I LOVE the way 3dcart has implemented product images. very intuitive, powerful, and modern
but what about product videos and movies, or video tutorials? it would be very nice to be able to upload product videos (or supply youtube links) so that we may provide our visitors with videos of our products.
although a little help from 3dc would really make it easy...in the meantime, here is a relatively simple way to do it with the current system
1) upload your video to youtube...suppose it gets the id "xxxxx-xxxxx"
2) in your templates folder (ftp) create a new sub-folder called 'videos'
3) inside the videos folder, create html files that correspond to product ids. for example, for product id 87, it would be 87.html.
4) now edit the files to include the youtube embed html
5) in your listing_0.html (or whichever your products are using) edit the template so that the img4 thumbnail launches a pop-up window instead of launching the image_click() function. you can use the [catalogid] reference so that the appropriate html file is opened.
6) for your 4th image on the product, set the image to look like a video 'play' icon instead of a product image
and presto, now you can easily implement product videos into your site!
here are some bits of code to help
for step 4:
and for step 5:
of course you could easily implement similar function into the product description...but i believe that if time, energy, and money is put into a nice product video, it shouldn't be buried in the product description. by implementing the feature into the image thumbnails, it should be prominently displayed on the product page.
Product Videos
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