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AJAX-ZOOM - 360°/3D Spin & Zoom JavaScript player - "Responsive Ready!"

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Notice: you can remove, adjust, reskin or replace the not necessary toolbar above with a different one, that display over the 360-viewer. Do not pay attention to the design or control elements. Everything is adjustable via 400+ configuration parameters, CSS, and API.
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Modules / Extensions

You do not need the AJAX-ZOOM modules, plugins or extensions to use the 360° product viewer. You can implement the software virtually anywhere by taking one of the provided examples and integrating it manually. However, if already present for your system, the provided modules facilitate the integration into various established CMS or e-commerce systems like Magento, Prestashop, Opencart, WooCommerce, WordPress as a shortcode, Shopware or OXID. Recently we have started to develop and already published some of the modules. You can find more information about the modules at this page.

Hand picked AJAX-ZOOM 360° example highlights

Mouseover zoom + 360 + responsive This example is a fully responsive mouseover image zoom extension with an integrated 360°/3D support and the ability to display videos in the array of gallery items. It is a perfect all-in-one solution to present various media types of a product in any shopping cart. Most of our e-commerce plugins implement this example at product detail pages. The extension supports the 360° "Product Tours" out of the box. In our e-commerce plugins, the visual editor for making these tours is integrated directly at the backend of the plugins. Same applies to the hotspots. There is an editor for hotspots. In this extension, you can put hotspots on 360 views and plain images.
Crop editor In the example35, which is the editor for creating product tours, you can set and describe which parts of a 360 view, plain image or gallery, you would like to point out as prominent. For presenting these tours, you can use one of the examples that start with 35.
AJAX-ZOOM extension to display 360 product views or 3D product views together with flat images in one viewer. Optionally add videos from Youtube, Vimeo or Dailymotion. You can also add other content to display within the iframe or invoked by AJAX request.
Clean example Resopnsive
Hotspot configurator The hotspot editor lets you put clickable or otherwise interactive markings on flat images and 360 / 3D views. Besides the built-in features, it is possible to define your custom JavaScript functions for on click or mouse over events.
Clean example Resopnsive Fullscreen
Product configuration With a special AJAX-ZOOM API method, you can switch between different 360 / 3D product spins without losing the zoom level and frame number. This method is perfect for 360 product configurators. It is extendable to use with hotspots and / or spinTo && zoomTo product tours.

Derived / "clean" examples of example15

Clean (without too much redundant code) implementation of the AJAX-ZOOM 360 spin & zoom viewer with a single 360 product view.
Responsive 360-degree AJAX-ZOOM viewer example without bootstrap or any other CSS libraries for HTML containers. It shows how to resize the parent container via JavaScript so that the viewer adjusts its size too. When the window size changes, the size of the viewer adjusts automatically. This example also shows how to load a different 360-degree product view into the same instance of the viewer using $.fn.axZm.loadAjaxSet API method.
Open 360-product rotations as full browser window on load without user interaction. The parent container is set to window / body HTML element.
Clean (without unnecessary code) example of the AJAX-ZOOM 360° product viewer and 360 / 3D objects thumbnails gallery. It has the same code basis as on this page. The example uses the AJAX-ZOOM $.axZm360Gallery extension, which is a wrapper for the code that otherwise you would need to insert inline. You can set the extension to load 360 or 3D views from a particular top folder, or you can list exact paths of the individual 360 views.

Some other implementations & examples of 360 spin tool

In this example, AJAX-ZOOM loads into a responsive Fancybox by a click. For invoking AJAX-ZOOM with Fancybox in such a way, we have created a separate wrapper extension. The extension triggers and manages the AJAX-ZOOM viewer inside the Fancybox.
This example explains the difference between a single row 360 spin and multi-row 3D views. To AJAX-ZOOM, the main difference lies in the structure of the directories. While for a single row 360 spin, you point the viewer to the folder with 360 images, for a multi-row 3D view you need to point to the folder, which contains subfolders with 360 images of each row.
Overview of all AJAX-ZOOM examples

General information about the 360 product viewer (non-technical)

AJAX-ZOOM is a unique "Flash" free tool to present 360°/ 3D product images and plain images on the web. Users can rotate 360° object (the sprite contains a set of single images), also on Z-axis (3D multi-row) and additionally deep zoom on every frame. The adoption of the image tiles technology (image pyramid) allows the 360 product viewer to utilize high-resolution images without large compression rates. That would destroy the image quality and reduce any benefit of a high-resolution photo.

