Quote Originally Posted by Athens Collectibles View Post
Hi everyone,

I installed IH2 last night (I didn't go to IH3 because I was put off by the too many files but I will probably do so once I get more familiar). I run 1.3.9h on a test environment and therefore I can not provide a link but I have some screen shots to describe a small issue I face.

Before going to the issue, I will share my experience in case it proves useful to other users. I must confess that I didn't read all posts in this thread (almost 700 pages) and tried to work on the basis of the readme file.

I listed two test products and created a thumbnail (named thumbsize.jpg), a medium size (named mediumsize.jpg) and a large size (named largesize.jpg) image for each. I added the images for each product from the IH2 manager, only to find out that the images of the second product were overwriting those of the first product because of the identical file names which were saved in the /image folder. Adding the proper path in the box provided (see the red arrow in screenshot1 below, solved the problem. It took me some time to understand the reason, but it seems that the brain of a 64-year old doesn't work very fast in our days.



Now, I have New Products and Featured Products listed at the bottom of main page. See the values as entered in the Configuration > Index Listing in the screenshot2 and how it actually appears in screenshot3 below. The heading New Products is actually a modified "New Products for ... (month)" of the standard ZC.





As you can see in screenshot 4, the hover effect works fine with Featured Products but it doesn't with the New Products section and this is the reason for my post. Can anyone understand what could be wrong and either suggest a solution or give me a clue as to where I should search?



I read in post #6868:



Hovering over the image of Second Test Product it only shows the /index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7_16_23&products_id=12 in both New and Featured products, while if I right click on Chrome and then click Inspect Element, I get:

<img src="images/products/movies/documentary/history/test2/thumbsize.jpg" alt="Second test product" title=" Second test product " width="120" height="96"> in the New Products and

<img src="images/products/movies/documentary/history/test2/thumbsize.jpg" alt="Second test product" title=" Second test product " width="120" height="96" style="position:relative" onmouseover="showtrail('bmz_cache/6/68a5c18a0ab6cc9ffa54908bc8b8ca26.image.250x250.jpg','Second test product',120,96,250,250,this,0,0,120,96);" onmouseout="hidetrail();"> in Featured Products.

The hover effect works with New Products in page /index.php?main_page=products_new and the Inspect Element shows:

<img src="images/products/movies/documentary/history/test2/thumbsize.jpg" alt="Second test product" title=" Second test product " width="120" height="96" style="position:relative" onmouseover="showtrail('bmz_cache/6/68a5c18a0ab6cc9ffa54908bc8b8ca26.image.250x250.jpg','Second test product',120,96,250,250,this,0,0,120,96);" onmouseout="hidetrail();">

The hover effect works also fine in pages /index.php?main_page=featured_products and /index.php?main_page=products_all.

Sorry for the long post which is probably tiring to read. I hope that someone out there will come up with an explanation for which my thanks are advanced.

took out the images from the quote...

but for one thing you did not read the readme for naming your images...I also do not think you uploaded the images thru IH2 controls (clicking the little i), sorry if I am wrong.

questions is...do you want the hover or not

make sure your images settings are done right also. to get the hover to be consistent thru the entire store the settings are important.

you should not have been put off by the number of files...they are there with IH3 for a purpose and probably most of your trouble would have been stayed...IH3 is geared to work best in 1.3.9h of store software.

it is always better to have a link to the store for us to actually experience the trouble and just for the record....

there are NO _lrg or _med for the images to be used for IH--- if you have several for 1 item then you name them the same as the main image but place _01 changing this number for each image for that product.

You do not need any other ! or something else in the image name just

image.jpg
image_01.jpg until the last one which might be image_04.jpg for instance

each item must be named accordingly to ensure that one products image does not overwrite the other product.

please take the time to read that readme throughly...and use IH3 before going live to not have to mess later one with it.

update form the onset of installing store to help you have a great store....and way lay any problems while in testing mode

it also makes subcategories of images better too cause you only upload the one largest size to the server---no more different sizes...the IH software does the rest on its own

also try not to make the names toooooooo long and use a - or _ instead of spaces in the image name