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

[Anonymous]

I'm going to improve this section during the weekend. Images should be uploaded from the admin, and you shouldn't have to upload images manually. People will always be confused about this stuff, and it's not convenient anyway, specially if you need to populate a new store with 100 products!

[Anonymous]

I'm going to improve this section during the weekend. Images should be uploaded from the admin, and you shouldn't have to upload images manually. People will always be confused about this stuff, and it's not convenient anyway, specially if you need to populate a new store with 100 products!

Oh yes, me = aric@nsa.co.il if you wanna contact me for details... sorry. it's 3:41am and i'm tired and hungry... that's the only reason i'm not fixing this right now

[andrewcb]

Hi, this is my first post and is just a thought,
ideally what we need to post the images is an image manager where we can upload images of various sizes and then rather than storing the images in folders on the server, store them in an images table in the database itself as blob data, then there won't be any problems with paths, and also will reduce the possibility of images having the same file name.
... just a thought.
Andy

[chrismole]

msasek,
Your instructions (see below) are helpful and I got it to work. I just have two questions...
1. How can I use a thumb and big image for the supporting images? As I see it, the naming convention does not allow for thumbs AND big images for the supporting images. If this is incorrect, please provide some more instructions. I tried this, but it does not work:
image1_pic1.jpg (supporting thumb)
image1_big1.jpg (supporting big)

2. Is there a way to ignore the Small Image Width and Height pixel values and just let the images be their original size? If I have a thumb and a big image, what's the point of resizing them in the IMG tag? I have many images that are not the same proportion (some landscape, some portrait) and these values are distorting my images. Any suggestions?

thanks,
Chrismole

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Mo Pics HOW TO
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First, on your local computer, name your images. For this example I am using the following:

Main Thumbnail : exmain.gif

Big Image for main thumbnail : exmain_big.gif

Name for 3 other pics that I want to appear on the product page:

exmain_pic1.gif
exmain_pic2.gif
exmain_pic3.gif

For this example, these extra pictures are full sized, not thumbs, although they have been optimized for small filesize.
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Next, follow these steps:

1. In osCommerce MS2-MAX admin create a product called Mopics Test Product. On the product creation page, in the Products Image field, type this path : thumbs/exmain.gif.

2. Click Preview and then click Update. The image should be broken (red x) in the admin.

3. Next, upload the images from your computer via FTP to the server:

exmain.gif /catalog/images/thumbs
exmain_big.gif /catalog/images/images_big
exmain_pic1.gif /catalog/images/thumbs
exmain_pic2.gif /catalog/images/thumbs
exmain_pic3.gif /catalog/images/thumbs

4. Go to the product page in the catalog, and see your nice images dynamically picked up by the product.


That is all there is to it. You can change the image types if you like. What I do is make all my thumbs .gif files, and then make by big images .jpg files. I set the dynamic mopics settings in the admin to reflect this.

Then, I create my thumbs - exmain_pic1.gif and my big image exmain_pic1.jpg and I upload both to the /catalog/images/thumbs dir. This allows me to have a full sized big pic, and fast loading thumbs.