Dynamic Mopics Possible Cure

[auntie22]

Hello Everyone,

I like many of you, have been struggling with the issue of Dynamic Mopics, in ms2 max Well surprise surprise, if you are using the 1.2a upgrade with the switch option and have switched your aabox template to any of the other 3 templates CSS, OneTime, or osC Dynamic mopics does not work,

well it didn't. Here is the cure that worked for me!!!!! (hooray)

Go to catalog/templates/osC/ or CSS/ or OneTime/ whichever one you are using, then content/ product_info.tpl.php

and on line 113 add
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES .FILENAME_DYNAMIC_MOPICS); ?>
</tr>

You will vuala have your extra thumb nails appear, the only issue I have now is that the click to enlarge for the 2nd thumb opens the first thumbs image.

Again msasesk instructions below are perfect.

Ok,

I have not had time to properly address this until now, but here it is. A full how-to to get you started. This setup is not perfect for everyone, but it will get you started so that you understand how this works. Disregard my previous post, as it is not correct. I missed a few things when explaining, but I hope this will clear it up:

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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.

Now if anyone else can help me with the pop_up box issue, that would be great.

[auntie22]

Hi again

I have fixed the other issue, boy I never knew reading could be such a learning experience. (LOL) But I thank everyone who has taken the time to keep notes and place them on this forum for all of us to read.

This is for user of the switch template option that are not working with the aabox template.

Now to make the additional thumbs enlarge to its big image and not the default image try this:

First rename your current popup_image.tpl.php.
Go to catalog/templates/aabox and copy popup_image.tpl.php to a editor,
Then change all instances of $_GET['pic'] to $HTTP_GET_VARS['pic']
Once your done editing, save it and copy it to the template you are using or all 3 Templates CSS/OneTime/osC for future use.
Now your extra thumb big pictures should work. Mine Did

Thank you, again for all the information on this forum, I hope my notes can help others as well.

Till Next issue

Could you or anyone give the url of a working site displaying how the motion pics work?
Thanks.

[auntie22]

Hello,

Here is what it looks like with just 1 extra picture added: http://sizzlingpleasures.com/catalog...products_id=84

[knullhund]

I did follow the directions and up to most of the way it worked. The only problem is that it does't display the image. I went back to the admin section and checked if the line thumbs/test.gif was there, and there was nothing; everything else looks ok. I did try again typing in the line 'thumbs/test.gif' and again nothing sticks even after I preview and hit update. I did try this at least 4 times. Anyone knows what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for your response.
Knull

Hi,
When you go to add your item click on the browse button and click the first thumb name of your set of pictures then upload the rest of the images in your thumb and big_images directory. that should work for you.