The AJAX-ZOOM 360 product viewer has full support for touch devices, e.g., pinch zoom with two fingers works great at mobile phones, tablets or touch-enabled notebooks. In the fullscreen or responsive modes, AJAX-ZOOM loads as many image tiles as needed to fit users screen resolution. Thus it provides details in best possible quality quickly also with low bandwidth connectivity, which is perfect for mobile users. The AJAX-ZOOM 360 product player can be wholly restyled (skinned) to fit any design / corporate identity.

Some of the external controls and API methods

zoomIn zoomOut reset switch pan switch spin switch crop start spin stop spin spin toggle spinBy (1) spinBy (-1) spinTo third frame and zoom Go fullscreen

360° product gallery

The gallery with the various 360/3D object photography examples under the player on this page is optional! Most likely, you do not need this gallery. However, AJAX-ZOOM provides an extension to build such galleries without any PHP code in a frontend template.

The player and the gallery are loading over a single javascript $.axZm360Gallery AJAX-ZOOM extension, which is very easy to configure. The thumbnails slider for external 360 galleries is optional, and it is also one of the AJAX-ZOOM extensions that are bound to the product. You can configure the thumbnails slider in many different ways or disable it.

If you are looking for a pure 360 product viewer without any galleries, please see, e.g., this "clean" example.

Do not like the toolbar?

If you do not like the toolbar below the player, see, e.g. example28, which is fully functional without this toolbar. Of course, you can also entirely reskin the toolbars, enable and disable individual buttons, disable this toolbar completely or enableenable a different toolbar, which looks more modern and has more options to configure. Besides, you can reproduce the toolbar behavior with you individual buttons that you can place outside of the viewer by using the AJAX-ZOOM API.

Please note that this particular toolbar on that page hides by a default setting automatically on mobile devices. The AJAX-ZOOM settings name is touchSettings, which is an array to override any other option specifically for touch-enabled devices.

For developers - some technical information

Following is some very basic technical information about AJAX-ZOOM. If you are serious about trying and implementing AJAX-ZOOM on your webpage, viewing other examples and browsing in documentation is highly recommended as the first step! After you have found an example, which does conceptually suits your needs, you should download the package and make it work on your server or localhost.

While searching for a suitable example, please do not pay too much attention to design, galleries and other stuff that does not perfectly match your requirements or that you would like to remove. Most likely, you can configure to adjust, reskin or remove that by some built-in option. The point is that AJAX-ZOOM is so flexible, that our team sometimes does not recognize the product after it is implemented and adjusted by the customers.

If you are not sure what example is the right one to start with, you can send us a mockup, which visualizes your intent. We will gladly give you a hint.

To load a 360 spinner, all you need is to define the directory where AJAX-ZOOM finds the images/frames of the 360 view. In most examples, you can do it by setting the value of the 3dDir parameter. The number of frames depends on the number of images in this directory. AJAX-ZOOM determined it automatically! For a single row 360 view (not spherical 3D view) you should have at least 12 images.

The more images are available, the smoother is your animation. However, the more images are there, the longer it takes to preload them. Therefore, we consider 72 images as perfectly smooth for the web; 36 images is a good average used by many customers these days. You can read about that question in more detail and test the same 360-view of a product loaded with different numbers of frames at this page.

All image processing including the generation of image tiles is done on-the-fly during the first load of AJAX-ZOOM in the browser. You can, however, pre-process all your 360 views with the provided batch tool (/axZm/zoomBatch.php);

There are several 360/3D specific options to adjust the spin behavior and the appearance. However, all other options from the plain image-zoom functionality, apply to the 360-degree functionality as well!

A small selection of the parameters has been made to be visually changed in this example (more parameters in the online documentation): Reverse spin direction. Enable | disable the blur effect. Disable | enable the navigation toolbar. Disable | enable the zoom slider and disable | enable the spin slider.

AJAX-ZOOM has several presets with options that differ from the defaults. You can find these presets in /axZm/zoomConfigCustom.inc.php. To load a preset, AJAX-ZOOM expects to receive the query string parameter with the name "example". Depending on the value of this parameter, options from /axZm/zoomConfig.inc.php are overridden in /axZm/zoomConfigCustom.inc.php. For instance, you can find the options of this example in /axZm/zoomConfigCustom.inc.php after elseif ($_GET['example'] == 17) {. So if your changes in /axZm/zoomConfig.inc.php do not affect anything, look for the same options in /axZm/zoomConfigCustom.inc.php at the appropriate place. Learn more about how to set up options and options sets best.

To interested developers, AJAX-ZOOM offers a variety of methods and callbacks to develop highly customized applications. Alternatively, we can create an individual application as custom work for you.

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Integration code with responsive width, height and without 360 objects gallery

The below code is taken from example15_clean.php. For a 360 gallery and other examples, please see the derived examples above.

JavaScript & CSS files in Head


							<!--  Include jQuery core, only if not already present -->
							<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

							<!--  AJAX-ZOOM javascript && CSS -->
							<link href="../axZm/axZm.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
							<script type="text/javascript" src="../axZm/jquery.axZm.js"></script>
						

HTML markup in body


<div class="embed-responsive" style="padding-bottom: 60%;">
	<!-- Placeholder for AJAX-ZOOM player -->
	<div id="axZmPlayerContainer" class="embed-responsive-item" style="max-height: 94vh; max-height: calc(100vh - 50px);">
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	</div>
</div>
						

JavaScript


// Create empty object variable
var ajaxZoom = {};

// Define callbacks, for complete list check the docs
// https://www.ajax-zoom.com/index.php?cid=docs#API_CALLBACKS
ajaxZoom.opt = {
	onBeforeStart: function(){
		// Some of the options can be set directly as js var in this callback
		jQuery.axZm.spinReverse = true;

		$.axZm.zoomSlider = false;
		$.axZm.spinSlider = false;
	}
};

// Define the path to the axZm folder, adjust the path if needed!
ajaxZoom.path = "../axZm/";

// Define your custom parameter query string
// example=17 has many presets for 360 images*
// 3dDir - best of all absolute path to the folder with 360/3D images

// *By defining the query string parameter in ajaxZoom.parameter example=17
// some default settings from /axZm/zoomConfig.inc.php are overridden in
// /axZm/zoomConfigCustom.inc.php after elseif ($_GET['example'] == 17) {.
// So if changes in /axZm/zoomConfig.inc.php have no effect -
// look for the same options /axZm/zoomConfigCustom.inc.php;
ajaxZoom.parameter = "example=17&3dDir=/pic/zoom3d/Uvex_Occhiali";

// The ID of the element (placeholder) where AJAX-ZOOM has to be inserted into
ajaxZoom.divID = "axZmPlayerContainer";

jQuery(document).ready(function() {

	// Open AJAX-ZOOM responsive
	$.fn.axZm.openResponsive(
		ajaxZoom.path, // Absolute path to AJAX-ZOOM directory, e.g. "/axZm/"
		ajaxZoom.parameter, // Defines which images and which options set to load
		ajaxZoom.opt, // callbacks
		ajaxZoom.divID, // target - container ID (default "windo"- fullscreen)
		false, // apiFullscreen- use browser fullscreen api mode if available
		true, // disableEsc - prevent closing with Esc key
		false // postMode - use POST instead of GET
	);
});
						

Even easier integration using an iframe

Load AJAX-ZOOM viewer inside an iframe. It is the simplest way to put in place AJAX-ZOOM anywhere. You can place as many instances on one page as you like. Full-screen views work on desktop and mobile devices as well. Using "lazyload" to postpone loading of the content inside the iframe is possible, and the example demonstrates how to implement it. In this example, the mouse wheel zoom is mostly disabled per parameter so the user can scroll the page down with the mouse wheel without getting stuck at the viewer. If, however, you want to put AJAX-ZOOM into a tab or the viewer does not span the entire page, you might do not want to disable the mouse wheel zoom then.

About AJAX-ZOOM

AJAX-ZOOM is a powerful and universally applicable image zoom & pan software with 360° degree / 3D object rotation functions, mouseover zoom extension and other extensions like various image galleries. It has all features for implementation into responsive and non-responsive layouts.

The development of AJAX-ZOOM takes place in Germany. The first release dates back to the year 2010. From then until now it has been continuously improved, enhanced and supported. AJAX-ZOOM uses jQuery (JavaScript) and PHP.

With this fully featured solution, it is possible to present even ultra-high-resolution photos and 360 product views online in best quality. Via the approximately 400 optional parameters and CSS, AJAX-ZOOM is very flexibly configurable and re-skinnable. All controls can be individually disabled and/or changed in their appearance. Seamless integration into any web page is thus guaranteed.

All you need is, e.g. a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) web server. However, you can also implement AJAX-ZOOM into ASP.NET / IIS web applications without PHP via "Phalanger". For optimal quality and speed, AJAX-ZOOM offers full ImageMagick® support, although LibGD, which part of any default PHP installation, is generally sufficient. The supported image file types are JPG, TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF and PSD (TIF & PSD only with "ImageMagick").

