Recently I integrated the nifty jQZoom jQuery plug-in into a client's site built on Drupal 5 and Drupal e-commerce 5.x-3.6. A jQZoom module for Drupal does exist, but here I'm going to outline the few simple steps required to get the script working with images output via a node template (or the Contemplate module).

For starters, on the site we have the following Imagecache presets:

• product_full: "full-size" version, actually scaled to an width of 600px;
• product_main: the "main image", used for display on a product node;
• product_thumb: a thumbnail, used in product node teasers and for switching between product images.

The product nodes are templated to output several product images, something like this:

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