[ic] usertag image: Does it work?

Philip S. Hempel interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 11 09:43:02 2002


Jonathan Clark wrote:
>>I have attempted to use the usertag
>>image and seem to be running into a
>>problem. I have attempted to use
>>
>>[image [loop-field image] imagesubdir=thumb]
>>
> 
> 
> This won't work. You have a parameter with a space in it. You
> need:Interchange will treat this as you passing three parameters.
> 
> [image src="[loop-field image]" imagesubdir=thumb]
> 
> 
>>[image [item-field image]
>>imagesubdir=thumb]
>>
>>[image [item-code]]
>>[image [loop-code]]
> 
> 
> This is correct syntax and should work, assuming that [item-code] or
> [loop-code] is set, and is either a valid filepath or an sku in the products
> table.
> 
> 
>>and many more variations.
>>I am not sure if this is a
>>working tag since a search
>>in the docs for image.tag
>>or image tag have nothing
>>The only info outside of the
>>list was perldoc in the
>>usertag itself
> 
> 
> Yes, many things in interchange are self-documenting. The usertag file
> itself is the best place to look.
> 
> 
>>Please let me know if this is
>>a working tag or not, I was certian
>>that this tag was simple.
>>
>>If it does work, then what the
>>heck am I doing wrong.
>>
>>all of my images are named
>>not from the sku. So sku
>>image name should not work.
> 
> 
> have you tried:
> 
> 	[image src=/path/to/image/file.gif]
> or
> 	[image os28004]
> 
> to see if it works without passing ITL to it? The path is in html space. You
> would also need to have IMAGE_DIR set correctly.
> 
> good luck!
>

I guess I need to explain in what 
context this is in.

I actually have a working store and 
around 500 products in it.

I am working on this page

http://www.blossomland.com/bl/beeswax.html

Now what i am doing is taking this page 
and turning it into a template.
Well I figured what the hey lets tell 
the browser the file size as well on the 
fly to speed up the page download since 
I am putting all this other info out i.e 
(alt tags ...).
I read some time ago about the image 
tag. I never saw it used in the demo 
store so I said damn lets make this work 
better.

Docs said that if I put a http path in 
it will not check and is always accepted 
and per your example it worked.

And by the way I am in a loop hence the 
use of loop-code

(each of the following yield the 
equivalent output)

[image 
src="http://wwww.blossomland.com/images/thumb/www500.jpg"]

[image sku="[loop-code]" 
src="http://wwww.blossomland.com/images/thumb/www500.jpg"]

(with and without quotes on loop-code)

output for either is

<img 
src="http://wwww.blossomland.com/images/thumb/www500.jpg">

so it kicks out the img src and the url 
but not a thing on the sku like the 
description field as would be expected 
hence the sku= field.


Other variations yield nothing.

Also to check one more thing, the images 
are under a symlink, should this matter?

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	    Philip S. Hempel