Add Highslide to Magento
Love Highslide? So do we. We’ve even written a manual on how to install and use Highslide in Magento. We’ve used it on the Product-pages to display product-images but it can easily be extended to display images in your CMS-pages, frontpage, etc. Ok, lock the door and watch closely.
Step 1: Download the latest version of Highslide
Click here to go to the Highslide.com-site and download the latest (stable) version to your local computer.
Step 2: Transfer Highslide to your Magento-installation
Unzip the Highslide and transfer the files to your Magento skin-folder, for example:
/skin/frontend/default//highslide
You should now have a bunch of .js-files, a few .css-files and a ‘graphics’-folder in this ‘highslide’-folder.
Step 3: Add code to the head-area to get the Highslide loaded up
Open your /app/design/frontend/default
/template/page/html/head.phtml-file and add the following code at the end (this code will appear in the head-area, above the body):
<!-- Initiate Highslide -->
<script src="<?php echo $this-" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:1--></script>
Step 4: Replace the default product-image magnifier with Highslide
Ok so, this is the most advanced step so pay close attention. Navigate to your frontend template-folder (normally /app/design/frontend/default//template). Now browse further in the directory-tree to the catalog-folder, then the product-folder and finally – the view-folder. You should be somewhere around here:
/app/design/frontend/default//template/catalog/product/view
The files in this folder are very critical to have Magento working so watch your steps closely. The first thing we’ll do is to make a backup of the media.phtml-file which we are going to modify by transferring a copy of it to a secret place your local computer. If you want to revert back to the original product-image magnifier its good to have a backup somewhere. You can even replace it with the very popular MagicZoom Plus-extension which can be bought as an optional addon with all our Magento themes.
Next, open up the media.phtml-file on your server and.. well, we’ve done everything for you in this step, so just replace everything in the file with the following code:
<!-- Fetch product-image information -->
getProduct();
$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
?>
<!-- Check if Base image is defined, and if so, display it with Highslide effect -->
getImage() != 'no_selection' && $_product->getImage()): ?>
<div class="highslide-gallery">
<a class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)" href="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image') ?>">
<img title="Click to enlarge" src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image')->resize(265) ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel()) ?>" />
</a>
<!-- Add caption below the image -->
<div class="highslide-caption">
htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel()) ?></div>
</div>
<!-- No Base image available. Will show default image from Magento -->
<!-- Hey, this product has more images so we'll display the gallery and Highslide them as well -->
getGalleryImages()) > 0): ?>
<div class="more-views">
<div class="highslide-gallery">
<h4>__('More Views') ?></h4>
<ul>
getGalleryImages() as $_image): ?>
<li>
<a class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this)" href="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($this->getProduct(), 'image', $_image->getFile()); ?>">
<img title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_image->getLabel()) ?>" src="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/image')->init($this->getProduct(), 'thumbnail', $_image->getFile())->resize(56); ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_image->getLabel()) ?>" /></a>
<div class="highslide-caption">
htmlEscape($_image->getLabel()) ?></div></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<!-- End of media.phtml with Highslide-effect -->
Step 5: Finish
You’re done.
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