More than one image per product ?? HELP

I need desperately to be able to show more than one image per product with thumbnails that can be enlarged, showing front, back and close up. Why can't this be done with ZEN surely its a simple requirement that one can even do when selling on EBAY within minutes. Can anyone help or can anyone do this ? I am happy to pay... Hope to hear from someone..:smile:

Carlin 75:

I need desperately to be able to show more than one image per product with thumbnails that can be enlarged, showing front, back and close up. Why can't this be done with ZENIt can. Here's the FAQ Entry.

kuroi:

It can. Here's the FAQ Entry.

Thanks for this. But I am really looking for a simple option where the images can be uploaded in admin. I have a very fast moving stock line and new products to be added frequently so I need to be able to do it myself in Admin not by my technician. I am not confident uploading them by hand - there must be a way of doing it through the admin area - please help. If it can be done so easily on ebay surely Zen can do it too ?

I am not confident to upload the pictures by hand. Is there a way it can be done from the admin area ? I have a fast turnover of new images and i need to be able to do this frequently. Please help. Is there an add one or something that can be bought and maybe installed ?

Using FTP is really easy, and if you're managing a zenshop (or any other webshop software) then you'll need to know how FTP works.

You could install ImageHandler 2 (IH2) and this would provide an interface to upload additional images.

There IS a way in admin, but it is time-consuming...

When you ADD or EDIT a product, there is an opportunity to UPLOAD an image when you fill in all the product details.

Let's say you have a product - "Candy Bar"

It has THREE images:-
candybar.jpg ..........(The main image)
candybar_01.jpg .....(The first additional image - NB how it is named)
candybar_02.jpg .....(The second additiona image - also named properly for zencart)

ADD the product using the add-product edit feature in admin, and with it, upload the FIRST image - candybar.jpg

Make sure the product is added to the dbase, then, come back to edit it a second time.

Leave all data that's already there intact.

Scroll down to image upload

UPLOAD the second image: candybar_01.jpg

This will OVERWRITE the REFERENCE to the original image, but does not remove the original image from the server.

Complete the product edit process.

COME BACK to re-edit, then upload the THIRD image in the same way.

Finally, come back to edit for the last time, where (in the field titled: Or, select an existing image file from server, filename:) type in candybar.jpg...

Thus restoring the ORIGINAL candybar.jpg as the primary image.

Now, you will ALSO see all the thumbnails of the supplementary images.

Carlin 75:

I have a fast turnover of new images and i need to be able to do this frequently.

On reading your post again, I have to stress that sending images up to your server via FTP is by far and away the easiest and fastest process you should use.

All you have to observe is to NAME your images according to zencart's convention.

candybar.jpg
candybar_01.jpg
candybar_02.jpg

etc...

FTP will probably upload 100 images (of 80kb each) in about one minute...

I agree with fairestcape. Using an FTP program such as FileZilla, this is a simple drag and drop operation scarcely more complex than using Windows Explorer.

Or, as suggested, there is an Admin interface for uploading and naming additional images built into Image Handler. But this operates one image at a time so is much slower than doing it via FTP.

i do have a question though i tried this, it shows more thumb nails but the problem is it shows them right at the bottom of the page????
secondly can't we just make those small thumb pins and on mouse over it just shows the one under the mouse????

mimran:

i do have a question though i tried this, it shows more thumb nails but the problem is it shows them right at the bottom of the page????
secondly can't we just make those small thumb pins and on mouse over it just shows the one under the mouse????

You can change the layout in a wide variety of ways, from editing "tpl_product_info_display.php" to changing CSS to downloading a wide variety of image controllers (see downloads section).

Also, these "additional images" don't have to be tiny - change them if you want to.

mimran:

i do have a question though i tried this, it shows more thumb nails but the problem is it shows them right at the bottom of the page????
secondly can't we just make those small thumb pins and on mouse over it just shows the one under the mouse????You can easily move them elsewhere by editing the relevant template (tpl_product_info_display.php). An example.

I believe that it may be possible to display hovering images for them using Image Handler. You mayt want to checkout of that mod's support thread for more information.

And if you want to push the boat out and do some programming, here's a couple more ways of displaying them differently. The first (soon to be launched) site uses a Flash movie to load a new additional image every 10 seconds, and the second site allows visitors to select an additional image and then scroll through the large versions.

kuroi,

I am honestly short of words, to thankyou after a long time someone has gone in this detail to explain something, realy thankful

regards
mimran

p.s. i do have some questions about the second site link you sent.

firstly in the image section how did you do borders around it? is that all CSS?
secondly down in the information how did you do the tabs?????/ many thanks if you can assist with that

mimran:

i do have some questions about the second site link you sent.

firstly in the image section how did you do borders around it? is that all CSS?

secondly down in the information how did you do the tabs?????/ many thanks if you can assist with thatFirstly, although the others are, that site is not my work, I just contributed some pieces to it. However, to answer your questions: the borders around that central section are done with images. In fact they are blocks with gradients rather than borders, with contrasting image blocks laid over the top leaving only the parts showing that make them look like borders.

The tabs were, I believe, written specifically for the client. However, you can achieve the same effect by using QHome's Tabbed Products Pro

thankyou thankyou

just few more questions

i have been able to bring additional images where i wanted (just under the main image) but they are spaced out, not like that site how they are together how can i do that.

and one more please, in the main navigation bar, i wanted to added 'contact us' and 'privacy' link but can't seem to be able to do it for some reason how can i do that.

please please

Hello... I have now tried all your suggestions but these are not straightforward or easy at all - I need a much simpler solution and I need to be able to upload the images in admin via tools and image handler. Can anyone do this ? I am prepared to pay for someone to do this work for me on my site as I desperately need this done. I have a site with a large turnover of images so I need a simple solution.. I hope to hear from someone.. thanks thanks

mimran:

i have been able to bring additional images where i wanted (just under the main image) but they are spaced out, not like that site how they are together how can i do that.Without seeing your site, it's not possible to say.

mimran:

and one more please, in the main navigation bar, i wanted to added 'contact us' and 'privacy' link but can't seem to be able to do it for some reason how can i do that.There are several ways of approaching this. Again, without seeing your site it's not possible to say which would be the most appropriate for you, or to venture an opinion on why what you're trying isn't working.

Carlin 75:

Hello... I have now tried all your suggestions but these are not straightforward or easy at all - I need a much simpler solution and I need to be able to upload the images in admin via tools and image handler. Can anyone do this ? I am prepared to pay for someone to do this work for me on my site as I desperately need this done. I have a site with a large turnover of images so I need a simple solution.. I hope to hear from someone.. thanks thanksI really can't image what could be easier that dragging a file from one window to another (FTP) or browsing from the Image Handler page to your additional images on your local PC. But if you really want to pay somebody to reproduce what's already available for free, then please make your request in the Commerical Help Wanted section of this forum.

The only part of this that requires forethought is naming the additional images to go with the base image, and I suspect that's a big hurdle for some people.

I could imagine an interface that allows you, after identifying the product to associate with, to browse and select a random image (or group of images), renaming it to fit with the product's base image before ftp'ing it to the server. I'm not sure if this is practical to do from within admin.

gjh42:

The only part of this that requires forethought is naming the additional images to go with the base imageImage Handler already does this. The user goes to the product to which they wish to add an additional image, clicks on the new file button and up pops this screen.

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Then they click on browse, navigate on their local PC to the image they want to add and Image Handler automatically assigns it an appropriate image name (as per the "9" image in the screenshot).

Cool! It's such a logical and useful development that I'm not surprised IH2 has it.