If you like this contribution and you use it in your own shop then send us a mail with a link to your live shop and we will add a link to your site in this page (that should also increase your google page rank ;)!!

What is USMIS?

USMIS (Ultra Slick Multiple Image Solution) is an OSCommerce contribution that allows to show multiple (unlimited) images per product in a really slick way. It also allows to show a description and a comment for each image and for each language defined in your OsCommerce site. The USMIS contribution calls some Linux commands, so it will only work in OsCommerce sites installed on Linux machines. We recommend you to see our live demo in http://www.serpeal.com/catalog . There you'll see all the power of this contribution.

USMIS provides:

• automatic thumbnailing,

• unlimited images per product,

• a description (like a title) for each image,

• comments for each image (as long as you want),

• you can set a description and a comment to each image for each language defined in your e-commerce site,

• you can allow or not to download images.

• even more things (visit the live demo site)....

The USMIS contribution contains three things:

• the modifications to the standard (non modified) OSCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 source code needed to run USMIS in your OSCommerce installation;

• a Flash-based image browser and

• a graphical simple-to-use tool (called JAlbum) to set the appearance of the image browser, in order to make the image browser have your site's appearance.

When you download the USMIS tarball you're getting all the code and tools needed to make USMIS work, and also you're getting the USMIS Image Browser.

This image browser has a video intro that is shown each time the page is loaded. That video intro references to the USMIS project (it is a link to the USMIS project home site).

The image browser also has a tag in the bottom right corner where you can read "The USMIS project". That tag reloads the video intro.

We can modify the image browser to build other alternatives. Just contact us for more info/alternatives.

Next, you can see an example of the USMIS Image Browser. This example shows images of fractals. You can see a description in the left top side of the main photograph and a comment just on the right side. The main photograph is not still the original. You can download the original by pushing in the little arrow in the right bottom side of the main photograph. As you see, the image browser has been configured to have this site's appearance (black background and white characters). You can modify the width and height of the image browser, as well as the sizes of the thumbnails and the photographs linking to the originals. To learn how to do that, visit the link Configuring the USMIS Appearance. If you haven't seen the video intro, please push here and then reload the page in your browser.

The image browser has much more functionality that the one shown here. Visit the live demo site to see all its power.

Here you can download the USMIS OSCommerce contribution with the USMIS Image Browser.

Name	Version	Size	Download
USMIS contribution	1.1	1183 Kb (Zip)	[Zip]

Version 1.1: this release solves a bug that did not allow to show properly the USMIS image browser in Internet Explorer browsers.

The php code part of the USMIS contribution contains some commands that can only be run on Linux, so USMIS will only work on OsCommerce sites installed on Linux.

In order to run USMIS, you'll have to have installed (at least) the Java Runtime Environment. Type "java -version" in a console and if it returns something (not an error) then USMIS should work.

If you have installed java but "java -version" returns an error, then you must export the PATH to the java bin directory (example: "export PATH=$PATH:/home/serpeal/jdk1.4/jre/bin/"). You must add the export command line in your bash profile so each time the machine is rebooted the PATH is updated.

First be sure that you meet all the requirements.

The tarball available in the download section contains instructions to install the USMIS contribution. Read and follow the instructions carefully.

This section will be ready in short.

The authors of the USMIS project authors are:

• Rudin Swagerman: the author of the Flash-based image browser and the JAlbum's plugin to configure the image browser's appearance. He's also the author of the USMIS project's logo.

• Sergio Pérez: the author of the OsCommerce contribution (php code and integration with OsCommerce). He's also the author of this web page and the owner of the live demo OsCommerce site with the USMIS contribution.

For more info/alternatives about the USMIS image browser, please contact us by e-mail ().

[19/05/05] USMIS-1.1 Available!!.

Get it in the download section.