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

tophand:

Why did you replace html_output.php? The latest versions of IH (since 2006) doesn't touch this file.
Maybe he saw that file in restoration.zip.
But the readme in there states clearly that it is a separate package intended for those who overwrote their core files with the Optional Extras folder.
That is also the reason why it is completely separate from the main IH download.
If only people would read the instructions...

ckosloff:

Those were his own words.
I don't need lessons on civility from a guy who insults contributors and screams at customers.
http://www.webhostingstuff.com/comments/CamelotHosting-12697.html
Please take your impressions, perceptions, or whatever you want to call them (since you don't think rants is appropriate), off this support forum.
Nobody is interested in your nonsensical disquisitions, least of all myself, in forum language that is called "flooding", or "trolling".
I already gave a support answer, if you thought it was inadequate, you should just have posted a better one.
I hope you keep your word and stay back in your corner.

I have no desire to get in the middle of anything and certainly don't like to go off-topic with this IH2 thread but I can't stand by and watch one bad review taint what has been, in my own personal experience, a fantastic web host company.

As you can see from my own review I have been with Camelot for years and have numerous, active e-commerce sites with them. Tony has literally helped me countless times, both here in the Zen community and as my web host.

Plus, I think it's important to mention that of all the posted ratings on that site, Camelot rates 4-stars out of 5 overall, with just that one negative review.

Tim

ckosloff:

Maybe he saw that file in restoration.zip.
But the readme in there states clearly that it is a separate package intended for those who overwrote their core files with the Optional Extras folder.
That is also the reason why it is completely separate from the main IH download.
If only people would read the instructions...

Do you really get your jollies by insulting people on this forum? I did read the instructions, I followed them, and ended up with broken image paths. I'm sorry if my reference to "this blasted mod" bruised what is clearly an shockingly fragile ego. The only thing I didn't do, that I should've done, was backup my site and database. I figured that a mod so widely used would be solid enough to just go ahead and install. Clearly, I was mistaken. Though, after seeing the kind of support I'm going to receive on this particular thread, please don't bother. I will sort it out myself.

After looking at your profile, I see that I'm not special, you've taken this attitude with many forum users and it amazes me that after all the lip you've given you're still around.

If you are not only going to refuse to support people, but insult them, I suggest you refrain from writing, reorganizing, or botching mods - and from posting on this forum altogether.

It blows my mind that all that ego comes from Mr. Ladywig.com.

I'm all done with you, this mod, and this thread.

I can only hope you're not this much of an ############## in person. I shudder to think otherwise.

Finally, I apologize to everyone else reading this because of the digression my earlier post has caused in this thread. This thread is called "Image Handler 2 Support," (note that last word Ladywig) and the past few postings are certainly not supportive of anything or anyone.

And, by the way, I fixed it. I was using an old version of Image Handler that I'd downloaded back in March. I went back to the folder that I'd uploaded, and every file associated with Image Handler got deleted, and those modified by Image Handler got replaced (there were only two or three that were modified). Perhaps the newer version, posted by the illustrious Mr. Ladywig.com, is more solid than the one I downloaded. I won't be finding out out of general principle.

jdw1979:

I'm all done with you, this mod, and this thread.
I just hope you keep your word.
It's frustrating to have done so much work on an easy to install, solid version, and then see a nano-brain who cannot even read instructions flood the thread with nonsense.

:smile: I just wanna give you a big wet sloppy kiss.

MeltDown:

I have no desire to get in the middle of anything and certainly don't like to go off-topic with this IH2 thread
If you don't like to get off topic, then don't.
What I posted had nothing to do with Camelot hosting.
It was simply meant to show that our friend Tony just loves to rebuke contributors on their manners, but not on the substance of their contributions.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=741292&postcount=128
Apparently sometimes his rage spills onto customers who cancel accounts too, but since he has offered a truce, let's not make any further mention of that.

ckosloff:

If you don't like to get off topic, then don't.
What I posted had nothing to do with Camelot hosting...

...let's not make any further mention of that.

Obviously it something to do with his host company - You supplied a link to a review of Camelot, not of Tony personally. That is why I felt I needed to comment.

And if you would really like to put an end to this off-topic discussion then I would recommend that you refrain from snotty, holy-than-thou comments.

MeltDown:

I would recommend that you refrain from snotty, holy-than-thou comments.
As I stated before, nobody has the right to give uninvited suggestions to me, in the way of patronizing advice on the way I conduct myself.
Please give your advice and/or suggestions to people who would like to receive them, I have no use of them.
If you find that my writings are holy-than-thou (or whatever cliche way you find of calling them), just ignore them.
Keep your impressions to yourself, nobody is interested in them.

jdw1979:

And, by the way, I fixed it. I was using an old version of Image Handler that I'd downloaded back in March. I went back to the folder that I'd uploaded, and every file associated with Image Handler got deleted, and those modified by Image Handler got replaced (there were only two or three that were modified). Perhaps the newer version, posted by the illustrious Mr. Ladywig.com, is more solid than the one I downloaded. I won't be finding out out of general principle.

My my my.. it's gotten hot in here.. :smile: Hope you all don't mind a lady interjecting here?? I just wanted to try and clear the air a little..

