Re: Re: Re: CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image"

Read the original reply by Zaxo more closely. You don't need a default image for every missing image...you just need one for all the missing images. That's what Zaxo's code above demonstrates.

Mark

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Re: Re: Re: Re: CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image" by WhiteBird (Hermit) on May 25, 2003 at 01:09 UTC
Thanks, Mark. I realize that, and I agree that Zaxo has the better suggestion. I'm just gleaning ideas though, and creating separate images to link to would be another way to do it, would it not? (One that I'm too lazy to pursue except as a last resort.) I was merely pondering that if one had to do it that way, then there must be some way to make even that painful task easier.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CGI-SQL-HTML-Display "no image" by markjugg (Curate) on May 25, 2003 at 03:04 UTC
I see. If this was the case, I would use logic like Zaxo's above to test to see if you need a file, and create a symbolic (or hard) link to the single real default file. This way, at least you've save some disk space, and have the oppurtunity to update to the image in 1 place instead of N. Using a single image would have additional advantage of being cached in the browser, while having N identical images would mean they all get downloaded to your browser seperately. Mark	[reply]