splitting first image

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Last Post: May 5, 2012   (RSS)

By loccom - April 7, 2012

Hi

I did a search but coud not find anything. So i will ask you guys how i can acheive the following.

I wish to make a set of articles. In the article the first thing you see is an image with is alined left and the text wraps this photo.

But when 2 photos are added their is the problem of 2 photos in my text.

so, 2 questions.

1. How can I split the first photo, have that showing and have the remaining photos at the bottom of the article.

2. Is it possible to make tags like the "article manager" to tag in photos in to the article, making a large article full of pictures and text wrapping them?

many thanks

Re: [gkornbluth] splitting first image

By loccom - May 5, 2012

Hi

Sorry the delay in responding

I still have the issue.

Thanks for your input, and I managed to make a random strip using the code supplied.

But what I am really looking for is the ability to stagger photos through an article.

The old article manager would allow me to add photos, AM would generate tags for me to distribute through the article.

How can i split photos to distribute, or at least have one photo at the top and other photos at the bottom?

thanks

Re: [steveo] splitting first image

By gkornbluth - May 5, 2012

Here's another recipe that might offer some direction. Hope it helps,

Jerry Kornbluth

DISPLAY A SPECIFIC IMAGE FROM A SPECIFIC RECORD

My client wanted to be able to display a specific image from a group of records and multi image uploads.

I couldn’t get this to work until Chris Waddell from Interactive Tools unlocked the secret.

He said:

If $affiliationsRecords is a list of all your records, then $affiliationsRecords[0] will give you the first record, $affiliationsRecords[1]
will give you the second, etc. It's a little confusing that the counting starts at 0 instead of 1.

$affiliationsRecords[3]['logo'][2] will grab the fourth record ([3]), its list of images (['logo']), and select its third image ([2]).

Since $affiliationsRecords[1]['logo'] refers to the list of images. You need to use $affiliationsRecords[1]['logo'][0] if you want to refer
to a specific image ([0] gives you the first one, etc.)

You’ll need to define a variable for the specific image. To call the 3rd image from the 4th record I used

<?php $myImage = $affiliationsRecords[3]['logo'][2]; ?>

The code that you’d use in the body of your viewer page where you want the image to display would be:

<?php $myImage = $affiliationsRecords[3]['logo'][2]; ?>
<img src="<?php echo $myImage['thumbUrlPath'] ?>" width="<?php echo $myImage['thumbWidth'] ?>" height="<?php echo $myImage['thumbHeight']
?>" alt="" />

You can also define other variables, like this one for the link to a detail page relating to the same record:

<?php @$mylink = $affiliationsRecords[4]['_link']; ?>

Then the code including a linked image might look like this:

<?php @$myImage = $affiliationsRecords[3]['logo'][2]; ?>
<?php @$mylink = $affiliationsRecords[3]['_link']; ?>
<a href="<?php echo $mylink ?>"><img src="<?php echo $myImage['thumbUrlPath'] ?>" width="<?php echo $myImage['thumbWidth'] ?>"
height="<?php echo $myImage['thumbHeight'] ?>" alt="" border="0"/></a>

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