Image Scaling

[DivaVocals]

no prob just didn't want to try it and have a thunderbolt wizz out of my pc

Truthfully if you renamed the "control" folder to "admin"... it would have been fine..

You do know that this is a BETA add-on.. I do hope you are not using this on a production store..

[niccol]

And I don't know how to code a thunderbolt whizzing out of the users pc. Yet

But, yes, this is very much beta. Yes I do have a habit of leaving admin called 'control' because that is what it is called on my clean install of Zen that I use for testing.

If you do install this then please do post back with any comments, thoughts, etc. Even if it is ' it didn't work'. But if it doesn't work it would be nice if you give a little bit more information.

Thanks, discoverytdi, for giving it a go. Every bit of testing and help is very much appreciated. I want to be using this on live sites soon myself so I will push as hard as I can to get it there.

One thing I guess I should mention is that it probably won't play nice if Image handler is installed in any form. Basically there will be a conflict on the handle_image() function that Zen uses to allow modules to hook into the zen_image function. So, any image module has to declare the handle_image function. If you have two modules on the go then that function will be declared twice and throw up an error.


Thanks everyone.

[discoverytdi]

And I don't know how to code a thunderbolt whizzing out of the users pc. Yet

But, yes, this is very much beta. Yes I do have a habit of leaving admin called 'control' because that is what it is called on my clean install of Zen that I use for testing.

If you do install this then please do post back with any comments, thoughts, etc. Even if it is ' it didn't work'. But if it doesn't work it would be nice if you give a little bit more information.

Thanks, discoverytdi, for giving it a go. Every bit of testing and help is very much appreciated. I want to be using this on live sites soon myself so I will push as hard as I can to get it there.

One thing I guess I should mention is that it probably won't play nice if Image handler is installed in any form. Basically there will be a conflict on the handle_image() function that Zen uses to allow modules to hook into the zen_image function. So, any image module has to declare the handle_image function. If you have two modules on the go then that function will be declared twice and throw up an error.


Thanks everyone.

Okies and I'll admit I had my blonde head on I'm interested cause IH3 seems to be getting overly complicated, will have play later and see if I find anything and report back. just wish I had the brains for things like this

[DivaVocals]

Okies and I'll admit I had my blonde head on I'm interested cause IH3 seems to be getting overly complicated, will have play later and see if I find anything and report back. just wish I had the brains for things like this

If by "over complicated" you mean not working with v1.5, then I guess it is "overly complicated" **sigh**.. Not unresolvable, just not compatible, YET.. (patience..)

But yes if you read through this whole thread, you'd see that what niccol is doing here is BETA software, and you should not be using this a ANY live store yet..

[niccol]

As Diva herself would say:

Nod in agreement.

It is BETA. And should NOT be used on a live store.

This whole little adventured did start after a conversation between Diva and I where I did express my opinion that just perhaps Image handler was just a bit more complicated than it need be. So, I set out to explore if that belief was true.

Personally, I think that the core functionality is creating scaled version of images and serving them to the browser when required. The first version of this BETA software does that with a single file. It is not beautifully coded, it has its limitations but that did prove to me that perhaps there was merit in proceeding rather than throwing efforts behind IH4 .

There is no doubt in my mind that IH has been a 'go to' module for many years. It is a fantastically effective module and I admire it greatly. I really do hope that a version that is compatible with 1.5 appears. I just got interested in whether there were other ways of doing the same thing. Choice is always good and healthy.

[DivaVocals]

As Diva herself would say:

Nod in agreement.

It is BETA. And should NOT be used on a live store.

This whole little adventured did start after a conversation between Diva and I where I did express my opinion that just perhaps Image handler was just a bit more complicated than it need be. So, I set out to explore if that belief was true.

Personally, I think that the core functionality is creating scaled version of images and serving them to the browser when required. The first version of this BETA software does that with a single file. It is not beautifully coded, it has its limitations but that did prove to me that perhaps there was merit in proceeding rather than throwing efforts behind IH4 .

There is no doubt in my mind that IH has been a 'go to' module for many years. It is a fantastically effective module and I admire it greatly. I really do hope that a version that is compatible with 1.5 appears. I just got interested in whether there were other ways of doing the same thing. Choice is always good and healthy.

EXACTLY!!! Nods in agreement..

[bn17311]

is this 1.39 or 1.5

thanks
Bryan

[bn17311]

hi,

uploaded onto 1.5 and install went fine, once uploaded i got message on admin saying database changes were made,

everything seem to work great once enable in config and tried most things, not sure if there was a readme file but everything seemed easy to operate, the only thing i done which i wasnt sure what would happen was in catalog / image management i used the display this product option, below i seen add new image section, at first i wasnt sure did this upload new image and replace the original image or was it an additional image, very small thing i know but as everything else went so smooth i thought id mention,

i deleted images, changed sizes of images in admin changed scaled verisons and deleted scaled versions and everything seemed to work without any problems

as it stands this seems to handle images great and with no image handler for 1.5 is great to see.

scaled images look good

thanks
bryan

[niccol]

@bn

Thank you for the feedback.

Yes, I thought 'Upload a New Image' was confusing on reflection. Would it be enough just to change that text to 'Upload a New Additional Image' ?

Also, perhaps it is worth having a 'replace this image' option on the main image? Hadn't thought of that because I just anticipated that people would do that through the normal edit product path. But maybe it is a good idea to have that in Image Management too. Then at least all the image management is in one place.

Yes, it does need a much better set of instructions Not enough hours in the day!

[niccol]

@bn

Bryan, just a quick reminder that this is still a BETA version and should not be used on live sites.

As I have said before I am pushing as hard as I can to get this functional for production sites as soon as I can. But I am pretty sure that there should be no issues with the security side of 1.5. All the parameters are POST ( even the product filter although I know that this is not strictly necessary ) , all the data in and data out are sanitised ( actually I need to check that ) and I think that the installer will play nice with Zen and the uninstall is as complete as it can be.

On the list of things to do :
-tidy up the code and put some of the functionality into classes now that I know what it actually needs to do.
-implement a directory categorisation similar to that suggested by Nigel
- have a think about imagemagick

Thanks again for taking the time and giving the feedback.