Add Support For Product Images From External Url

Hello,
One thing I felt too much annoying after looking at nopCommerce code was how it works for product images.
In my opinion nopCommerce team should allow external url for product images. Suppose if customer needs to configure 10000 (Ten thousand) products and average image size for each product including thumbnails are around 2mb per product then 10000 x 2 = 20000 MB (19 GB).
On hosted environment space matters a lot. Moreover if you allow external image urls for product then customer can directly upload image to multiple Google Drive accounts or any other free external store account which could save them a lot of space on hosting account as well as money which they could use in buying other resources.
Let me know if my suggestions feels good to someone.

I agree. This would help me a lot as well.

Importing from URL, Dropbox and Google Drive would be great!

atulrungta wrote:

I am also agree with you but I am little confuse about the media setting feature of nopcommerce which is really a great feature of nopcommerce.

Hello Friends,
I think media settings should be there as it is now. There should be just one addition to allow pictures from external url so we could actually provide url's for images.
I have seen databases worth 10GB of size due to images are stored in databases. It takes a lot of exercise to backup database with a huge size.
In fact, storing pictures in content folder is also not a good idea as it consumes our bandwidth also when there is a huge traffic on website.
I hope I am clear on my point. If someone needs more clarification, I can provide wireframe for that.

Lets continue this topic here
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/42205/add-support-for-product-images-from-external-url.aspx

I'm trying to develop a plugin where I "import" products from an external store, these products are not insterted in nopCommerce´s database due to the big quantity of products that I need to import.

I can show external products in homepage but i'm having so many problems trying to add an external product to Cart and continue with payment process.

Is nopCommerce the right tool for what I need to do?
Can nopCommerce work as I describe above?

Helpme please!


Thanks!,
Andrés

In first glance I would say NO.
For this to make possible, we need to customize nopCommerce PictureService a lot.