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

Kayz:

Does anyone have any ideas?

your additional images are they the same suffix as the original one...jpg or gif or png

all of them?

it doesn't look like it is uploading totally when you resave your image in photoshop?? try doing a "save for web" then choose either the gif, jpg or png and upload it after you save it.

After a bit more experimenting, I'm still not getting watermarks except when I roll over a small image (to produce a medium image). I've put watermark files in the large and medium directories as well as in the main images directory.

Any suggestions?

mzimmers:

After a bit more experimenting, I'm still not getting watermarks except when I roll over a small image (to produce a medium image). I've put watermark files in the large and medium directories as well as in the main images directory.

Any suggestions?

have you tried admin/tools/IH2/admin/clear cache

to see if that helps. I know my watermark did not show immediately either...neither did my medium image when hovering until i set the sizes different then cleared the cache and did a hard refresh of the browser (held down shift key while hitting reload of page). Sometimes it just takes a bit to catch up with itself...i guess.

Thanks for the suggestion, Angel. I just tried it (it was a good idea); no change in behavior, though.

Debugging this would be a lot easier if I understood how/when the watermark is supposed to be applied. I get the impression that it's applied dynamically, so I shouldn't be surprised that I don't see it in the image files in bmz_cache.

What do you mean when you say you "set the sizes different?"

Thanks...all other suggestions welcome.

mzimmers:

Thanks for the suggestion, Angel. I just tried it (it was a good idea); no change in behavior, though.

Debugging this would be a lot easier if I understood how/when the watermark is supposed to be applied. I get the impression that it's applied dynamically, so I shouldn't be surprised that I don't see it in the image files in bmz_cache.

What do you mean when you say you "set the sizes different?"

Thanks...all other suggestions welcome.

hope you can see the images....they are a bit small when viewed but those are my settings for images at my store

Well, that was interesting. I fooled with the sizes a bit (just made the heights correct for the widths even though it's not supposed to matter). Cleared the cache and now...still no watermarks, but now my rollover doesn't work, either.

This is Monday, isn't it?

mzimmers:

Well, that was interesting. I fooled with the sizes a bit (just made the heights correct for the widths even though it's not supposed to matter). Cleared the cache and now...still no watermarks, but now my rollover doesn't work, either.

This is Monday, isn't it?

is it a live store?

if not consider uninstalling it thru admin/tools/ih2/admin/uninstall

then clear the browser cache---then try reinstalling it from the admin section again.

I know i had to do that in my test store but it behaved beautifully in the live one, go figure

I really don't understand how IH2 works, I guess. I tried uninstalling and deleting the cache. I then re-installed, and attempted to add a picture from my uploads directory. I got an error message saying the file already exists. Of course it exists; how else would IH2 be able to process it?

So, I uploaded the pic from my local system. I've got the images back, but...no watermarks and no rollover.

i wonder....

whats is your PHP version?

mzimmers:

Thanks for the suggestion, Angel. I just tried it (it was a good idea); no change in behavior, though.

Debugging this would be a lot easier if I understood how/when the watermark is supposed to be applied. I get the impression that it's applied dynamically, so I shouldn't be surprised that I don't see it in the image files in bmz_cache.

What do you mean when you say you "set the sizes different?"

Thanks...all other suggestions welcome.

According to Tools->Server/Version Info, it's version 5.2.13.

mzimmers:

According to Tools->Server/Version Info, it's version 5.2.13.

oh right, i was just wondering if this could have been a side effect of php5.3

nevermind.. sorry, dont know whats wrong

Shane78:

oh right, i was just wondering if this could have been a side effect of php5.3

nevermind.. sorry, dont know whats wrong
PHP 5.3 would render IH2 fully inoperable.. The error messages would be VERY obvious..

Yeah, I don't seem to be getting any error messages whatsoever. IH2 is functioning; it's just not performing as desired, which makes me think it's some kind of cockpit error. The big mystery is how I lost the rollover zoom; is this a function of IH2, or is it core ZC functionality?

DivaVocals:

PHP 5.3 would render IH2 fully inoperable.. The error messages would be VERY obvious..

:censored:
that is a pain

An update on my situation: by resetting the Configuration->Images fields essentially to the values listed in the IH2 readme, I somehow stumbled back into getting my rollover zoom. And, on the rollover, I get a watermark.

