Use the extended info image as the search result product image?

[graphicz]

How can I edit actinicsearch.js to use the extended info image as the search result product image (<actinic:variable name="SearchResultProductImage" />)?

Thanks
Jonathan

[NormanRouxel]

This would be VERY difficult to do. It would need a direct tweak to the database to get the extended info image to be made available to the Perl scripts. You'd need patches to the Perl to get at that image and probably tweaks to actinicsearch.js to return that image.

Alternatives:

1) Use Product Pages instead. Extended Info pages are essentially redundant since Product Pages were introduced.

2) Use the Extended Info Image in the Product Image layout(s) and the Product Image in the Extended Info pages.

3) Create a JavaScript structure indexed by Product Ref, that contains each products Extended Info Image. Tweak actinicsearch.js (function ReplaceProductDetailstemplate) to look up that image instead of the Product Image. JS structure easily created by a set of nested EntireSectionList / SectionEntireProductList loops.

[graphicz]

Thank you Norman. It is originally a Chris Dicken site which uses your AutoProductImages V2.00. The product image layout is replaced with the following, and this is what the search results layout is picking up, javascript mouseover and all!
How can this be remedied? Live site is adalise.com

<actinic:block php="true" >
// AutoProductImages V2.00
include_once 'dpimagesupport.php';

$DefaultProductImageWidth = 450;
$DefaultProductImageHeight = 450;
$ToolTipProductImageWidth = 160;
$ToolTipProductImageHeight = 160;
$ToolTipOffsetX = 0 + '20';
$ToolTipOffsetY = 0 + '20';
$GenerateToolTip = 0;
$ScaledImageQuality = 100;
$ProductImageFileName = '<actinic:variable name="ExtendedInfoImage" selectable="false" />';
$ImageBackgroundColour = 'white';
$ProductImageWidth = '<actinic:variable name="ExtendedInfoImageWidth" selectable="false" />';
$ProductImageHeight = '<actinic:variable name="ExtendedInfoImageHeight" selectable="false" />';
$MakeProgressiveJpg = 1;
$ProductImageFileName = str_replace('\\', '/', $ProductImageFileName); // replace troublesome backslashes
$ProductName = htmlspecialchars('<actinic:variable name="ProductName" encoding="html" selectable="false" />');
unset($ProductImageMd5);
unset($bkgndr);
unset($ProductImage);
$errmessage = '';
$ScaledImageName = $ProductImageFileName;
if ( ($ProductImageWidth != $DefaultProductImageWidth) || ($ProductImageHeight != $DefaultProductImageHeight) )
{
// we have to resize
if ( strlen($ImageBackgroundColour) != 6 ) $ImageBackgroundColour = 'ffffff'; // use white as default
$bkgndr = hexdec(substr($ImageBackgroundColour, 0, 2)); // use defined values
$bkgndg = hexdec(substr($ImageBackgroundColour, 2, 2));
$bkgndb = hexdec(substr($ImageBackgroundColour, 4, 2));

$ProductImageMd5 = md5_file($ProductImageFileName);
$ScaledImageName = 'auto-resize/api_' . $ProductImageMd5 . '_' . $DefaultProductImageWidth . '_' . $DefaultProductImageHeight
. '_' . $ImageBackgroundColour . '_' . $ScaledImageQuality . '.jpg';
if ( ! file_exists($ScaledImageName) )
{
list($errmessage, $ProductImage, $TempImageWidth, $TempImageHeight, $ProductImageType) = imageopen($ProductImageFileName);
if ( $errmessage == '' )
{
$ScaledProductImage = fitandscaleimage($ProductImage, $DefaultProductImageWidth, $DefaultProductImageHeight, $bkgndr, $bkgndg, $bkgndb);
$errmessage .= saveimageforced($ScaledProductImage, $ScaledImageName, $ScaledImageQuality);
}
}
}

if ( $GenerateToolTip && ($errmessage == '') )
{
$ToolTipFileName = $ProductImageFileName;
if ( ($ProductImageWidth != $ToolTipProductImageWidth) || ($ProductImageHeight != $ToolTipProductImageHeight) )
{
// we have to resize
if (! isset($ProductImageMd5) ) $ProductImageMd5 = md5_file($ProductImageFileName);
$ToolTipFileName = 'auto-section-thumbnails/app_' . $ProductImageMd5 . '_' . $ToolTipProductImageWidth . '_' . $ToolTipProductImageHeight
. '_' . $ImageBackgroundColour . '_' . $ScaledImageQuality . '_' . $MakeProgressiveJpg . '.jpg';
if (! isset($bkgndr) )
{
if ( strlen($ImageBackgroundColour) != 6 ) $ImageBackgroundColour ='ffffff'; // use white as default
$bkgndr = hexdec(substr($ImageBackgroundColour, 0, 2)); // use defined values
$bkgndg = hexdec(substr($ImageBackgroundColour, 2, 2));
$bkgndb = hexdec(substr($ImageBackgroundColour, 4, 2));
}
if ( ! file_exists($ToolTipFileName) )
{
if ( ! isset($ProductImage) )
{
list($errmessage, $ProductImage, $TempImageWidth, $TempImageHeight, $ProductImageType) = imageopen($ProductImageFileName);
}
if ( $errmessage == '' )
{
$ScaledToolTipImage = fitandscaleimage($ProductImage, $ToolTipProductImageWidth, $ToolTipProductImageHeight, $bkgndr, $bkgndg, $bkgndb);
if ( $MakeProgressiveJpg ) imageinterlace($ScaledToolTipImage, 1);
$errmessage .= saveimageforced($ScaledToolTipImage, $ToolTipFileName, $ScaledImageQuality);
}
}
}
}

if ( $errmessage == '' )
{
// generate the IMG tag
echo "<img src=\"$ScaledImageName\" border=\"0\" width=\"$DefaultProductImageWidth\" height=\"$DefaultProductImageHeight\"";
echo " alt=\"<actinic:variable name="ProductName" selectable="false" />\"";
if ( $GenerateToolTip )
{
echo " onmouseover=\"ddrivetip('$ProductName','$ToolTipFileName','',$ToolTipProductImageWidth,$ToolTipOffsetX,$ToolTipOffsetY);\"";
echo " onmouseout=\"hideddrivetip();\"";
}
echo "/>";
}
else
{
echo "<font color=red>ERROR: $errmessage - $ScaledImageName </font>";
}
</actinic:block>

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsProductImageDisplayed%22%20%2f%3e">
<actinic:variable name="PinterestButtonLayout" value="Product Pin It Button Layout" />
</actinic:block>

[graphicz]

Solved! Switching to Tabular Search Result from Standard Search Result solved the problem!