Catalog View as Images on Homepage

Need modify controller to supply image variable.
opencart/catalog/controller/module/category.php
Need to modify view.
opencart/catalog/view/theme/default/template/module/category.tpl

First add the image in the view
img src="/opencart/image/ $category['image']

don't forget the comma.

If you look in the database there is a table called
category with a column called image that has the url.


However, this is the big full size image we need to shrink it.

$this->load->model('tool/image');
this loads the tool
$image = $this->model_tool_image->resize($category['image'], $this->config->get('config_image_category_width'), $this->config->get('config_image_category_height'));
this shrinks the image found in database table category column image

VQmod

http://www.vqmod.com

Important if you want to do custom modifications.
It uses XML script files to modify via regexp the PHP files

Images in Open Cart

You can use ftp.
Put all images in image/data folder

Also, can create subfolders.
So can be opencart/image/data/subfolderhere

Open Cart Getting

Download at opencart.com

Unzip

Copy contents of upload folder to
new folder called opencart on server
example
saverpluslighting.com/opencart

visit website when finish uploading.

Make sure to leave database suffix blank.
Make sure to create database[anyname]
Make sure to create user for database[anyname]
Make sure to grant that user drop,create, and other database privileges