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

motti:

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

Left this one out of my first reply, sorry about that.

Common cause for this is that your large images aren't even being touched by Image Handler.

Check the links to your large images and make sure that tthey're coming from the bmz_cache directory. If they're not, under Configuration :: Images you'll need to modify your large image dimensions and whether or not IH needs to affect them.

testuser:

Image Handler works from the time you install it on already active products and products you choose to install later.

Ok, I have already loaded 15k large product images via FTP. if I install Image handler now, are you saying that those 15k images will get resized by Image Handler?

Testuser,

Thanks very much for the reply! Unfortunately after uninstalling/reinstalling the Image Handler none of the problems were corrected...

But let me ask you this - could product linking affect where the Image Handler adds images at all? My client has about 2000 products, and from what I can tell the product linking is becoming somewhat arcane - would this have any effect on the Image Handler?

Sorry to be a pest, I'm just trying to troubleshoot...

kbmets7:

Ok, I have already loaded 15k large product images via FTP. if I install Image handler now, are you saying that those 15k images will get resized by Image Handler?

Only if the settings under Configuration :: Images affect the images you've already uploaded. If you don't want to have an image resized, there's a setting in the same place that allows you to name a suffix for images that don't need resizing. Any image with this suffix IH will skip handling.

DiZZ:

Testuser,

Thanks very much for the reply! Unfortunately after uninstalling/reinstalling the Image Handler none of the problems were corrected...

But let me ask you this - could product linking affect where the Image Handler adds images at all? My client has about 2000 products, and from what I can tell the product linking is becoming somewhat arcane - would this have any effect on the Image Handler?

Sorry to be a pest, I'm just trying to troubleshoot...

That's stinks ... do you have a link to the site? Linking shouldn't be the issue ...

Ihave several items in my catalog that show different items in the main picture so if I have 10 items shown in the picture I'll have 10 items that have the same picture when the item number is displayed.
Using IH2, I noticed that when I try to add other images to each of those 10 items to show the detail of the actual item in the picture, by the time I get through them, all have the same additional picture.
So if one of the items shows a picture on the wall and one items shows a bedspread, all items are going to have the picture on the wall shown when you view the product.
Is this because although the item number is different the subsequent image links to the image of the product?
Is there a way I can do this?

Rob905:

Ihave several items in my catalog that show different items in the main picture so if I have 10 items shown in the picture I'll have 10 items that have the same picture when the item number is displayed.
Using IH2, I noticed that when I try to add other images to each of those 10 items to show the detail of the actual item in the picture, by the time I get through them, all have the same additional picture.
So if one of the items shows a picture on the wall and one items shows a bedspread, all items are going to have the picture on the wall shown when you view the product.
Is this because although the item number is different the subsequent image links to the image of the product?
Is there a way I can do this?

Additional images are a bit difficult and I've seen this numerous times.

If your images are named similar such as:

product_bed.gif
product_lamp.gif

And in the same folder and you have a product with a product image of:

product.gif

The product with product.gif will include additional product images:

product_bed.gif
product_lamp.gif

Ok, now here's why. Additional images go based on the prefix, in this case product. Because your main product image is product.gif Zen realizes that product is the prefix for the two other images and attaches them to this product.

Instead try naming the images like so.

product.gif
lamp_product.gif
bed_product.gif

This will unlink them and your product will now only have one image. Hope that makes since.

I installed IH2 on my zen cart. The file transfer seemed to go fine.

I selected the IH2 install from the Admin>Tools>IH2

Then BLAMO, nothing on my site. The store page brings up an empty white page.

I can still log into the Zen Cart admin page, all of the products are there.

So my guess is there is a pointer pointing to the wrong place.

I'll go over what I can to try and figure out what I screwed up.

Zen Cart 1.3.8
Database Patch Level: 1.3.8

Any tips? I still can't get my store front to re-appear.