But, this is the ONLY time/place I get watermarks. Any suggestions? Thanks.

mzimmers:

I really don't understand how IH2 works, I guess. I tried uninstalling and deleting the cache. I then re-installed, and attempted to add a picture from my uploads directory. I got an error message saying the file already exists. Of course it exists; how else would IH2 be able to process it?

So, I uploaded the pic from my local system. I've got the images back, but...no watermarks and no rollover.

yes it will say that...mine did too when i first put it in and then had to mess with uninstalling/reinstalling...what i had to do was go to the store/images and manually delete them from the server to reup them again.

I have several vendors so what I do is put the path to the images I upload as the page indicate when you first upload the image...then underneath that i write /promos/vendor name/

that way they get organized to a specific vendor for if I should ever need to get the images there for unforseen computer/server glitch...or removal of vendor.

just go to the server and the images folder and delete the images you are being told exist there, then upload the new ones again through ih2

So I tested this patch last night.. In addition to this patch not being PHP 5.3 compatible, the section which explains the change needed to get the zoom effect to work on medium images breaks my product detail pages.

In addition (as I have always maintained), there is specific code in this patch which appears to be in direct conflict with nearly all lightbox contributions..

With regards to zooming on medium images, IMO, it makes sense that perhaps this "non-working" feature should probably be "removed" in the next IH2 release.. This will eliminate ANY confusion on this matter for users of this mod. I am working on a PHP 5.3 compatible version of IH2 and if I am able to finish this release, I will be removing this setting from the IH2 admin.

Now if there is anyone who has WORKING PHP 5.3 compatible code which gets zoom to work on medium images AND does not interfere with lightbox contributions, hopefully they will be willing to share their code with the community.. I haven't found anything else that includes any specific code other than the patch post..

DivaVocals:

So I've been looking over this post:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=489431&postcount=2147

And I may take another look at this again.. It's been long established that the hover effect does not work on medium images, and it's MORE than clear that not everyone understands how to set image sizes correctly to get everything working in IH2.. I'll gladly admit that I have a spreadsheet and cheat notes to help me with setting up images, and even with that I didn't really KNOW why certain things worked.. I just knew they "did"..

So anyway back to this post, I think that MINUS this change:

many (perhaps not all) of capnhairdo's changes could be SAFELY incorporated into the IH2 code.. I will look at this with Beyond Compare tonight.. and if the spirit (and my time availability) moves me I'll try testing these changes on my test store..

The capnhairdo's changes to the main_product_image template however are in DIRECT conflict with lightbox and other similar mods, I would need to evaluate what other files in this "patch" might also be in conflict with a lightbox mod.. I may even give a shot to figuring out how to incorporate his main_product_image changes to work with Fual Slimbox (if I do this, I won't be tackling any other lightbox mods as I don't use them..)

Do we have a IH2 saviour by Judy Gunderson in the form of Image Handler2a With Additional Images on Product Page... found here http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1629

can someone test this with PHP5.3? And let us know the outcome?

If its not PHP5.3 READY, i'd be willing to chip in some money with a group of people if someone wants to get this mod zc139 and PHP5.3 Ready, and working with Zen Lightbox.

Someone clever... like oh, I dunno... DrByte, kuroi or SWGUY... and many many more that i fail to mention!

Shane78:

Do we have a IH2 saviour by Judy Gunderson in the form of Image Handler2a With Additional Images on Product Page... found here http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=1629

**can someone test this with PHP5.3? And let us know the outcome?

If its not PHP5.3 READY, i'd be willing to chip in some money with a group of people if someone wants to get this mod zc139 and PHP5.3 Ready, and working with Zen Lightbox.**

Someone clever... like oh, I dunno... DrByte, kuroi or SWGUY... and many many more that i fail to mention!Why pay for this??? The current version of IH2 works on the additional images.. Please explain what this version of IH2 is supposed to "do" (other than create CONFUSION)?????

Since the author did not BOTHER to update the module description to state EXACTLY what's different, and even leaves in text from versions LONG PAST it's hard to tell what's "new"..

just willing to chip in with this mods future development... maybe collective group donation would be a better way of saying it.

my hosts are upgrading to PHP5.3, as far as i know, this is the only mod that i use on my three sites that will break. while i dont use the fancy AJAX image hover (i dont like it) i love how it handles small/medium image adjusting on the fly and the watermark feature is a must...

unless you know of 2 mods that allow for watermarks and image management?