Image Handler 4 (for v1.5.x) Support Thread

And surprisingly not commented for request is the site on which this issue is occuring (preferably specific links of where this seems to be working properly and where not). That alone could reveal a wealth of information.

A wealth of information, yes, however, a wealth of information I cannot disclose on a public forum without earning myself a trip to my company's information security office for a lecture on releasing proprietary business information on an open forum.

I am trying to run down all of the information above for you all without breaching my obligation to my employer.

However, with that said, you both have started me down a path that I may be able to resolve shortly as soon as I take a look at the images. I suspect that the photos may be too large to process.

The site is http://www.iemssupply.org/zencart.

Yup, that was it. It's been a little over two years from when I did the original work on the site, so I totally spaced the limitations of the software. Thanks!

DivaVocals:

Thanks for reporting back.. You are referring to the one on Github correct??? This wasn't my post, but - I installed IH4 4.3.2 on my zc 1.5.4 test site on Apr 16th and everything appears to be working correctly. I had compared this to the github version I found via forum (maybe wrong version?)with winmerge and only differences I found were in the title version notations at the top of each file. By 'working correctly' I mean adding and resizing new product images, additional images. Photos already existing are displayed in the right places but the image sizes aren't created unless I delete and re-add the photo which I didn't consider onerous. My test site is a rebuilt of my live zc 1.3.9 site which uses IH3.

Have I missed something about IH4.3.2 that I should be installing Github version?

Hint................................

DivaVocals:

GENTLE reminder.. Yep it pays to search the support threads since many questions are already addressed..

DivaVocals:

New version of IH4 coming out which FINALLY (Thanks/credit to balhir:clap:) gets rid of those ugly MD5 hash file names.. NO OTHER updates in this release.. but given that this has been asked for repeatedly over the years, I think this is a pretty BIG change.

See what the new image URL's will look like here: http://overthehillweb.com/shop/bmz_cache/z/zc4wp.png.image.550x432.png

The new file naming convention in this release breaks down like this:
Actual file name
Filetype
Dimension

This should encourage shop owners to create image file names which are MUCH more meaningful, and it means that shop owners will need to implement file naming structures which follow proper file naming standards. (i.e. no file names with spaces in them or file names with invalid characters)

Needs to be tested.. I have been using this for MONTHS with no issues.. However both I and my clients do not engage in poor file naming practices, and I've not tested this when the file names include spaces or invalid characters.

See: https://github.com/DivaVocals/zen_Image-Handler

DivaVocals:

New version of IH4 coming out which FINALLY (Thanks/credit to balihr:clap:) gets rid of those ugly MD5 hash file names.. NO OTHER updates in this release.. but given that this has been asked for repeatedly over the years, I think this is a pretty BIG change.

See what the new image URL's will look like here: http://overthehillweb.com/shop/bmz_cache/z/zc4wp.png.image.550x432.png

The new file naming convention in this release breaks down like this:
Actual file name
Filetype
Dimension

This should encourage shop owners to create image file names which are MUCH more meaningful, and it means that shop owners will need to implement file naming structures which follow proper file naming standards. (i.e. no file names with spaces in them or file names with invalid characters)

Needs to be tested.. I have been using this for MONTHS with no issues.. However both I and my clients do not engage in poor file naming practices, and I've not tested this when the file names include spaces or invalid characters.

See: https://github.com/DivaVocals/zen_Image-Handler
Update to the IH4 Github repo this morning (and I am sooooooooo glad I hesitated/lagged on uploading this version.. cause this is a pretty BIG bug :ohmy:).

Click the link to read the boring details of the Duplicate image bugfix for the new file naming convention. Once again a big thanks goes to balihr for coming to the rescue with the quick fix..

I do need folks to test this who have more than one layer of image folders to test this to be REALLY sure that this bug is squashed, and once I am satisfied that it has been tested, THEN I will finally submit this version to the downloads.. Again this is still considered a BETA version though I do have it installed on my own site and several live client installs (which is how this bug was discovered)..

I have added this plugin to my v1.5.4 and works with it. One question; Background colour - does accept the HTML/CSS version 5 coding? E.G instead of 255:255:255 type white.

Also the main image does not zoom. Any ideas please

adb34:

I have added this plugin to my v1.5.4 and works with it. One question; Background colour - does accept the HTML/CSS version 5 coding? E.G instead of 255:255:255 type white.
Doubtful considering that this processing (and therefore format) is required by the GD library..

adb34:

Also the main image does not zoom. Any ideas please
Nope.. I've always stated honestly I have NO IDEA how to add the required code to support this.. The state of zooming on the main image is covered in the readme.. This has functionality NEVER been a part of IH4, and unless and until someone contributes the code needed to properly support it without breaking lightbox compatibility, it's not been on the radar for quite sometime..

DivaVocals:

Doubtful considering that this processing (and therefore format) is required by the GD library..

Nope.. I've always stated honestly I have NO IDEA how to add the required code to support this.. The state of zooming on the main image is covered in the readme.. This has functionality NEVER been a part of IH4, and unless and until someone contributes the code needed to properly support it without breaking lightbox compatibility, it's not been on the radar for quite sometime..

