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Hi @ all, even if it's not that crowded in here.

I have tried out the contribution for osc. It is working qiute all right, but there are exactly two problems I have with it.

#1
German Umlaute like äüö and ÄÜÖ can't be used, because osc isn't able to show pics with Umlaute in it. Is that something that can be fixed?

#2
After adding an image for the attribute the system added an "s" what is useful in english but wrong in german. Any way to find that "s" and delete it? I didn't find it.

It would be great if you could help me out, cause I really like the contribution.

#IDEA
Perfect would be: --> If the 'real' attribute in the drop-down menu would change with clicking the attribute-image... Is there a way?

Bye

Hi there

Thanks for your enquiry. I like to think it isn't too crowded here because not too many people have problems with the system

A couple of points about your problems:

1) German characters - I haven't tried this myself, but you may be able to enter HTML codes for German into the attribute values boxes. I'm talking about the kind of thing on this page http://webdesign.about.com/od/localization/l/blhtmlcodes-de.htm - try the strings in the 'Friendly Code' column in your attribute value text and it may appear correct on the product_info page in the browser.

2) the extra 's' - This is in the PAPs code you added to the product_info.php page when you installed PAPs. Search for



or just



and you should find it.

Finally (prepare for sales pitch), your Perfect Idea has actually been implemented in the premium versions of PAPs. In these versions the osCommerce dropdowns are hidden and attributes can be selected using either radio buttons or (if you purchase an upgrade) just by clicking the thumbnails themselves.

Extra info is here:

Product Attribute Pictures v2.0 PLUS

Product Attribute Pictures v3.0 PLUS

Hope this helps.

Nick

THANKS! That was fast!

The HTML-Codes for the German Umlaute doesn't work, because the signs are included into the filename the picture is stored under, so there will be server-problems and the image isn't shown anyway.

BUT: The "s" is gone, thanks!

I wanted to check out the live-demo of v3.0 but the site seems to have some issues. any other location I can see how it works?

What about sizes? There are no different pics for sizes, how will they be shown if I have different pics for colors in combination with different sizes?

bye.

Hi

German Characters - ah yes (sorry) the free versions use filenames as meta data (i.e. attribute names and values). Both premium versions have changed to keeping the filenames as they are before upload and storing the attribute names in the DB, so hopefully you should be able to use those HTML codes in those versions.

Live demo - that's strange, I can access the demo site from the PAPs v3.0 PLUS product page no problem. What issues did you see when you tried to access it? The link for it is here again PAPs v3.0 demo site. Try it again and let me know if there's a problem.

Multiple attributes - you can have a combination of attributes which use PAPs, and ones that don't. In the premium versions, the attributes without attribute images will be presented in the standard osCommerce dropdown, but attributes that do have pictures (which users can select for the cart) will not appear in the dropdown.

cheers

Nick

Hi again,

maybe it's simply my stupidity, but I attached a screenshot of what I see when accessing the demo-page.

bye

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Hi

Thanks for the screenshot - always the best way to help solve a problem. Unfortunately I didn't set this page up in German as well, so all you should need to do is click the british flag in the 'Sprachen' box and it should come up okay.

Thanks