Image Handler 3 Support Thread (for ZC v1.3.9)

Hello everyone, there is a thousand posts here and i dont know if my question/ inquiry has been made.

I am running zen cart 1.3.9

I have IH3 V 3

I have correctly installed IH3 and i can see it in the tools meni

here I can access products using IH3
I can also add Multiple images all adding at 3 different sizes.

My one and only concern which has been a problem to me for some time i additional images do not show my products.

Is there some code that needs to be added to the description for additional products to show on my site?

Is there some attributes that need to be added to the images?
I really do not know how i am to make aditional images show up on my site, could someone please help me?

My site is

https://www.snagssharkteeth.com

Additional images are a must for what i am selling.

Thank you anyone for youe time

Snaggle.

Snaggle:

Hello everyone, there is a thousand posts here and i dont know if my question/ inquiry has been made.

I am running zen cart 1.3.9

I have IH3 V 3

I have correctly installed IH3 and i can see it in the tools meni

here I can access products using IH3
I can also add Multiple images all adding at 3 different sizes.

My one and only concern which has been a problem to me for some time i additional images do not show my products.

Is there some code that needs to be added to the description for additional products to show on my site?

Is there some attributes that need to be added to the images?
I really do not know how i am to make aditional images show up on my site, could someone please help me?

My site is

https://www.snagssharkteeth.com

Additional images are a must for what i am selling.

Thank you anyone for youe time

Snaggle.

Have you turned them on?

admin -> catalog -> product types -> Product - General -> click the edit layout button -> Show Product Additional Images (set to 1)

Ho clyde jones

yes i have set show additional images to 1 under

admin -> catalog -> product types -> Product - General -> click the edit layout button -> Show Product Additional Images (set to 1)

not sure if this has anyhig to do with it

but under catalog> product type on the right there are these words

Date Added: 06/01/2011
Last Modified: 06/21/2011

IMAGE DOES NOT EXIST

Products: 6

not sure if this has anything to do with the issue?

cheers

i use facebook plugin to add "like" button on all my items
the problem is facebook grabs the actual image and not the image made by image handler with the watermark
anyone here know how I can set up facebook command
"<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $fb_image; ?>" />"
to grab image handlers image with watermark?

or what is the php code to use image handlers image?

This would save me so much time not having to put my tag on all my pictures...

littlekid440:

i use facebook plugin to add "like" button on all my items
the problem is facebook grabs the actual image and not the image made by image handler with the watermark
anyone here know how I can set up facebook command
"<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $fb_image; ?>" />"
to grab image handlers image with watermark?

or what is the php code to use image handlers image?

This would save me so much time not having to put my tag on all my pictures...
You probably should post this question on the support thread for your Facebook plugin..

@Snaggle - check your image filename extensions - unlike Windows, your server probably sees .jpg and .JPG as two different things.

Ryk:

@Snaggle - check your image filename extensions - unlike Windows, your server probably sees .jpg and .JPG as two different things.

Ryk, If he is using image handler3,
All he needs to to do is (in admin) is

1. go to the category/product listing where that product is listed

2. select the category the product is in, click on it

3. find the product listing and click on the imagehandler icon on the same line as it

4. The page that comes up will have a listing of all images associated with that product, any images showing in red have an extension, that doesn't match the original image

5. as for jpeg, jpg, JPEG and JPG, If you upload the image via image handler it will adjust the extension to match the initial image, IT WILL ONLY DO THIS FOR IMAGES THAT ARE OF THE SAME TYPE OF IMAGE AS THE ORIGINAL,

so for instance

If the original has a jpeg extension and you upload (via IH3) an image with a .JPG extension that extension will be changed to .jpeg to match the original image

BUT
If the original has a jpeg extension and you upload (via IH3) an image with a .gif extension that extension will be left alone, and that image will be displayed in RED in the images listing

ALSO
If the original has a jpeg extension and you upload via ftp (as in not though IH3) an image with a .JPG extension that extension won't be touched, and that image will be displayed in RED in the images listing

OK, well that's an improvement on IH2 - I haven't had chance to play with it properly yet so I wasn't aware of that.

facebook plugin does not have a support thread it was a tutorial I found on facebook

if anyone here knows what command I can use to get the images generated by this mod I think I can play around with it until i figure out the rest...

and one more thing... would it be possible for image handler to not rename the pictures? I have it set to the name of the item so it ranks higher in search engine results

Ok, I had posted earlier last week about the Image Handler 3, I went through all my configurations, and changed my settings, but what I am still trying to do that will not work is make the images on the home page of my catalog (images in the main wrapper) become larger when I hover, not the new products on the left hand side. Those are the only ones that get larger when I hover.

