Image Manager addon

[boudewijn]

Ah yes of course.... good point to think of the prerequisites!
IM does require the GD library, for shrinking/watermarking, as well as for recognising a file as image.
Since it cannot determine image/no image, it won't display sizes, links etc.

As the GD library is quite commonly used (I never suspected it to be absent in installations), you may ask your ISP to activate it.

In the next version I will build a check to see if the library is loaded.

Thanks for your feedback!

Boudewijn

[Salixia]

Ok well this is getting interesting. Thank you in your patience helping me with this.

After finding out that I do need GD Library, I wanted to find out if I did indeed not have it installed as part of my ISP hosting.

I found this guide to check if GD is turned on.
http://assets.webassist.com/how-tos/gd_library_ht.pdf
It said to make a file named phpinfo.php with

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

upload it to my server and go to that file.
if it is on it said it would show me the info and it did.


GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XBM Support enabled


Not sure where this leaves me. The only conclusion I can make is that something about my server is not compatible with the addon?

[boudewijn]

You can also do the check from within your Zen-cart admin interface: Tools->Server version/info.

Some more info that may be useful:
- What PHP version is on your server?
- The value of DIR_FS_CATALOG in the configure.php file in your <admin>/includes folder. This should be the file path on your server, to your zen-cart files, ending with a slash.

I really cannot think of anything not being compatible, as only standard PHP functions are used, which I believe were already supported in earlier versions of PHP. But one can never know.....

[Salixia]

PHP Version: 4.4.4
Apache http server

DIR_FS_CATALOG is a correct path. It is in this format;
define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/usr2/home/domainname.com/htdocs/storename/');

I should also note the other addons I am using are:
Easy Populate v1.2.5.4
Super Orders 20 Rev48
Quick Order 1.2.3
Improved Attributes Controller
Attribute Grid 1.1.1

[boudewijn]

Ok thanks. That looks ok at first sight.
Let's go back to IM. I want to try and follow the program to see where it doesn't pick up the info.
Can you point out what exactely IM shows you for the images, per column?

[Website Rob]

@boudewijn - did you notice the reference to PHP 4 being used, does that make a difference to your mod?

@Salixia - you should ask you Hoster to upgrade to PHP 5.2.12, it shouldn't break any scripts and is much better.

[boudewijn]

Yes I did notice the reference. Although I would have preferred to write IM with use of objects, I specifically did not use those functions to remain downwards compatible. And although I did not check all PHP functions I used, I am pretty sure that I did not use any functions that are not supported in PHP4.

Meanwhile I did some rewriting in the IM functions, related to paths and rights, and it would be worth trying that out.

Of course migration to PHP5 would rule out possible causes too.

[edadk]

Hi,

Thanks for this very nice contribution.

There's a small issue for me that I can't figure out how to get past.

I don't use Medium images, so every product is flagged with an error.

Is it possible for me to make a change so the the Manager does not check for medium size images?

Many thanks,

Ed

[boudewijn]

Hi Ed,

Yes, IM 1.0 beta 4 has the ability to disable medium size images, as a configuration option. The package is ready to upload to the add on section, but I would like you to test it first. Can you send me your email address so I can send you the zip file? My email address is in the image_manager.txt file of the package.

Thanks,
Boudewijn

[mezloh]

Can the hover image be added to this mod?

similar to the IH2 mod where you hover over the image producing a larger image.

Thanks in advance.