Thumnails in search results

[carl@micro]

Hello

I have been having trouble getting my search to display product images as thumnails, I found the following nifty instructions which sound perfict however i can seem to get them to work??

the instructions were found at: http://www.rouxel.cwc.net/actinicstuff.html

the title was: Thumbnail (scaled down) Product Images (gif or jpg) in Search Results


The website is http://www.microphoto.co.uk/acatalog/


Please Help!!
Kindest regards



Carl

[NormanRouxel]

I wrote that.

However telling me that something doesn't work without giving any information as to what you've done isn't going to help me help you.

You have to use images whose filenames are related to your product references. Your images filenames are not related to the product references.

If you rename the images you use as section thumbnails to match the product reference then these would be usable.

Norman

[carl@micro]

Thanks

Ooops

Sorry about that, the script is fantastic and just what i was looking for, i wasnt questioning the script, it was my implimentation of it that i knew i slipped up on somewhere.

I'll try renaming some of those files,


Thanks AGAIN!!


Best wishes
Carl

[NormanRouxel]

If you use these Section thumbnails (which are a reasonable size as is) then you could use the following patch instead.

It doesn't scale down the images and thus requires far less processing done on the server.

See http://www.rouxel.cwc.net/V6-SearchR...outScaling.txt

Norman

[carl@micro]

GREAT!!

Thanks for the script, i havnt got it to work yet though, I think may be because my images are within a folder? whare abouts on the script do i need to add a folder extension?




Kindest regards
Carl


(p.s thanks again for for all your help)

[NormanRouxel]

You don't need any folder info in the patches.

All files are uploaded by Actinic into the acatalog directory on the server. That's where the patches look for them.

Don't forget that your images have to appear somewhere on your site in order for Actinic to upload them.

If you post an URL and some info on a product that you'd expect to see an image of when searching, then I can take a look.

Norman

PS when i viewed the source of a search results page I saw this equestrian typo

<TD ALIGN=canter>

Norman

[carl@micro]

Thanks again!!!! here is the url from a search

http://www.microphoto.co.uk/cgi-bin/...=-1&TB=A&SHOP=

however if the url doesnt work search for couple at
http://www.microphoto.co.uk/acatalog/


Im a wee bit confused as to why the thumnail isnt appearing, i have renamed everything to match the .jpg file???? I cant think what im forgetting??



Best wishes
Carl

[test]

I haven't looked at the script you're trying to implement, but shouldn't you wrap the image thumbnail variable with the <img> tag?

<img src="*your variable here*">

You seem to just be displaying it wraped in a <b> tag.

<B>Couple_In_Sunglasses_th&#46;jpg</B></A> (Couple_In_Sunglasses_th&#46;jpg)

You also seem to have a strange character in there, the alt code for a fullstop..can't seem to replicate it here, which may be something to look at too... shouldn't be the reason i'd have thought though.

Cheers

[NormanRouxel]

The product reference for the Couple product is LR0001

So you need an image to be LR0001.jpg not "Couple_In_Sunglasses_th.jpg" (your section image) or "Couple_In_Sunglasses_lrg.jpg" your product image.

I'd re-read my readme. The images have to be related to the Product Reference not the Product Name.

Norman

[carl@micro]

hi again

thanks again for all your help, i have re-read the read me and adjusted the product reference and image fule name to match but it is still not sowing the results in the search with a thumnail

Im not sure what im dong wrong??

do you think i didnt insert the script into the javascript file correctly?



Bet wishes
Carl

[NormanRouxel]

Please zip up SearchScript.pl and Act_ResultsTemplate.html and post them here so I can have a look.

Norman

[carl@micro]

Zipped files

Thanks for this, AS you can guess i am new to actinic!!!!!! and its all a bit french to me



Kindest regards

Carl

[carl@micro]

zipped files 2

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[NormanRouxel]

I think I've found it. You had

	my $NorcatImageSuffix = '-small';	         # optional text that follows product ref in image filenames

in SearchScript.pl which meant that it was looking for images ending in -small.jpg.

It should have been

	my $NorcatImageSuffix = '';	         # optional text that follows product ref in image filenames

I've attached a fixed SearchScript.pl. Try that and see if things work.

Norman

[carl@micro]

missing thumbnails in search

Hello!
Thank you for all your help from before! I have a problem though! The thumbnails were appearing in search results fine up until i downloaded the latest patch from the website. Im not sure what has happened? Can you help?

http://www.microphoto.co.uk/library




Kindest Regards
Carl