Hi all,
Hope I am posting in the correct place, my apologies if not. I am still not entirely sure where things are meant to go here.
I am hoping that somebody may have some insightful knowledge about zencart additional images that I am not aware of.
I am currently developing a new version of my employers website locally. I have copied the database, installed the latest version of zencart, upgraded the database etc... for the most part everything seems to be running fine. The one persistent problem I have is with the additional images.
All the images currently work fine on our live site
http://www.anglerscorner.co.uk, they do not show on my local version (not without some hassle, this will be explained later).
I have read lots of instructions online about additional images before coming on here and tried lots of things, for example:
- I have copied all my product images over to my local /images (all loose in here, as they have always been on my employers site).
- Each product is named as a product number, ie '015689.jpg'. With additional images using 'a', 'b', etc. Example: '015689a.jpg', '015689b.jpg'. (Which is the same as the live site.)
- 'Show product additional images' is set to '1'.
- I have tried reverting back to the classic theme.
- I read online somewhere that images should have a word in the name so I have tried renaming some images on my 'live' site to include 'ang' at the start, ie 'ang015689.jpg', 'ang015689a.jpg', 'ang015689b.jpg'. I then re-copied the database over to my local site and upgraded it, copied the new image files over with the new name but still they do not show.
I have noticed one strange thing. I noted a product with additional images down and looked it up in admin and went to it's 'product details' page. In the 'Products Image' section I tried writing the 'Image Name:' into the 'Or, select an existing image file from server, filename:' box (changing nothing, just re-writing it), I then clicked 'preview' and then 'update'.
When returning to the product on the site the additional images were now showing! ...I know this may appear like I have solved my own problem but this solution really isn't ideal as we would have to update thousands of products manually.
Are there any lovely zen guru's out there who might be able to advise why the additional images don't show in the first place, so I can avoid updating all those products
...alternatively, does anybody know of a way that I can get zencart simply to bulk update the products without actually changing any information?
Many thanks in advance
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