By alekm on

I'm trying to setup a portfolio page, and one of the items is a filefield which links to an image.
That part works.

I want to have this filefield, when clicked, to show the image in a lightbox2 window, that also works.

The only problem is, instead of the "image" showing, I want to show a text link that says "View Image", and when someone clicks on that, then the image shows in lightbox.

I'm also using a view to display all my portfolio items in a grid.

I have a custom view-views-fields file for the portfolio. So I can output $fields['field_full_showcase_fid']->content where I want...

I was thinking of instead of outputing the ->content, outputing something else... but var_dump($fields) just produces a white page with no error, so I have no idea what $fields contains that may be useful here.

I assume I can, somehow, make a link manually and then direct it to the filepath thats located in $fields['field_full_showcase_fid']->?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

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alekm commented

Ok I have no idea how to solve this issue but what I did was:

I got rid of the old FileField
I replaced it with a Text field which holds the "path" to the image, which will be uploaded via FTP to a specific folder.

Then in my view-views-fields

I can do something like: 

<a href="<?=$fields['field_image_path']->content" ref="lightbox">My link</a>

Its not an ideal solution, but it works!