Can someone please help me :blush:

The site is http://10before6.com/zencart/index.php

Thank you so much!!!
Jessica

jessica721:

Ok, I had posted earlier last week about the Image Handler 3, I went through all my configurations, and changed my settings, but what I am still trying to do that will not work is make the images on the home page of my catalog (images in the main wrapper) become larger when I hover, not the new products on the left hand side. Those are the only ones that get larger when I hover.

Can someone please help me :blush:

The site is http://10before6.com/zencart/index.php

Thank you so much!!!
JessicaJessica as I posted a few days back, I can tell by looking at your site that you do not have all your image settings configured correctly for the image hover to work as it should in all place..

Please RE-REVIEW the section on the image hover in the IH3 readme.. The small settings (covered in the IH3 readme) must be configured correctly for the image hover to work in all the places it's supposed to work.. My guess is that if the hover works in one place but not another that you do not have ALL of your small image settings configured as prescribed in the readme.

After you re-review the readme, make sure ALL of the small image settings for your site are correct. (and BTW, just ONE page back in this support thread the same/similar question was asked, and the small image settings were in fact not correct..)

Not working for me IH 2 uninstalled 3 installed on a clean install of ZC up to date version.

having problems here, Winmerge doesnt work for me ( i hate learning new crap)

Fual Slimbox -Look for changes marked with the text "Image Handler changes" from the additional_images.php file that comes with Image Handler3. These modifications should be merged into the additional_images.php file that comes with Fual Slimbox.
(You will need to use a file merging program like Beyond Compare or Winmerge to incorporate the Image Handler3 changes

Why can't you make the additional_images.php for the 2 different ones so we can incorporate the one needed.

littlekid440:

i use facebook plugin to add "like" button on all my items
the problem is facebook grabs the actual image and not the image made by image handler with the watermark
anyone here know how I can set up facebook command
"<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $fb_image; ?>" />"
to grab image handlers image with watermark?

or what is the php code to use image handlers image?

This would save me so much time not having to put my tag on all my pictures...

having the watermark on the image at FB would be nice but if you use the IH3 image then if you should ever need to clear the bmz_cache folder's cache then poof goes your image at FB

the one showing at FB is not very big and when they click it it goes to your store not the actual image so should be fairly safe

I did not realize that you were using the actual code from FB I thought you were using the mod...have you tried asking FB people about how to do it

tncproweb:

Not working for me IH 2 uninstalled 3 installed on a clean install of ZC up to date version.

having problems here, Winmerge doesnt work for me ( i hate learning new crap)

Fual Slimbox -Look for changes marked with the text "Image Handler changes" from the additional_images.php file that comes with Image Handler3. These modifications should be merged into the additional_images.php file that comes with Fual Slimbox.
(You will need to use a file merging program like Beyond Compare or Winmerge to incorporate the Image Handler3 changes

Why can't you make the additional_images.php for the 2 different ones so we can incorporate the one needed.

do you have zen lightbox installed? if so then you don't need to merge the file...just install the one from LB into the proper place in a folder with your themes name on it then leave as is

IH3 uses it, providing you have the latest version of LB installed

cooler0918:

I have been looking through the forums to no avail. I recently installed IH3 on Zen-Cart 1.3.9h

I can import images, delete images, do all the IH3 functions, and all the images show up fine in the store front.

I installed via cPanel QuickInstall to /shop/

Like I said all the functionality is there but I can't get the preview images to show all I get are broken links.

After investigating this futher I discovered the the path to the bmz_cache in the manager screen is missing the /shop/ not being a php master I could not figure out how to change it. I looked at the DIR_WS_CATALOG entry in configure and that has the /shop/ and the full path is correct on DIR_FS_CATALOG.

Could someone help me with this?

