Special directory for preview pics

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

 

after searching 125 matches and not finding the right answer I hope that you can help a rookie on OSCommerce.

 

Here is our problem:

 

Our preview pictures have a size of 70 x 70 px - the regular pictures have a size of 300 x 400 or 250 x 250. We like to save both picturesizes in seperate files on our servers e.g.

 

images

imagespreview

 

to filename will be the same.

 

Our regular pictures have a size of 9kB - the preview pics of 1.2 - 2kB so the loading time will be much quicker.

 

Does anybody of you have experience with that - or know what kind of files I have to change?

 

Thank you for your response.

 

Regards from Germany

 

Markus

[Guest]

there are a number of ways to go about this.

 

One way is to install a contribution that allows big images and small images and define the directory on upload.

 

But if you have a more or less original configuration the easist and quickest way to acheive this is to open popup_image.php

 

and replace

 

<?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $products['products_image'], $products['products_name']); ?>

 

with

 

<?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'large_images/' . $products['products_image'], $products['products_name']); ?>

 

 

which assumes that your previews are in images and the larger images are in images/large_images

 

if you want to be clever with this and check to see if there is a larger image available you could do:

 

if (file_exists( DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'large_images/' . $products['products_image'] )) {

    <?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'large_images/' . $products['products_image'], $products['products_name']); ?>

} else {

    <?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $products['products_image'], $products['products_name']); ?>

}

[Guest]

Thank you Meltus,

 

that brings me on the right way... now I have to change all my pictures... :D but I will get better loading times...

 

Take care

 

Markus