Image Handler 4 (for v1.5.x) Support Thread

Ksoup,

I'm re-building one of my sites with a fresh 1.5 install and just yesterday I installed IH4:

http://www.promdressesforless.us/

At first my IH didn't work either. But then I remembered two things:

1. Had to turn it on in admin/configuration/images/IH resize images;

2. I ended up having to manually move the various INSTALL files into my respective template folders. I've had to do this before, mostly when switching templates to test. You might take a look at your template files to see if the IH4 files are inside them.

Now IH4 is working and zooms my smallest thumbnails.

Questions are asked to confirm things before dispensing advice/suggestions.. That's how I have always addressed questions and will continue to do so because as I have often said in this support thread I WILL NOT spend my time guessing at answers.. Though you are certainly free to interpret what you think is the intent/meaning behind the questions, it is not because I am "tired of answering" as you have assumed.

Now that said I just noticed that there is a jquery error you have on your site. You need to resolve it (and no.. it's not from IH4's javascript). It's entirely possible that whatever add-on you are running that uses jquery is interfering with the image hover javascript..

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Originally Posted by ksoup

I mentioned a few posts ago I copied your settings in the configuration tab exactly as shown in your screenshots.... You don't need to ask me if I have read when I told you I had.


So...to let you know as said in post 285 of this thread....I totally redid the install and got the notice at the top of the page that 3 core overwrites and 5 templates weren't over written or created. For this very issue, No work around nothing mentioned in troubleshooting... And when u go to see if those files were created or if they exist....they do not... This tells me that your mod is not something my server wants to install probably due to mod security settings.

Again...is there no set of files I can copy over to the server rather than fight your install that won't get the files in?

I understand you get a lot of questions on a fairly complicated mod and may be tired of answering...but you have to know....I took your caution to read everything very seriously and worked long and hard before even coming here. I also did as much research as possible.


I am grateful for your time. Please be sure to ask me of what I said might not be clear. I an sure you might know of a solution to the install.

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Thank you SPH! Nice Site! I appreciate your time immensely!!

I do have the IH resize setting on in admin... I copied the install folder into my template and it appears to have the right three files in the subfolders...

So... Now I wonder... Is it my template? I can verify that the images are being cached... the hover is just not working. Do you know of a way to check and make sure that the java is working for the hover?

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Originally Posted by SPH

Ksoup,

I'm re-building one of my sites with a fresh 1.5 install and just yesterday I installed IH4:

http://www.promdressesforless.us/

At first my IH didn't work either. But then I remembered two things:

1. Had to turn it on in admin/configuration/images/IH resize images;

2. I ended up having to manually move the various INSTALL files into my respective template folders. I've had to do this before, mostly when switching templates to test. You might take a look at your template files to see if the IH4 files are inside them.

Now IH4 is working and zooms my smallest thumbnails.

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The way to confirm that the javascript is working is to see the image hover working...

You have jquery errors.. You really need to start by clearing up your other errors.. You have a jquery error which could be a contributing factor to why the image hover javascript is not working consistently..

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Originally Posted by ksoup

Thank you SPH! Nice Site! I appreciate your time immensely!!

I do have the IH resize setting on in admin... I copied the install folder into my template and it appears to have the right three files in the subfolders...

So... Now I wonder... Is it my template? I can verify that the images are being cached... the hover is just not working. Do you know of a way to check and make sure that the java is working for the hover?

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Originally Posted by ksoup

Thank you SPH! Nice Site! I appreciate your time immensely!!

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You're welcome. And thank you on the site compliment. But I've looked at three templates today, so wonder what one you saw? Bluecart, Estorenow or a brand new Ebony & Ivory I just found in plugins and tested a bit. On Estorenow probably for final, since my sister commented that Ebony & Ivory looked more like a bookstore, although a high class bookstore.

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So... Now I wonder... Is it my template? I can verify that the images are being cached... the hover is just not working. Do you know of a way to check and make sure that the java is working for the hover?

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You're using a Picaflor template...one I tested a year or so ago...and all of hers are stable and work with IH.

I see that you're using minification? You might try turning it off to see if it's somehow affecting IH; perhaps the javascript thing Diva mentions.

I've used minification for years, but recently had a problem on a 1.5 demo/test site. I guess it was minifying the code, per View Source. But I no longer saw it in the admin. Maybe wasn't a big issue, since as I recall it's mostly a turn it on/turn it off thing.

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Originally Posted by nigelt74

lets say the default product image was bill.gif
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if you upload an [additional image to the same product listing] called

dave.jpg

Image handler will rename it bill2.jpg (notice it doesn't change the extension because it is a completely different filetype)
This image will appear in IH admin, but will not appear on the site, because it isn't a gif like the initial image

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Dang. I just installed IH4. It works great. But I was hoping it would allow me to have a combination of both gif's and jpg's for a single product. I'm a little bummed about this.

I would like to suggest this option for future improvement of Image Handler.

Never been a part of the IH codebase, and I have no particular plans to include it..Best thing to do so to convert your product images so they are the same filetype.. There are tools (many free) which will do this quite easily.. Otherwise you can look to see if one of the other image management tools (you'll have to look in the free downloads section) more closely suits your image management needs.. Good luck..

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Originally Posted by McCrockett

Dang. I just installed IH4. It works great. But I was hoping it would allow me to have a combination of both gif's and jpg's for a single product. I'm a little bummed about this.

I would like to suggest this option for future improvement of Image Handler.

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Originally Posted by ksoup

Thank you SPH! Nice Site! I appreciate your time immensely!!

I do have the IH resize setting on in admin... I copied the install folder into my template and it appears to have the right three files in the subfolders...

So... Now I wonder... Is it my template? I can verify that the images are being cached... the hover is just not working. Do you know of a way to check and make sure that the java is working for the hover?

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I see you sort of have the image hover working and there is no more jquery error on your site.. I say sort of because I can see that you have 4 instances of the image hover script and IH stylesheet loading on your site.. This is likely because in addition to having duplicated versions of the IH4 stylesheet and javascript loading, you have your scripts and stylesheets loading normally, and they are also loading minified. Also it looks like you have an older version as well as the latest version of the image hover script running. Working or not you should correct this as it will cause performance issue on your site.. Additionally it is not recommended that you run both the older and newer versions of the image hover script together.

Sorry I was hoping someone could tell me what this error means?

Error!

Unable to determine the page link!

Function used:

zen_href_link('', '', 'NONSSL')

It is probably is very simple but I have re-read the installation instructions 3 times now and still get this one error I have installed zencart 1.5 fresh and image handler 4 fresh

If you search for the error on here, there are two main things that cause it

Not following zencarts naming conventions as in you are using invalid characters in your image names, the naming conventions and invalid characters are mentioned in the readme