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Hello,

The only thing annoying me is that on main page, sideboxes and other pages, including additional images, below product description ....... all are being taken from the folder where big images of the products are kept ..... that means, if on your home page you have 12 products shown in each of the modules, i.e., New Products, Upcoming Products, Featured Products, all together they will sum up to 36 product images and if each image size is approx. 25kb, 36 images will weigh 900 KB, which will obviously make you page load extremely slow.

Although all images are shown in small dimensions, but they are all big images, which also makes them look very poor.

I have created two folder inside the images folder 'big' and 'thumgs'. I have created images in two dimensions with same name and kept the bigger ones in the folder 'big' and smaller ones in the folder 'thumbs'.

Now I have modified modified the code of the file includes/modules/additional_images.php. What it does is, it now shows smaller images in Additional Images on product page, but if you click any one of them, they will open the same image in the folder 'big'.

Now I want the same to happen on main page in the boxes of "New Products", "Special Products", "Upcoming Products", etc. and also in the side boxes with product images.

Any contribution will be very much appreciated, thanks.

I am attaching the file "additional_products.php" but with extension '.txt', please change the extension after the download.

Zen Cart already has support for multiple images-per-product: small, medium, large.

FAQ: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=58

The Image Handler 2 mod is very good as well and will take care of the details for you.

You can download it here...
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=117

Regards,
Christian.

Dear DrByte and CJPinder,

I will read about it, it would be great if this support is built-in, thanks.

Tutorial here:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=58

How To: Image Prep here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9114&highlight=image+preparation

CJPinder,

I have downloaded and installed IH2 and installed it, its a very good product, but it lacks the support of multiple images, I wish it had that functionality.

You don't need IH2 for multiple images. That is a built-in function of Zen Cart - read the FAQ referenced above.

Hi, Sheril

Sheril:

I have downloaded and installed IH2 and installed it, its a very good product, but it lacks the support of multiple images, I wish it had that functionality.

It does support multiple images, you just have to name the images correctly. If you read the tutorials at the links posted above it will be more clear.

Regards,
Christian.

:huh: If you go into your admin->tools->Image Handler 2, threre's a box tat says "Click to add a new image to this product". I'd say that handles multiple images per product.

IH2 works for main images as well as additional images,