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Thu, 10/18/2007 - 18:36
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Hi all,

I have a couple of products that use the same image. When I add an image to the product, imagecache creates a duplicate image with _0, _1, _2 for each duplicate. This works, but it seems a bit wasteful to have users downloading these duplicate images.

Is there an easy way to get imagecache / Ubercart to use the same image for multiple products?

Thanks!
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Fri, 10/19/2007 - 08:31
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Re: Product images

Unfortunately, there isn't right now. I had heard about a new CCK field that would let you choose an image already on the server or upload a new one, but I don't think anyone's actually released it yet.

If it really bothers you, you can change the values in the content_field_image_cache table so that multiple rows use the same fid. This points to a row in the files table that stores the path to the image file. Not the best solution, I know, but at least it looks better than putting <img> tags in the node body.

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Fri, 10/19/2007 - 19:56
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Re: Re: Product images

Ok, thanks for the idea. That will work for now. I'll keep my eyes out for that new CCK field...

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Sat, 10/20/2007 - 14:34
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Re: Product images

so we are talking about speed for the user's browser, right? You do not want the very same image to be downlaoded multiple times! I do not exactly know how imagecache works, maybe you you would alter its database that all points to the same file and then the browser should only request it once...

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Thu, 10/02/2008 - 12:03
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What Lyle said

I think that's what Lyle was saying

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