How to select existing product images on server?

Situation:

Customer has an existing website using OSCommerce and wishes to change to ZenCart.

ZenCart v1.3.7 has been installed on a development server and the product descriptions (html) have been copied and pasted into ZenCart product info pages.

Problem:

How do we efficiently select product images for each product page without going through the tedious process of downloading each image individually from the admin product page editing screen, previewing and saving?

This issue was mentioned some time ago by someone else before ZenCart version 1.3.7 and was answered this way:

"If you already have the images loaded, you should be able to enter the name and click on the (sic) No do not Overwrite Existing Files"

Since this new website involves literally hundreds of product pages and images we are hoping there is a better way.

Hopefully a new version will include a means to select existing images off the server.

Any advice on how make use of a bulk ftp upload of images to the /images folder and then select those images would be appreciated.

Ron

Ron,

If you FTP all the images into the images folder in your Zen install then you can insert those images from the product page without the browsing and uploading the image.

Below the box to browse and upload you'll see:
-->Or, select an existing image file from server, filename:
Type the image filename inclucing the extension in that box and it will put that image with the product. If you have multiple directories that you have uploaded the images to (in the images folder) you can set that also by using the directory name with the image name like this: dirname/imagename.jpg in that box.

If you're using multiple product images you'll be able to attach all those at one time by naming the files correctly. That's another whole setup and you can do a search on the boards for calico_cat to see the naming convention to follow.

Consider installing EZpopulate - that will help with mass uploading of data, including image paths.

Ted:

Thanks for the reply. For some reason that selection does not appear on my product editing page.

I thought maybe one of the contributions I have installed may have been based on an old file so I compared what is on the server with the original admin/product.php file using WinMerge and they were identical. My ZenCart was installed using zen-cart-v1.3.7.1-full-patched-07052007.

Can you think of any reason why the selection below the box to browse and upload that reads:
-->Or, select an existing image file from server, filename:
does not appear on my ZenCart installation?

I checked through the admin menus to see if there is an option to show or not show this but didn't find anything. It's still possible there is such an option to show or not show and I didn't find it.

Ron

RYK re: Post 3

Thanks for the tip. I will take a look.

Ron

Anyone got any ideas why I don't have the option to select existing images on the server (see earlier in this thread). I'm told it should appear on the product info editing screen and the prompt is supposed to read: Or, select an existing image file from server, filename:

I compared what is on the server with the original admin/product.php file and there are no changes/modifications to the file. My installation uses the download zen-cart-v1.3.7.1-full-patched-07052007.

I need this option but cannot find how to display the prompt.

Ron

You should find that on all of the images in the admin except the attributes image ... as I sorta forgot one ... :blink:

ronlee67:

I compared what is on the server with the original admin/product.php file and there are no changes/modifications to the file.Try all the files in /admin/includes/modules/product

If you have a contribution installed that uses old code for one or more of those files, you'll be missing pieces of functionality.

Dr Byte re post #8,

Thank you for your on target advice.

The problem was in admin/includes/modules/product/collect_info.php and preview_info.php files. This was due to the "Short Description" contribution replacing these files. The modifications for the contribution were made on an older version of these files.

I have selected the relevant code in the ZenCart installation files, placed it into the respective files in the "Short Description V1.1" contribution, named it "Short Description update v1.1a" for ZenCart v1.3.7 and uploaded it in the downloads area.

The ability to select existing image files from the server has been restablished when the "Short Description" contribution is installed.

Ron

I also had the

"Or, select an existing image file from server, filename: "

option disappear from my categories/products edit page. This happend on version 1.3.8 after installing dual pricing v2 and easy populate (1.2.5.4).

The fix was just as stated above. both files...admin/includes/modules/product/preview_info.php and product_info.php had to be fixed.

I had copies of these files from another installation that was working, so I used those.

Thank you for the clue as to where to look. Hopefully this will help someone else too.:clap:

Hi,

i am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a and I have tried to select the images from the server as suggested at http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75835, eg. "public_html/images/Tea Box_01.JPG" but the picture does not display. I'd also like to add multiple images to products and created "Tea Box_02.JPG" in the same directory as "Tea Box_01.JPG" but only one pic appears.

Heres a link to the website:
http://miniatureinstruments.co.uk

Thanks.

Anyone, please?

OK, found answer here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55279
I did not name the main image right.