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My question is this: how can I have two different sets of images per product, of variable size, and through which code can I get their sources?

I use a flash movie instead of a large image that uses all images gained from this code:

Which returns all sources of the images of that product. But I want some detailed images below it aswell that do NOT show up in the flashmovie, which can be managed through the images of a product in the backend… So I made a second gallery attribute, through which I now seem to have two sets of images to fill for every product in the backend. But when I upload a file to the seccond, it is gone after I reload the page. But even if that worked, what code would I use to get them? Or what other way is there to do this?

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bump .. noone with the same problem or any ideas?

Yes, I would be also very interested how to implement second gallery set for the same product ?

i’ve done it dummy way to play with yesterday, as short as possible:

- rewrite to custom page on custom model
- modified javascript on phtml
- modified list/view/cart ... etc (if needed)

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Tnx!

In the blog it’s stated that Magento 1.1 - which will come out within a month - will have this feature:
5. Customer Defined Product Options: This functionality will allow customers to define text, images, etc. for products.
So I think the problem of two image sets will be solved then and I think I’ll just wait for that then…

How exactly did you do this?  What code did you change/add?

brankonagy - 03 June 2008 01:08 AM

i’ve done it dummy way to play with yesterday, as short as possible:

- rewrite to custom page on custom model
- modified javascript on phtml
- modified list/view/cart ... etc (if needed)

Well, 1.1 does support custom options per product. But that does not include images. And you can still add gallery attributes next to the default, but they still don’t work ( you can upload, but no images are saved once you refresh ). So today I have to work around Magento for this functionality and I will just upload some images through ftp for each product and then load them in on the page. A shame really… if anyone has a better option, please tell me!

"I use a flash movie instead of a large image that uses all images gained from this code:

foreach ($this->getGalleryImages() as $key => $_image):”

@R.V.: Unfortunately I cannot help you with the question about how to use two different sets of images per product.

If you would share how you use the flash movie instead of large images, I would be most thankful though. Where do you put this code (in view.phtml), and what else is needed for it to work??