AJAX IMAGE Swapper support thread

[Alex777]

John and Connor,
Thank you very much for all of the hard work you've put into this forum. I think I've read all of it (over a few days, hopefully I didn't miss anything crucial to solving my problem). Warning: I'm fairly new to PHP and MySQL (but excited about learning it).

Firstly, I'm running:
PHP 5.2.17
I'm not sure how to find the MySQL version
working in Firefox
Zen 1.3.9h
fresh install, no mods or add-ons

But, I'd love to install this mod! I first tried to install the version for zen 1.3.8 on my 1.3.9h and had no luck (I quadruple checked everything and edited tpl_product_info_display.php). When I ran into trouble, I started working my way through the forum and found the more recent version of ais that you posted, John (thanks!).

As I'm starting a new shop anyhow, I figured it made sense to start the install of the updated version after a fresh zen install. So, starting with the fresh install, no other mods added, I installed ais for 1.3.9h. But, it didn't work. I get the endless spinning wheel:

http://alexmetalarts.com/index.php?m...&products_id=3

I've gone through everything at least three times. I've checked the code changes in tpl_product_info_display.php ,and didn't see anything weird (not that I would recognize weird). The bits I had previously had to change by hand, were already changed (thanks again John!).

I wonder, maybe I'm doing something wrong on the admin side? How does ais work with the image config menu? Does it override it, or do they need to agree, do either the width or height need to be left blank? Do I upload a medium sized main product image and then do the attribute or additional images in the image stacker manager? Or do I not upload an image on the product creation page at all?

I'm actually not using different attributes. I'm a metalsmith; I fabricate silver jewelry. I need to show multiple detailed shots of the each item (front details, back, full-view, clasp operation, sometimes close-ups of stone settings). From the manager options, it appears that you can turn off attributes and just use additional images, which is what I'm counting on. But, I did go ahead and try it setup with each image as an attribute, just to see if that would work. I've been trying every setting permutation I can think of. I know Zen is talking to my database. Just not sure if it's something I'm doing wrong in admin or in the code, or if I just need to install a different version of zen. If that is the case I guess I have to step back to 1.3.8? I want my shop to go live soon, and from the sounds of it 1.5 isn't stable yet, right?

Other things I've tried:
-putting AJAX_servers folders (and it's file) in includes and in my template
-changing what folders I told ais manager to upload my images to. (/images , /images/large , /images/medium , /images/attributes)
-clearing my cache after each thing I tried, before reloading my product info page.

Thank you very much in advance for any help anyone can provide. I realize any help I receive here come from donated time and energy, and I appreciate it!

Alex

[dbltoe]

Got a short break in the action.
Unfortunately we are doing 14-16 hour days in the mall through Christmas Eve. Thus, the sparse presence on my part.
Not sure when I can look but, PM your e-mail along with your geographic location and I will try to set something up with you.

[Alex777]

John,
Thanks for the reply. It's the busy season, don't worry about it!

I installed the current incarnation of Zen 1.5.0 and installed ais. I was a little thrown by the lack of /includes/boxes but i worked it out. Looking in the 1.5.0 forum, I saw a comment explaining how the issue was resolved for another mod (I forget which) by installing a sql patch. It took a bit of hunting and pecking around files whose structures I don't fully understand, but I finally worked out what needed to go in which fields. I also had to move the ajax_image_swapper_catalog_dhtml.php file out of the boxes folder. I didn't know where to put it, and I ended up putting it in a few places. I later tried renaming them, one at a time, but I could never make the image swapper manager stop working!? So, i went a renamed them all back to what they were, and left them. Anyhow it works. But, if someone could explain that, I'm curious.

I put copies of ajax_image_swapper_catalog_dhtml.php in:
/admin/
/admin/includes/
/admin/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions

This was my patch:

INSERT INTO admin_pages (page_key, language_key, main_page, page_params, menu_key, display_on_menu, sort_order) VALUES ('aisCatalog', 'BOX_CATALOG_AJAX_IMAGE_SWAPPER', 'FILENAME_AJAX_IMAGE_SWAPPER', '', 'catalog', 'Y', 999);

I hope this saves someone a little time, but be warned, I don't really know what I'm doing. You might want to wait until someone who actually understands what I did weighs in and okays the work around.

Alex

[DML73]

Hi, a couple of quick questions:

1. Is Ajax Image Swapper compatible with Zen-cart 1.5.0?

2. I can't find Ajax Image Swapper in the download section, where can I download the latest version?

[DML73]

Hi, a couple of quick questions:

1. Is Ajax Image Swapper compatible with Zen-cart 1.5.0?

2. I can't find Ajax Image Swapper in the download section, where can I download the latest version?

Just to answer one of my own questions. I installed AIS on a clean install of zencart 1.5.0. It appears to install without errors but the menu links doesn't show up in Admin -> Configuration and Admin -> Catalog.
Is this a known issue or can we assume that AIS ver 3.2 isn't compatible with zencart 1.5.0?

[MikeyG]

I seem to have a jquery.js conflict with the instant search module. I confess to asking the question in that thread but just thought i would raise it here in case anyone else has the same issue ( or in the hope that some one else has cured the issue of conflict who might not necessarily use the instant search module.

if I remove the jquery.js file from the jscript directory AIS works again but not the instant search. Any clues on how to have both?

Thanks

[MikeyG]

Sorry but I now have another question as well. IN the admin when I click the set up button. Nothing seems to happen I am not getting the existing images populated against their product, I have 4K + products which it looks like I need to manually set the images for. never mind all the attributes to then add imnages against.

What should hapen and if it is not happening is there a sql cheat I can run through phpMyadmin for example to copy product ID and image in to the table and save the entering of images through the admin area?

using zc1.39h on a test server with php 5.38 running

[frank18]

Hi, a couple of quick questions:

1. Is Ajax Image Swapper compatible with Zen-cart 1.5.0?

2. I can't find Ajax Image Swapper in the download section, where can I download the latest version?

I believe it is not compatible with zc 1.5 as the insertion of new boxes in admin is handled differently compared to zc 1.3.x

Also noted that the original author jaycode has not posted on the forums since 2009.

Dead add-on perhaps??

[dbltoe]

Not dead - just waiting on time to get it worked out.
Won't be able to fix everything till after our Rodeo Road Trip. Probably mid-April.

[frank18]

Not dead - just waiting on time to get it worked out.
Won't be able to fix everything till after our Rodeo Road Trip. Probably mid-April.

Good to see that you are looking after this add-on, dbltoe!

I obviously didn't read every single post in the tread .....