TelaFirma - X-Cart Dynamic Image Generator

Darryl · #**461** 06-03-2008, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by 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?

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.

ScrapOrchard · #**462** 06-08-2008, 03:30 PM

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

EN4U · #**463** 06-08-2008, 04:51 PM

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.

Darryl · #**464** 06-08-2008, 06:14 PM

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.

EN4U · #**465** 06-08-2008, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darryl

Hi,

Has anybody received a response from TelaFirma either through their support or any other means.

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.

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

Darryl · #**466** 06-08-2008, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EN4U

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

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.

ScrapOrchard · #**467** 06-08-2008, 07:02 PM

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScrapOrchard

I am having a problem with getting the thumbnails to show up on our Downloads page..? I found this thread and tried the fix, but it didn't work

I haven't been able to find any other threads with similar problems... help?

The images appear to show up just fine (for us) in the shopping cart, but the thumbnails are not showing up on the Download page (as our products are eGoods)... I tried the fix above, but still nothing. Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

http://scraporchard.com/imgs/cartss.jpg

http://scraporchard.com/imgs/noimagess.jpg

gb2world · #**468** 06-08-2008, 11:01 PM

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.

Tyler Parker · #**469** 06-09-2008, 09:02 PM

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.

GeeCee · #**470** 06-11-2008, 01:20 AM

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.