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[benfung007@gmail.com]

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?

[phicaloma]

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

[benfung007@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by phicaloma

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

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.

[phicaloma]

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

[phicaloma]

benfung007

Just PM'd you an example.

Cheers,

philippe

[benfung007@gmail.com]

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

[benfung007@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by phicaloma

benfung007

Just PM'd you an example.

Cheers,

philippe

thank you, phicaloma

[benfung007@gmail.com]

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?

[phicaloma]

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...

[phicaloma]

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