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[knifeman]

Getting ready to move my stores over to 2.3.1. I saw very few thumbnailers in the add ons for the new osc. Does anyone have a personal reccomendation?

Tim

[FWR Media]

i've just written one for a customer actually, existing ones are very old and a bit "clunky".

If there's enough interest I may upload it as a new contrib.

[al3ks]

FWR Media, on 26 June 2012 - 08:02 PM, said:

i've just written one for a customer actually, existing ones are very old and a bit "clunky".

If there's enough interest I may upload it as a new contrib.

Yep the old ones are really difficult to understand when it comes to editing their code.

[ianhaney]

I would be interested in the thumbnailer add you have written FWR

[14steve14]

A good image thumbnailer and also something to change the folder the images are saved too, would be most welcome. Images are the one thing that has always let oscommerce down.

[burt]

Where am I losing the chain of thought?

The only place a thumbnailer is needed is in product_info.php and bxgallery is already in there...isn't it?
Mind you I hate bxgallery enough to rip it out and replace with something else.

[FWR Media]

burt, on 27 June 2012 - 08:36 AM, said:

Where am I losing the chain of thought?

The only place a thumbnailer is needed is in product_info.php and bxgallery is already in there...isn't it?
Mind you I hate bxgallery enough to rip it out and replace with something else.

Anywhere and everywhere where an image is not the precise size as displayed. Images should not be sized using html.

E.g. All listings where a product image is displayed.

[14steve14]

As i understand it bxgallery isnt a thumbnailer, its just a way of displaying images.

Hopefully in version 3 oscommerce will have a very good image handler system included, although i doubt it will, but i can live in hope.

[altoid]

I would be interested in an updated thumbnail add on for 2.3.1 but until recently i was using the old oscThumb add on with 2.3.1.   It took care of thumbing pretty much all images on my sites.  But I also noticed that the sites using oscThumb were generating a lot of errors when running the W3C markup validator.   So I disabled oscThumb, on one 2.3.1 site.   Page load speed slowed down a tad course.  Trading a bit slower page load vs removing a bunch of markup errors.

[burt]

14steve14, on 27 June 2012 - 11:32 AM, said:

As i understand it bxgallery isnt a thumbnailer, its just a way of displaying images.

Hopefully in version 3 oscommerce will have a very good image handler system included, although i doubt it will, but i can live in hope.

To be honest I have not looked closely at the bxgallery code, it does say on it's homepage that it creates thumbnails...

[multimixer]

bxgallery resize the images but does not create thumbnails in the meaning of new image files in smaller dimensions

[14steve14]

altoid, on 27 June 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

I would be interested in an updated thumbnail add on for 2.3.1 but until recently i was using the old oscThumb add on with 2.3.1.   It took care of thumbing pretty much all images on my sites.  But I also noticed that the sites using oscThumb were generating a lot of errors when running the W3C markup validator.   So I disabled oscThumb, on one 2.3.1 site.   Page load speed slowed down a tad course.  Trading a bit slower page load vs removing a bunch of markup errors.

Thats why i have created two different sized images.

[altoid]

14steve14, on 27 June 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

Thats why i have created two different sized images.

Ditto here, which is why I am guessing may page load speed didn't jump all that much with oscThumb disabled.  My self made small images are about 3-5 kb or so.

[burt]

multimixer, on 27 June 2012 - 02:14 PM, said:

bxgallery resize the images but does not create thumbnails in the meaning of new image files in smaller dimensions

Ahhh OK.  That needs looking at and a different solution needed.

[multimixer]

There is a very nice thumbnailer in the fileupload that I have, could be used for the osCommerce product images too I guess

[mattjt83]

@FWR Media @multimixer I would be very interested in your products   Is there a way to get ahold of either one?  Send me a PM if it's possible.  Thanks!

[acidvertigo]

I'm using "on the fly autothumbnailer" with the timthumb mod on 2.3.1 it works very well for me

[FWR Media]

I've created an initial package of what will be KISS Image Thumbnailer.

Anyone ( ideally experienced ) fancy being a guinea pig?

Edited by FWR Media, 30 June 2012 - 08:07 PM.

[mattjt83]

@FWR Media Shoot me a PM if I can be a tester.  I've done quite a bit of modding on my site so I feel comfortable testing   Thanks!

[altoid]

FWR Media, on 30 June 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I've created an initial package of what will be KISS Image Thumbnailer.

Anyone ( ideally experienced ) fancy being a guinea pig?

Relatively experienced with mod installs....my 2.2 and 2.3.1 shops have oscThumb installed, working fairly well.   I'd be willing to uninstall oscthumb on a shop to test this out.  Thanks