Dynamic Mo Pics :: Allows more than one image per product

Anonymous · 10-10-2003, 06:58 AM

I have followed all the posts on Dynamic Mopics, and this is a mod we simply do not need. We have people that do not know how to create thumbnails, upload images separately, and all the other steps involved with this mod. We would prefer things to work as they did in 2.1. It would be very helpful if someone could explain how we uninstall this mod altogether. I'd even be willing to pay for it!

**michael_s** · 10-10-2003, 07:41 AM

You don't have to uninstall it. Just don't use it. It is not a requirement. It just sits there if you don't want to use it. All you have to do is change one setting in the admin, and you dont have to worry about using it. Change the /thumbs dir to 'false' and it will work as a normal osCommerce site. It is a dynamic mod, so if there are no extra images, it will behave like a stock osCommerce store.

Anonymous · 10-11-2003, 06:46 AM

Thank you for your swift reply!
Unfortunately, just changing the thumbs dir to false in the admin didn't alleviate the problem and I had to manually uninstall. For the record, this is what I did and it worked great. I generally used comments to remove elements in case we ever changed our mind and wanted to restore the Mod.

Step 1:

open catalog includes/filenames.php and comment out the following line in the
appropriate section (line 145):

define('FILENAME_DYNAMIC_MOPICS', 'dynamic_mopics.php');

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Step 2:

open catalog includes/languages/english/product_info.php and cooment out the line:

define('TEXT_NO_MOPICS', 'coming soon!');

repeat this step for each product_info.php language file (spanish/product_info.php, etc.)

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Step 3:

open catalog/templates/content/product_info.tpl.php

Comment out line 142 like so:

<?php // include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_DYNAMIC_MOPICS); ?>

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Step 4:

overwrite catalog popup_image.php with the old popup_image.php

and delete includes/modules/dynamic_mopics.php

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Step 5:

Run the following on in phpMyAdmin or similar:

DELETE FROM configuration_group where configuration_group_id = 99;
DELETE FROM configuration where configuration_group_id = 99;

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**michael_s** · 10-11-2003, 01:16 PM

Glad it worked, but it is entirely unneccesary to remove the mod. For others reading this post, you don't have to do that. Like I said, just change the Main Thumbnail In Thumb Directory setting to false.

I just tested it myself, to be sure I was not losing my mind, and by simply changing the setting I mentioned, the original function is restored. The image displays the way it is supposed to.

**PaintballGT** · 10-13-2003, 12:50 PM

I am having some troubles with this that don't seem to match the other ones listed, but I will persevere! I will be back if I can't figure it out tonight.

On another note, is it possible to use sub-folders inside thumbs and big to be able to sort pictures? Such as images/thumbs/msoft etc.?

Thanks!
Tom

Anonymous · 10-13-2003, 06:00 PM

Okay, it works! Mostly ... the problem is that when I add a product it isn't usually writing the image to the database. I had to go into phpmyadmin to edit the image field to add the thumbs/picname.gif value.

Any thoughts on why this is happening? It has happened on both new items and trying to update existing items.

Thanks!
Tom

**warrenthewindmill** · 11-01-2003, 10:17 AM

I have read all the correspondence on the problems with this contribution and share most people's frustration.

it is entirely unneccesary to remove the mod. For others reading this post, you don't have to do that. Like I said, just change the Main Thumbnail In Thumb Directory setting to false.

It didn't work for me either. I made the change and I still don't seem to have disabled mopics. What am I missing?

All I want is one pic with one larger one when "click to enlarge" is clicked. The mopics contribution will only let me select jpg bmp gif or png and my images are jpeg, so the only way I can get pop up larger images is to make them gif's. No good for the bigger images as the file size increases and slows download.

Any help much appreciated

**michael_s** · 11-01-2003, 12:09 PM

warrenthewindmill, jpg and jpeg are exactly the same. If it is not seeing the jpeg, just rename to jpg. If you have a lot of images, pickup a free renaming software off the net and have at it. You can rename 10's of thousands of images in minutes..

As for most peoples frustration, it is true there seems to be a few that have trouble with this mod, but the numbers overall are very small, considering there are at least 10,000 copies of ms2-max out there that people are playing with. I have not had a single problem with the mod, it works as it should every time, and I have done over 300 installs of ms2-max. I really don't understand why it is so difficult for people to figure out.

Set the naming scheme. Set the paths. Set the image options. Add your products. Upload your images. Done. 5 steps.

The only thing I can think of is that people are having trouble with the naming scheme. Just change it to whatever you like . It is 100% customizable. You do not have to use the naming scheme setup by default. Change it to whatever works for you.

So, you don't want to use the thumbs dir? Set it to false, then upload all your images to the main image dir. It is that simple. I have done this 100 times, and just to be sure I was not totally of base, I just did it again to test as I was writing this post. It works. If you want to see it in action, go here (I just setup this image 5 minutes ago and it took less than 1 minute to do):

http://64.191.34.201/~ms2max/ms2max/...products_id=64

This is an unmodified MS2-MAX 1.5.2 installation. All I did was change a single default dynamic-mopics setting :

Main Thumbnail In Thumb Directory to false.

Now the popup images work. If I were to set that to true, the popup images would be broken. Now, since I changed this to false, I had to put my image in the main 'images' directory, NOT the thumbs directory. Have you done this?

Every question about mopics has been answered again and again. I don't know any other way to explain it. Read through this post, and everything is explained at least 2 times. Removing it is much more trouble than simply changing one setting to false. All you have to do to disable the mopics function and directory issues is to set it to false. Then, add your images the default oscommerce way to the main images directory

I cannot offer any more help on this, simply because I can think of no other way to explain it. I have given explicit instructions on how do do it step by step. I have followed the exact same procedure over 100 times on at least 60 different sites, and it has worked without fail 100% of the time.

**warrenthewindmill** · 11-01-2003, 02:25 PM

It just demonstrates what a bad medium email is. Very often the problem is that we have different perceptions of what should be happening. I have just read your mail and it helped me although you probably wouldn't have thought of writing the one word your response triggered in my mind. You said:

warrenthewindmill, jpg and jpeg are exactly the same. If it is not seeing the jpeg, just rename to jpg. If you have a lot of images, pickup a free renaming software off the net and have at it. You can rename 10's of thousands of images in minutes..

Your use of the word rename made me remember...DOS
rename *.JPEG *.jpg

I knew the files were the same format, but I had never noticed that sometimes jaypeg files were sometimes .jpg and sometimes .JPEG until MSMAX wouldn't display .JPEG.
It is so long since I used DOS that I had forgotten how I could rename files. We may not always communicate in quite the way intended but we get there in the end

Many thanks for the help

**warrenthewindmill** · 11-01-2003, 03:08 PM

So now it is all working as it should...almost. I have some images that look really good with transparency, so .gif. Others where pic would increase in size if a .gif was used so .jpg. Is there any way I could have either, such that if the pic was either a .jpg or a .gif it would be displayed?

As it is now I can display my small .jpg files but not .gif's. I crack this and the site is up mid November