Understanting "Link to URL" image field feature

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12 years 3 months ago #27352 by Rooney

Understanting "Link to URL" image field feature was created by Rooney

Hi,

I am trying to understand the "Link to URL" feature of the image field. I have created an image field to use as a teaser image in category view. Because of the structure of the page I want to display the page title below the article title. In category view this is no problem.

Clicking on the image shall open an article or another page that is not related to the article used as a teaser. Therefore I cannot use the "Link image" feature in category view. For this reason I wanted to use the "link to URL" feature of the image field for a custom URL, but I discovered that this is only working in item and not in category view. Is this correct?

Rooney

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12 years 3 months ago #27353 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Understanting "Link to URL" image field feature

mmm, link URL should work in all category views using templates that display the field display HTML (via a template position or manually).

This is not the case for some templates, e.g. blog template, does a custom resize of the original image and then links the image to the item.

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12 years 3 months ago #27360 by Rooney

Replied by Rooney on topic Understanting "Link to URL" image field feature

Ok. That's the reason then. I am using a copy of the original blog template. Is there a way to be able to use both: either linking a custom URL or the article?

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12 years 3 months ago #27364 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Understanting "Link to URL" image field feature

You could disable template layout parameter for image, and add the image field in one of the blog's template positions

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12 years 3 months ago #27365 by Rooney

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Hmm. Have to think about that. Thanks!

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12 years 3 months ago #27366 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic Understanting "Link to URL" image field feature

also in your copied blog template you could remove all code within:

Code:

if ($this->params->get('lead_use_image', 1)) :
...
$endif;

and use this:

Code:

if ($this->params->get('lead_use_image', 1)) :
	if ($this->params->get('lead_image')) :

		FlexicontentFields::getFieldDisplay($items[$i], $this->params->get('lead_image'), $values=null, $method='display');

		echo $items[$i]->fields[ $this->params->get('lead_image')]->display;

	$endif;
$endif;

same for intro_image section

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