Centerbox Image Size

[buildingblocks]

I want to activate my featured products center box and have one product with a large image. The problem I have encountered making the image larger is I am using the image manager mod which creates small medium and large images.

The admin settings for:
configuration > images > Image - Featured Products Width
configuration > images > Image - Featured Products Height

can't resize/enlarge the image larger than it's actual size which is much to small for what I want.

I'm looking in this file

includes/modules/featured_products.php

on line 143 in my file

 'text' => (($featured_products->fields['products_image'] ==  '' and PRODUCTS_IMAGE_NO_IMAGE_STATUS == 0) ? '' : '<h1  class="itemTitle"><a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . $productsInCategory[$featured_products->fields['products_id']] . '&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . $featured_products->fields['products_name'] . '</a></h1><div>' . '<a href="' .  zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . $productsInCategory[$featured_products->fields['products_id']] . '&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $featured_products->fields['products_image'], $featured_products->fields['products_name'], IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_WIDTH,  IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_HEIGHT)) . '<span>' . zen_trunc_string(zen_clean_html(stripslashes(zen_get_products_description($featured_products->fields['products_id'],  $_SESSION['languages_id']))), PRODUCT_LIST_DESCRIPTION) . '</span></a></div><br /><div class="prodPrice">' . $products_price . '</div><br /><a style="padding-bottom:10px" href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $new_products->fields['products_id'], 'NONSSL') . '">' . zen_image_button('button_in_cart.gif', BUTTON_IN_CART_ALT) . '</a>');

I tried replacing

IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_WIDTH,  IMAGE_FEATURED_PRODUCTS_LISTING_HEIGHT

with this

MEDIUM_IMAGE_WIDTH, MEDIUM_IMAGE_HEIGHT

which doesn't work


I had done something similar with a sidebox once before but I can't find the post where I received help and I can't find my notes on it either.

Am I way off? What am I missing?

Thanks

[kobra]

can't resize/enlarge the image larger than it's actual size which is much to small for what I want.

Use a graphic editor to increase the image size of the base file image
Save it and replace that image with the one you resized

[buildingblocks]

Thanks

Yes, I had considered that but didn't want to have to redo images each time I wanted to set an item as featured.

[bonnit]

did you ever fix this? ive posted an almost identical thread (oops!) and i cant get it working?

[kobra]

did you ever fix this?

If for the OP's issue, well then yes a procedure was recommended

One should NEVER have only a small low resolution image for a product

Featured image size is settable but only will resize "down" from an images native size

Image - Featured Products Width
Image - Featured Products Height

[bonnit]

sorry i shoul have put mre detail, i see the recommendation to change the standard image size, but i was looking for a solution which would directly call the large image instead of the standard image. ive tried inserting . 'large/' . into the code of modules/featuredproducts.php but it just displays no image found, due to the noimage.gif - all i can see is the path to that rather han the (albeit broken) path to the large image in that modified code, despite having turned this off in admin, i presume its i need to somehow add the _LRG suffix to the image name, although im not alltogether sure on how to do this, ive tried copying a few other files methods but no joy.

i cant really use the standard image, same as OP because i need just one 300x300 image to display when featured products are on. of course all my standard images are only 150x150 and then i have medium and large sized images for each product. it seems a little long winded to increase the size of the normal image to display for featured products each time i want to set a featured product up, hence the reason for wanting to rewrite it to automatically call the large image version instead,does that make sense?