Product Attribute Pictures (PAPs) V 0.1

[michael_s]

Product Attribute Pictures (PAPs) Version 0.1
by hanuman at Open Source Services
Demo at http://www.lannathaicrafts.com/plywo...ouse-p-60.html
Support and Forum at http://www.open-source-services.com/...s-Version-0.1/


This contribution is for any seller who is offering products using the Products Attributes feature that comes bundled with
the oscMax distribution (but not osCommerce). If you have photos of the different product attributes (e.g you might have an item available in
different colors), then this contribution provides a quick and easy way for your customers to look at all the different
attribute pictures on the product_info page using automatically generated thumbnails without having to refresh the whole
page each time they click a thumbnail. It can handle multiple attribute names and values.

There is no need for any Admin section configuration. Adding new product attribute pictures is simply a matter of naming
and saving a file.

For a working example of this contribution, visit http://www.lannathaicrafts.com/plywo...ouse-p-60.html
and scroll down the page until you see the Product Options Viewing Area.



Requirements

To use this contribution, you must meet the following prerequisites:

1) Your server must have the GD graphics library installed

2) You must have the Products Attributes contribution installed in osCommerce
(most, if not all distributions of oscMax have it)

3) This version will only display cleanly with stores that use the full width of a 1024 pixel-wide screen.

If your store is narrower than this, you will have to tweak the html code that will be added to product_info(.tpl).php.

4) You must be using product model numbers for your products.

5) All product attribute image files must be .jpg

This version was tested using oscMax2 RC2 and RC3.0.1 with PHP v5.1.1 . It should work on other versions also.
No database access is required. Filenames are used as metadata for images.


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