Best way to implement external image server?

[qhome]

Thanks Dr. Byte.

And I thought I had it all figured out till I found you can't redefine a constant in PHP .. which technically makes sense.. but I was trying to do:

configure.php:
define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'https://www.fonzanoon.com/raretv/images/');


tpl_header.php:
if ($request_type == 'SSL'){
define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'https://www.fonzanoon.com/raretv/images/');
}

So I suppose I could use a variable for the image location all the same.. but I dont know that i can leave a variable without $DIR_WS_IMAGES.. which defeats the purpose since I'd have to change all references to DIR_WS_IMAGES

[qhome]

DUH.. i figured it out.

I just comment out the define from the configure.php file and do it at the top of the tpl_header.php file:

if ($request_type == 'SSL'){
  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'https://www.myimageserver.com/images/');
} else {
  define('DIR_WS_IMAGES', 'http://www.myimageserve.com/images/');
}

It works! :) Although it might belong in a better location.. like perhaps in the zen_redirect function that first checks the url.

[qhome]

It's strange. According to the php site, URL support for "getimagesize" was added in PHP 4.0.5. Both my servers are PHP 4.4.2, but when I use the external image server as the image url, the calculate image size doesn't work.

[micmed]

It's strange. According to the php site, URL support for "getimagesize" was added in PHP 4.0.5. Both my servers are PHP 4.4.2, but when I use the external image server as the image url, the calculate image size doesn't work.

Hi, did you ever resolve this?