Facebox plugins rel issue – fix

I added a facebox plugin to my site and noticed some problems.

The facebox code doesn’t check if the image already has a ‘rel’.

Images added before the the facebox plugin was activated or images that use a caption seem to have a rel added by wordpress and so the facebox plugin doesn’t do it’s thing.

My fix is to edit

wp-content/plugins/wp-facebox/wp-facebox.php

and replace

[code]
function rel_replace( $content ) {
$pattern = "/<a(.*?)href=('|\")(.*?).(bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png)('|\")(.*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/i";
$replacement = '<a$1href=$2$3.$4$5 rel="facebox"$6>$7';
$content = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $content);
return $content;
}
[/code]
with

[code]
function rel_replace( $content ) {

$mystring = $content;
$findme = 'rel="';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

if ($pos === false) {
$pattern = "/<a(.*?)href=('|\")(.*?).(bmp|gif|jpeg|jpg|png)('|\")(.*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/i";
$replacement = '<a$1href=$2$3.$4$5 rel="facebox"$6>$7';
$content = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $content);
} else {
$content = str_replace('rel="','rel="facebox ',$content);
}

return $content;

}
[/code]

I should stress that this is my experience and my solution – it may work for you if you notice the problem I was having