Product Image via URL

[mwdesigns]

Does anyone know of a hack or mod to add a new product image via a URL ?

I have over 25000 products and have all my images resident on a separate server, so instead of having my product image on my server, I want to add the URL to the image via the method: "http://www.somesite/images/somepic.jpg"

I use Easy Populate V2.74_1 to upload my products and want to use the Tab delimited file with the V_Products_image in the url format.


Please can someone help !

[Rudi]

There are two ways of doing this:

THE LONG BUT TESTED WAY:
You need to replace DIR_WS_IMAGES with 'http://www.your remote host/your remote images folder/'

in

tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGE . $product_info['products_image']

and

tep_href_link('DIR_WS_IMAGE' . $product_info['products_image'])

Where you replace this depends entirely on whether you are hosting all your OSC Images loacally or remotely.

If for example you are only hosting product images remotely, you only need to replace this in all the files containing the line 'DIR_WS_IMAGE' . $product_info['products_image']


THE SHORT BUT UNTESTED WAY:
Alternatively you can move everything in the images directory (including the OSC images and all directories)to your remote host go into includes/configure.php and change

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', '/images/');
define('DIR_WS_ICONS', '/kickasscomics/images/icons/');

to

define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'http://www.your remote host/your remote images folder/');
define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'http://www.your remote host/your remote images folder/icons/');

GOOD LUCK