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All my magento products have 5 different images attached to them like so:

image       label       base       small       thumbnail    

Image 1 -   view A       o           o             o 
Image 2 -   view B
Image 3 -   view C
Image 4 -   view D
Image 5 -   view E

Based on the journey that the user has taken through the site and what they select i display a particular image on the product page (for example Image 3 with the label 'view C'

In my cart i have the following code to display the product image (gets thumbnail):

    <?php echo $this->getProductThumbnail()->constrainOnly(TRUE)->keepAspectRatio(TRUE)->keepFrame(FALSE)->resize(280, null); ?>

In the cart I have the label value of what should show (i.e view C) so i just need to then show that particular image instead of the default thumbnail image.

Is it possible to show the image based on the label name in the cart?

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Create a new attribute of type image.

Then save the type you want somewhere in the quote_item

then you can show the image via:

$this->helper('catalog/image')->init($product, $viewType)
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  • Thank you Fabian. Can i just confirm as I am still learning magento: I have added a fourth image attribute - refine alongside base/small/thumbnail. So when Customer A adds her product, it gets added to basket and I set Image 3 as the refine image? But what if at the same time Customer B adds the same product to the basket but with Image 5 (view E) - would they not conflict?
    – odd_duck
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 14:39
  • Yes they would, because of this you need one attribute per view A,B,C... so you can save the attribute name in the quote_item and then take this attribute as base.
    – Fabian Blechschmidt
    Commented Dec 9, 2014 at 14:40

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