Comments (24)

Vadim Jacobi 2023-05-29 14:22:32
Vadim Jacobi The configuration file has two options to configure to enable transparency in the png images.
"pngMode" - set it to auto as the value, and enable the "pngKeepTransp" option.
projectbanana 2023-05-28 20:00:20
projectbanana Can it support transparent png sequences? I am using a textured background to it.
Vadim Jacobi 2020-11-07 19:35:50
Vadim Jacobi @Ruben: you can use the AJAX-ZOOM viewer as stand-alone in a sense that no plugins or modules are required. The download package contains all examples including this one. All you have to do is dynamically writing some JavaScript code that determines the content you want to load into the 360-viewer.
Ruben 2020-11-03 23:58:12
Ruben Is this plugin something that I can use as standalone on a project not using any eCommerce o CMS like, prestashop or wordpress ?
templateonweb 2017-07-22 20:48:29
templateonweb Hi, i have visited the site and found that this is a good template for making science and research related web sites.

Free Scientific World Template
Vadim Jacobi 2014-08-20 19:13:00
Vadim Jacobi Lola: there is no plugin for VirtueMart but you might want to check this example: http://www.ajax-zoom.com/examples/example15_clean.php
Lola 2014-08-18 19:16:43
Lola Hello,


Is this compatible with VirtueMart?

Thank you.
Mengxianfeng 2013-03-26 15:50:25
Mengxianfeng Thanks for your share, but I have a question: whether I can use this demo on some mobile devices,such as Iphone(IOS),Android?
Kevin 2013-03-06 18:44:28
Kevin There are 24 imgs used in the example with the glasses. Nice result if you ask me. Thanks for sharing!
korosh 2013-03-04 08:25:16
korosh Can you put some code for creating full 3D product viewer? not just 3D rotate
Vadim Jacobi 2012-09-28 23:28:29
Vadim Jacobi It depends on what you mean under smooth :-) To me a 360 spin should have at least 24 frames. 16 do not look very good. Personally I would choose 36, 48 or even 72 frames depending on the product (see the example with the flute above which has 72 frames).
Cebu Web Design 2012-09-28 00:49:57
Cebu Web Design How many images do we need to create a smooth 3D rotation?
Vadim Jacobi 2012-09-13 22:02:05
Vadim Jacobi To all of You who was asking about clickable / mouseover etc. hotspots: the next AJAX-ZOOM version 4.0 will definitely support hotspots! At 2D, 360 and 3D modes, at all zoom levels and at fullscreen mode. Basically it is already working on our prototype, we just need to write an API for handling it (the easy but intriguing part). Hopefully this will be the last new feature among many, many others in version 4.0 so we will be able to present it to You shortly.
Vadim Jacobi 2012-07-15 14:51:45
Vadim Jacobi If you have 5-6 images it is probably not good to use 360 mode to show them. A simple gallery like this: http://www.ajax-zoom.com/examples/example16.php or any other on ajax-zoom.com is better. The economical objection is not really comprehensible to me. If you sell one or two more pieces of your products by offering 360 high resolution view - something, what is natural when you can physically examine it in a store, then all your efforts are surely paid off. One of our customers told me about their buying rate rising by 150% after implementing AJAX-ZOOM 360 view. So what is not economical about it?
test user 2012-07-14 08:26:53
test user How would the rotation effect look if there are only say 5-6 images.

This is for an ecommerce clorhing store products.

It is very difficult to take say more than 5-8 angles for items like shirts, trousers etc.(it is not economical).
Vadim Jacobi 2012-06-22 01:55:09
Vadim Jacobi Andrew : yes, you have to make images from different angles. 360 images would be overkill however. 24-36 or 72 are fully sufficient.
Andrew Barton 2012-06-21 21:18:38
Andrew Barton How do you create the images? Do you need 360 different images or how does it rotate?
Salmec 2012-05-17 13:00:58
Salmec How can i put some interactive maps over the images?
csjthomas 2012-04-20 16:42:31
csjthomas very nice plug in
Vadim Jacobi 2012-01-24 19:07:24
Vadim Jacobi Multiple players on one page are currently only possible inside iframe.
Damian 2011-12-22 16:04:15
Damian Can you combine multiple elements?
Alex Reekie 2011-12-07 14:20:14
Alex Reekie Thanks for this - really great piece of work!
Exactly what I was looking for and I love all the customisation options.
Vadim Jacobi 2011-11-14 06:47:54
Vadim Jacobi Evgeniy: take a look at this option - http://www.ajax-zoom.com/index.php?cid=docs#spinOnClick You could also enable the play/pause button like shown in this example - http://www.ajax-zoom.com/examples/example19.php or use API functions for this purpose.
Evgeniy 2011-10-28 08:22:31
Evgeniy Can I stop the rotation (spin) when clicking the mouse on the image
Can it, then start the rotation by clicking the mouse on the image
As videoplayer ?

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