Image Handler 2 (for ZC v1.3.8 ONLY) Support

I think , on the contrary, IH2 and Lightbox work together without any flaw, I have on occasion lightbox not produce its effect, but 99.99% all is as desired
(all 3 sites)

AndyII:

I think , on the contrary, IH2 and Lightbox work together without any flaw, I have on occasion lightbox not produce its effect, but 99.99% all is as desired
(all 3 sites)

Page load has to complete before the JS for HoverBox or Lightbox and be initiated.

Undesired effect would be that the page loads the image URL in the browser, correct?

I installed Slimbox and haven't installed Image Handler and I could not get Slimbox to work for the additional images of a product. They boast heavily on Slimbox working with Image Handler, so could this mean that I need to install IH for things to work? If so, will the additional images I already have still work with both?

Since upgrading to 1.3.8a on our shared server account, we have been told the site is generating excessive resource usage and will soon be moved off the server. Stats given were:

CPU usage: 2.52
Memory usage: 1.19
MySQL usage: 0.2

Other than content customizations and a handful of mods, it's a pretty standard install. However when I disabled Image Handler 2 in the admin (setting "IH resize images" to "no") the page parse times do drop noticeably... when it's on they are up to 10 seconds (worst case) and when it's off they are usually under 2 seconds. Database query time is always low (< 0.5 seconds).

Has anyone else run into this problem with Zen Cart 1.3.8a on PHP5 with gd with Image Handler 2?

I have checked when IH2 is on that all images on the page are using the cached generated images (they are), and when I browse the cache directories on the server the timestamps are not new -- i.e. the cached images are not being regenerated each time the page displayed (or if they are, at least not resaved).

I did upgrade the site via a subversion branch merge and I don't believe there were direct conflicts in the IH2 files. There are no visible problems on the site with IH2 active.

Thanks for any suggestions on what could be wrong.

Bjornar

Here's a question for you:

When IH displays an image upon Mouseover, what is the file size of the image? Have your Images been optimized?

I was trying to solve a problem.

My Image Hoover was not working anymore.

I saw there was an upgrade to Image Hander so I installed it.

When I installed it I got this error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function zen_attribute_image() in /home/noah/public_html/includes/modules/zencart_zen/attributes.php on line 481

Not knowing what to do I commented out the line (491)

// $tmp_attributes_image .= '<div class="attribImg">' . zen_attribute_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $products_options->fields['attributes_image']) . (PRODUCT_IMAGES_ATTRIBUTES_NAMES == '1' ? '<br />' . $products_options->fields['products_options_values_name'] : '') . '</div>' . "\n";

Oh but now My Attribute Images are not showing up...
What can I do to fix this???

If image hoover is just not working.. Any suggestions on what to do?

kuroi:

If the PHP interpreter reaches the end of a file with its tag state as open, it will close it automatically. So ?> at the end of a file are actually optional. I would argue that best practise would be to include a closing tag anyway, but the author of Image Handler always preferred to leave them off. So there's no surprise that there's not one here.Indeed, this FAQ Entry shows that ?> end tags are beginning to disappear from Zen Cart's core code too and gives a good reason for this. Looks like I might need to review my perception of best practise!

I recently installed IH2 Version: 2.0_for_137 from 10/21/07.

I was wondering what to do with category_product_listing.php.patch

admin/includes/modules/category_product_listing.php.patch

do I leave that out of the install? or do I patch something with the code in this file?
php.patch can't be executed right?

I am having problems with my images not showing up in the SSL(https) section of my website (i.e log-in , my account ect). I have installed and re-installed image handler 2.0 twice. I have the latest version of zen cart (v1.3.8a)
What could be the problem? Please, any help would be wonderful.
my site is at http://www.cherrytreecreations.com

cherrytreecreations:

I am having problems with my images not showing up in the SSL(https) section of my website (i.e log-in , my account ect). I have installed and re-installed image handler 2.0 twice. I have the latest version of zen cart (v1.3.8a)
What could be the problem? Please, any help would be wonderful.
my site is at http://www.cherrytreecreations.com

Was the site an upgrade?

Try deleting what resides inside the bmz_cache folder and checking that the folder has the correct permissions.

Also what's the size of your large images without image handler having resized them. The largest image you uploaded.

bjornarl:

Since upgrading to 1.3.8a on our shared server account, we have been told the site is generating excessive resource usage and will soon be moved off the server. Stats given were:

CPU usage: 2.52
Memory usage: 1.19
MySQL usage: 0.2

Other than content customizations and a handful of mods, it's a pretty standard install. However when I disabled Image Handler 2 in the admin (setting "IH resize images" to "no") the page parse times do drop noticeably... when it's on they are up to 10 seconds (worst case) and when it's off they are usually under 2 seconds. Database query time is always low (< 0.5 seconds).

Has anyone else run into this problem with Zen Cart 1.3.8a on PHP5 with gd with Image Handler 2?

I have checked when IH2 is on that all images on the page are using the cached generated images (they are), and when I browse the cache directories on the server the timestamps are not new -- i.e. the cached images are not being regenerated each time the page displayed (or if they are, at least not resaved).

I did upgrade the site via a subversion branch merge and I don't believe there were direct conflicts in the IH2 files. There are no visible problems on the site with IH2 active.

Thanks for any suggestions on what could be wrong.

Bjornar

Do you have a link to the site ... what's the quality setting under Configuration :: Images?

Are there lots of images loading on a single page ...

