->node_title) .
'"/>';
}
}
// add slide_text variable
if (isset($result->node_data_field_slide_text_field_slide_text_value)) {
$slider_items[$key1]['slide_text'] = check_markup($result->node_data_field_slide_text_field_slide_text_value);
}
// add slide_title variable
if (isset($result->node_title)) {
$slider_items[$key1]['slide_title'] = check_plain($result->node_title);
}
// add slide_read_more variable and slide_node variable
if (isset($result->nid)) {
$slider_items[$key1]['slide_read_more'] = l('Read more...', 'node/' . $result->nid);
$slider_items[$key1]['slide_node'] = base_path() . 'node/' . $result->nid;
}
}
}
}
$vars['slider_items'] = $slider_items;
}
}
/**
* Override or insert variables into the ddblock_cycle_pager_content templates.
* Used to convert variables from view_fields to pager_items template variables
* Only used for custom pager items
*
* @param $vars
* An array of variables to pass to the theme template.
*
*/
function whitejazz_preprocess_ddblock_cycle_pager_content(&$vars) {
if (($vars['output_type'] == 'view_fields') && ($vars['pager_settings']['pager'] == 'custom-pager')){
$content = array();
// Add pager_items for the template
// If you use the devel module uncomment the following lines to see the theme variables
// dsm($vars['pager_settings']['view_name']);
// dsm($vars['content'][0]);
// If you don't use the devel module uncomment the following lines to see the theme variables
//drupal_set_message('

' . var_export($vars['pager_settings'], true) . '

');
//drupal_set_message('

' . var_export($vars['content'][0], true) . '

');
if ($vars['pager_settings']['view_name'] == 'news_items') {
if (!empty($vars['content'])) {
foreach ($vars['content'] as $key1 => $result) {
// add pager_item_image variable
if (isset($result->node_data_field_image_field_image_fid)) {
$fid = $result->node_data_field_image_field_image_fid;
$filepath = db_result(db_query("SELECT filepath FROM {files} WHERE fid = %d", $fid));
// use imagecache (imagecache, preset_name, file_path, alt, title, array of attributes)
if (module_exists('imagecache') &&
is_array(imagecache_presets()) &&
$vars['imgcache_pager_item'] <> ''){
$pager_items[$key1]['image'] =
theme('imagecache',
$vars['pager_settings']['imgcache_pager_item'],
$filepath,
check_plain($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value));
}
else {
$pager_items[$key1]['image'] =
' '" alt="' . check_plain($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value) .
'"/>';
}
}
// add pager_item _text variable
if (isset($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value)) {
$pager_items[$key1]['text'] = check_plain($result->node_data_field_pager_item_text_field_pager_item_text_value);
}
}
}
}
$vars['pager_items'] = $pager_items;
}
}

Any advise is much appreciated!

#10 do you have a link to your Internet site, so I can help you better.

When you can see the ddblock working in FF the preprocess functions are not the problem.

hello, the website is www.zepygames.com

"When you can see the ddblock working in FF the preprocess functions are note the problem." - Sorry I don't get what you mean here...

I see in Chrome that you have JavaScript errors at your site, in FF I don't see them.

The JavaScript errors probably stop JavaScript functions being loaded.

Hope this helps you further, please let me know.

(in the previous message note should be not, edited the post)

You are right on this, seems to be a javascript error. I have updated views and problem still persists. Is there any simple workaround solution to this problem?

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; msn OptimizedIE8;ENUS)
Timestamp: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:34:31 UTC

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 69
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://www.zepygames.com/sites/all/modules/views/js/base.js?p

@merky84

Had a look at your site and it seems that you solved the issue.
Can you explain for other users what was the issue and how you solved it.

@stevenaburton
In this case a pager is used with only images, there is no need for a pager-item-text.

@ppblaauw

Quite honestly, I did nothing and it fixed itself. And now, I did nothing and the issue is back again. Does changing the slideshow images, pager item text, or slide text affect anything? Because that is all I did (i think).

i had the same problem with the slide images not appearing in IE 7/8 and rectified it by changing "position: absolute" to "position: relative" in my css file for the class:

div.ddblock-cycle-upright40 div.slide-inner img{
position: relative;
height: 250px;
width: 440px;
}

@teh_catt,

Did you have the same Javascript error as I have? I've tried changing the position to absolute from relative in ddblock-cycle-upright40.css but jv error is still there.

Hi all,

I managed to find what the problem is. When I applied a twitter widget from http://twitter.com/widgets to a block on my site, I get the JV error which prevents ddblock from displaying slideshow. Everything's ok after i removed it. Anyone facing same issue as me here?

Set status to fixed.

I can verify that the twitter widget is causing the error on my site.

I have a two column panel frontpage. A views display lives in each of the two columns, both have full ajax pagers turned on, showing 10 nodes per column. And I have the following code in a block that shows on the homepage.

<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
<script>
new TWTR.Widget({
  version: 2,
  type: 'search',
  search: 'Politics',
  interval: 6000,
  title: 'Politics',
  subject: 'Solving Problems',
  width: 200,
  height: 300,
   theme: {
   shell: {
     background: '#fff',
     color: '#000'
   },
   tweets: {
     background: '#ffffff',
     color: '#444444',
     links: '#1985b5'
   }
 },
 features: {
   scrollbar: false,
   loop: true,
   live: true,
   hashtags: true,
   timestamp: true,
   avatars: true,
   behavior: 'default'
 }
}).render().start();
</script>

Everything works fine, even in IE believe it or not, but I do get this error in IE;

"Object doesn't support this property or method"
base.js Line:69
Code: 0 Char: 5
URI: http://mysite.com/sites/all/modules/views/js/base.js?O

For whatever it is worth, I just was having a similar issue with IE7 suddenly not working to display the Dynamic Display Block and the "Object doesn't support this property or method" error. For whatever reason, it was having trouble parsing a line in the .js file related to the DHTML Menu module. Disable the module, and poof, working IE7.