To be honest after I post the first question I thought it was a stupid question, it is direct coding to the web page. :censored:

About zooming the main image, I have installed 'Product Image Zoom' which was working. Now after installing this plugin it does not. So if I can work out how to get both plugin's working together that would be fantastic. Will be back hopefully with good news. :D

I have what is probably an extremely stupid question and not necessarily related specifically to Image Handler (which I LOVE; thanks for all the effort put into this amazing plugin). I have watermarks set for medium and large images. Everything works as it should, but the image is too dark. I have changed all three images repeatedly to the point where they're barely visible but they haven't gotten lighter on my site. I've even changed the image entirely just to make sure I wasn't being REALLY idiotic an changing the wrong image. The image changed but it too was too dark. Am I missing something in the actual IM4 settings? I didn't think it handled watermark opacity.

DivaVocals:

Doubtful considering that this processing (and therefore format) is required by the GD library..

Nope.. I've always stated honestly I have NO IDEA how to add the required code to support this.. The state of zooming on the main image is covered in the readme.. This has functionality NEVER been a part of IH4, and unless and until someone contributes the code needed to properly support it without breaking lightbox compatibility, it's not been on the radar for quite sometime..

Further to my last post (1389) here is the code that product image zoom uses to 'zoom' on the main image```
$loaders[] = array('conditions' => array('pages' => array('product_info')),
'jscript_files' => array(
'jquery/jquery-1.10.2.min.js' => 1,
'jquery/jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js' => 2,
'jquery/jquery_product_image_zoom.js' => 12
)
);

However I do not know where to put it and cannot work out how to connect it to this plugin. In product image zoom, it is loaded to; includes/template/mytemplate/auto_loaders

Miyabella:

I have what is probably an extremely stupid question and not necessarily related specifically to Image Handler (which I LOVE; thanks for all the effort put into this amazing plugin). I have watermarks set for medium and large images. Everything works as it should, but the image is too dark. I have changed all three images repeatedly to the point where they're barely visible but they haven't gotten lighter on my site. I've even changed the image entirely just to make sure I wasn't being REALLY idiotic an changing the wrong image. The image changed but it too was too dark. Am I missing something in the actual IM4 settings? I didn't think it handled watermark opacity.

What is your website address so that we can have a look?

I have half a dozen images loaded for a product and they work nicely. But I have decided I want to reorder the images so that a different image is the main image. Is that possible with image handler or do I have to delete them all and start over?

Thanks,
Christy

G'day,

We have one CMS being used for the main part of our web site (https://www.scubadoctor.com.au) and Zen Cart for the online shop (https://www.scubadoctor.com.au/diveshop/).

Within the other CMS I have a PHP script that highlights five randomly chosen Specials on each page in the left column. Currently this script gets the main image for each product from Zen Cart and displays it small. So worst case we are loading five 1000 x 1000 images on each page to show them as thumbnails. That is a waste of bandwidth and slows up page loading just a bit.

How would I be able to find out what the Image Handler cached small filename is for a given product, or product file image?

With some code to do this we'd be able to improve web site efficiency.

Best regards, Lloyd Borrett.

I upgraded to Zen Cart Version 1.5.4 a few months ago. I am using Image Handler 4.3.2, which I was using with the older version of Zen Cart, and it worked great. When I did the upgrade, everything was working correctly with the Alysa Rounded template. This week I upgraded to a responsive template, Avonlee Contempo Responsive. I went to upload images with Image Handler 4, and everything worked as it always does. However, when I went to the product, it only shows the main image and not the others I added. I'm not sure why the additional images are no longer showing. I went through the troubleshooting checklist at the top of this thread, but I didn't see any issues when I checked everything. I loaded up the old Alysa Rounded template, and it works. Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong? Does this mean I need to ask the creator of the template for Avonlee Contempo Responsive? Please let me know your thoughts and thanks!

CookieMonster:

Does this mean I need to ask the creator of the template for Avonlee Contempo Responsive?Prossibly.. but the MOST likely answer is that you have missed merging an override file that has IH4 required changes into your new template.. I would do a comparison with template overrides from your old template to see what you didn't bring over to your new template..

CookieMonster:

I upgraded to Zen Cart Version 1.5.4 a few months ago. I am using Image Handler 4.3.2, which I was using with the older version of Zen Cart, and it worked great. When I did the upgrade, everything was working correctly with the Alysa Rounded template. This week I upgraded to a responsive template, Avonlee Contempo Responsive. I went to upload images with Image Handler 4, and everything worked as it always does. However, when I went to the product, it only shows the main image and not the others I added. I'm not sure why the additional images are no longer showing. I went through the troubleshooting checklist at the top of this thread, but I didn't see any issues when I checked everything. I loaded up the old Alysa Rounded template, and it works. Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong? Does this mean I need to ask the creator of the template for Avonlee Contempo Responsive? Please let me know your thoughts and thanks!

Had similar experience. In my case I installed the IH2 includes/modules/additional_images instead of merging it with my includes/modules/my responsive template/additional_images. Merging with the latter also kept the colorbox functioning properly (which has been merged with orginal file as part of the template).This was instructed in the MISC tab of IH readme but I misread and put the IH fi;e in modules/ instead of moduls/my template/

Can someone tell me the DB tables the IH uses please, Im currently trying to intergrate my ZC store into my SAP system and would also like the aditional images to populate from my database, I can't seem to figger out how IH knows the connection for the item id number and the original file names of the aditional images stored on the server.

Thanks