IMO there are only two versions of IH2 that you should consider installing:

Author: ckosloff
Version: Ver 2.0 rev 7
Zen Cart™ Version: v1.3.8
Update added on Sep 17 2009
Download Now!
File size: 240104 bytes

Author: yellow1912
Version: 2.0 for zen 1.3.7+
Zen Cart™ Version: v1.3.7
Update added on Jan 16 2009
Download Now!
File size: 421856 bytes

Hopefully one of these versions is the one you are now using. They are stable and should install pretty much "out the box". The latest version (Ver 2.0 rev 7) is a meaner leaner version that removes some of the "leftover" files from the original release of IH2 that are totally not needed for IH2 to run. (For example the "shoppad" folder -- turns out you can delete that folder in it's entirety from ALL prior versions). The readme is much improved (if I do say so myself!:laugh:) and clarifies the app and it's purpose a little more clearly. Ver 2.0 rev 7 also includes some of the improvements that have been posted here in this thread by community contributors including:

• The improved version of bmz_image_handler.class.php
• An improved version of jscript_imagehover.js.Ver 2.0 rev 7 of IH2 is based on the Jan 16 2009 version of IH2 authored by yellow1912. So with regards to the bolded part of your post (above), my suggestion is that regardless of whatever beef you and ckosloff have, Ver 2.0 rev 7 is a good version for you to install and you should give it some consideration.. :smile:

The problematic version of IH2 IMO is this one:

Author: Cameron Clark
Version: IH 2.0 for 1.3x
Zen Cart™ Version: v1.3.8
Update added on Jul 16 2009
**Download Now!**
File size: 461275 bytes
IMO, NO ONE should be using this version, and in particular if you are running a lightbox contribution , you should definitely NOT install this version of IH2.

In short this version contains the now INFAMOUS "Optional Extras" folder. IMO, the purpose of these files was not very well documented. The purpose of these files as it turns out was to modify the default behavior of the main product image.

However, in testing, some of us discovered that this "new" functionality disabled some lightbox contributions functionality (specifically the Zen Lightbox and Fual Lightbox add-ons). In short the "Optional Extras" files would prevent your lightbox from working with the main product image.

Sure there's language in the documentation for that version that seems to outline all the "fixes", but it's not necessarily written in "laymen" terms. Plus the documentation it fails to notify the user that these changes will likely "break" your lightbox contributions. (this is likely because the author did not use or even test his "fixes" with any lightbox contribution)

Okay.. I'm all done now.. You may resume your regular programming..:smile:

Thanks for pulling this discussion back to Image Handler. And thank you for your very informative post. This thread, clearly, was in desperate need of a woman's touch. :smile:

jdw1979:

And thank you for your very informative post.
Now this is really strange.
If you read the readme for rev 7 you will notice that my friend DivaVocals is precisely the same person who gave it its final form.
So what she is doing in this post is basically repeating the same concepts that already are in the readme.
If the post is informative now, why wasn't it informative then?
And this is the same guy who said that my suggestion to read instructions was worthless.
Can anybody make sense out of this?

ckosloff:

Now this is really strange.
If you read the readme for rev 7 you will notice that my friend DivaVocals is precisely the same person who gave it its final form.
So what she is doing in this post is basically repeating the same concepts that already are in the readme.
If the post is informative now, why wasn't it informative then?
And this is the same guy who said that my suggestion to read instructions was worthless.
Can anybody make sense out of this?

Geez Miss Wigs, can't you give the attitude a rest...?

MeltDown:

Geez Miss Wigs, can't you give the attitude a rest...?
capisci italiano? Va' fangulo stronzo, finocchio, figlio della mignotta.

ckosloff:

capisci italiano? Va' fangulo stronzo, finocchio, figlio della mignotta.

Wow, harsh words little man lol

(By the way, your spelling is off)

I have a problem with my additional images which are not shown up after IH2 is enabled. Since I had edited the file "includes/modules/additional_images", I haven't uploaded that file included in IH2 Folder. I found whenever I set "IH Resize Images" to "no", the additional images appear again but then no zooming effects for those thumbnail images on products listing pages.

So I'm wondering whether it is possible that I disenable the IH effects on additional images within product-info pages while larger images will still pop up when hovering on those small images on product listing pages.

Or is there any way to let my additional images show up again without changes or only simple changes to the file "includes/modules/additional_images"?

Any suggestion or advice will be highly appreciated!! Thank you!!

MeltDown:

By the way, your spelling is off
My spelling is not off.
If you love your friend Tony so much that you feel compelled to flood the thread continuously, just leave your wife and daughter.
Maybe in your blurred mind, the quote in which he insults Berezin also has to do with Camelot hosting.
And screaming at customers who cancel is not something personal, right?
Do us all a favor and quit picking on me, finocchio, just join your lover boy and be happy.

ckosloff:

My spelling is not off.
If you love your friend Tony so much that you feel compelled to flood the thread continuously, just leave your wife and daughter.
Maybe in your blurred mind, the quote in which he insults Berezin also has to do with Camelot hosting.
And screaming at customers who cancel is not something personal, right?
Do us all a favor and quit picking on me, finocchio, just join your lover boy and be happy.

Wow, what a creepy, homophobic thing to say. OK, you win psycho-boy - My work here is done.

MeltDown:

My work here is done.
What work?

bnamodel:

Since I had edited the file "includes/modules/additional_images", I haven't uploaded that file included in IH2 Folder.
Please upload all the files included in rev 7 in correct location.
Just overwrite, don't delete anything.
You should not edit any of those files.
IH resize should be set to yes.
If you have installed previous version, follow instructions here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=784860&postcount=4308.
If problem persists, post a link to the problem.