The product image is an important element in a product catalog and is certainly an indispensable way to show a product on an online store. VirtueMart has very good support for using product images. Two product fields have been dedicated to record the product full image and the product thumbnail image. In addition, it also has a dynamic thumbnail generation mechanism. This means you only need to provide the full image and have VirtueMart do the downsizing for you.
For some products, you may want to show several images for the same product. In those cases, you can use the VirtueMart media manager to upload additional images to the site. VirtueMart also has provision for showing the additional images in the flypage template. We already saw in the sample template that the template uses the function $this->vmListAdditionalImages()
to list out the additional images. If you don't like the way the images are listed, you can certainly customize the template and use your...