Article Image URL

CodeWalker · 2017-06-27 11:28:28

Hello… wow i haven’t posted in 2 years! but here goes…

I want to get the URL of the article image, which isn’t supported by the article image tag AFAIK. I seem to remember back in the mists of time that the built in article fields can be accessed with the custom field tag because they are essentially predefined custom fields…. am i right or have i had to much haribo this morning??

I was thinking something like this should work…but it doesnt….

<div class="article-image" style='background-image: url(<txp:image_url id='<txp:custom_field name="articleimage" />' />)'></div>

Any here would be great. Thanks.

Last edited by CodeWalker (2017-06-27 11:29:16)

CodeWalker · 2017-06-27 12:02:41

Figured it out. The images tag hits the article image first on its data hit list, so it can be done like this:

<div class="article-image" style='background-image: url("<txp:images limit="1"><txp:image_url /></txp:images>")'/></div>

Bloke · 2017-06-27 12:44:28

CodeWalker wrote #306100:

I was thinking something like this should work…but it doesnt….

So close! You were one character out in your original effort: the article image field is called article_image, with the underscore.

Welcome back, btw. Good to see you around.

michaelkpate · 2017-06-27 14:00:03

You can also use:

<div class="article-image" style='background-image: url("<txp:image_url id='<txp:custom_field name="article_image" />' />")'/></div>

This can be found here on the forum but is somewhat undocumented outside of Display the first image from a list in the article image field.

CodeWalker · 2017-06-27 14:28:14

Bloke wrote #306102:

So close! You were one character out in your original effort: the article image field is called article_image, with the underscore.

Welcome back, btw. Good to see you around.

Your kidding me!! I tried that first and it spat in my face. Maybe I have i my single/double quote marks mangled.

Thanks Stef, Glad to see your still going. Hows that Amazon wish list looking these days? :)

- James

Last edited by CodeWalker (2017-06-27 14:28:31)

CodeWalker · 2017-06-27 14:30:30

michaelkpate wrote #306103:

You can also use:

<div class="article-image" style='background-image: url("<txp:image_url id='<txp:custom_field name="article_image" />' />")'/></div>...

This can be found here on the forum but is somewhat undocumented outside of Display the first image from a list in the article image field

Thanks for the nudge, that’s a little cleaner. I did poke around the forum but only found an impossibly old post that used raw PHP to directly grab the value…. hangs head that’s not the way I roll. :)

Last edited by CodeWalker (2017-06-27 14:30:58)

michaelkpate · 2017-06-27 15:00:13

CodeWalker wrote #306105:

I did poke around the forum but only found an impossibly old post that used raw PHP to directly grab the value…. hangs head that’s not the way I roll. :)

Me either.

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