I will be receiving a daily datafeed that will end up in MySQL. In this feed are location references to hundreds of images that point to my wholesalers website. I am going to hire someone to do all of the MySQL work, but right now, I need to know if I have to save all of those images to my own folder on my own computer, and eventually move that to my website (not published yet). I don't want to spend days saving images if I don't need to. The images MUST point to my own site and not that of my wholesaler. To me, this means I need to save them individually. Advise please on best way to get hundreds of images that are not available from a central location, but rather spread throughout my wholesalers site. Am I correct in assuming I must have these images on my own computer before turning the project over to a MySQL pro?
You can save the references for now and use a simple script to download them to your own PC or to your hosting server when you need them.
Can you elaborate a bit? I can turn this over to a MySQL person right now? Does it matter if instead of hundreds of images there were thousands?
Why you want to store the images on your PC? It does not matter except your storage requirement will increase.
I'm just totally surprised! I didn't know an image could be stored on someone elses website and then a script could manipulate it to such a degree. Could you suggest a script so I could get these images on my PC? Even if I didn't keep them, if it was a simple thing to do, I would love to see it done.
I was talking in this context. You can never store images on others' site unless they permit it. Please elaborate what sort of manipulation you are going to do?
I'm sorry for the confusion and my poor choice of words. Maybe I can explain what I am looking for in different terms. The datafeed I would receive daily includes location references for thousands of images located on my wholesalers website. I believed I needed all of those images to reside on a folder somewhere on my own PC for now, and eventually on my website. I thought you were saying that a simple script could do that work for me. I had no idea how that actually worked, but I know scripts can do amazing things. I am trying to determine if I need to take the time to save each and every image and put them in a folder on my PC, or if there would be another way to get those images. I wanted to have this completed before turning the rest of the project (setting up the database) over to the MySQL person. I have no desire to store these images anywhere other than my own site. I just want to know how best to accomplish this. If this can be done by a script, I would like to try that. Thanks
Yes, a simple script can read the datafeed, fetch all the mentioned images in the feed and store them on your location of choice on your PC. You don't need to do that manually. But you might not get such available and you need to make it yourself according to your needs.