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Call colorbox from URL using javascript


My goal is to open a media asset in colorbox according to the URL I specify in my address bar.

Topic has been discussed enough on the web but I can't seem to get it to work using a url with '?open=true' appended to the end to open a specific video upon loading the url.

HTML CODE

<ul>          <li class="media-row">

          <a rel="" class="colorbox-inline initColorboxInline-processed cboxElement" href="/?width=600px&amp;height=400px&amp;title=&amp;inline=true#colorbox-inline-1"><img width="205" height="115" class="imagecache imagecache-lightbox_small" title="" alt="" src="http://localhost:8888/sites/default/files/imagecache/lightbox_small/emvideo-vimeo-33340864.jpg"></a><div style="display: none;"><div id="colorbox-inline-1"><div class="emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-vimeo"><div class="media-vimeo" id="media-vimeo-1">
    <iframe width="600" height="375" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33340864?fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;autoplay=0"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>    
          <h3>Sample Video</h3>    
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</p>            
      </li>
          <li class="media-row">

          <a rel="" class="colorbox-inline initColorboxInline-processed cboxElement" href="/?width=600px&amp;height=400px&amp;title=&amp;inline=true#colorbox-inline-2"><img width="205" height="115" class="imagecache imagecache-lightbox_small" title="" alt="" src="http://localhost:8888/sites/default/files/imagecache/lightbox_small/emvideo-vimeo-9445708.jpg"></a><div style="display: none;"><div id="colorbox-inline-2"><div class="emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-vimeo"><div class="media-vimeo" id="media-vimeo-2">
    <iframe width="600" height="375" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/9445708?fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;autoplay=0"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>    
          <h3>Custom Video</h3>    
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</p>            
      </li>
          <li class="media-row">

          <a rel="" class="colorbox-inline initColorboxInline-processed cboxElement" href="/?width=600px&amp;height=400px&amp;title=&amp;inline=true#colorbox-inline-3"><img width="205" height="115" class="imagecache imagecache-lightbox_small" title="" alt="" src="http://localhost:8888/sites/default/files/imagecache/lightbox_small/emvideo-vimeo-33989254"></a><div style="display: none;"><div id="colorbox-inline-3"><div class="emvideo emvideo-video emvideo-vimeo"><div class="media-vimeo" id="media-vimeo-3">
    <iframe width="600" height="375" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/33989254?title=0&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;autoplay=0"></iframe>
</div>
</div>
</div></div>    
          <h3>Keor limpon</h3>    
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</p>            
      </li>


      </li>
      </ul>

JS

var
vars = [],
hash,
hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?')
    + 1).split('&');
        for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++) {
            hash = hashes[i].split('=');
            vars.push(hash[0]);
            vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
        }
       $(".colorbox-inline").colorbox({open:vars['open'] == 'true' ? true : false});

Solution

  • Your approach is a good start, but the reason it is not working is because you also need to set up a way for colorbox to target each colorbox seperately. At the moment, colorbox is getting a jquery collection of all elements with the colorbox-inline class, and if open=true, it will always only open the first in the collection. And since you have not grouped them (by assigning the same non-empty rel attribute to them), the remaining elements in the collection are being ignored.

    In order for colorbox to target a specific colorbox on the page, give id's to all colorboxes in your html:

    <a id="cb1" class="colorbox-inline" href="...">...</a>
    

    Then in your javascript, instantiate all colorboxes, but only open a colorbox if one of those id's was sent in the url (like this: http://site.com/page.html?open=cb1):

    //get the colorbox id in url (or set to false if not found)
    var colorboxId = 
            (window.location.href.indexOf('open=')==-1) ?
                false :
                window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('open=') + 'open='.length + 1).split('&')[0];
    
    //OR: if you prefer using regular expressions, you can tidy
    //that up with something like this:
    var colorboxId = url.match(/open=([\w\d]*)/) && RegExp.$1 || false;
    
    //instantiate all colorboxes on the page (but do not open any)
    $(".colorbox-inline").colorbox();
    
    //if the id of the colorbox was sent in the url, open it now
    if(colorboxId!==false) {
        $('#' + colorboxId).colorbox({open:true});
    }