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

[weif]

Thank you for the reply.
..which "simply upload just one large image" is what has been done.
This has never been a problem before. It wasn't a problem with 1.3.9, it wasn't a problem on my local wamp server.

Yes, it should be that simple, and it was on my 1.5.1 installs. If it is working on your local WAMP machine, but not on your (I'm guessing) WAMP web server, have you diff'ed the product files to see if you can see a difference there? Are you using the same template on both servers?


Another thing I noticed there is that you are giving us full paths on your local drive (file:///C:\) when you refer to what is shown on the image handler admin. Those files aren't accessible to web users - at least not at that address. This particular piece of information would appear to be taken from a copy of Zen-Cart running locally, not on a web server. Can you confirm this?

[DivaVocals]

Another thing I noticed there is that you are giving us full paths on your local drive (file:///C:\) when you refer to what is shown on the image handler admin. Those files aren't accessible to web users - at least not at that address. This particular piece of information would appear to be taken from a copy of Zen-Cart running locally, not on a web server. Can you confirm this?

I think that was a copy/paste mistake.. I believe kevin was trying to copy images into his post..

[kevin_a]

Thank you for all the suggestions.
The fact is I would prefer to not want to need IH4.
I resorted to it when the enlarge function on the site was failing, so I thought to fix it with IH4.
Silly me.

It seems zencart works to enlarge images in its native state anyway, as it always did. That’s all I want.

I have made a fresh 1.5.3 install into a subdirectory on the server, created a product, and the enlargement works perfectly well…here..

http://rarecoinsandtokens.co.uk/zencart15/index.php


Since that is all I want to do, it seems IH4 is superfluous.

However, this new install is now proving difficult to import my backup up database into.
Why oh why is ZenCart so tortuous?

I now have the front end public area with faulty functioning,
and a subfolder copy of zencart which I cannot dump a database into.

Let me see..which nightmare shall I follow?

Sorry, but I am sick of this software. I have read endless threads of problems similar, and I really appreciate the efforts of kind users to help.
But I have now wasted days (I have read that so often in other posts)
and have turned a perfectly functioning site into a screwed up failed upgrade site.


Since I want to avoid IH4…(every add-on seems to bring another set of complications I which I can do without)….I shall divert to the subfolder 1.5.3 copy, and try to bring that to a point where it can be transferred to the root folder which means I need to start another thread in another section to solve the import database problem, and follow the journey along yet another branch of this pitiless maze.

Thanks for trying to help though.

I think that was a copy/paste mistake.. I believe kevin was trying to copy images into his post..

Yes, that was the case the actual paths were
https://enterprise.terrassl.net/~mil...mage.50x26.JPG
https://enterprise.terrassl.net/~mil...mage.50x26.JPG
https://enterprise.terrassl.net/~mil...mage.50x26.JPG

[DivaVocals]

Thank you for all the suggestions.
The fact is I would prefer to not want to need IH4.
I resorted to it when the enlarge function on the site was failing, so I thought to fix it with IH4.
Silly me.

It seems zencart works to enlarge images in its native state anyway, as it always did. That’s all I want.

I have made a fresh 1.5.3 install into a subdirectory on the server, created a product, and the enlargement works perfectly well…here..

http://rarecoinsandtokens.co.uk/zencart15/index.php


Since that is all I want to do, it seems IH4 is superfluous.

IH4 is hardly superfluous. It provides a rather useful purpose and that is to optimize images (thereby improving site performance) in addition it adds features which aid in facilitating the process of managing and uploading product images.. Now if you don't want these features, then that is a personal choice, but superfluous implies the module serves no useful purpose, and I wanted to clear that up..

That said it now sounds like you had a pre-existing issue with the image enlarge function. Sounds like you thought IH4 would fix this issue.. IH4 would NOT have fixed this as IH4 doesn't modify Zen Cart's native image management or the behavior of native functions.. (Doesn't modify the image enlargement function AT ALL) IH4 instead ADDS additional features which only work when the native functions are behaving as they should.

[kevin_a]

I did not mean to suggest that IH4 was globally superfluous, but that in my case it was, and perhaps should had added "to me", although I thought that was implied in
"Since that is all I want to do, it seems IH4 is superfluous."

Given your observations, it would indeed appear that the issue is higher up the structure, outside IH4, but I cant imagine where I would begin to look for that.:-), so decline to follow that branch.
With my fresh install of 1.5.3, I am now engaged with upgrading the database using buggy software which itself needs patching in files that dont even appear in my folders.
But that's another story.

Thanks again for prompt responses. All appreciated.

[michaelchu]

Image hover and resize issue:
ZC v1.5.4
IH v4.3.2
All install went through with no problems, image loaded with all the resize with no problems. But when trying to view it on the product page, the hover zoom doest not happen and clicking on the image does not bring up the large(original) image. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

link here : https://www.waterbabiesbikini.com/ze...&products_id=1

[michaelchu]

Image hover and resize issue:
ZC v1.5.4
IH v4.3.2
All install went through with no problems, image loaded with all the resize with no problems. But when trying to view it on the product page, the hover zoom doest not happen and clicking on the image does not bring up the large(original) image. Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

link here : https://www.waterbabiesbikini.com/ze...&products_id=1

This would appear to be a very common problem, I have searched and reviewed quite a few threads with this common issue but have not found any solution yet. I have verified the IH installation and each of the effected php files. I must be missing something.