Images in Magento widgets

Question

I am developing a site for a fashion client in Magento Community version 1.4.2 and as part of this project I need to have some customized home page promotion blocks to featu

Answer 1

I solved this use case by creating a custom field type for widgets:

    Image
    Promotion image
    1
    widgetimagechooser/chooser

I implemented a block Aijko_WidgetImageChooser_Block_Chooser that triggers the standard Magento image chooser element.

To solve the problem with the non clear url to the image file I implemented a custom controller Aijko_WidgetImageChooser_Adminhtml_Cms_Wysiwyg_Images_ChooserController that handles the return value from the Magento standard image chooser.

The value is added to a textbox in the widget. This relative url to the image then can be used to show the image in the frontend.

Feel free to try the extension available on Github or install directly using Magento Connect.