Product Image Question.

[VBE-1]

Wondering if it is possible to have zencart "images" pulled from outside of your host. Currently have image URLs uploaded for products in my zencart and it doesn't seem like zencart wants to use them.

[gilby]

Wondering if it is possible to have zencart "images" pulled from outside of your host.

Yes it is "possible" but it creates lots or other issues and is not recommended.
Far easier to have images hosted on your site.

Currently have image URLs uploaded for products in my zencart and it doesn't seem like zencart wants to use them.

Please explain what you mean by this?
Got a url that shows this?
How have you uploaded "image URLs" to your site?

[VBE-1]

Basically just set the image url as a http: url and zencart is not able to pull the image from the url so image is just blank.

[schoolboy]

Yes it is "possible" but it creates lots or other issues and is not recommended.
Far easier to have images hosted on your site.


Please explain what you mean by this?
Got a url that shows this?
How have you uploaded "image URLs" to your site?

He / She is probably typing the URL into the image name field in the ADD/EDIT Product screen.

(As Gilby says, using external images is possible - there are threads discussing this - but it is not recommended).

If you are using a dropshipper and need their images, they should supply these to you. Many allow "scraping" of images from their servers and they provide a CSV of image URL's.

Use w_get to scrape, or any other scraping utility. Over the years I must have scraped over 100,000 images off various dropship sites.

[VBE-1]

can you refer me to a good scraping utility?

[schoolboy]

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

Go look at my post dating back to 2009 HERE