Hi All,
I updated to V-Mart2. I use Phoca Gallery to load images to my site as it creates thumb nails automatically. Phoca allows me to add a VM id so VM load product images from Phoca.. cool !
So here's my question. Within VM 2 under Configuration > Templates do I need to set the MEDIA FILE SETTINGS from the default " images/stories/virtuemart/product/ " to point to the Phoca gallery image folders ?
note: I've created a bunch of images in Phoca gallery & assigned the appropriate id number but my images still won't show in VM2.
1. I suppose your Phoca Gallery is looking for a VM image id in the old VM1.x image path.
2. VM2 will only show images which are in the path/folders you set in 'Configuration' - 'Templates'.
3. What do you think is the advantage of using Phoca Gallery instead of VM2's own image handling capabilities.
Hi & thanks for the speedy reply..
I was under the impression that since I have a Phoca Gallery image slide show on my front page I could keep image management isolated to Phoca.
But having said that... I've been fiddling with VM2s product image deployment and it looks fairly straight forward.. so I am now trying to upload images within VM2. problem is my thumnails are showing fine... but when I click the thumb and the main description page appears (but no full size image)
hhmmm... ?
I suppose the folder where you actually have your full size image doesn't match your image path settings in VM2 Configuration - 'Templates' tab. Do you see both, the full size image and the thumb in the 'Product' Edit - 'Product Images' tab? Make shure you have both, the 'Used url' and 'Used url thumb' correctly set on this page.
OK I got it sorted.... I noticed the product path had 2x " // " at the end of the path address. I notice that when you save a path it adds a " / " to the end.
wow I finally have images loading smoothly. www.comslot.com
Thanks so much for the help.
mick
Quote from: mickman on October 16, 2011, 21:34:43 PM
I noticed the product path had 2x " // " at the end of the path address. I notice that when you save a path it adds a " / " to the end.
oh this is odd. It should only add a /,when there is not / set. hmm, thanks for the hint.
the only reason for the double forward slash was due to my actions. I'd copied the original path & saved it for reference purposes (as all good programmers do ;) Later I pasted it back in & upon hitting the save button VM2 saved it & added another forward slash.