Question

I am working on a development version of a Magento 1.7 store, and have used Magmi to upload all of my products. My problem is that I can’t get the images to show up on the front end. In my csv file I have:

'image' => "/magento/media/catalog/product/import/".$row['isbn13'].".gif",
'small_image' =>  "/magento/media/catalog/product/import/".$row['isbn13'].".gif",
'thumbnail' => "/magento/media/catalog/product/import/".$row['isbn13'].".gif",

where $row[‘isbn13’] is the isbn number of the book that I am selling. I have uploaded all of the images to that folder, and I am having no success.
How do I get the images to be view able in both the front and backend? Do I need to go in and edit any of the files?

Answer 1

for magmi you’d better

• remove /magento/media/catalog/product/import part of your paths in the csv (since it’s a common dir).

  • if you don’t want to touch your csv, you may have a look at value replacer plugin that can perform operations on csv values before magmi handles them. (here i would suggest using the advanced syntax for columns image,small_image & thumbnail & perform some str_replace of the unwanted prefix with emtpy string)

• set plugin local images from parameter to: media/catalog/product/import (no leading / , magmi will know then it’s relative to magento root)

• now the csv (or transformed values) will only have image names. the directory where magmi is supposed to find them will be correctly set. then magmi should be able to import images correctly.

Of course, you need to install & configure the image processor plugin to import images !!!!!