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

Scrat:

I am sure there is but... is there way to not use IM2 for the large image on the product page but for all the other images on the site, as I have an animated .gif I would like to use and it is being flattened by IM2.
Thanks

I think that would take some serious coding changes...
IH2 has such a (relatively) simple interface, there's no admin options for something as complex as what you're asking.

You would have to rewrite the way IH2 integrates with ZenCart...as it is, IH2's options are either 'on' or 'off'.

Perhaps this has been answered already, but i have been un-successful in locating an answer.

Why is IH2 only updated/current through 1.3.7? And when ZC 1.4 is released some time between now and December, is there someone at the wheel of this ship to navigate through the update/upgrade?

Does anyone know if this is planned to be fully implemented into the ZC code in any of the near future releases?

Thanks! :smile:

Scrat,
Yes indeed there is a way to do what you want. lets say you have a product with an image name of "image.gif", you upload that into the main directory and it currently being used as the large image for the product. If you want to override that behavior and still maintain the images currently in use for the small and medium versions you would upload to the large folder your animated gif named "image_LRG.gif". Once you put an image in the large folder image handler knows that you would like to use this as the large image rather than the one in the main directory. IH2 uses the large and I suppose the medium folders as overrides. I tested this on one of my sites and it worked great for me.

barco57, Thanks for your reply. I have tried what you suggest and in the product info page the image still is gen. by IH and then the larger popup image is created from the 'large' folder of images. I have done the same for the 'medium' folder as well thinking that it is a medium image on the product info page but still IH supplies the image for that page :(
Any other ideas ?

dharma:

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?

How do i apply this patch to the category_product_listing.php?

I do not mean how to use ftp or a text editor but more how do i know where to put the patch text in to the main file. I have searched on this thread and the wiki.

thanks

ignore...

Scrat:

I have done the same for the 'medium' folder as well thinking that it is a medium image on the product info page but still IH supplies the image for that page

The big image on the product page IS "Medium" size...
when you click on that image and get the popup, is when it becomes "Large".

I didn't think this override technique mentioned would work...
I always assume the mod that's installed takes over all functions, until it's deactivated.

But I could be wrong, it's basically the same concept as overriding templates...
it all depends on the code for IH2, and whether it's built to ignore this technique.

blackhalo:

The big image on the product page IS "Medium" size...
when you click on that image and get the popup, is when it becomes "Large".

I didn't think this override technique mentioned would work...
I always assume the mod that's installed takes over all functions, until it's deactivated.

But I could be wrong, it's basically the same concept as overriding templates...
it all depends on the code for IH2, and whether it's built to ignore this technique.

IH ignores images in the "Med" and "LG" folders.
If you want to use another Product image then put it in the "Med" folder.

Back in this thread is a post on how to use different images using the "Med" and "Lrg" folder with IH.

M

Scrat:

barco57, Thanks for your reply. I have tried what you suggest and in the product info page the image still is gen. by IH and then the larger popup image is created from the 'large' folder of images. I have done the same for the 'medium' folder as well thinking that it is a medium image on the product info page but still IH supplies the image for that page :(
Any other ideas ?

Did you clear your image cache?

M

I took a completely different image, renamed it to match the large image uploaded in the main directory for the product except I added _LRG and put it in the large directory and when going to the product I had the original small and medium images, controlled by IH and the large popup image was now the new one that I had uploaded into the large folder........apparently if IH finds a large image in the large folder named the same as the original main directory image it will then ignore the original large image in the main directory and use the one in the large folder. I do not know if the same theory works for the medium folder as I didn't test.

time expired to edit last post. I do not believe you can mix file types with this method of overriding. If you are using .jpg currently for the product image than the override image uploaded to the large folder must also be a .jpg To get a animated .gif to work as the override you will probably have to change the main image used for the product to a .gif

i am using v1.3.8a. i have checked all the files that image handler would overwrite and they are original.

Is it then safe for me to just copy the files and overwrite the ones that are there. or do i have to merge because of the versin difference.

i.e. it is ok for version 1.3.8a because because instructions either mention 1.3.x or 1.3.7

many thanks

I successfully installed the latest IH2 on a 1.3.8a cart. I liked it so much, I did an install on a 1.3.7 cart, but the images are not resized or have any fancy hover, "+" overlay or watermarks.

