How do we optimize 3.4.0 thumbnail display?

groovico · #1 05-13-2003, 09:06 AM

Another x-cart member pointed this out to me.

3.4.0 lets you use the file system to store the images BUT the display still uses the image.php to query the data base for each and every thumbnail images.....

This can result in 20-100 extra queries, has anyone modified the products.tpl template NOT to use image.php file but to simply use image/product.jpg for example?

This data should be available in the listing query so I 'm not sure why the x-cart team chose to do it the image.php way, why have 30 extra seperate queries instead of 1?

PhilJ · #2 05-14-2003, 07:12 AM

ugh, tell me that isn't true. So does that mean that images will still not be cached... more wasted bandwidth and a slower site.

jpsowin · #3 05-15-2003, 10:09 AM

So what you are saying is this is a worthless feature for speeding anything up?

groovico · #4 05-26-2003, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpsowin

So what you are saying is this is a worthless feature for speeding anything up?

Yes and not, it means the jpgs aren't being fed through the database but it does mean the database is still being hit XX number of times per page for silly reasons.

Really not the best way of doing things, not sure why x-cart team didn't give us access to say "{thumbnailimage}" in templates :-\ pretty obvious I would have thought...



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