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

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Originally Posted by nigelt74

Have you altered IH in anyway from the distributed package that is available on here (as i have never seen this error before, and can't work out what in that package would cause it)

Do you have any other alterations as it is NOT just the / at the end of the bmz_cache file that is missing, all the slashes are missing,
this is the generated url you show above

this is what it should be (notr the 2 slashes that are missing from the above)


you don't have any rewriting mods etc in your .htaccess

If i didn't know better, i'd say that some sort of stripslashes replacement was running on your link.

Can we get a link to the test version that doesn't have lightbox running on it (you did install lightbox after IH? as lightbox includes code to allow them to work together)

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I too have this problem, and they told me that is not a problem but HI2 or htaccess file or configure file, you may have a problem with some php.ini configuration file with wrong

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Originally Posted by DivaVocals

It IS a copy form the default Zen Cart images folder..

Removing the options directive won't be a big issue.. your hosting company apparently doesn't allow you to use OPTIONS in your .htaccess file. This directive an additional layer of protection, but there are a few hosting companies that do not allow it's use..

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Thanks for clarifying - appreciated.

Any suggestions for what software to use to make some Watermarks for my pics.

If anyone knows of some decent shareware that will do the job, that would be even better.

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Originally Posted by Serious

Any suggestions for what software to use to make some Watermarks for my pics.

If anyone knows of some decent shareware that will do the job, that would be even better.

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GIMP is your best option when it comes to free image editing software.

Impressive, but more than I can use right now. It would take me way to long to learn how to use it. I bookmarked the page though....Thanks!!

I'm kind of running out of time and will probably have to pay someone to make a couple for me.

So what folder should my pictures be loaded into?
/Large?
/images (root)?

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Originally Posted by Serious

Impressive, but more than I can use right now. It would take me way to long to learn how to use it. I bookmarked the page though....Thanks!!

I'm kind of running out of time and will probably have to pay someone to make a couple for me.

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depending on what you want for your watermark---many just put their store name...mine--see link in signature is made by me

I could make some for you, pm me

they are not hard to make

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So what folder should my pictures be loaded into?
/Large?
/images (root)?

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I have mine going into the main store's images folder then a subfolder called promos whichis in turn subfoldered according to vendor...this has helped with similar naming and keeps them sorted by vendor for if something should happen or an image needs replacing.

just try to remember to add a - or _ in place of a space in the naming process of the images, IH2 will take care of the rest after you upload the main image, it will rename the additional ones accordingly

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Originally Posted by Serious

So what folder should my pictures be loaded into?
/Large?
/images (root)?

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The "images" folder is the usual spot for product and category images in Zen Cart.. Meaning that however you decide to organize your images they must get loaded in the "images" folder. Avoid using spaces or special characters in your image names (all discussed in the IH2 README file). I prefer using alternating caps versus "-" (dashes) or "_" (underscores) in my files names where ever possible. For example: blueOrchidsLarge.png

After that it's up to YOU how you wish to organize your images..

So if you want to put all of your images into the "images" folder as so:
images/image.jpg

or

if you want to segregate your images into a sub-folder (organized any way YOU want) as so:
images/sub-folder/image.png

So if you decide that you will have one folder for each product category or one folder for each product those folders should go into your IMAGES folder..

BTW, if you decided to do something outside of the Zen Cart norms, IH2 doesn't really care how you organize your images because it will be looking for the image you explicitly linked to the product or category.. (In general this is usually in the "images" folder, but in theory with Zen Cart, the product and category images can be in ANY FOLDER within your site if you decide to set it up that way)

As has been repeated MANY TIMES in this support thread, you will upload your LARGEST image to your image folder and IH2 takes care of creating the medium and small images for you.

Thanks folks, that does help a lot.

Trying to study-up on Excel now so I can add the sub-folder names to the image names without screwing everything up.

Wish me oddles and oddles of luck.....

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Originally Posted by Serious

Thanks folks, that does help a lot.

Trying to study-up on Excel now so I can add the sub-folder names to the image names without screwing everything up.

Wish me oddles and oddles of luck.....

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why??? am i not understanding this right...you are going to add the subfolder name to the image?

just have the subfolder in the images folder then name your image however you want image.jpg, roses.jpg then use it that way just make sure you tell ih2 what spot to plop it into

in the ih2 area just above where you hit to browse for your image is where you put the path to the folder

choose new file
main directory in drop down menu then write the path in the area under that -- like

promos/the name of the subfolder/
browse for the image
click save

it should put it into the subfolder you designate