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

[DiZZ]

Hi All,

Great thread for a great add-on!

Unfortunately though after 3 months of use, the Image Handler seems to have 'broken' (though I suspect my client is somehow responsible for this). Basically, when you try to add an image a number of strange things happen:

1. The Image Handler does not create medium/large images automatically, thus when a product image is clicked on a broken image link appears

2. The Image Handler has stopped adding additional images to the correct products! After submitting a new image via the Image Handler it will appear in the admin area, but when visiting the product page the additional images are not there!

Basically things are pretty messed up and I'm not sure how best to go about correcting the issues. If I delete the current Image Handler files and re-install the module will this correct the problems?

[NHRADeuce]

After searching this thread for 2 days, I finally found the problem I was having with a new install. For some reason the pop ups where not working from a certain point on in each category. Everything before the cutoff worked, everything after, didn't.

My client was using quotes in his product names. It finally hit me that the products that worked had double quotes and the ones that didn't used single quotes. After renaming all of the single quote images, eveything started working.

Hope this helps someone else!!!

[Lou]

I'm gradually going through all these pages and have fixed the hover error I was getting but am still not able to determine the cause of the Syntax Error I get everytime I try to load a page - has anyone else had this problem??

[Lou]

I'm gradually going through all these pages and have fixed the hover error I was getting but am still not able to determine the cause of the Syntax Error I get everytime I try to load a page - has anyone else had this problem??

It seems something weird was going on with some of the images from one of the products (for some reason it was showing a blank box and "no info" for the medium size) - as soon as I deleted the images for that product and uploaded some new ones, the syntax error has disappeared.

[testuser]

Hi,

Does anyone know why every now and then I have to reinstall IH2? I mean I have previously installed it but after a while the IH2 admin shows the following. The image zooming effect is still working on my website though.
* Install Image Handler
* Clear image cache
* Scan for old IH 0.x and 1.x original images

Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Try optimizing your DB from phpMyAdmin. Sometimes the tables become full of junk and IH gets confused. Optimizing the db has corrected this issue many times. And although it says it needs to be re-installed, it actually is still there and in full effect. I would do one thing though and check the version of IH, just to be safe.

My bmz_cache is getting big, especially for backups.

I went to the IH2 admin, and cleared cache "Image cache cleared" statement appeared, checked the bmz_cache folder, a file called .keep was deleted but the folders and images remain...Do I FTP delete them?

and if so, is this how to do it in future, delete the folders first, then clear cache in admin? not sure what clear cache in admin does then...

Deleting the images via FTP is safe and what you'd normally have to do if the option in the Admin wasn't given to you. Some servers don't allow you to run file commands ... get a hold of your server admins for that.

Excuse the complete Newbie question. I have to upload thouands of product images, since I switched from Volusion to Zencart. In Volusion i would FTP the images to my "images" folder. I just went to my Zencart FTp site and cannot find a folder for: images, images/medium and images/large directories.

Where are they? Do I have to create them? Please provide an explicit repsonse for the Zen challenged.

Does Image Handler help with this?

Thank you!

Those folders should be there by default, as Zen Cart comes pre-packaged with a ready-to-go demo store. But nevertheless if the folders aren't there, create them. Especially the images folder, it's actually needed for proper function of Zen Cart (you can re-name the images folder in your configure.php files if need be).

Hi All,

Great thread for a great add-on!

Unfortunately though after 3 months of use, the Image Handler seems to have 'broken' (though I suspect my client is somehow responsible for this). Basically, when you try to add an image a number of strange things happen:

1. The Image Handler does not create medium/large images automatically, thus when a product image is clicked on a broken image link appears

2. The Image Handler has stopped adding additional images to the correct products! After submitting a new image via the Image Handler it will appear in the admin area, but when visiting the product page the additional images are not there!

Basically things are pretty messed up and I'm not sure how best to go about correcting the issues. If I delete the current Image Handler files and re-install the module will this correct the problems?

Sounds like things have gotten a bit messed up and there has probably been some changes to IH specific files. I'd try re-installing IH from scratch and see if that corrects the problems your having. If it doesn't, come back we'll track them down.

[testuser]

[FONT=Times New Roman]I set up in admin to use the watermark on large images, I also made sure I have the watermark.png image in my large folder, but still it not working on large images.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman] When I set up medium images and activate it from the admin it work perfect.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]But I only trying to have it for large images[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Any idea what I am missing?[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman]Thank you [/FONT]

Left this one out of my first reply, sorry about that.

Common cause for this is that your large images aren't even being touched by Image Handler.

Check the links to your large images and make sure that tthey're coming from the bmz_cache directory. If they're not, under Configuration :: Images you'll need to modify your large image dimensions and whether or not IH needs to affect them.

[kbmets7]

Image Handler works from the time you install it on already active products and products you choose to install later.

Ok, I have already loaded 15k large product images via FTP. if I install Image handler now, are you saying that those 15k images will get resized by Image Handler?

[DiZZ]

Testuser,

Thanks very much for the reply! Unfortunately after uninstalling/reinstalling the Image Handler none of the problems were corrected...

But let me ask you this - could product linking affect where the Image Handler adds images at all? My client has about 2000 products, and from what I can tell the product linking is becoming somewhat arcane - would this have any effect on the Image Handler?

Sorry to be a pest, I'm just trying to troubleshoot...

[testuser]

Ok, I have already loaded 15k large product images via FTP. if I install Image handler now, are you saying that those 15k images will get resized by Image Handler?

Only if the settings under Configuration :: Images affect the images you've already uploaded. If you don't want to have an image resized, there's a setting in the same place that allows you to name a suffix for images that don't need resizing. Any image with this suffix IH will skip handling.

Testuser,

Thanks very much for the reply! Unfortunately after uninstalling/reinstalling the Image Handler none of the problems were corrected...

But let me ask you this - could product linking affect where the Image Handler adds images at all? My client has about 2000 products, and from what I can tell the product linking is becoming somewhat arcane - would this have any effect on the Image Handler?

Sorry to be a pest, I'm just trying to troubleshoot...

That's stinks ... do you have a link to the site? Linking shouldn't be the issue ...

[Rob905]

Ihave several items in my catalog that show different items in the main picture so if I have 10 items shown in the picture I'll have 10 items that have the same picture when the item number is displayed.
Using IH2, I noticed that when I try to add other images to each of those 10 items to show the detail of the actual item in the picture, by the time I get through them, all have the same additional picture.
So if one of the items shows a picture on the wall and one items shows a bedspread, all items are going to have the picture on the wall shown when you view the product.
Is this because although the item number is different the subsequent image links to the image of the product?
Is there a way I can do this?