I selected uninstall from the Admin menu, and still nothing.

testuser:

Additional images are a bit difficult and I've seen this numerous times.

If your images are named similar such as:

product_bed.gif
product_lamp.gif

And in the same folder and you have a product with a product image of:

product.gif

The product with product.gif will include additional product images:

product_bed.gif
product_lamp.gif

Ok, now here's why. Additional images go based on the prefix, in this case product. Because your main product image is product.gif Zen realizes that product is the prefix for the two other images and attaches them to this product.

Instead try naming the images like so.

product.gif
lamp_product.gif
bed_product.gif

This will unlink them and your product will now only have one image. Hope that makes since.

Unfortunately, even if I use an image name that is not related, IE 37239 for the main item and then 37246, 37244, 37241 etc for the individual items, it seems to keep the last item that I added for each of the items that has 37239 as the main picture.

The Hoover Image is part of IH2 Right?

What I was looking for is how I can get the hoover image to work over my attribute sample images.

An extremely basic question:

I downloaded image handler to my desktop. Now I have to install it. How do I do this?

Do I place the entire folder in one of my directories, via FTP? Is there a forum or place that explains how to install modules (for dummies)?

kbmets7:

An extremely basic question:

I downloaded image handler to my desktop. Now I have to install it. How do I do this?

Do I place the entire folder in one of my directories, via FTP? Is there a forum or place that explains how to install modules (for dummies)?
Un-Zip or extract the files to a folder on your desktop. there should be a file called readme.txt or install.txt in the folder. That will give you the information you need to set it up.

JOhn ><>

Thanks for the response. The Readme files says:

"The folders
you need to upload to your server are the following.

• admin
• bmz_cache
• images
• includes"

Do I upload them to the main landing page (when I initially connect via FTP). Or do I create a new directory, and place them in there?

tacoma:

I installed IH2 on my zen cart. The file transfer seemed to go fine.

I selected the IH2 install from the Admin>Tools>IH2

Then BLAMO, nothing on my site. The store page brings up an empty white page.

I can still log into the Zen Cart admin page, all of the products are there.

So my guess is there is a pointer pointing to the wrong place.

I'll go over what I can to try and figure out what I screwed up.

Zen Cart 1.3.8
Database Patch Level: 1.3.8

So somehow my includes/functions/html_output.php file moved to includes/functions/extra_functions.

That is some weird stuff.

tacoma:

So somehow my includes/functions/html_output.php file moved to includes/functions/extra_functions.

That is some weird stuff.

What version are you using?
The latest versions don't have html_output.php.
Latest versions in Downloads.
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=117

M

tophand:

What version are you using?
The latest versions don't have html_output.php.
Latest versions in Downloads.
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=117

M

It says - Image Handler 2.0 for Zen-Cart v1.3.x

I got it from the website. It's clearly a revision or two behind.

kbmets7:

Thanks for the response. The Readme files says:

"The folders
you need to upload to your server are the following.

• admin
• bmz_cache
• images
• includes"

Do I upload them to the main landing page (when I initially connect via FTP). Or do I create a new directory, and place them in there?

1. Before adding or making changes to your site, "Back It Up"!

2. Image Handler files, open "includes" -->"templates" and rename the folder "template custom" to the name of the template you are using.
   2-A) If your using template overrides you need to check to be sure your not going to overwrite your custom changes.

3. FTP, if you can see on your site, "admin", "images" and "includes" your at the right place. Just upload the the Image Handler folders and follow the rest of the instructions.

M

tacoma:

It says - Image Handler 2.0 for Zen-Cart v1.3.x

I got it from the website. It's clearly a revision or two behind.

Get the latest version.

M

milobloom:

The Hoover Image is part of IH2 Right?

What I was looking for is how I can get the hoover image to work over my attribute sample images.

There is another mod that work with attribute images.
Check in the downloads area.

M

Does anyone know of where I can get the mod to hoover over attribute images???