Template/Modules for Photos

Hello,

I'm trying to set up a cart so that a customer can choose his/her picture on zencart and also the various types of picture size, accessories, etc.

I found some talks about Singapore and Gallery2. I think Gallery2 seems to be something that may work but I'm hoping there is a module out there already that is active and well... "perfect" :)

Thanks for the info!

-evo

It may be missing something here, but pictures are products, products (can) have attributes ...why f=do you need an add-on?

Take a look at https://www.teddypix.co.uk and click on Gallery and drill down to a product for some ideas.

Hello,

I've talked to a friend and yes he told me about these "attributes".

I've seen a lot of sites that have pictures for sale but those are say.... premade (not sure how to describe it).

The idea that I have is to take pictures of people where then the people have the option to go online and look at their pictures and order from there. So you can imagine the amount of work I'd have to put in for each customer hence I was looking for an addon that would simply my work for the cart.

In any case, the attributes idea will work for a small consumer base. If we get large... we'll have to find other ways :)

Thank you for the site though.

Ryk:

It may be missing something here, but pictures are products, products (can) have attributes ...why f=do you need an add-on?

Take a look at www.teddypix.co.uk and click on Gallery and drill down to a product for some ideas.

evolive,
I've been doing some work upgrading the old version 1.2 contribution to connect Gallery2 and Zencart, and barring a couple of quirks, it seems to be usable with 1.3.5 and later this weekend 1.3.6. Essentially doing it for a photographer friend who would like to do exactly what you are describing above.

If you'd like to play with/evaluate that, I can put together a zip file for you to upload, which would probably force me to do the documentation I've been avoiding.

Rgds,

Chuckl

Hello,

ONLY if you want to share it. I'd greatly appreciate it. :)

Chuckl:

evolive,
I've been doing some work upgrading the old version 1.2 contribution to connect Gallery2 and Zencart, and barring a couple of quirks, it seems to be usable with 1.3.5 and later this weekend 1.3.6. Essentially doing it for a photographer friend who would like to do exactly what you are describing above.

If you'd like to play with/evaluate that, I can put together a zip file for you to upload, which would probably force me to do the documentation I've been avoiding.

Rgds,

Chuckl

Happy to do so, I'll see what I can put together later today.

In the meantime you can have a look at

http://www.jep.co.za

which is his test site for all this. The 'Portfolio' products are added to ZC in the normal way while the 'Galleries' are passed through automagically from Gallery2.

Selecting a particular photo/product and then selecting 'larger image' will invoke the Gallery2 embedding.

Rgds,

Ok, Zip file of the bits and pieces can be found athttp://eltorito.thekhaya.org/downloads/shawnshawn/zcg2-0.9.1.zip

Have fun,
Rgds,
Chuckl

Hi,

I try to do the same work - integrate gallery2 to zencart 1.3x. I would appreciate it very much, when you share your files also with me. The above link not more works. Thank you in advance

best regards from bavaria

Happy to oblige, a zip file of the mod is attached to this post here.

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=339729&postcount=6

Shout if you have any problems.

Chuck

Hi,

thank you very much. It works fine. First I had some trouble with long urls, but I could fix it. Now I have one more question. Do you think, that it is possible to link only those pictures to zencart, which are in the public folder? I have pictures for everybody, but also pictures for instance from a wedding, which should not displayed in zencart. It would be great when you can give me a hint or a code therefor.

Best regards

There are I suspect many ways to do that.
Gallery 2 has extensive group and user permissions, and playing with those would probably enable you to control what gets passed through or is viewable, and what is not.
Similarly, the Gallery 2 albums create categories off the base category specified in the install, and one can deactivate the unwanted categories. They will then not be displayed in Zen Cart.
Equally, it should not be too difficult to add a 'transfer to Zencart' attribute that controls whether a particular album or photo is viewable in the shop or not.
When I was doing the mod updating I was working with the idea that the Gallery would be used only for stuff that would be aimed at the shop, i.e. as an image manager for the store, not a general purpose Gallery install with some of the imagery going to the store, so the question didn't really arise.