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Hi ScrapOrchard, just curious, why do your product titles (in the screenshots) show a single double-quote? ex: Note that there is no trailing double-quote value, according to the screenshots

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Because that's the titles of the product? It's what the Provider entered in the Product Information.. why they forgot to close the quotes, I don't know! The quotes are not hard coded.. not all the titles have them.. :)

Does this have any bearing on why the thumbnails aren't showing up? Because they dont' show up for all product, not just the one I took a screen shot of...?

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ah, wasn't sure if it had any bearing or not. based on your explanation though, i doubt that it does

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Well.. that would be too easy a fix.. wouldn't it?! :)

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Anyone?

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Can anyone answer my question? If not, is there a support forum at TeleFirma where I can try to get assistance there?!?!

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ScrapOrchard,
I think Stephen Couch (Telafirma) could answer but it's been days that nobody has heard from him. It doesn't seem unusual that Stephen get out of touch for "long" periods of time...quite stressing because you cannot access some parts of the code and as with many X-Cart mods there is always a lot of twiching and fine tuning to do (and I don't intend to become an HTML+PHP+Smarty expert for the years to come).
Hope Stephen will get back to us soon...
Cheers,

Philippe

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I've also been trying to get in touch with Stephen. I sent him a package from Australia also that I know he was very excited about receiving but instead it was returned to me as "un-claimed". I have also experienced this latency in response before from Stephen.

Have tried every means other than calling / jumping on a plane and knocking on his door.

Stephen, If you're out there mate and everything is cool. You're gonna be a busy boy when you get back.

Chris

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Hey hey :) :) I finally found an old email from Stephen about this. I've been having this same problem.


On line 17 of /skin1/modules/Dynamic_Images/product_image.tpl

change the following line:

to:


Basically all you are doing is removing the "-1" from the floor(x / y) equation.

Hope this helps :)

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Thank you - I'll give that a go -

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hi, I am very interested in this mod

my product Thumbnail, product image and detailed image are all stored outside X-cart directory

Do this mod still work with this?

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benfung007

This mod works by creating multiple pictures by resizing the "thumbnail" picture...wherever it comes from. So you just take a large picture (say 800x800) as a thumbnail (either by admin product detail or by import) and the mod does the rest (ie. create thumbnails for search list, for featured products, for recommended products and create also a main image for the product page). You're still free to add as many detail images as you want.
It is in fact a very good mod, it simplify a lot the image management (you can change the size of all those images in a specific menu in admin and it will be applied immediately).
Only drawbacks (for me) :
- Interfere with the variant product images (so the image swapping doesn't work anymore...but you can have ALL the variant images as detail images)
- Detail images thumbnails layout could be...better.

Hope this helps,

Philippe

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Thank you

Let say I create a new product page using import file:
1: my Thumbnail image and product image are stored somewhere in "http://img.mysite.com/image/thumb/01/02/product001.jpg" and "http://img.mysite.com/image/product/01/02/product001.jpg"
2: my six detailed image are stored somewhere in "http://img.mysite.com/image/product/01/02/product001_01~06.jpg"
3: when a customer visit this product page, this mod reads the above url and create necessary thumb on the product page. When he clicks the thumb, the relevant image mentioned above pops up

Am I right?

I am worried I have to change my image system structure in order to make this mod work properly.

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Well...the best way to use it is to have only one image (large) as thumbnail and it will create the product image. When you click on the product image, there is a popup that show the same image but larger (you choose the size). And with this popup you can visualize all the details images.
To make a long story short, except for specific reasons, you do not need anymore to import a product image.
The place where you have you images is not relevant.

Is it clearer ?

Cheers,

Philippe

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benfung007

Just PM'd you an example.

Cheers,

philippe

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can google and yahoo crawler my original images, so that they can be listed in image search ?

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thank you, phicaloma

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if I have 8 images for each products, and totally there is 2000 products, if all images are loaded once eventually, then the images/cache/ folder will have over 20000 cache files?will this be a problem?

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Well for the moment I have about 800 products and about 1400 original images and there is 8300+ images in the cache directory.
Not problem whatsoever...

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...as for the google and yahoo crawlers...I do not have the answer...

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Hi,

I would recommend that you ask the developer at http://www.telafirma.com/store/home.php?cat=243 before making a decision about this mod.

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Any chance I will ever get an answer to my quesiton?

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As a user of this mod, its a great one..But in my experience its best built for images that are the same "Large" size. With my site, none of my images are the same size at all. So what i did was create a series of blanks that i placed the image within. This way, then when telafirmas mod shrinks them down, the frame retains the same value thus allowing the images to stay true to form.

This was a great trick to do with this mod, and seems to keep all my images, thumbs, product listings, etc all the same size.

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Hi,

Has anybody received a response from TelaFirma either through their support or any other means. I have tried to contact them for almost two weeks now with no reply.

Did your products get delivered?

I have issues with it breaking the variant feature which haven't been fixed.

There were also some code modifications that were required for the mod to work properly on a stock 4.1.9 install. Also while the stock install has a "click to enlarge" statement to view a detailed image the mod doesn't for some reason which also required a code mod.

I won't be doing business with this company again.

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he always has gotten back to me thru PM's. Did u try that?

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I have tried to contact them through the contact form on their website which has worked successfully in the past. I have also tried to contact them through my payment processor for which I have yet to see a reply and which has been outstanding for over a week. That would sure wake me up.

Take a look here at the comments for product delivery http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=35108&page=4. There are comments there about waiting for 2 days with no delivery (no reply as whether its happened yet) and another that stated in took 8 days for delivery.

