Adding links to image uploads

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Last Post: April 1, 2009 (RSS)

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By lterenzi - April 1, 2009

Hey guys -

I have an image uploader set up and I want my client to be able to link those uploaded images to pages. How do I enter a link and have it attach itself to that image?

I did some searches and I think it has to do with the custom fields. If I have them enter a URL into a custom field [info1] how do i tell that to be the link for that image?

Thanks!

Lenny

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By ross - April 1, 2009

Hi Lenny

Thanks for posting!

If you are already entering the URL into info1 you are really close to getting it going :).

On your tempate, in the forloop for your upload, you can access info1 like this:

$upload['info1']

So a url would look something like this:

<a href="<?php echo $upload['info1']; ?>"><img></a>

Just make sure the $upload part is correct. You might have changed it on your template.

Let me know if this makes sense and if it gets things going.

Thanks!

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By lterenzi - April 1, 2009

Hey Ross!

That almost got me there... Every image now as a link even if I didn't specify a link.

<?php elseif ($upload['isImage']): ?><a href="<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?>"><img src="<?php echo $upload['urlPath'] ?>" width="<?php echo $upload['width'] ?>" height="<?php echo $upload['height'] ?>" alt="" /></a>

It makes sense why it is doing that. I am basically telling it to to wrap everything with an ahref tag. How do I tell it to ignore that if there is no link?

Thanks!

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By ross - April 1, 2009

Hi Lenny

Yup. That makes sense. Try this. Replace:

<a href="<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?>">

with

<?php if ($upload['info1']): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?>">
<?php endif; ?>

That basically says, if there is something in info1, make a link tag. If there is nothing in info1, there won't be a link tag.

Either way, there is also going to be a </a> but that won't interfere with the page. If you want to be standards compliant though, put the same if block around the </a> tag and that ought to do it.

Let me know how you make out :).