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

Can someone please tell me how to uninstall this? I can not find the sql to get it off my site. Please anyone.

admin>tools>image handler .. Admin

does that really remove it all from the data base? Seems like its still there b/c when I go to reinstall it, it dosen't make the folders in the bmz_cache...why is that?

Yes it removes it all from the database, but you have to manually remove the files from the server just like you manually uploaded them.

thats not what I mean, I remove the files, but after I reinstall, they don't come back up.

Sorry, but you've got me utterly confused. If you've uninstalled via the admin and removed the files, of course they won't come back up... but I suppose that depends on what you mean by "they".

What ***exactly ***are you trying to do?

I have it all worked out now, but as I was trying to reinstall it, I took it back to the way the files where before it was installed.

So there the file 0 and file 1....so on didn't get made after the reinstall, but I had them from my backup so I just put them back in, it might have been a file permission thing, not sure.

I'm having some problems with Image Handler 2 and Zen 1.3.6. Some of my large images are not resizing at all (adjusting to the IM2 standard large size).

What could be causing this?

wtashby

You know you have warnings on your ashby mint page?

Yeah,

I'm updating to 1.3.7 right now. Hoping that and the new IH2 will solve the problems.

Well, I succesfully upgraded to 1.3.7, then made sure I had the latest IH2 installed, and it works perfectly. So, apparantly, IH2 and 1.3.6 must not play well together without some modifications. Anyway, problem solved!:D

For other folks reading this
IH2 and 136 work just fine together
we have a bunch of folks running it

glad you got it sorted out Tom

Thanks T! Hope no one else is having any problems with that combination as I did. But, even if they aren't, upgrading to 1.3.7 is not only painless, but HIGHLY reccomended! There is just so much that has been fixed in the latest release, and so many issues that have been addressed.

Having Zencart: Free
Having the latest version of Zencart: Priceless

I'm going to say my piece and leave.

At someone's suggestion, I'm not going to point fingers, I downloaded IH2 and tried to follow the installation instructions.

I kept looking and looking and reading and reading, but the intalltion instructions were nowhere to be found.

I'm sorry Tim, with all due respect, this does not pass for installation instructions, you don't have the right to call this documentation.

I'm not a PHP programmer, but I engineer IBM390 enterprise-wide systems that transact billions of dollars daily, and I couldn't figure out how to install this "contribution" based on this fragment of sentence.

Copy the following directories into your Zen Cart folder.

• <LI class=level1>admin

You will forgive me because, as I might add that you are not the only one guilty of thinking that everyone knows what you know and those who don't can read your mind.

Sending folks off on a wild goose chance thru hundreds of thousands of outdated and useless forum posts where PHP geeks and hobbyists backslap each other is not what I would consider to be a good basis for an ecommerce enterprise.

Thanks for the fun, I couldn't imagine how else I would have wanted to spend the last two weeks. I learned something about the value of free software. You don't always get what you paid for. :smartass:

More than one admin folder in your store root? More than one folder called "images" in your store root? more than one includes folder in your store root? I really doubt it.
It's actually incredibly simple. All the files from the "images" folder in the ZIP file you download need to be uploaded to /yourstore/images.
All the files from the "admin" folder in the ZIP file need to be uploaded to /yourstore/admin (if you have renamed your admin directory, you still upload it to the renamed dir)
Upload the files from "includes" to /yourstore/includes. Make sure that the folder structure stays the same. e.g., the files & folders from /image-handler_2.0-zc13/includes/templates/template_default/css/
need to be uploaded to /yourstore/includes/templates/template_default/css.

Also, did you not see this link:
http://www.breakmyzencart.com/ih-doc
That is also included in the "README" file in the IH2 download.
by the way, image handler is definitely worth it, and I don't know why more ZC stores don't use it, it considerably enhances the store.

Suddenly when I try to add an additional image I get this error:

File exists! Please alter the base name or suffix.

I'm using zc136 and ih2.
It has beed working perfectly until today and this problem does not happen on all products.

Any clues to what is wrong would be appreciated.

Normally, I never get involved in petty dodge ball games, but this time I just Can't resist. Judging from your post, "Putzmeister" is an appropriate handle for you to use.

There are more than one admin directory, more than one images directory and more than one includes directory in my Zen Cart folder.

That's a new one on me too, and I have 3 HIGHLY modified Zen sites online.

It's actually incredibly simple.

This is So true kbalona! Especially if you read the threads (this one in particular) and ask questions instead of "shooting off at the keyboard".

No one cares that you > but I engineer IBM390 enterprise-wide systems that transact billions of dollars daily. We just care that you are able to get your cart up and running, and most everyone in the Zen Community is Happy to help. Try asking the right questions instead of snipe hunting and maybe, just maybe, your "bag" will fill up with the right answers instead of those illusive little snipes that seem to be eluding you.

If you really Do have 2 of everything, the best thing you can do is delete it all, re-upload Zen Cart 1.3.7 (only once) re-install and try again.

But, as said before, it is unlikely you have two of anything in the same directories as 2 files or folders with the same name cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

kbalona:

by the way, image handler is definitely worth it, and I don't know why more ZC stores don't use it, it considerably enhances the store.At the risk of being chided ;) ...or why some form of it isn't part of core. The lack of even basic image handling is big missing part in an otherwise really sophisticated commerce solution.

IH2 is great stuff. At first I didn't quite understand how it worked and even fretted that I was missing steps until I refreshed the site and things looked mighty pretty. Major kudos! :)

After upgrading to 1.3.7, I've run into a rather odd snag. On the admin side, the png/jpg/gif preview images don't work and upon checking the img locations, it points to /shop/shop/admin/images for some reason. Perhaps when I overwrote a file in admin this happened, but since my reinstallation/upgrade is still fairly early I couldn't imagine something major getting knocked out of whack.

I tried editing imagehandler.php (where the preview image code info was) and no dice. The weird part was that when I edited the file, I received the following errors:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/"user"/public_html/shop/admin/image_handler.php:1) in /home/"user"/public_html/shop/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 108

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/"user"/public_html/shop/admin/image_handler.php:1) in /home/"user"/public_html/shop/admin/includes/init_includes/init_templates.php on line 36

What's weirder is that if I do nothing, or edit something then undo and save the file (effectively negating the changes made but nevertheless forcing the file to be overwritten on the ftp) I still get this error. The only fix was to re-upload an unblemished/new version of said file.

Did I just stumble upon some magic error? Is my lack of sleep causing me to secretly type invisible php code that is mucking things up? Oh no! @_@;

On a lighter note, everything user side looks marvelous. :)

Chris

kusogaki:

What's weirder is that if I do nothing, or edit something then undo and save the file (effectively negating the changes made but nevertheless forcing the file to be overwritten on the ftp) I still get this error. The only fix was to re-upload an unblemished/new version of said file.

Did I just stumble upon some magic error? Is my lack of sleep causing me to secretly type invisible php code that is mucking things up? Oh no! @_@;
That error is almost always a return or some white space after the closing ?> in the file. Some files are quite sensitive to this. I suspect your editor is forcing a return at the end of the file when saving. In my editor (BBEdit) this is something I can shut off in the preferences.