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[balinor]

I've had several clients order mods from Stephen in the last few weeks, and none of them have received a thing. I'd wait to order anything until we hear from Stephen.

[innovati]

I just received my download links to the free mods and the paid mods from telafirma so I think everything is well with telafirma or Mr. Stephen Couch.

[Freakmode]

Mmmm - still taking the money then I see,

Hope you don't have an issue installing it and need his help

[rtraction]

Do not buy this mod!! There is a better, free solution.

We purchased this mod from Stephen just before he disappeared. His irritating copy protection was preventing us from putting the site live, much to our client's annoyance. After two weeks of emails and phone calls (got his phone number via whois and Google), we gave up. We then had the task of solving this problem ourselves.

Because we had his partially functional module, we kept his admin interface. This could also be rewritten from scratch or even hardcoded but because of time constraints, we just went with what we had. We also had to make some minor changes to the templates, passing in relative image paths.

Replacing function.thumb.php was the main concern. As a closed-source document, we weren't quite sure what it did or how it worked. Some searching turned up what is probably the document that Stephen modified and encrypted. It is a smarty plugin, but since X-Cart is built on smarty it integrated perfectly:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/thumb-imp/

Check out the parameters in the source document. It has a lot of features that Couch's module doesn't have, though it is missing other features, ones that we simply didn't want. The main thing, the important thing, is that it generates thumbnails on the fly and caches the images.

[aimeea]

I am trying to install the image generator and I get this code when installing the sql patch:

INSERT INTO `xcart_config`
VALUES ( 'di_product_image_width', 'Image width on Product Page', '200', 'Dynamic_Images', 10, 'numeric', '200', ''
);

MySQL said:
#1136 - Column count doesn't match value count at row 1


Could you someone let me know what I need to do to correct this?


Thank you

[gb2world]

Hi Aimeea -

It appears there were some changes in XCART from 4.1.9 to 4.1.10 that the installation has not yet accounted for - see this.

Since the xcart_config table in the database has an extra column added - you need to update the patch file to add this extra field. Everytime you see an "INSERT INTO `xcart_config` - add an extra ,'' in the values - for example:

INSERT INTO `xcart_config` VALUES ('di_product_image_width', 'Image width on Product Page', '200', 'Dynamic_Images', 10, 'numeric', '200', '', '');

[aimeea]

Thank you so much

gb2world

that did the trick and I am all set. Thank you!

[gb2world]

Here is another thing to be careful with on the Dynamic Images install:

The dynamic images mod uses its own check_options.tpl , found in /skin1/modules/Dynamic_Images/check_options.tpl

There are other mods that require changes to the check_options.tpl found in skin1/modules/Product_Options/check_options.tpl - (for example, Altered Cart On-Sale, BCSE Preorder/Backorder)

So - you might need to make any changes that you already have in the Product_Options/check_options.tpl file again to the Dynamic_Images/check_options.tpl file - or merge all changes into one check_option.tpl using {if $active_modules.Dynamic_Images} code.

[WhiteDoveGifts]

I have a question about this mod that maybe others have as well: Does anyone know how to add a "View enlarged" link with a magnifying glass image underneath the product detail image?

[gb2world]

Does anyone know how to add a "View enlarged" link with a magnifying glass image underneath the product detail image?

See post 483 above.

To add the image and language variable from the Detailed Image mode - you can use this code instead:

<img src="{$ImagesDir}/zoom_image.gif" alt="{$lng.lbl_click_to_enlarge|escape}" />{$lng.lbl_click_to_enlarge|escape}