[SOLVED] Is it possible to use external picture links?

[deech123]

Hi guys,

I have two suppliers for my shop.
for one I have the pictures on my site.

the other supplier offers me an external link for pictures.
because this supplier gives me over 15000 articles, I can imagine that my 200MB hosting will not to the trick for all those pictures :-)

Is there a possibility to use pictures linked to a special photo archive site of the supplier?

Or,
is it neccessary in prestashop to have 4 pictures for each product?
Can I say, I take the max 300 pixels pictures and use only them? also for the mini pictures in product list, etc...??

but I count out that one product takes over 150Kb par picture :
so for me = 15000*150= 2250000kb = 2.19 GB for pictures only :-(

any idea of this can be solved by adding the pictures in a different field? and then change code or something?

[miracle]

Hello,

I wrote a small article about how to use Amazon S3 as a CDN with Prestashop.
If you can read french go here: Amazon&Prestashop;

It's not so simple, in any case you have to generate all images used by Prestashop.
One solution is to have a copy of your shop in your local PC/MAC and generate images using your local Prestashop...

all generated images will be located to the /prestashop/img/p directory.
You just have to full copy the imp/p directory to your CDN (content delivery network) and change the getImageLink function in the Link.php file like this :

public function getImageLink($name, $ids, $type = null) {
return « http://MYCDN/p/« .$ids.($type ? ‘-’.$type : »).’.jpg’;
}

Other thing to do is to update your Prestashop database on your server.

Not so simple...

Have a good day

[deech123]

HI thanks,

but that's not an option.

because when you make your pictures by prestashop then you have picture names like 450-60.jpg
And the pictures I can use of my supplier are stored on : http://www.thisisanexample.com/pictures/productname.jpg

so ...... :-(

I think I must look for a large hosting partner :-) like you told me with amazon.

I was more thinking of not store any pictures in my hosting or 3th party hosting, but link the prestaproduct to the suppliershosting.
So I just store for a productname this : productname.jpg
and the image will be downloaded or shown directly from the suppliers directory...

but prestashop rename all pictures...so must indeed look for an other way.

[deech123]

Hi I tried this,
and this is working as long you don't use friendly url's.

any idea what I do have to change also to make this working?
I tried to change my .htaccess,

but this is not working.

any idea?

[miracle]

What kind of modifications have you performed ?

[deech123]

in classes/link.php

public function getImageLink($name, $ids, $type = null)
{
return ($this->allow == 1) ?  ("http://www.myurl.be/".$ids.($type ? '-'.$type : '').'/'.$name.'.jpg') : ("http://www.myurl.be/img/p/".$ids.($type ? '-'.$type : '').'.jpg');
}

this work as long I do not use friendly URL

if I use friendly url then I had no pictures.
so I open the .htaccess and changed this :

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)\-([a-z0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2$3.jpg [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ /img/p/$1-$2.jpg [L,E]

to

RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9]+)\-([a-z0-9]+)(\-[_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ http://www.myurl.be/img/p/$1-$2$3.jpg [L,E]
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+)/([_a-zA-Z0-9-]*)\.jpg$ http://www.myurl.be/img/p/$1-$2.jpg [L,E]

thanks for your help :-)

[miracle]

try this:

public function getImageLink($name, $ids, $type = null)
{
return "http://www.myurl.be/img/p/".$ids.($type ? '-'.$type : '').'.jpg';
}

and don't change the .htaccess

[deech123]

yep !!!!

that's it

thanks harcier

[jessicate]

i post a feature request for improve this option ,please post message here:

 

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/124909-new-fonctionality-allow-external-server-for-downloadable-product-or-media/

[MCCS]

cdn is an real requirement or slowly people will be forced to use other solutions..