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[Hyperdelicious]

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Thanks to some of the x-ers here I am now able to have the upsell items
display an image instead of a number.... However, that is still not quite
what I looking for... I would like the related items image to be a thumb-
nail of the image as opposed to full size... any ideas???

Here's what I have tried thus far:
adding an {if image_x / image_y} statement and also tried replacing the
image code of the upsell_product.tpl with that of the product_thumbnail.tpl

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Hyperdelicious
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[shan]

have you tried setting an absolute width to the image code ?

This way the width stays constant and the height stays relative.

[Hyperdelicious]

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No I have not tried that... How would I set an absolute width?... Would
I be able to set an absolute hieght instead? Please forgive my ignorance.

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Hyperdelicious
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[shan]

post the bit of code your working on and ill show you

[Hyperdelicious]

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Here's the code from related_products.tpl...

<td width=100%>

[img]../image.php?productid={$product_links[cat_num].productid}[/img] <font class=TableCenterSubCategoryListTitleBlue>{ $product_links[cat_num].product|escape}</font> 

</td> 

Now, I have been playing around with the {if $image_x} statements.


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Hyperdelicious
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[shan]

<td width=100%>

[img]../image.php?productid={$product_links[cat_num].productid}[/img] <font class=TableCenterSubCategoryListTitleBlue>{ $product_links[cat_num].product|escape}</font>

</td>

additions in bold and I removed your if statements

give that a try, its just standard html

[Hyperdelicious]

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Thanks shan... It worked!!! embarrased at how simple the
solution was...

However, I really don't care for the image distortion... in the future I
may look into asigning each product two images... one full size and a
thumbnail... in hopes to maintain a consistent image quality.

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Hyperdelicious
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[shan]

No problems, theres usually an easier way to do everything, its just knowing what it is eh

the idea with the images in xcart is that the standard image should never be any bigger then say 150 pixels as this is essentialy your thumbnail image.

Only have a bigger image when you use detail images.

[successful]

Originally Posted by Hyperdelicious

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Thanks shan... It worked!!! embarrased at how simple the
solution was...

However, I really don't care for the image distortion... in the future I
may look into asigning each product two images... one full size and a
thumbnail... in hopes to maintain a consistent image quality.

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Hyperdelicious
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Can I take a peek at your site ? I'd love to see this mod.

[chris]

I wrote earlier about this and to reiterate would state that the way xcart uses the code to redimension the image is not a good idea as either the thumbnail suffers or the larger image does. This is simply because the browser or the code can not employ advanced sampling techniques (bilinear or bicubic resampling) or even better enable the use of 2 separate images - one for the thumbnail and an entirely different image for the main image.

If you look at a lot of the xcarts out there you will find this poor image quality is quite pronounced on a number of the sites.

So I have paid the xcart developers to modify the code so that I can upload separate images for all the categories of images in xcart including:
thumbnails
main images
detailed images
banners
special images which I use to show brands and special offers
icons

ALL IMAGES ARE STORED OUTSIDE THE DATABASE WITH ONLY POINTERS TO THE IMAGES INSIDE THE DATABASE.

There is another real benefit in doing this and that is that the database does not get bloated with unmanageable BLOBS (Binary Large Objects) which produce reams of meaningless hexi text and makes it difficult to edit the database using phpMyAdmin for example.

BUT AND THIS IS IMPORTANT - IF YOU ARE USING A WINDOWS MACHINE FOR DEVELOPMENT YOU WILL FIND THAT WINDOWS WILL SCREW UP SQL DUMPS AS IT WILL INSERT INCORRECT NEW LINES.

INCIDENTALLY AGAIN IF YOU ARE USING A WINDOWS MACHINE YOU MUST MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU FTP ANY TEMPLATES TO YOUR SITE THAT YOU SET YOUR FTP CLIENT FOR BINARY AND NOT ASCII FOR THE .TPL EXTENSION.

Hope all this helps as I have learnt the above the very hard way!!

Chris