Uploading Photos

[horns]

Hi,

Can anyone help me sort out how to upload category and product photos. It seems at the moment no one can tell me how to do it. When I upload photos all I get in FO is a box with a red x in place of the photo. Any help to solve this problem appreciated. I have been trying for a whole week with no help from the forum for some reason.

Regards
Paul

[FBert]

Hello

If you upload a category image
prestashop resizes the image and saves it in several sizes in the
folder .../img/c
the name of the picture starts with i think the product id or the product name followed by small/medium/thumb... and .jpg

The produktimage will also be resized but saved in the folder .../img/p
The imagename consists of i think the product id or the produkt name and a - AND a number
that is stored in the mysql table and small/medium/thumb... .jpg
If you have uploaded 215 produktimages through the adminproduktpage the next uploaded
image will get the number 216 in the imagename.
This number in the productimagename takes in count that there could be several images for one product -
an imagename has to be unique.

The original uploaded picture will also be renamed and stored in these folders.
Your uploaded image with the imagename you gave it will be renamed and stored on the server.
Prestashop knows only the renamed image.
That means that if you hit the regenerate thumbnails button in the admin->preferences->image panel
prestashop takes the renamed original size image and regenerates the thumbnails from this image.

Conclusion:
There is no "easy" way to upload the product/category images.

If you have only a few images to upload than try to download the
.../img/c and the .../img/p folder,
overwrite the images that need to be changed and upload them back.

For my shop has the same images for the product and the category
and there will be no second or third productimage
and the category and the product have the same id
http://www.koenigsbanner.de
i have patched the prestashop code to take the same pictures
for category and product and dont use the extra number in the name.
Then i upload my original images in an extra folder and convert them with an extra php script and
an csv database file telling the original jpg name and the name/productid/categoryid for the converted image file.

That sounds complicated - every shop / shopowner / shopcoder has his/her own thoughts about the best
conclusions for a shop.

So tell us your idea for imagehandling for pretashop.

Friedbert

[horns]

Hi Friedbert,

When I upload a category photo it says it has been sucessful but I cannot find it in the img / p

Regards
Paul

[horns]

Hi Friedbert,

I do not understand why it is so difficult to upload a photo. Can you explain what I need to do, thankyou.

Regards
Paul

[FBert]

Hello
Could it be that your img folder and all folders in it arn't writable?
They have to be chmod 777 rwxrwxrwx

Friedbert

[TropischBruin]

Please do NOT open 2 topic about the same issue!

Continue Here!

[abdulrabbaazab]

i am literally going crazy here guys hehe really! why cant i see my images that i written the url in the csv file ? however i can see the rest of the fields but not the images ?

 

please help some one? i think its to do with presta shop renaming the images ?