Clickable top banner

Posted by Drupalec on September 9, 2008 at 1:02am

I'm trying to make top image banner on web page clickable/referer.
I put this code into page.tpl.php in my themes folder: <a href="/sk/" > <img src="./sites/all/themes/darsch/img/header13.gif" alt="home" width="960" height="265"></a>
but it gives me a problems: it doesn't work on all pages and for anonymous user - only when i'm logged in and also different browsers gives different results.
before there was a div with css property background image but it wasn't clickable/refering.

what's may be the best way to make it work? Is it bad idea to put html code into php generated page?

thanks

site with the problems: http://testonly.rachot.sk/sk/

Comments

Remove the dot at the front

Posted by nevets on September 9, 2008 at 3:20am

Remove the dot at the front of the path so './sites/...' becomes '/sites/...'

dot

Posted by Drupalec on September 9, 2008 at 3:32am

i had it without a dot and it didn't work either. but i removed it anyway

So what does not work mean?

Posted by nevets on September 9, 2008 at 3:40am

So what does not work mean?

if you follow the link you

Posted by Drupalec on September 10, 2008 at 4:58pm

if you follow the link you can see that it works only on two pages out of seven.

It has to do with your

Posted by nevets on September 10, 2008 at 11:11pm

It has to do with your themes page.tpl.php, it is generating different html based on something. In the case where the link does not work the image comes from a header div.

check now:

Posted by Drupalec on September 12, 2008 at 2:31am

check now: http://testonly.rachot.sk/sk/

it works here, i had to put complete path, not just relative path: <a href="/sk/"> <img src="http://testonly.rachot.sk/sk/sites/pathtothemefolder/img/header13.gif" alt="podvod" width="960" height="265"></a>

i don't think its 100% secure but it works. probably should go to php function or something.

Use $base_path & $directory

Posted by Alan D. on September 12, 2008 at 12:44pm

If you are working with a template based on the phptemplate engine, use <?php print $base_path . $directory; ?> for all links, this will work when you are running from a sub-folder or a sub-domain.

The function calls are base_path() and path_to_theme(), just in case the above variables are out of scope.

Eg:

 <a href="<?php print base_path(); ?>"> <img src="<?php print base_path() . path_to_theme(); ?>/img/header13.gif" alt="podvod" width="960" height="265"></a>

Alan Davison
www.caignwebs.com.au

Alan Davison
Back roads somewhere in South America