And it could possibly be that your site is generating enough traffic that it's in the best interest of your hosting company to move you onto a better server.

Hi,

Does anyone know why every now and then I have to reinstall IH2? I mean I have previously installed it but after a while the IH2 admin shows the following. The image zooming effect is still working on my website though.
* Install Image Handler
* Clear image cache
* Scan for old IH 0.x and 1.x original images

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

My bmz_cache is getting big, especially for backups.

I went to the IH2 admin, and cleared cache "Image cache cleared" statement appeared, checked the bmz_cache folder, a file called .keep was deleted but the folders and images remain...Do I FTP delete them?

and if so, is this how to do it in future, delete the folders first, then clear cache in admin? not sure what clear cache in admin does then...

I set up in admin to use the watermark on large images, I also made sure I have the watermark.png image in my large folder, but still it not working on large images.
When I set up medium images and activate it from the admin it work perfect.

But I only trying to have it for large images

Any idea what I am missing?

Thank you

Excuse the complete Newbie question. I have to upload thouands of product images, since I switched from Volusion to Zencart. In Volusion i would FTP the images to my "images" folder. I just went to my Zencart FTp site and cannot find a folder for: images, images/medium and images/large directories.

Where are they? Do I have to create them? Please provide an explicit repsonse for the Zen challenged.

Does Image Handler help with this?

Thank you!

Hi All,

Great thread for a great add-on!

Unfortunately though after 3 months of use, the Image Handler seems to have 'broken' (though I suspect my client is somehow responsible for this). Basically, when you try to add an image a number of strange things happen:

1. The Image Handler does not create medium/large images automatically, thus when a product image is clicked on a broken image link appears

2. The Image Handler has stopped adding additional images to the correct products! After submitting a new image via the Image Handler it will appear in the admin area, but when visiting the product page the additional images are not there!

Basically things are pretty messed up and I'm not sure how best to go about correcting the issues. If I delete the current Image Handler files and re-install the module will this correct the problems?

After searching this thread for 2 days, I finally found the problem I was having with a new install. For some reason the pop ups where not working from a certain point on in each category. Everything before the cutoff worked, everything after, didn't.

My client was using quotes in his product names. It finally hit me that the products that worked had double quotes and the ones that didn't used single quotes. After renaming all of the single quote images, eveything started working.

Hope this helps someone else!!!

I'm gradually going through all these pages and have fixed the hover error I was getting but am still not able to determine the cause of the Syntax Error I get everytime I try to load a page - has anyone else had this problem??

Lou:

I'm gradually going through all these pages and have fixed the hover error I was getting but am still not able to determine the cause of the Syntax Error I get everytime I try to load a page - has anyone else had this problem??

It seems something weird was going on with some of the images from one of the products (for some reason it was showing a blank box and "no info" for the medium size) - as soon as I deleted the images for that product and uploaded some new ones, the syntax error has disappeared.

dealbyethan.com:

Hi,

Does anyone know why every now and then I have to reinstall IH2? I mean I have previously installed it but after a while the IH2 admin shows the following. The image zooming effect is still working on my website though.
* Install Image Handler
* Clear image cache
* Scan for old IH 0.x and 1.x original images

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Try optimizing your DB from phpMyAdmin. Sometimes the tables become full of junk and IH gets confused. Optimizing the db has corrected this issue many times. And although it says it needs to be re-installed, it actually is still there and in full effect. I would do one thing though and check the version of IH, just to be safe.

dharma:

My bmz_cache is getting big, especially for backups.

I went to the IH2 admin, and cleared cache "Image cache cleared" statement appeared, checked the bmz_cache folder, a file called .keep was deleted but the folders and images remain...Do I FTP delete them?

and if so, is this how to do it in future, delete the folders first, then clear cache in admin? not sure what clear cache in admin does then...

Deleting the images via FTP is safe and what you'd normally have to do if the option in the Admin wasn't given to you. Some servers don't allow you to run file commands ... get a hold of your server admins for that.

kbmets7:

Excuse the complete Newbie question. I have to upload thouands of product images, since I switched from Volusion to Zencart. In Volusion i would FTP the images to my "images" folder. I just went to my Zencart FTp site and cannot find a folder for: images, images/medium and images/large directories.

Where are they? Do I have to create them? Please provide an explicit repsonse for the Zen challenged.

Does Image Handler help with this?

Thank you!

Those folders should be there by default, as Zen Cart comes pre-packaged with a ready-to-go demo store. But nevertheless if the folders aren't there, create them. Especially the images folder, it's actually needed for proper function of Zen Cart (you can re-name the images folder in your configure.php files if need be).

DiZZ:

Hi All,

Great thread for a great add-on!

Unfortunately though after 3 months of use, the Image Handler seems to have 'broken' (though I suspect my client is somehow responsible for this). Basically, when you try to add an image a number of strange things happen:

1. The Image Handler does not create medium/large images automatically, thus when a product image is clicked on a broken image link appears

2. The Image Handler has stopped adding additional images to the correct products! After submitting a new image via the Image Handler it will appear in the admin area, but when visiting the product page the additional images are not there!

Basically things are pretty messed up and I'm not sure how best to go about correcting the issues. If I delete the current Image Handler files and re-install the module will this correct the problems?

Sounds like things have gotten a bit messed up and there has probably been some changes to IH specific files. I'd try re-installing IH from scratch and see if that corrects the problems your having. If it doesn't, come back we'll track them down.