Managing 100's of thousands of images

[redrumloa]

Hello! I looked through the FAQ and searched the forums and didn’t find an answer. I apologize in advance if I missed one.

I am currently building a site that will quickly balloon up to having 10's of thousands of images and with a possibility of 100k + images to the same number of products. One thing I have seen is using the built in Admin>Catalog>Categories/Products will not handle adding pictures well. The requestor takes a file from the local HD and puts it to a folder selected in the drop down. This surely works fine when dealing with a few dozen or even hundred pics, but becomes scary when dealing 100K. I really need to have several thousand folders in a neat subfolder tree.

Unless I missed something, I do not see a way to add a web address while using Admin>Catalog>Categories/Products interface. I could manually FTP everything but at the moment it looks like I'd have to add the product image to the Products Description box, which would not give a clean implementation as intended with thumbnail, med and large pics.

Am I making sense? I hope so. I guess I am asking for suggestions. Are there any mods to allow easy subdirectories from the Admin>Catalog>Categories/Products pull down? Or is there an easy way to allow the adding of a image link instead of drawing from the local HD?

Thank you in advance.

[Merlinpa1969]

manually upload your images, into the folder structure you want them in
then use easy populate for for uploading products and categories as a csv file

[redrumloa]

manually upload your images, into the folder structure you want them in
then use easy populate for for uploading products and categories as a csv file

Thank you for the response, I was unaware of easy populate. I've installed it and spent the last several hours trying it out, kicking the tires. It looks like it could be a very useful tool, but in my circumstance I don't think it will be a good fit for my needs.

What it looks like I could use is a modifcation to remove the product image upload form in category/product and replace it with a line to add a web lin to the image.

I would think this would be a fairly easy mod for someone familiar with PHP? Anyone reading this capable of throwing together a few replacement lines of PHP code for me? I'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount..

[Merlinpa1969]

this has been done and I can tell you that unless your host has a kick ###### machine and NO bottle necks, you will kill the speed