Image Handler 2 (for ZC v1.3.8 ONLY) Support

[dharma]

Hello!

Thank for your contribution! It blew me away!

I notice that some of the files installed with IH2 1.3.5 overwrite a few core files Im on ZC 1.36. Is this something I should be concerned/do something about, once the next ZC upgrade happens?

thanks

[verdon]

You know, other then the creator of this Mod having an example on their site, I have yet to see any other site display IH2 watermarking?

I use the watermarking on a couple of sites, mostly 1.2.7 sites, but am currently working on a 1.3.6 site. Never had any trouble.

[dinki]

dinki

I'm out of my depth slightly, but presumably if a specific admin image is watermarked, the cart side ought to be accessing **exactly the same** cached image.

Have a good look at the url/src being called for the cart image(s), are they /bmz_cache/... or /image/... and compare the filename accurately with what's in the cache. Either use page source or properties..

It needs appliance of logic..

Perfect, a place to start. Here's what I've found. On the catalog side, I picked a product and looked at the properties after I clicked on the image for the large view. Here's what I see:

http://www.decaldepot.net/images/dec...sillyboys2.gif

As you can see, it is not looking in the bmz_cache for some reason. Now when I look at the same product under IH2 in admin I get this:

Thumbnail which shows the watermark (It's very small)
http://www.decaldepot.net/bmz_cache/...mage.44x40.gif

but when I click on the thumbnail to see it larger in IH2 I do see it larger but it displays without the watermark:

http://www.decaldepot.net/bmz_cache/...ge.243x220.gif

Note that this image is coming from the bmz_cache where the catalog side is not.

So it seems things are really screwy and I have no idea how it's gotten this way. Anyone have any ideas on how to remedy this? I've tried IH2->Admin- Remove Image Handler and then doing a 'reinstall' via the IH2 inteface as well as a Clear image cache but the results are the same. Should I try uninstalling, reuploading the files, and then reinstalling? This is really strange...

The only other thing that I can think of that may have caused this is that I moved my catalog from decaldepot.net/zencart to decaldepot.net/

Again, thanks for the help.

[hareslade]

dinky did you try uploading a bigger image than the the product image default size? No use my replying if you don't try things out.. try 300 by 300 pixels..

... why would IH2 cache an image, if the size of the one asked for by the cart, is equal to, or MORE than, the available original image's size? IH2 ONLY does downsizing, not upsizing. IH2 don't make images bigger, only smaller.

Thats why you get a bmz cached tiny image in admin.. required size is smaller than original image.. but NOT SO in cart side, I think the image called is the original because your original is not too big to use. Therefore no cached image.

My reading of this is, that the zoom image is always the /images original. The rest of the images may (or may not) be supplied as cached, depending on the resizing ideas above.

[dinki]

I am uncertain as to what you are telling me to change. The image in /images/ is 354x320 but the same image viewed in /bmz_cache/ is 243x220 so the image is being resized. What's really strange is that my large image max width is 750 and height is set to 550. I would think that it wouldn't resize it at all..


I tried changing to max 300x300 and I get the same results (ie no watermarking)

[dinki]

Problem solved. I removed IH2, removed the bmz_cache directory, reuploaded and then reinstalled. Thanks for the help

[davemehta]

I just changed my small image (and all the product listing image) sizes from 100 x 80 to 200 x 180. Now since the small images were rendered before how do I get the Image Handler to resize all the small images for me to the new size?

I have Image Handler GD Bundled version 2.0.28.

[samad64]

clear the image cache

[jettrue]

Something else that is odd. If you check this URL Main page - Product 3, you'll note that you do not get the mouseover image 'unless' you mouseover the + sign - bottom-right corner of image. Every site I've seen so far, using IH2, has popup image appear whenever you mouseover any part of the image.

That's another feature of the mod. You can find it under "configuration", "images":
IH small image hotzone
"Set to 'yes', if you want the nice zoom overlay to appear while hovering the mouse pointer over the small images' hotzone only instead of the whole image. The hotzone will be defined by the uploaded zoom overlay image and it's position relative to the image (gravity)."

I've used the watermarking before on some sites.

[davemehta]

I just wanted to post a reply to my own question. If you want to resize your small images then view this post: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...handler+resize

A user, Equin, has a simple solution... just download all the original images from the images/original folder, then resize them using the program XnView to the desired size and then reupload them to the images folder. And it's as simple as that!