jquery lightbox in codeigniter help

Question

am having a hard time trying to make jquery lightbox in codeigniter work, what I want to happen is,pop a youtube thumbnail and play the video on the lightbox.I stored it outside my application directory,I included it in my config file like this $config['jquery'] = "js/jquery1.4.2.js";
then I include on the view file like this

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo "$base"."js/jquery1.4.2.js"; ?>"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo "$base"."js/js/jquery.lightbox-0.5.js"; ?>"></script>  
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo "$base"."js/css/jquery-lightbox-0.5.css"; ?>" media="screen" />

the controller function is like this

$data['css'] = $this->config->item('css');
$data['jquery'] = $this->config->item('jquery');
$this->load->view('aboutus',$data);

and it doesn't work ..I tried the plugin on a static test html page, it works fine :(

Answer 1

I had a similar question some time ago...paths in codeigniter don't work as expected...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3022796/jquery-and-codeigniter

Answer 2

This is how i would include the files:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo base_url() ?>js/jquery1.4.2.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo base_url() ?>js/js/jquery.lightbox-0.5.js"></script>  
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url() ?>js/css/jquery-lightbox-0.5.css" media="screen" />

Assuming js/ is in the root of your public_html. If its not you will need the full relative path like so:

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo base_url() ?>assets/js/file.js"></script>

I hope this helps