happiescrappie Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Ok, this is probably a dumb question and I have looked in the forums but for the life of me can't seem to find the answer. So here it is: Can I use a link to an image as opposed to uploading the image to my server? The reason being I use a drop shipper for some items and in my download file from them, they give me the links to their images. It would make my life a whole lot easier..... Still really just playing with OSC to try and get a handle on it, as I am looking for a new ecommerce solution (currently use MivaMerchant). TIA. Laurie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 yes you can. You need to specify the url to the external image at the location you want it to be displayed. If you want it to be displayed during checkout_shipping you specify the full url with the icon field of the shipping module. If you want it within an information box you specify it within info_box_contents array. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happiescrappie Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 yes you can. You need to specify the url to the external image at the location you want it to be displayed. If you want it to be displayed during checkout_shipping you specify the full url with the icon field of the shipping module. If you want it within an information box you specify it within info_box_contents array. The image would be of the actual product, and there are some 1500 products, so how do I accomplish that within the catalog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjat Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 If the site you are pulling images from happens to notice the increase in bandwidth, and does not want to pay for it.. all your images will be red x's with a couple clicks on their end. It might be better for you to host all your images unless you have premission from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 if you're going to have internal and external images for products you would need a second image function like the tep_image which has to be used with the scripts that process the product images. This 2nd function will simply process the same image names as the regular function with the only difference to pull them in from an external source. So if you use other modules like easy populate say to populate the database nothing will change because just the image filename is stored in the database. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happiescrappie Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 If the site you are pulling images from happens to notice the increase in bandwidth, and does not want to pay for it.. all your images will be red x's with a couple clicks on their end. It might be better for you to host all your images unless you have premission from them. Thanks for the input. The dropshipper website the images are pulling from are actually providing the link (They prefer that we use their images when possible), so that shouldn't be a large issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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