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

[tolefairy]

Today IH started being quirky after many months of perfection. The only thing I did last night was delete a category and today my other large pics did not have watermark.

I found that solution in the IH admin. It had (somehow) reset its self to not show watermark. I set it to yes and now watermark shows.

HOWEVER-I set up a new category and input 4 new products. The IH works on hover just fine, but when I click on enlarge image, I just get the background and no enlarged pic.

All other categories are displaying large pics just fine. Only this new category seems to have issues.

the category with the pop up of the large pic is:
http://www.shabbychiccottage.com/ind...ath=96_152_153

Any help is greatly appreciated.

many thanks,
Shirley

[tolefairy]

correction:

the products WITHOUT the pop up of the large pic is:
http://www.shabbychiccottage.com/ind...ath=96_152_153

[tolefairy]

update:

I have discovered that the product category I made today does not have the purple icon of IH between the C and A. So that category is not working with IH2 at all.

Why? I don't know. I have turned off that new category so the link in post above will not work.

I am going to create a new category and see if IH is applied. If not, then I have to assume that since all other categories have IH working fine, that some file got corrupted in IH. It's puzzling why all other categories work, but the new category doesn't. I guess I will uninstall and reinstall IH2 and see what happens.

[tophand]

correction:

the products WITHOUT the pop up of the large pic is:
http://www.shabbychiccottage.com/ind...ath=96_152_153

Have you tried to uninstall then install IH?
How about clearing the image cache? (does not delete any images)
Uninstalling "Will Not" delete any files.
Admin-->Tools-->Image Handler2--> Admin
Click on link to Clear Image Cache, then..
Click on the link to remove Image Handler from the database.
The page will reload and click on the link to Install Image handler.

I found other product images behaving the same way.
Also see your using jpegs and gifs for images, what is your setting for this under "Images"?

M

[tolefairy]

For anyone following my ramblings, I went to admin>Tools>Image Handler2 and then to IH2 admin. I clicked on "remove IH from database", confirmed, then clicked on "install IH2".

That did it. All fixed now. TADA

[tolefairy]

Tophand

We were posting at the same time.....

I have not cleared bz cache because I use some of those pics on another site. I was concerned if I cleared cache it would remove those bz cache pics.

I have images set to no_change.......that way I can use both jpg and gif

thanks for responding!

[tolefairy]

Well, I spoke too soon.

It still doesn't work in the switchplate category.

Last night I had 75 products in that category. I decided to delete them all and delete the category to redesign.

So this morning, I created a new category with a similiar name and entered 4 products. Thats when the popup for the larger image didn't work.

ALL other categories continue to work perfectly (IH). Just not the switchplate category.

I'm thinking when I deleted those 75 products the database got messed up somehow. I have no clue how to view that or fix it.

I'll post back if I find out anything.........

[tolefairy]

Followup:

After uninstalling and installing multiple times, re-uploading ALL the IH2 files to my server I finally discovered that it all came back to the quirk from this morning.

I had noticed that the new pics did not have the watermark so I went to admin>config>images and saw that SOMEHOW the watermark was set to no. I did not set it to no, it has always been set to yes. I have always used watermark.

What the problem boils down to is:

If I set watermark to yes, pop up large does not work on NEWLY entered products. It works on images that have been the site before today, but no NEW images uploaded.

If I enter a new product and leave the watermark set to no, then the popup on NEW images will enlarge.

If I enter a new product and set the watermark to yes, then the popup to enlarge on NEW images will not load.

I guess I won't be using watermark. I have no clue what the problem is.

I have already re-uploaded all the files in the mod. If there was a problem with a corrupted file that should have fixed it.

If anyone has an idea whats up with the watermark, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks much!
Shirley

[tophand]

Tophand

We were posting at the same time.....

I have not cleared bz cache because I use some of those pics on another site. I was concerned if I cleared cache it would remove those bz cache pics.

I have images set to no_change.......that way I can use both jpg and gif

thanks for responding!

How are your linking the images for use on another website?
The images in the bmz_cache folder are created on the fly by IH and they have really long files names (1as2qw123ed456tg567hj34bn.image.101x95.jpg).

On the watermark, have you replace the watermark file in case it is corrupt?

M

[tolefairy]

I used to link my pics to another site by getting the bz_cache file name from properties on the large image. The reason I used the bz file was because it was watermarked and that was handy. Yes, the file names are long but worked fine.

But, IH on my site was in an accident and although I got it out of the hospital, it is not working properly. It no longer makes the bz cache file on the fly. It no longer works with watermark. All pics now are reading directly from the images file. bz cache is dead. About all it does is the hover and making the sm, med and large pics.

I can only assume when I deleted 75 products and several categories, something went haywire.

When I have time, I will see what I can do to remove it completely and get it going right again.

And yes, I did re-upload the watermark file. No go.