greatdeals_007 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 my vendor provided me a product feed unfortunately the product images are on a hosted server. is there a way to upload easy populate file with the images as a URL? normally I would upload the files to my server. in this case this particular vendor has the files stored on their server so I am unable to download. is there a way to reference the url? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥mdtaylorlrim Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 my vendor provided me a product feed unfortunately the product images are on a hosted server. is there a way to upload easy populate file with the images as a URL? normally I would upload the files to my server. in this case this particular vendor has the files stored on their server so I am unable to download. is there a way to reference the url? How about simply putting the url to the product in the product description using an <img> tag? Quote Community Bootstrap Edition, Edge Avoid the most asked question. See How to Secure My Site and How do I...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehagglebids Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 I don't know if you found a solution. But I had the same problem. Here is what I did I did. I went to this website www.httrack.com. It is a very cool easy to use program that gets everything off a website including images. Assuming you have some type of .cvs file that you are getting from your supplier that has the image urls on it. Just copy all the image urls into a html file. Example; <html> <head> <title>No title</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red"> <img src="http//www.blblalb.com/images/products/sku/big/63997M.jpg"> <img src="http://www.blblabla.com/images/products/sku/big/598M.jpg"> </body> </html> Now save the file and upload it to your server. now open the program listed above and simply type in the url you just put on your server tell it where you want to save the images and hit finish. Bammm Now you have all your images associated with you products. You can use ftp to upload them to your store you can use easy populate to upload your products and I recommend Select Product Image Directory & Instant Update - Multilanguage V1.15 Hope this helps you out. Lexxie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offie Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 I don't know if you found a solution. But I had the same problem. Here is what I did I did. I went to this website www.httrack.com. It is a very cool easy to use program that gets everything off a website including images. Assuming you have some type of .cvs file that you are getting from your supplier that has the image urls on it. Just copy all the image urls into a html file. Example; <html> <head> <title>No title</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red"> <img src="http//www.blblalb.com/images/products/sku/big/63997M.jpg"> <img src="http://www.blblabla.com/images/products/sku/big/598M.jpg"> </body> </html> Now save the file and upload it to your server. now open the program listed above and simply type in the url you just put on your server tell it where you want to save the images and hit finish. Bammm Now you have all your images associated with you products. You can use ftp to upload them to your store you can use easy populate to upload your products and I recommend Select Product Image Directory & Instant Update - Multilanguage V1.15 Hope this helps you out. Lexxie I would like to thanks Lexxie for this post. It has helped me greatly. However, there is now another program which is very easy to use which will do the same thing as httrack and is used on Firefox browser. It is called "downthemall" i.e. down them all. It is an add-on in firefox and is so easy to use its incredible. Just follow the steps mentioned by Lexxie in creating your HTML file, I just called my file saveimages, and then call the page into your browser and then down them all. very easy, just downloaded 420 large images from my suppliers server in about 2 minutes. Offie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
web-project Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 from your example: <img src="http//www.blblalb.com/images/products/sku/big/63997M.jpg"> <img src="http://www.blblabla.com/images/products/sku/big/598M.jpg"> and oscommerce located on different domain. very easy can be done using the php curl and storing in the database the following ( nstead of image names for products): get_image.php?image_name=63997M.jpg get_image.php?image_name=598M.jpg get_image.php file should be on the same server as oscommerce application. get_image.php code: <?php header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); // image name from the URL $image_name = $_GET['image_name']; // Location for images $url = "http://www.blblabla.com/images/products/sku/big/"; // Insert image name $url .= $image_name; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_exec($ch); ?> Quote Please read this line: Do you want to find all the answers to your questions? click here. As for contribution database it's located here! 8 people out of 10 don't bother to read installation manuals. I can recommend: if you can't read the installation manual, don't bother to install any contribution yourself. Before installing contribution or editing/updating/deleting any files, do the full backup, it will save to you & everyone here on the forum time to fix your issues. Any issues with oscommerce, I am here to help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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