I have the same settings, image sizes, locations and template as the 1.3.8a cart that is working???

All images that are showing are the large images. The product detail page doesn't show the med image, just the text "larger image".

When viewing images in IH2 admin, they show with watermark, but no image will show in the "click to enlarge" pop-up???

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

kwright:

I successfully installed the latest IH2 on a 1.3.8a cart. I liked it so much, I did an install on a 1.3.7 cart, but the images are not resized or have any fancy hover, "+" overlay or watermarks.

I have the same settings, image sizes, locations and template as the 1.3.8a cart that is working???

All images that are showing are the large images. The product detail page doesn't show the med image, just the text "larger image".

When viewing images in IH2 admin, they show with watermark, but no image will show in the "click to enlarge" pop-up???

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

OK,

I had Image - Use Proportional Images on Products and Categories set to 0. When I set it to 1, Use Proportional Images on Products and Categories, it started working!

So, my new question is, how do I not use Proportional Images with IH2? Or is there another way to allow IH2 to scale the height if given a width?

Thanks

kwright:

OK,

I had Image - Use Proportional Images on Products and Categories set to 0. When I set it to 1, Use Proportional Images on Products and Categories, it started working!

So, my new question is, how do I not use Proportional Images with IH2? Or is there another way to allow IH2 to scale the height if given a width?

Thanks

I guess I jumped the gun here! When using proportional images, the height and width are the max dimensions. I was under the impression that I was setting the actual fixed height and width dimensions!

I need to go back and read Image Handling for Dummies!

So I'm good to go...

Hi
My problem is that when I install IH2 on my local apache web server everything works fine. It doesn't work on my hosted server - images are actually resized and stored in cache directory correctly, but I can't see any pictures in zen-cart.
Something is wrong with file paths - in page source I can see sth like:
<img src="bmz_cache882e49fdbf3ac072b4cb184b4b2a0570d.image.100x56.gif"...

• looks like two slashes are missing - if there was "bmz_cache/8/82e49fdbf3ac072b4cb184b4b2a0570d.image.100x56.gif" everything would work fine.
  Seems like it looses slashes at some point and after long research I couldn't find at what point.

Please forgive me if this has been asked before or even if I have asked it before, as it seems familiar! I also tried searching the thread to no avail...

I have a client who wants fairly large small and medium sized images, which means the mouseover image comes out larger than normal. As a result depending on where you are on the page, such as the all products, the mouseover image appears out of view in the browser.

Is thre a way to correct this?

thank you,

betty

IH seems to be the mod to have! I uploaded and installed it. Everything seems fine however when I went to use it in admin for the first time this is the error message:

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '/home/boo/public_html/servlet/bmz_cache/a/a470f47be571fcbd38cd302e89f8813a.image.100x99.jpg' for writing in /home/boo/public_html/servlet/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 651

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '/home/boo/public_html/servlet/bmz_cache/d/dc3dcdbe2e37bccdb09b840e552dbc42.image.300x299.jpg' for writing in /home/boo/public_html/servlet/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 651

Warning: imagejpeg() [function.imagejpeg]: Unable to open '/home/boo/public_html/servlet/bmz_cache/f/f699d388963983c7163423883a6edd90.image.76x75.jpg' for writing in /home/boo/public_html/servlet/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php onI have most of my images in a file called catalog. I simply ftp this file over from my current site that I am rebuilding. Would that make a difference?

Please help. I can't figure out what's wrong as the install seemed to go well. I appreciate your help.

Erin

https://www.momandbabyboutique.ca/servlet

hello,

I have installed image handler, but for some reason i cannot see it under my admin-->tools menu?

i very carefully copied every individual file to its correct folder. I just don't understand why it is not showing under the tools menu.

I tried doing it a couple of time. but same result.

any ideas why this is happening?

thanks

Hi

I have just installed IH2, from the manager I can see several pics of 1 proudct, however when I visit the product, only 1 pic shown like normal, no additional pic, no mouseover action

anything I need to set to achieve additional pic and mouseover?

FYI, I am using Cherry Zen template, and I am sure I have copied CSS and popup_image_additional folders to the template folder

thanks!