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

[ckosloff]

I have thought of some stuff that was not mentioned in the section "Troubleshooting in a nutshell" of the mod.
First, _MED and _LRG suffixes are not used by IH, this is stock Zen Cart.
The entries that IH makes in Admin -> Configuration -> Images are clearly denoted by a leading IH.
If you want IH to operate trouble-free don't use any of that, just use the Default button and browse.
Let IH do the naming of your additional images, the resizing, etc.
If you are using mass upload utilities like Easy Populate, just follow the Zen Cart convention, e.g:
main_image.jpg (IH sees this is as image 0)
so additional images would be:
main_image_01.jpg
main_image_02.jpg
and so on.
Please understand that IH gives you the ability to use _MED and _LRG only for compatibility with Zen Cart.
Also, images are case-sensitive, eg. .JPG is NOT the same as .jpg, many cases of irretrievable images can be tracked down to a simple case oversight.
Avoid using special characters in images like: , / | \ ' " all these have meaning.
Special characters should be avoided in product names too, IH displays them.
Lastly, I have seen users modify Zen Cart core files to avoid the display of the <title> tag.
This tag is the product name, if not specified otherwise.
The justification is that there is less clutter in the images, and they become more aesthetically pleasing.
A matter of opinion, but a tad bit short-sighted.
The <title> tag is used by search engines when indexing images.
If you don't believe me, look here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...2&postcount=24
adapt this to image indexing, if you become creative with your <title> tags in your images, you will achieve better SEO rankings.
Bottom line, don't mess with IH2, the original author sure knew what he was doing.
Lastly, MAKE SURE THAT YOU UPLOAD ALL FILES IN CORRECT LOCATION!

[Lorenzo1915]

Concerning this issue i have noticed that this is a problem of additional images galleries mods like zenlightbox and not an IH2 problems.

The most of times on various shops i found installed an old version of zen lightbox especially Zen Lightbox v1.4 aclarke 2007-09-22 .

The troubles were arising from the file:
/includes/modules/YOURTEMPLATE/additional_images.php

At about line 84:

    $flag_has_large = file_exists($products_image_large);

Replace with:

    $flag_has_large = true;//file_exists($products_image_large);

Like in the original IH2 mods V7 files.

After you have modified this file, reset IH2 cache or (better) directly deletes all bmz_cache subdirs by ftp.

Ciao

[giffmann]

Okay, just installed Image Handler after trying it out on my localhost site where it worked fine. The basic functionality is working fine on my live site except that I no longer see my featured products on my main page. If I select the featured products link on my home page it pulls them up.

homepage is: www.amendmentarms.com

Thanks!

[DivaVocals]

Okay, just installed Image Handler after trying it out on my localhost site where it worked fine. The basic functionality is working fine on my live site except that I no longer see my featured products on my main page. If I select the featured products link on my home page it pulls them up.

homepage is: www.amendmentarms.com

Thanks!

Are you sure you turned on featured products to display on the main page when you moved the site over?? Could be that simple.. IH installed correctly would not affect the ability of featured products to display on the main page..

[ckosloff]

Replace with...Ciao

Grazie per contribuire.
I have never tested ZL 1.4.
However rev 7 worked fine with 1.3 and 1.5.
If replacing the file with the one included in rev 7 solves the issue, then great.
My suggestion would be to overwrite all IH2 files with the ones in rev 7, just in case.
Ciao.

[giffmann]

Are you sure you turned on featured products to display on the main page when you moved the site over?? Could be that simple.. IH installed correctly would not affect the ability of featured products to display on the main page..

Yup. Course I opened up my localhost session and it's missing from there now too.

Curious...

[tophand]

Yup. Course I opened up my localhost session and it's missing from there now too.

Curious...

Your main page is not loading correctly, in fact it is fails half way.
When I go to one of your product page, then that page will load correct.

Could be you have a corrupt image.
Zen Cart will stop loading when it tries to load a corrupt image.

Couple posts back, ckosloff list a few no-no's that can cause this.
Another is uploading a large size file(s) that the server times out on trying to process the file(s).

M

[giffmann]

Your main page is not loading correctly, in fact it is fails half way.
When I go to one of your product page, then that page will load correct.

Could be you have a corrupt image.
Zen Cart will stop loading when it tries to load a corrupt image.

Couple posts back, ckosloff list a few no-no's that can cause this.
Another is uploading a large size file(s) that the server times out on trying to process the file(s).

M

My page is loading fine both in IE and Firefox on my laptop. Wonder what's up there.

I will go back and look at that post. Thanks.

[ckosloff]

My page is loading fine both in IE and Firefox

http://www.amendmentarms.com/
did not load at all for me.
Check server error logs with your webhost.

[giffmann]

Looks like the server is actually down with my hosting site. I could not hit the site or the admin or the FTP so I called my host and it is a server problem. Should be fixed in an hour or so....more to come!