Pretty much every release cycle had a phase where I would go around in circles trying to solve problems which depended on other issues that related to other problems… You get the picture, I guess…

This time it’s image handling. I started looking into writing a plugin that would make ImageHandler2 work in ZenMagick. As it turns out, the current image code sucks somehow.

To be sure, there is some not so bad stuff there, but mostly it’s code that documents a time when I was still sufferening from the inital zen-cart include/require shock. There is an amazing number of functions and code in ZenMagick that somewhat independantly try to do something meaningful with images.

In order to unwrap all that I’ll be spending the next days or weeks rewriting the image code in ZenMagick. There will be a few template changes required, but that should mostly be changed function names plus perhaps a couple parameters of those functions.

Once that is done, I’ll be back and hopefully get ImageHandler2 working in no time