Properly frustrating!!!!! Help!!

Ok so on my website i sell used guns. I may have lots of the same gun but every gun has to be its own product because even though they are the same model the condition, spec, price etc will be different.

So at the moment i have 3 x AYA BLE. All with different stock codes, spec etc. The only thing that is the same is the Product Name.

Now, obviously each different product will have a different set of pictures but Zen Cart thinks it knows best and adds the same pictures (from the first AYA BLE) to each subsequent AYA BLE added. Even if i delete the pictures from image handler, and the add the correct ones, it switches them for the original AYA BLE pictures, which i dont want.

Any ideas? Can i stop zen cart adding images automatically?

It sounds like your naming convention for your products' images is colliding with ZenCart's naming convention for multiple images per product.

I'm "assuming" from your description that your product images are named something like aya_ble.jpg, aya_ble_1.jpg, etc. The way ZC works, aya_ble_1.jpg (the image to be associated with your 2nd AYA BLE product) is interpreted as an additional image for your 1st product (aya_ble.jpg).

Two solutions are possible:

1. If you don't use additional images (only 1 image per product), you can set your admin's Configuration->Images->Product Info, Number of Additional Images per Row to 0.

2. If you want additional images for your products, modify your naming convention to be aligned with ZC's, e.g. something like 1_aya_ble.jpg, 2_aya_ble.jpg, ..., so that you could define a second image for the 1st AYA BLE product to be something like 1_aya_ble_2.jpg.

Right, i have noticed that its not the pictures being swapped but the whole product!

This is my page, the AYA's are on the fourth row.

http://www.cheshiregunroom.com/store/GUNS/USED-SHOTGUNS/SIDE-BY-SIDE

By stock code they are 5N-34, 6A-24 and 5K-13. On the main page they are all seperate products but if you click any of the 3 you will end up on the product page for 6A-24.

Anu suggestions, im ripping my hair out! :frusty::frusty:

Does anything change if you turn off your URL rewriting function ?

stevesh:

Does anything change if you turn off your URL rewriting function ?

:blink:

someone built this website for me and i just maintain it. although i pick more and more up daily, and i am pretty good with this sort of stuff, but url rewriting. What the :censored: is that! haha

Your URLs are 'human-readable' rather than the dynamic URLs Zencart creates, so whoever built the site used a mod which rewrites them.

I've never used such a mod, but I would suspect there is an admin option somewhere to turn it on and off.