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How can I just link to the article's image?
Hello,
I feel like this must be really obvious, but so far it’s still eluding me. I want to run a site similar to a photoblog.
I’m using image thumbnails as 500px width images, with the originals having dimensions like 1591×1234. So in the article I just put
<txp:article_image thumbnail="1"/>but I want an easy way to link to the original file,so people can download it if they want. All the tags I’ve looked at just seem to display the image. What I would like is something like txp:article_image_ref or _id and then I can put that in a text link.
Or even if there was a way to make the thumnail link to the original. that would be cool too.
thanks,
Brianna
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Re: How can I just link to the article's image?
Use that in the article:
<txp:permlink><txp:article_image thumbnail=“1” /></txp:permlink>
and when single article is displayed use this(you can find the code in page tab):
<txp:if_article_list>
<txp:article />
<txp:else />
<txp:article form=“phform” />
</txp:if_article_list>
and create an article form call it “phform” and put this:
<txp:article_image />
The goal is when a single article is displayed it display only the full image size.
A+
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Re: How can I just link to the article's image?
thanks for the tip, but that’s not what I want…
there’s no use to display a 1500px-wide image on an article. I just want to be able to link directly to the jpg so the reader can right click on the link and download it.
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Re: How can I just link to the article's image?
wet_link allows you to link to an image, which results in many ways to link to a full size image:
- A simple text link to the image:
<txp:wet_link image="42">Click to view!</txp:wet_link> - A simple text link, plus a hook for LightBox:
<txp:wet_link image="42" rel="lightbox">Click to view in a lightbox (if it is installed on this page)!</txp:wet_link> - A thumbnail link, plus a hook for LightBox:
<txp:wet_link image="42" rel="lightbox"><txp:thumbnail id="42" /></txp:wet_link>
Last edited by wet (2007-05-19 09:35:52)
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Re: How can I just link to the article's image?
wet wrote:
wet_link allows you to link to an image, which results in many ways to link to a full size image:
Thanks, but unless there was article_image_link, that’s also not what I wanted. :) I figure if I can associate an image with every article, and it can automatically show that image, there surely must be a way to AUTOMATICALLY link to the image’s url…
I did find a way, but it’s a bit weird. I found upm_image has tags like <txp:upm_img_full_url />. perfect!
but when I tried putting that directly in my articles I got this error:
invalid context, tag must be used within the tag as a wrapper or from its own form called by the tag.
“tag must be used within the tag as a wrapper or from its own form called by the tag”… tag must be used within the tag… uhmmmm….
anyway I read through most of the forum thread for this plugin, and Mary’s comment #155 explained what I actually needed to do.
(I’m just explicating this in case someone else wants to do the same thing)
So now my set up is, when I write articles that go in the section ‘article’, they have a title and an ‘article image’ and a bunch of custom fields filled out pertaining to the image. the body of the article actually has no content.
then in my default form (type article), I have this:
<txp:tcm_if_article_image>
<txp:upm_article_image form="image_post" />
</txp:tcm_if_article_image>and in the image_post form (type misc) I created, I have this:
<txp:article_image thumbnail="1"/>
<p class="meta"><a href="<txp:upm_img_full_url />">Download original file</a> (<txp:upm_img_full_width />x<txp:upm_img_full_height />)</p>(and some other stuff using the custom fields and tags).
now I feel very pleased. it is all neat and less work for me. :)
thanks for everyone’s help,
Brianna
Last edited by pfctdayelise (2007-05-19 10:28:09)
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