How to get a product's image in Magento?

Question

I\'m running on version 1.3.2.1, but on my client\'s server they had Magento 1.3.0 so my previous code to display images for my local copy,

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Answer 1

You can try to replace $this-> by Mage:: in some cases. You need to convert to string.

In my case i'm using DirectResize extension (direct link), so my code is like this:

(string)Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image')->directResize(150,150,3)

The ratio options (3rd param) are :

• none proportional. The image will be resized at the Width and Height values.
• proportional, based on the Width value 2
• proportional, based on the Height value 3
• proportional for the new image can fit in the Width and the Height values. 4
• proportional. The new image will cover an area with the Width and the Height values.

Update: other info and versions here

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The common way, without plugin would be:

(string)Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image')->resize(150)

You can replace 'image' with 'small_image' or 'thumbnail'.