At 10:51 PM 12/14/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am wondering if this will even be possible or if I just have a pie in the
>sky dream.
>
>Here it goes:
>
>Let's say that you have an online store with a huge inventory of products,
>we're talking close to 10'000 distinct items. your site has everything we
>have come to expect from an e-store application (search features, shopping
>carts, etc..). if by some miracle i had a good quality and not too big
>(under 10k each) .jpg or .gif for each item in my inventory. would it be
>possible for me to some how link each of those pictures to its corresponding
>part in my database? this way when a customer searched for an item, a nice
>picture could come along with it.
>
>again, is this even possible, if so how?
I hope I am understanding your question correctly, so if I didn't please
let me know. You can put a field in the database that has the name of the
image file for that product, then the search page would have a call to that
image. That's pretty standard. Some people want to put the pictures in the
database but that seems overly complicated to me.
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