Hi Everyone

[josbar742]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newbie to osCMax, although I am pretty familiar with Joomla, virtuemart and zencart. I have to say there are some really nice features in the osCMax package; however since I've started playing with it I see a couple of features that could be enhanced in the 2.0.3 release:

1) Product image management. It seems that I can upload only one image per product (however I can use ftp and manage things that way); however for my customer this is kind of a pain... it should be easier. Also there is no control over the path on the server. I prefer to categorize my images as follows:
images/thumbs/products/image.jpg
images/thumbs/categories/image.jpg

Which is actually the default layout I believe, however the upload initialized my product images path as follows in the database:
images/thumbs/image.jpg

2) There should be an easy means to add features such as lightbox support without modifying my template directly.

Anyway, keep up the great work guys. Let me know if there are some features I could chew on to come up to speed with the development side, and maybe I could help out!

Regards,
Joseph

[michael_s]

Welcome to osCMax. I suggest reading up on the docs so you are more familiar with how things work regarding images, and settings in general.
images: Dynamic Mopics Documentation
in general: http://wiki.oscdox.com/

1. Web based image uploading, while easy for the newb is painfully inefficient and a major waste of time. It is far more efficient to pre-make your thumbnails for ALL products and simply upload them all in one shot. That being said, there are several discussions currently underway in the forums to add this "feature" to the core code. It will probably make it into the v2.1 release tree in one form or another. Most likely an advanced web based file manager that will allow unlimited uploads on the product pages.

2. Slimbox/jquery is already included in v2.1 by default. It is a simple matter if including the {slimbox} tag in your template to load the required features. You can see it working here:

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[josbar742]

Thanks michael_s, that helps... I actually like the dynamic mopics method better than others I've used... It is simpler than uploading many pics through an admin interface and ending up with server clutter due to dynamic naming & resizing...

I was not aware that 2.1 was available for general consumption... Is the "trunk" development branch the 2.1 source base?

Thanks again, you guys rock. BTW, once I am up to speed on this distro, I hope to be able to contribute... I see you need testers; maybe that is the place to start?

[michael_s]

Yes, always need testers!

You can grab 2.1 from SVN. It is in:

/svn/branches/michael_s/2.1/

[josbar742]

Cool! I got that yesterday, just wasn't sure I was grabbing the right thing I will do what I can to help. Is there a (in)formal process established (ie TODO list) anywhere? Also, what is the patch submission process? Here is one I fixed from my checkout...

--- oscmax2.1-ro/catalog/includes/modules/dynamic_mopics.php Sun Nov 29 14:44:35 2009
+++ devbox/catalog/includes/modules/dynamic_mopics.php Sun Nov 29 16:29:25 2009
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
</div>
<div class="screenshotsBlock">
<div align="center">
- <?
+ <?php
$row = 0;
// Loop until all of this product's thumbnails have been found and displayed
while ($image_ext = mopics_file_exists(str_replace($search, $replace, DYNAMIC_MOPICS_PATTERN))) {

[michael_s]

Use the bugtracker to submit patches, bug reports, etc... so that everyone can have access to the info, and you can provide details of the issue, what version it is in, what it is for, etc:

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