[SOLVED] Product images on remote server

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Good morning all

We are busy building a large webshop with 14.250 products. These products come from a remote server out of a Filemaker Application thru ODBC. So far, so good.

There are 550.000 images on the remote server.

We have 240 hrs of work in the project so far.

We have bumped onto a showstopper: it seams not possible to link a remote product image to a product (remote url).
Is there a solution to this?
Is it possible to link remote images to products?

All help appreciated!
Eternal glory will be your reward!

Greetz

Dick

Hi,

That's indeed the case. HikaShop needs to generate thumbnails of the images in order to display the images properly on all the views. So it must have the image on hand in order to do that.
The alternative would be to create a custom product field of the type "text" where you would store the link to the image of the product and then customize the different views (product/listing_img_title, product/show_block_img, checkout/cart) and emails of HikaShop in order to display the content of the field inside an img tag instead of the code there to generate the thumbnails and display them.

OK, thank you!

Thanks very much for the quick reply.

this means we only have to css some fields.
thanks a lot!

Greetz