Multiple images using csv??

[blazedup23]

How do you upload multiple images in bulk using my csv and Easy Populate?

I can do the main image by putting example fred.jpg in images/large on server which works fine.. then I tried putting fred.jpg and fred.01.jpg inside images/large as they are both Large..
But on the CSV do I have v_products_image in line 1 with large/fred.jpg and in line 2 on csv I have another v_products_image with large/fred_01.jpg or do I just have 1 v_products_image tab on csv with large/fred.jpg, large/fred.01.jpg??

I looked at the tutorial for doing multiple images, but it doesn't explain how to do it via CSV

Seems confusing as hell..

Another thing I have all my images on a hosting site.. how do I upload the URL for each product to my csv for Zencart??

[torvista]

Seems confusing as hell..

Yes. I would forget the ZC vanilla method of organising images: use Image Handler 4.

Your product image url in the csv will be
images/a-sub-directory-you-choose/my_image.jpg

and all the other images you want to show up for that product will be named the same with an underscore then whatever you like.
images/a-sub-directory-you-choose/my_image_whatever.jpg
images/a-sub-directory-you-choose/my_image_whichever.jpg
images/a-sub-directory-you-choose/my_image_whenever_001.jpg
etc....

You upload them all as same hi-res (large) and Image Handler resizes them as needs be, on the fly.

[mc12345678]

Note: when uploading an additional file, no database changes are made to support display of additional images.

So, that said: there is nothing that is to be added/manipulated in a csv file that is used to update product information to support additional images being displayed through the standard ZC additional images process, provided the product's image is defined using standard image assignment.

[blazedup23]

No idea what is going on I must be slow or something.

For an example. I put j30afcac-0-2.jpg in images/ which is the default image at 100x100 as well as j30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg in medium/ which is 500x500 and finally j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg in large/ which is 1000x1000..... I then direct my csv input to images/j30afcac-0-2.jpg for default, medium/30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg for medium and large/j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg all of which are under x3 different v_products_image columns on CSV.
I then load it up on zencart and then it seems to only load the medium image 500x500 and in Image handler 4 it sets the 500x500 image {medium} as the large image and DEFAULT IMAGE... some-body shoot me as this is driving me insane

[mc12345678]

No idea what is going on I must be slow or something.

For an example. I put j30afcac-0-2.jpg in images/ which is the default image at 100x100 as well as j30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg in medium/ which is 500x500 and finally j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg in large/ which is 1000x1000..... I then direct my csv input to images/j30afcac-0-2.jpg for default, medium/30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg for medium and large/j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg all of which are under x3 different v_products_image columns on CSV.
I then load it up on zencart and then it seems to only load the medium image 500x500 and in Image handler 4 it sets the 500x500 image {medium} as the large image and DEFAULT IMAGE... some-body shoot me as this is driving me insane

It appears that you are mixing three different things together expecting one of them to work right.

For your csv: suggest posting to the forum thread related to the version of EP that you are using (there is more than one)
For your image upload through the "normal" process, you should upload your base image last if you are uploading multiple images.
For IH4, forget all the rest, and upload each image to where it is to be applied, with your largest resolution image being your first image and then load each small, medium and large through IH4.

[DrByte]

For an example. I put j30afcac-0-2.jpg in images/ which is the default image at 100x100 as well as j30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg in medium/ which is 500x500 and finally j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg in large/ which is 1000x1000..... I then direct my csv input to images/j30afcac-0-2.jpg for default, medium/30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg for medium and large/j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg all of which are under x3 different v_products_image columns on CSV.
I then load it up on zencart and then it seems to only load the medium image 500x500 and in Image handler 4 it sets the 500x500 image {medium} as the large image and DEFAULT IMAGE... some-body shoot me as this is driving me insane

You've done this:
/images/j30afcac-0-2.jpg
/images/medium/j30afcac-0-3_MED.jpg
/images/large/j30afcac-0-1_LRG.jpg

When all you needed to do was:
/images/j30afcac.jpg for your 100x100 image
/images/medium/j30afcac_MED.jpg for your 500x500
/images/large/j30afcac_LRG.jpg for your 1000x1000

Then in the database the products_image field should be set to j30afcac.jpg

You don't need to add numbers to your image filename unless they are *different* images. If they're only *resized* then they keep the same base name.

For example, if you had another image (maybe the back side of a product, etc), you could add a -1 suffix to it, like this:
/images/j30afcac-1.jpg for your 100x100 image
/images/medium/j30afcac-1_MED.jpg for your 500x500
/images/large/j30afcac-1_LRG.jpg for your 1000x1000

No additional database change/update required, since Zen Cart takes the j30afcac.jpg that you've got in the database, and then looks for all the files on the server that match the pattern of j30afcac******.jpg
Then it looks for any /images/j30afcac******.jpg
and corresponding /images/large/j30afcac******_LRG.jpg

(it does the same for the medium image too, but the medium image is only used on the product page, and only 1 medium image is ever used.)