Link common images to products

[mehmoodhamid]

Hello,

I have products list around 3k which are sharing common images. Can we link the products to the images or we need to create a copy of each shared image for each product?

 

Also, some products do not have image. When we click such products they appear distored 'cause of no image. when we click the image frame (where the image should be) the error appear - "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later."

 

Do I need to provide an image "No Image available" written on it?

 

Again, as there are around 1K products of such types which have no image, do we need to create same image 1K times with different name and then upload for each?

 

According to developer I am using, Prestashop donot accetp shared images.

 

If its so, then its very inconvenience in relation to consumption of resources and complexity.

 

Appreciate if some one come up with advice.

 

Thanks and Regards, Hamid

Edited February 13, 2013 by mehmoodhamid (see edit history)

[PascalVG]

Straightforward Prestashop doesn't support this sharing, as far as I know.,,

 

I assume with some database hacking, it should be possible to 'link' those product pictures to one single physical file.

Be careful though, when deleting a product with a link to this file, as the file itself may then be deleted, leaving the others without one...

 

I'd say open a temporary testshop, and just give it a try to add those products without picture first. then copy the file using FTP to the correct location and use some SQL script to add the link to the wished for product fields/records. Then play a little with deleting, adding, modifying products to see if it behaves nicely.

 

[parsifal]

I am facing an eerily similar problem. What would solve it for me would be the ability to set a default generic image per product category.

 

I don't think that there is way to accomplish this in PrestaShop, out-of-the-box. Or is there, and I missed it...? :-/