External image storage

We already have the images stored in a server. Is there a way to just pass the url of where the images reside, without importing the images into Hikashop?

Thanks for the reply. But that is still effectively importing them into the system.

I just want to pass the URL where the image already resides and have it display while still on the image server. e.g. I want to pass www.imagestore.com/myimage.jpg to the product definition.

Thanks again for the reply Nicolas. It is appreciated.

Surely this is just what path the code which does the conversion uses. Is it possible for you, or someone else, to point me to the file which does the conversion of images into the thumbs displayed?

Thank you very much Nicolas. Your help is greatly appreciated.

On a similar line to this topic I would like to have the media/uploads and media/uploads/safe folders stored on an amazon s3 bucket

I've seen the joomlart extension www.joomlart.com/joomla/extensions/ja-amazon-s3 which I think can acheive my aim, but I wondered if anyone had:
1. any sucess integrating that extension with hikashop; and /or
2. if anyone has any other way of allowing hikashop to use an external storage (other than as described above)

Kind regards


Ben

yes I've tried that but when I include http:// in the cvs import file it just ignores the whole address, when I don't include http:// then it just doesn't work as it looks for the file locally with a really long address.
I've tried using "" and '' to surround the file statement but neither work

When I manually add the file with http:// then it works like a charm

any thoughts?

p.s.
I've also tried changing the location of the file upload path in the configuation to the root of the external site; I didn't expect this to work and it didn't!

Thank you that works perfectly now

Ideally i'd like the file name and the file path to be different, I've removed the uploading part so the section now reads

			$unset = array();
			foreach($product->files as $k => $file){
				if(substr($file,0,7)=='http://'){
					$parts = explode('/',$file);
					$name = array_pop($parts);
					if(filesize($this->uploadFolder.$name)){
						$product->files[$k] = $name;
					}else{
						$unset[]=$k;
					}
				}
			}
			if(!empty($unset)){
				foreach($unset as $k){
					unset($product->files[$k]);
				}
			}

I tried to use URLs for images on CSV import, but this does not work. The problem is probably related to the URL and the "name" of the image:

myimageserver.com/GetProductImage.aspx?i...ntid=163616359233856

I can see the file is uploaded to the upload folder, and it has the filename "GetProductImage.aspx?id=3&clientid=163616359233856". Everything before the . is used as image name, but I guess .aspx?id=3&clientid=163616359233856 is an unknown file extension when trying to use the image.

Any solution to how this can be solved easily?