How Do I Replace an Image With Another Image File?
Posted: Sun 19. Jun 2005, 10:44
Hi,
Let's say my family's website "Our Car" needs updating when we buy a new vehicle. I need to remove the picture of the Volvo we used to drive, and replace it with an image of the SAAB we just bought.
For the sake of the example, let's say the Volvo image is used in 250 places on this car-crazed website.
I would like to replace the Volvo image using the CMS.
Do I need to hack the image upload function to do this? (Rough idea: Adding a selector which pulls the file table row for "image to replace", and saves the newly uploaded image with some of this infomation.)
How have you guys coped with such a situation?
What are some of the thoughts, the philosophy behind the hash.ext file handling? I'm curious about the whole thing. Think of it in lists of features:
Pros:
1. no filename clashes (everyone can call all their files DSP0001.JPG)
Cons:
1. harder to implement "replace image" functions.
Thanks for reading, now I want to hear some of your thoughts on this,
Olle
Let's say my family's website "Our Car" needs updating when we buy a new vehicle. I need to remove the picture of the Volvo we used to drive, and replace it with an image of the SAAB we just bought.
For the sake of the example, let's say the Volvo image is used in 250 places on this car-crazed website.
I would like to replace the Volvo image using the CMS.
Do I need to hack the image upload function to do this? (Rough idea: Adding a selector which pulls the file table row for "image to replace", and saves the newly uploaded image with some of this infomation.)
How have you guys coped with such a situation?
What are some of the thoughts, the philosophy behind the hash.ext file handling? I'm curious about the whole thing. Think of it in lists of features:
Pros:
1. no filename clashes (everyone can call all their files DSP0001.JPG)
Cons:
1. harder to implement "replace image" functions.
Thanks for reading, now I want to hear some of your thoughts on this,
Olle