Image Handler 3 Support Thread (for ZC v1.3.9)

[Soul39]

Adding here to what Angel said....the Troubleshooting tab of the readme file has a section called "Prepare Your Site For Growth". It goes into detail about image filing and file naming, as well as gives examples of how to do it.

It should help you tremendously.

Yes, that is way i wish to go. It takes me a long time to locate images in the image folder, as i have not put them into sub folders.
Also i think i would like to rename the images as per the naming convention ( under score_ instead of spaces ).
That is going to be a bit more difficult, isn't it? Is there an easy way to do achieve that? A work around or some program i can use?


Many thanks for your assistance
Soul39

[DivaVocals]

Yes, that is way i wish to go. It takes me a long time to locate images in the image folder, as i have not put them into sub folders.
Also i think i would like to rename the images as per the naming convention ( under score_ instead of spaces ).
That is going to be a bit more difficult, isn't it? Is there an easy way to do achieve that? A work around or some program i can use?


Many thanks for your assistance
Soul39

Not for nothing, but this support thread isn't really the place to discuss this.. That said I'll say this very briefly.. there are a TON of free file renaming software packages out there.. Google "free file renaming software" and you will see what I mean.. and even with a renaming software, it will still likely take some manual work on your part depending how your files were named in the first place..

if you have additional question on renaming software, or naming conventions for image files or how to set up image folders, you should really start a separate thread on the topic..

[ScriptJunkie]

I don't know that it's going to be more difficult...but could definitely be time consuming if you have a lot of images.

I don't know of a program that will automatically rename your images for you...but if you've been using extensions on your file names like image1_LRG.jpg (with the _LRG part being the extension)...you're going to want to get rid of the extension anyway. So as long as you're dumping extensions, you can rename the files as you go.

I know that doesn't really help you cut down on the amount of work there is to do, I'm sorry. I'm afraid there's no fast easy way to organize/re-organize a lot of images that have been allowed to pile up in a single folder. That's not a criticism...I've been where you are so I really empathize.

I think you're going to have to take the long road to solve this one. Please don't let that deter you though....the results will be well worth the effort in the long run. The alternative is to leave it as is, and it will only get worse

Yes, that is way i wish to go. It takes me a long time to locate images in the image folder, as i have not put them into sub folders.
Also i think i would like to rename the images as per the naming convention ( under score_ instead of spaces ).
That is going to be a bit more difficult, isn't it? Is there an easy way to do achieve that? A work around or some program i can use?


Many thanks for your assistance
Soul39

[niccol]

@ Diva
Shhesh, you don't get much thanks for writing readme documents on this thread do you ? Or for trying to help. Big respect to you for not mentioning that this is an open source add-on to an open source product and if people do not like their free ( in all senses of the word ) readme files then they could just go and write their own. You know that I believe that IH is unduly complex but the readme files are very good and that should be noted and I am sure that what people intended to say was ' thanks for putting all that work in without any reward ' --- and that it just came out sounding like they were being foolishly critical.

[DivaVocals]

Hey Niccol.. Thanks!! What a nice thing to say!!! I can't take full credit.. ScriptJunkie and Nigel did their fair share in helping to shape the readme document into what it is today.. We're all pretty pleased with how it turned out..

I do know how you feel about Image Handler .. Thanks for the CONSTRUCTIVE critic.. Image Handler isn't for everyone, but I have mad respect for those who can articulate clearly why versus just throwing out the "it just sucks" type of comments.. I know you are exploring putting together an image management add-on of your own.. So hopefully soon there will be another choice for image management for those who want to do it differently if you decide to submit your solution.. (I will certainly be looking out for it to test as well..)

@ Diva
Shhesh, you don't get much thanks for writing readme documents on this thread do you ? Or for trying to help. Big respect to you for not mentioning that this is an open source add-on to an open source product and if people do not like their free ( in all senses of the word ) readme files then they could just go and write their own. You know that I believe that IH is unduly complex but the readme files are very good and that should be noted and I am sure that what people intended to say was ' thanks for putting all that work in without any reward ' --- and that it just came out sounding like they were being foolishly critical.

[DivaVocals]

I don't know of a program that will automatically rename your images for you...but if you've been using extensions on your file names like image1_LRG.jpg (with the _LRG part being the extension)...you're going to want to get rid of the extension anyway. So as long as you're dumping extensions, you can rename the files as you go.

There really are a couple of programs that do exactly this.. (you can use a variety of filters to aid in the process -- they work best if there is some similarity in the current file names to build out the correct filter) The OP should try the Google search I suggested to locate one of these cool pieces of software..

[ScriptJunkie]

That's awesome!!

There really are a couple of programs that do exactly this.. (you can use a variety of filters to aid in the process -- they work best if there is some similarity in the current file names to build out the correct filter) The OP should try the Google search I suggested to locate one of these cool pieces of software..

[DivaVocals]

That's awesome!!

and for the slightly off topic post..

HEY YOU!!! Long time no chat at!!! **waves**

[dee_d_lady]

Hello everyone! After upgrading from IH2 I keep getting warnings with this debugg log:

PHP Warning:  htmlentities() [<a href='function.htmlentities'>function.htmlentities</a>]: charset `windows-1250' not supported, assuming iso-8859-1 in .../includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 690

I've used kaboom to convert the coding but this didn't help. The log is created like every minute so it's pretty annoying. But IH3 works fine. I'm using the latest version of ZenCart.

Any suggestions how to fix this? Thank you for your responses.

[niccol]

It is a character encoding issue, which isn't really to do with IH at all.

If your character encoding is set to windows-1250 for your site, which the error suggests, then there is a lot of docmentation out there about issues with htmlentities.

The character encoding is set in the file languages/english.php ( or it's override ). You are looking for a line that looks like this:

// charset for web pages and emails
  define('CHARSET', 'iso-8859-1');

That is the default setting for Zen Cart -- iso-8859-1. It looks like you or someone else has changed this and you need to decide why. Or alternatively other changes have been made to your site that have messed up the character encoding.

As always it is actually a heck of a lot easier for people to help you if you give people a bit more information - like a URL for example.....