I also don't see any recent posts on the forums from them. Last post I see as of this post is 05-07-2008, 09:17 PM. It looks like they have abandoned ship from my perspective.

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I figure I'll just keep re-posting my questions until I can get someone to answer.

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Hi ScrapOrchard -

I don't use the download features, so I don't know if this will be helpful, but just in case the changes required are similar to the changes necessary to get the recommended/upsell images to work - you may find hints in this thread.

I'm also waiting for access to a free mod called Multicolumn Recommends 4.1 on the Tela Firma site that allows the recommended and upsell images to work with the Dynamic Images mod. I don't know if it has more information than what is in the thread above, but maybe looking at how these work will give you clues about displaying the images properly with the download mod.

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Xcart 4.1.9

Hello all, I am thinking of purchasing this mod, but need a few clarifications first.
I am working with bulk products, importing them through excel. As of now i need to upload 2 different size images onto my server, for thumbnails & Product images. They go into /T & /P folders respectivly.

If i install the Dynamic Image Generator...

1) What is the directory name the images will be stored in?

2) In my excel file will i only need to specify one file name from that directory for both thumbnail & product images?

3) If so what will be the path? Must i specify the full path or just the filename?

Thankyou in advance for any advice that comes...
Tyler Parker.

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I am still waiting for replies from Telafirma too, 2 weeks now... I can answer some questions here though:

> can google and yahoo crawler my original images, so that they can be listed in image search ?

Yes and No.

No because the original image files are no longer shown on the page, only the cached images are.

Yes because the the cached images are exact copies of the orginals, just at a different resolution.

What you lose is the ability to put keywords in the image filename, but as long as you use the alt="" tag appropriately (supported by this mod) any difference should be negligable.

> 1) What is the directory name the images will be stored in?

Mod generated images go in: images/cache

> 2) In my excel file will i only need to specify one file name from that directory for both thumbnail & product images?

I had problems with importing images, as the import seemed to loose all the detailed images. Here's how I got it to work:

1. Load up all main product images to a temp directory on the server (to be used as thumbs and first product detail image)
2. In the import file, just put down the image filename.
3. When importing, select options and specifiy the full path to the directory.
4. Upload all detialed images to another temp directory.
5. Create a new import file, this time for detailed images, again specifying just the image filename.
6. Import the 2nd file, remembering to change the import image path in import options.

> 3) If so what will be the path? Must i specify the full path or just the filename?

Specifiy the filename in the file, and set the full path in the import options.

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Oho, http://www.telafirma.com/ is down, account suspended! 8O

Anyone know how to change the layout of the thumbnails? By default the seem to all go down in a single column. On the Telafrima site, is showed a block of 4 columns in 2 rows. How do I specify this?

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Ah, they're hosted by HandsOn, might be worth checking with HandsOn to see what's going on with Telafirma

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Can the mod be modify such that all the processed photo dont go to "Cache" file.
For example, if the photo is randomly given a name xy84098493983.jpg
then the photo is saved in cache/x/y, rather than cache folder?

I am afraid cache folder crash soon as the number of images increase

Assume a product contains 6 photos, it will create 1X photos in the cache files...

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Hi Gee Cee -

Are you refering to the thumbs for detail/variant images?

In the default skin1/modules/Dynamic_Images/product_image.tpl - the number of thumbs in the row is dependent upon the width of the main image. It looks like the mod wants to put as many images in a row as will fit. You can look for the variable "number" in the file to see how it is being done.

I had the same problem as you describe - one image per row in a single column. For me - the issue was that, for other reasons, I had css that made images in table cells display set to block, so for this table, I had to set the display to inline to get it to work as intended. If you have an issue like I had - there may be a style element that is keeping the images from displaying inline?

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The cache folder won't crash...you can have thousands of images in there.

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> I am afraid cache folder crash soon as the number of images increase

What Balinor said. Unless you have definitely had a problem before Ben, this isn't something you should worry about.

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Anyone gotten a hold of Telafirma? Or maybe someone has a tip on this issue:

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=35839&highlight=imagealphablendin g()%3A+supplied+argument+is+valid+Image+resource

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You are allowed to add keywords to the image.. This is an exact copy and paste of the line that allows you to do so in the mod

Keyword to procede cached image name (e.g. keyword-fa494ef54173ca1ea6d85531221037f8.jpg):

So for my site, I added "adult toys" - to all of them. Now, im certainly not saying this is the best way, as this is universal for ALL the products. Individuality would have been the best route to go for each one.

I have some issues also with this mod and id like to see telifirma rehit the scenes here so i may ask him. Hes always been there for me when ive called upon him, so I hope all is allright with him.

Lets not knock em, or get angry, there may be a family issue, or something happening out of his control.. Im sure he will let us all know soon what is going on.

Peace,,,,

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There is only one or two things that I could see excusing him at this point and I would hope it's not any of them.

He is running a business. I put a PayPal complaint against him on May 30th for a purchase of the Dynamic Image Generator I made on May 3rd and tried to contact him twice for a week previous to May 30th through his website and I have not received any type of response from him. I am not the only one who has experienced this lack of communication and been left hanging as you should have gathered from reading the posts here.

I would run the other way if you are trying to run a business. If you have any means of getting your money back I would certainly try.

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Agreed, however that being said the Dynamic Image Generator mod is a real good mod if you get it installed :D. Once you have it installed you really don't need much support, unless you're upgrading.

Darryl, were you able to get it installed or did you run the other way and refund it?