Thank you :frusty:

not sure if anyone has answered you and if they have then sorry if this repeats it but

your first culprit to look at would be the quickinstall you used. I learned the hard way to manually upload files to their proper folders (match name of zips folder to sites folder then upload to the site folder)

although those installers are handy they are good at messing up folders, files get corrupted or not set up right

as you can see the file path got messed up in your case. have you tried going to store admin/tools/IH3/admin in there/uninstall then reinstall from there?

otherwise I don't have a clue other than manually reuploading all the files AFTER uninstalling from the path I told you first.

tncproweb:

Not working for me IH 2 uninstalled 3 installed on a clean install of ZC up to date version.

having problems here, Winmerge doesnt work for me ( i hate learning new crap)

Fual Slimbox -Look for changes marked with the text "Image Handler changes" from the additional_images.php file that comes with Image Handler3. These modifications should be merged into the additional_images.php file that comes with Fual Slimbox.
(You will need to use a file merging program like Beyond Compare or Winmerge to incorporate the Image Handler3 changes

Why can't you make the additional_images.php for the 2 different ones so we can incorporate the one needed.

Did you read the instructions in the Fual slimbox thread
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1023604&postcount=506

tncproweb:

Not working for me IH 2 uninstalled 3 installed on a clean install of ZC up to date version.

having problems here, Winmerge doesnt work for me ( i hate learning new crap)

Fual Slimbox -Look for changes marked with the text "Image Handler changes" from the additional_images.php file that comes with Image Handler3. These modifications should be merged into the additional_images.php file that comes with Fual Slimbox.
(You will need to use a file merging program like Beyond Compare or Winmerge to incorporate the Image Handler3 changesAs long as you are going to be doing your own web development, especially using a tool like Zen Cart, you are going to have to be prepared to learn some new skills. Otherwise might I suggest you give some thought to hiring someone to help you with your installs/configurations.. Might be worth the investment to pay someone to help you with tasks you may find challenging.

tncproweb:

Why can't you make the additional_images.php for the 2 different ones so we can incorporate the one needed.I'm gonna assume you didn't mean this to sound as snarky as it comes across..

That said, I'm sure you can appreciate that FREE modules are generously contributed by VOLUNTEERS. These volunteers contribute Zen Cart updates/enhancements/mods in their free time without any kind of compensation for their time and effort.. The volunteers who worked on IH3 didn't "make the additional_images.php for the 2 different ones" because they felt that:
A. The addition of the instructions on how to integrate the two most popular lightbox solutions with Image Handler (instructions which were not included in previous versions of Image Handler BTW) was MORE than sufficient to help guide folks through executing this process.
B. It was MORE important to devote their volunteer effort into improving IH3's functionality and documentation.

Now it's open source software.. So there's nothing stopping someone else from volunteering to add the modified additional images files needed to use IH3 with Fual Slimbox or Zen Lightbox to the IH3 fileset (and the later is not necessary since the IH3 readme file CLEARLY indicates that the additional images file that comes with ZLB should REPLACE the one that comes with IH3).

That said, a constructive question on where you are having issues will go a long way to getting your issue resolved versus posting gripes about what SHOULD or SHOULD not be included in the IH3 fileset.

tncproweb:

Why can't you make the additional_images.php for the 2 different ones so we can incorporate the one needed.

Not being rude but...here's a valid question. Why can't you take the time to learn how to use WinMerge or some similar tool, thereby empowering yourself to be as self sufficient as possible? That way, if you run across a mod that needs file merging and that isn't as well supported as this one, you'll know what to do :smile:

Hi guys,

I just wondering if this has occur to you? I've been using Image Handler 3 for the last 3 weeks. Everything is fantastic and working well for me.

Just today for some reason, i'm missing the Image Handler 3 "Action" button when i try to add more images.

I try to search it in Admin>Tools>Image Handler3, but not able to find it.

I hope you guys can help me out. Without the Action button is really inconvenience.

:(

Thank,
Andrew

:frusty: OH MAN.

I found out what i've done. I have installed the Dual Pricing 1.7c module and thats what make the Image Handler 3 "Action button" gone disapear.:blush:

Please help. I have done this on my actual site and wasn't aware of this little button.

Very much appreciated.

Andrew.