Image Handler 5 (for v1.5.5 - v1.5.8) Support Thread

[lat9]

I've just submitted v1.5.7 of Image Handler 5 to the Zen Cart moderators for review; I'll post back here when it's available for download.

This release contains changes for the following GitHub issues:

#191: Submit buttons to "Save" or "Delete" are inoperable in the admin tool.
#193: Correct 'missing needle' PHP notices

[lat9]

I've just submitted v1.5.7 of Image Handler 5 to the Zen Cart moderators for review; I'll post back here when it's available for download.

This release contains changes for the following GitHub issues:

#191: Submit buttons to "Save" or "Delete" are inoperable in the admin tool.
#193: Correct 'missing needle' PHP notices

Now available for download: https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2169

[simon1066]

I've just submitted v1.5.7 of Image Handler 5 to the Zen Cart moderators for review; I'll post back here when it's available for download.

Thank you for this update @lat9, I would just point out that

v1.5.7 != v5.1.7

[lat9]

Thank you for this update @lat9, I would just point out that

v1.5.7 != v5.1.7

I'm having some major dyslexia issues; thanks for keeping me relatively honest!

... at least I'm being consistent; I'd misspelled the release identifier last time, too (1.5.6 != 5.1.6).

[mjf91331]

For your first question, is it that images aren't being displayed on your store's product pages, when they're displayed as a result of a Google search _OR_ is it that images previously found by Google searches (prior to IH being configured to resize images) can't be found when they're displayed as a result of a Google search?

You're correct; the image-display-on-hover feature (which has been problematic in its positioning for years) will be removed in a future IH-5 release.

I mean that if I search my site name on Google images tab plus any product name, nothing shows up for products which have images changed by image handler. The only products/images which show up are products just using the default image upload (unchanged by IH) and products where there are "related products" with default images and Google incorrectly shows that as the image for the product in the search.

I don't really know if that can negatively impact my ranking for regular searches but I also have some Google Search Console "valid with warnings" Missing field "image" for a small amount of products which do have images. Not sure if it's related at all.

[lat9]

I've checked sites that use IH-5 and their bmz_cache'd images are showing on Google Images. Did you copy the .htaccess file for the bmz_cache directory?

A link to your site would help.

[Ted Grapler]

I want to install IH 5 v1.5.7 on a Zen Cart 1.5.6c test site with PHP 7.2.24 and Ubuntu 18 installed. I see it's been tested with up to PHP 7.1... Should it work fine, work with issues, or ???

Any advice or suggestions are appreciated.

[torvista]

for me its fine on php 7.3.11.

[shags38]

v1.5.5f php 7.1 IH 5.1.5

please refer to this thread originally started in General Questions before it was found to be an IH issue https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....ound&p=1364263

Problem: Images are not showing up in Google images

Cause: images in sitemap/sitemapproducts have a _LRG suffix in the url which renders to 404 not found error -

Images in sitemap/sitemapproducts have been allocated to folder/images/large and have a _LRG suffix in the url which renders to 404 not found error - a typical url in the sitemap is

https://www.dazzlerscliponearrings.com.au/images/large/earrings/clip-on-earrings-657_LRG.gif

from the site if I use the browser 'image properties' and copy the url it works fine - the above should example should be

https://www.dazzlerscliponearrings.com.au/images/earrings/clip-on-earrings-657.gif

The images are NOT in that /large/ folder - they are in the folder public_html/images/earrings/ ... so why is it that sitemapxml is using this incorrect url format?

Solution?? the 'apparent solution' that worked for me is changing admin/configuration/images/IH resize images >> to 'no' - (the following is my assumption and needs validating by someone who understands the functions of IH) .. when set to yes this appears to have IH add the _LRG suffix if the image size for product_info size is smaller than the image size on file in the images folder - e.g. if your image as uploaded is 700x700 pixels and you set product_ifo image size at 300 x 300 pixels then IH will consider it at the 700 x 700 and allocates it to large images. So by setting it to no it ignores the file image size and does not 'resize' for sitemap url's.

NEW PROBLEM?? - with IH resize images set at no according to mc123456789

As far as setting the value to no, understand that IH is no longer active and therefore not optimizing images.

So this will definitely not be good for SEO - so is there another better solution?

cheers,
Mike

[lat9]

Mike, would you point me to the product-info page for the product/image combination in question, making sure that IH is resizing images?