tommygunner Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I'm a little confused as to how to use dynamic MOpics. If I put one pic called image_big.jpg into big image folder and a small one called image_pic.jpg into thumbs folder, I add product and type in something like /images_big/image_big.jpg for image path and the program is supposed to find it, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeloftime Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I'm a little confused as to how to use dynamic MOpics. If I put one pic called image_big.jpg into big image folder and a small one called image_pic.jpg into thumbs folder, I add product and type in something like /images_big/image_big.jpg for image path and the program is supposed to find it, right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The basic setup for dynamic Mopics is like this: You have the main thumbnail inside your catalog/images direcotry All extra thumbnails go into catalog/images/thumbs All large pictures go into catalog/images/images_big For your product you use the main thumbnail name in catalog/images and based upon that it will look for the large image in catalog/images/images_big So ie. you have an image called mypicture.jpg with three extra images for it you would have (assuming the default Extra Image Pattern): 4 thumbnails called mypicture.jpg, mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg 4 large pictures called mypicture.jpg, mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg Now the mypicture.jpg thumbnail uploads to your catalog/images directory automatically through the admin->catalog when defining a product and attaching that thumbnail picture to it. By hand you upload the mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg thumbnails to the catalog/images/thumbs directory and the large pictures mypicture.jpg, mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg to the catalog/images/images_big directory Of course you can use your own image pattern which you just define through the Admin->Configuration->Mopics settings. Hope this makes it a bit clearer ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommygunner Posted March 14, 2005 Author Share Posted March 14, 2005 The basic setup for dynamic Mopics is like this: You have the main thumbnail inside your catalog/images direcotry All extra thumbnails go into catalog/images/thumbs All large pictures go into catalog/images/images_big For your product you use the main thumbnail name in catalog/images and based upon that it will look for the large image in catalog/images/images_big So ie. you have an image called mypicture.jpg with three extra images for it you would have (assuming the default Extra Image Pattern): 4 thumbnails called mypicture.jpg, mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg 4 large pictures called mypicture.jpg, mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg Now the mypicture.jpg thumbnail uploads to your catalog/images directory automatically through the admin->catalog when defining a product and attaching that thumbnail picture to it. By hand you upload the mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg thumbnails to the catalog/images/thumbs directory and the large pictures mypicture.jpg, mypicture_pic1.jpg, mypicture_pic2.jpg, mypicture_pic3.jpg to the catalog/images/images_big directory Of course you can use your own image pattern which you just define through the Admin->Configuration->Mopics settings. Hope this makes it a bit clearer ! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Cool, got it working! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommygunner Posted March 14, 2005 Author Share Posted March 14, 2005 Cool, got it working! Thanks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I noticed some interesting things between Internet Explorer and Firefox. They both view images differently. If I leave image width and height * in OSC, Mozilla shows it fine but IE doesn't show it at all. If I put one number for width and *, IE ignores it. The problem is, I made these tiny thumbnails. If I set image width to 100 for instance, my tiny thumbnails get blown up to 100pixels. I'm not sure how to fix all of this. In the left column under what's new, it would be nice to have those pics smaller than product pic, while still keeping thumbnails small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lalla Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 I noticed some interesting things between Internet Explorer and Firefox. They both view images differently. If I leave image width and height * in OSC, Mozilla shows it fine but IE doesn't show it at all. If I put one number for width and *, IE ignores it. The problem is, I made these tiny thumbnails. If I set image width to 100 for instance, my tiny thumbnails get blown up to 100pixels. I'm not sure how to fix all of this. In the left column under what's new, it would be nice to have those pics smaller than product pic, while still keeping thumbnails small. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I dont know if this will help or not, but I've stumbled upon this post and it contains the code to let you set a PERCENT instead of a pixel to "shrink" the images. That way if you have images that vary in size, it will shrink each according to the percent you state instead of every pic to 100pix. http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73351&hl= I got it to work, but its still not what I need for my current project from what I can see...still its a good option to have :-) Hth, Lalla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejungle Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Hi! I am having problems getting MoPics to work correctly. In ADMIN: I have set big images to: images_big/ thumbs to: thumbs/ main thumb in thumb directory: false extra image pattern as: imagebase_pic{1} (the defaults I believe!) In my catalog directory for product code 093: images/093.jpg images/thumbs/093_pic1.jpg images/images_big/093.jpg images/images_big/093_pic1.jpg When I view the catalog page there is no `Click to enlarge' and the extra images at the bottom of the descriptions says `Coming Soon'. I'm sure it's something simple but I can't see why it's not working. Any ideas Ernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhubarb Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 I've got the same problem on a fresh install with only Mopics added at http://e-shop.org.uk/dynamic_mopics/produc...?products_id=27 and the permissions on the image directories are set to 777 as suggested in the thread at http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...hl=mopics+setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhubarb Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 I've just solved it. The main image was located in the path /images/hewlett_packard/ and Mopics was looking for the other images in images/thumbs/hewlett_packard/ , once the main image was moved to the path images/ then it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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