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

[mtlfloss]

Lol I thought it could also display different images of a same product, not only different sizes of a same image, oh well, IH2 is still a great mod

By the way, If I wanted to display different images of a same product, how would I do it? (uploading different images with the same base name and different suffix doesnt seem to work)

[Ryk]

There's a fair bit of confusion going on here, so let's clear up a few things...

1. IH2 works ONLY on product images.
2. You upload your best quality image at the largest size you intend to display it (should never really be more than 750 px wide or 550px high - a lot of people still use 800x600 resolution monitors!) to the images directory, although you can upload to images/sub-directory if you wish.
3. IH2 will then access this image and resize/optimise it on the fly for use as your thumbnail (the size used in the listings) or "medium" (the one on the product info page) images according to the dimensions set in admin > configuration > images. These on the fly images are stored in the bmz_cache.
4. Using IH, you can not have a different picture for each size of image - if you want that, you must revert to the ZC default method of image management, where image.jpg, image_MED.jpg and image_LRG.jpg can be different pics.
5. IH DOES allow you to have additional images - in fact, it makes it exceedingly easy. Simply go to admin > tools > Image Handler 2, select the product you want and add a new file. You don't need to worry about filename or the ZC image naming convention; IH does it for you.

[pjb923]

Using IH, you can not have a different picture for each size of image - if you want that, you must revert to the ZC default method of image management, where image.jpg, image_MED.jpg and image_LRG.jpg can be different pics.

This is not true. When you add a new file using IH, you have the option to upload separate images for the medium and large pictures.

[Ryk]

Good point - I was thinking of that as the Additional Images side of things because that's not activated through the product data entry page, but within the IH manager

[mfreund]

Hi


I have zen 1.37 iput in image handler 2 and seem to have a few problems. Admin works fine everything says it is installed. Seemms to look like it works but i add a product and ad an image from the catalog area of zen and then there is no picture for the product info page. I am uploading this image in its largest format. What am I doing wrong....I have GD on the box and in the images settings I set thinkg up to make JPG images.......I am just wnding up with a bunch of broken images for the medium and the large at least


Help


Matt

[birdoasis]

Is there a way to shorten the name that imagehandler 2 gives for the bmz cache images?

For instance.

http://birdoasis.com/bmz_cache/f/fdcfbc058b35c76655277bf81f254db3.image.59x80.jpg
could easily be fdcfbc058.image.598.jpg.

JP

[mallaire]

mfreund,

I'm having the same problem as you.

- I have version 1.3.7 with IH2.

- The admin is showing the images correctly

- The front-end is showing images the old way (images/) so nothing is done (no "on-the-fly" resizes like I read on the forum), and I have to reupload manually my pictures in the /medium and /large folders.

I'm sure there's a fix for this... can someone help us?

[mrbert]

I installed IH2 and it seems to work fine, but sometimes
I get strange error messages in IH2. Moost times in the IH2
manager but also when I want to see the enlarged image ( full size in product screen.)

I have the zen1.37

Warning: imagecopy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /mounted-storage/home51b/sub001/sc18116-VNPY/mrbertdesign/webshop/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 521

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /mounted-storage/home51b/sub001/sc18116-VNPY/mrbertdesign/webshop/includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 523

[supersnow]

Okay I don't understand this I thought I fixed my problem with the images handler. Now I am getting error messages again:

This is on the front end this time:

 Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to open '/home/..../bmz_cache/4/42f0a7f47c3e6f2220758aed7dd7878a.image.140x146.jpg' for writing in /home/.../includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 651
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Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to open '/home/.../bmz_cache/4/42f0a7f47c3e6f2220758aed7dd7878a.image.140x146.jpg' for writing in /home/../includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 651

Also on the admin side I am getting these errors and all the images show as broken links:

Warning: imagejpeg(): Unable to open '/home/.../bmz_cache/a/add5a980e90ee13a874d101aa1f36cdd.image.524x550.jpg' for writing in /home/.../includes/classes/bmz_image_handler.class.php on line 651

Now I have set the persmissions in images and in each folder for bmz_cache to 777. Which fixed my problem last week when I was getting these exact errors. But then they went away. Now they are back!!! WHY????

I am runing image hander 2.0 on 1.3.7 zencart

All the images in the products are showing - some are not having the cool zoom effect but most of the zoom effects are working. So what do I do??

[Zinfandel]

Funny isn't it...
Everyone is complaining about IE, and yet my IH2/Lightbox combo works perfectly in IE6.

I finally got around to downloading FF v2.0, and the zoom doesn't work as advertised.

When I hover the image, I see the zoom flickering if at all, but it disappears.

Works perfect in IE, not so perfect in Firefox.

Any clues?

I just wanna cry!