Request: Extra Picture Spot

[rcooper]

An addition picture spot for a front and back pic. . .

[Jamie]

Good idea. I think it would also be good if you could add custom fields, as many as you want, named whatever you want, for certain records )mainly product and categories). Everyone has a particular need, and people sell all sorts of stuff. For example, someone who sells diamonds, may need fileds for carat weight, clarity, color, etc...Where as you may need extra images. I currently have a way of specifying behind the scened whether a field is an image, a select box, radio inputs, textarea, etc....for any field on any record in the DB. You could then add your own image fields, call them what you want, and use those names in the template files. That would be very cool! What do you think?

[rcooper]

I like it. I could definatly use spots for more pictures. I have found in the past that the pictures sell the product. the more they can see of it the better.

For example I have a list of mugs on my site. when I first started selling them I was getting requests for more info. I would end up sending htems pics opf the lids, left and right side as well as the front. When I added all the pics to the store there was less requests for info and more orders!!

[Jamie]

For the time being, until we incorporate this feature, you could always provide links in the descriptions to pictures anywhere on your site. You can use HTML in the description field on the product record. This is obviously not as nice as being able to upload them, but may work in a pinch.

[rcooper]

I was thinking about that myself. I just noticed that I can use html in descriptions. Thanks!

[whatcookies]

Did this issue ever get resolved? I really would like to add more pics to the product detail without having links to other pages. Anyone?

Also, where to add pages for the 3 mysetry links in the Main Menu nav box.

Any help on the above two issues would be much appreciated. :

[welshandy]

Again I must agree that I have often would have liked to have displayed several images for a product but have made do with just the one. An additional image or two would be great.

[SaveMyDreams]

An addition picture spot for a front and back pic. . .
I've been using single JPG files with front and back pics combined using a picture editor like Photoshop. It works as a reasonable alternative.

RANDY

[Jamie]

Whatcookies:
We have not added additional images yet. In answer to your question about the "main menu" content record, it was never supported and is just there as an example. You can probably add pages for the links by following these instructions:
http://www.ldev.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224

You should be able to make use of the image labeled "Featured_Image" by adding it's variable to the show_product_detail template file:
<?=$Featured_Image?>

If you need more images, the only alternative is to add image tags to the description of the item.

[Mike Greathouse]

Are there any plans yet to incorporate multiple image capabilities in future release? It seems that this is a feature that many people would like to have - myself included.

Thank you,

Mike Greathouse

[NoPHPpro]

Here are two ways to do this until the feature is available.

OPTION 1:

If you have a ton of photos, like we sometimes do, try an iframe in the "Ddescription" window in the edit control panel. Sample code is below.

<iframe name="cwindow" style="border:solid 2px #gray" width=730 height=460 src="http://name_of_a_file_that_you_upload.html"></iframe>

In the case above, you create an html file with all your photos and the code with insert a frame and a scroller.

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OPTION 2:

In this option, the photos must be in your web host directory and you need the http address of those photos. (I don't think it needs the width/height but it's in some of mine)

You can even get fancier and if you have a program like Dreamweaver or Front Page or can write code, you can add a table in the div tags and add description text as well. But the div tags will put in additional photos. It messes up if the photo is really wide, though, so if two are side by side, make sure the sum of the width is not over 680px or so.

<div align="center"><img src="http://your_image_name.jpg" alt="great image" width="266" height="200" /></div>