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Originally Posted by shan
I agree with you here.
I could do a mod for you that would call your images from the server without calling image.php but then this wouldnt end up in future releases.
Im sure it would be simple for them to do this for the next upgrade 3.4.3.
Im supprised that its doing this at all anyway.
There is no point that I can see of calling a php file to then call a file when you could just as you say use <img src=$thumbpath.$imagefile>
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Yeah I could mod it too but I bought 10 licenses of x-cart and I intend on buying more I want it as part of the package that way they have to bug fix and support it in future versions.
You wonder who they allocate to do these modifications sometimes, x-cart has some wonderful features but some have been very questionably implemented at times.
Quite a few areas need looking at. But at the moment the images are actually a complete waste of bandwidth, server CPU time, Mysql hits and browser calls, all for no reason other than well sorry to say lazy, shortcut programming in that area.
I took a look at the code and just thought... they only have to add another 10-20 lines in a few files and adjust the templates slightly to optimize and speed it up it so much.