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Using the Magic Zoom module on the X-Cart ecommerce platform.

Integration

Note: this integration guide works only if you keep your detailed product images in a filesystem. If you use a database for image storage, then Magic Zoom won't work. However, we strongly recommend that you to switch to filesystem storage because database storage is very poor from a performance point of view. More about this.

  1. Add detailed product images for your products (if you haven't already).
  2. Enable the “Detailed Product Images” module.
  3. Disable the “Display detailed images in a popup window” option in the “Detailed Product Images” module settings:
    Screenshot: disabling detailed images in X-Cart
  4. If you have any other product thumbnail zooming modules installed, disable them.
  5. Download the Magic Zoom X-Cart archive: magiczoom_xcart.zip. It includes the trial version of Magic Zoom.
  6. Unpack the zip archive locally. You should see 1 folder and 5 files.
    Screenshot: unpacked files in X-Cart
  7. Upload the Magic Zoom folder and its 4 files to your X-Cart webserver into the {xcart_home}/skin1 folder.
  8. Backup your current product_thumbnail template as follows: go to the {xcart_home}/skin1/ folder and rename product_thumbnail.tpl to product_thumbnail.tpl-save
  9. Upload product_thumbnail.tpl from the zip archive to the {xcart_home}/skin1 folder.

That's all! Your product images should now have zooming!.

Screenshot: disabling detailed images in X-Cart

Customizing

You can customize Magic Zoom (zoom size, position, colors) by editing these files:

  • {xcart_home}/skin1/MagicZoom/MagicZoom_settings.php
  • {xcart_home}/skin1/MagicZoom/MagicZoom.css

Upgrade to full version

Now you can get the full version of Magic Zoom. Once you have it, just replace the old mz-packed.js file with the new one from the full version.

  • {xcart_home}/skin1/MagicZoom/mz-packed.js

Installation guides

Use Magic Zoom on any website. Download a module/plugin for a specific platform:

Step-by-step instructions Zip file
Standard instructions (any website) Download
VirtueMart instructions Download
Joomla instructions Download
osCommerce instructions Download
Drupal instructions Download
WordPress instructions Download
X-Cart instructions Download
xt:commerce instructions Download
Zen Cart instructions Download
Gallery instructions Download
Magento instructions Download

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