> I don't know that you can.
That's kinda what I was thinking...
> I would store that info in the database; it could be a flag which simply
> indicates the existence of the file or not.
>
> You could write a CF page to update the db as often as necessary (once,
> hourly, daily, etc.); that page would check to see if the file exists, then
> update the db. (Don't update the db for each record; loop through your
> productnums, delete productnums that don't have graphic file, then do one db
> update along the lines of "update <table> set hasGraphic = 1 where
> productnum in (<listOfProductNums>)"
That would work of course, but in this application, I'm essentially using
a "read-only" table from an external source. I'd have to add another table
to match the item number and a flag for the graphic's existence...
>
> I have an application where I list several items on a page and display an
> image for that item based on a reference number (ie, productnum+.jpg). The
> database table does not tell me whether there is an image for that item
> and there are many that do have one.
>
> I'd like to display an alternate image (or nothing at all) when there is
> no image present, but I can't see using an <CFIF FileExists> for every
> item for 50 or so on a page. Plus, I can't even do that because I'm
> grabbing the images from a different server via http only (<IMG
> SRC="http://otherserver/path/number.jpg>)...
>
> How can I avoid displaying broken images?
>
>
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