Can not use relative path in tpl

By artcoder on 25 Feb 2007 at 04:40 UTC

I just discovered that I can not use relative image paths in page.tpl.php as in ...

<div><img src="images/panelleftcorner.gif" /></div>

What is the proper way to reference images located in the themes directory? Is there a PHP variable that give me this path?

Comments

for something like that,

vm commented 25 February 2007 at 04:42

for something like that, wouldn't you reference the image in the .css file ?

Yes, I could. But what if

artcoder commented 25 February 2007 at 07:49

Yes, I could. But what if it was an clickable image such as ...

<a href="http://www.drupal.org"><img src="images/drupal-mug-shot"></a>

Or what if I wanted the image to be a spacer image to prop up some div or table cells.

<div><img src="images/spacer.gif"></div>

In both cases, I would need the image to be a tag rather than an css background image.

artcoder

your right

mdixoncm commented 25 February 2007 at 09:09

Except that using spacer images is not really the done thing in these enlightened times :)

Anyway - to reference your paths you should ideally use the url function - so you end up with something like

<div><img src="<?php print url('images/spacer.gid');?> /></div>

Hope that helps ...

mike

Like books? Check out booktribes the new (Drupal based) community for book lovers
from Computerminds

Mike,
Computerminds offer Drupal development, consulting and training

even better

dman commented 25 February 2007 at 10:47

if you want to develop a theme, read the theme developers guide, the phptemplate guide

When coding in paths to images used by your theme, you'll want
<img src="<?php print url($directory) ?>/images/thing.gif" />

this will produe the correct path to wherever you are building your theme ... and be portable as well. You do NOT want to reference images with hard-coded paths.

For that matter, you do not want to use 'spacer.gif' unless your target audience is browsers older than 4 years. It sorta gives your code a turn-of-the-century look.

.dan.
How to troubleshoot Drupal | http://www.coders.co.nz/

_{.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards}