Adding a custom attach url field: WSN Support

Adding a custom attach url field
linking an image on a detail page

Version: 3.3.8

Adding a custom attach url field

RedstoneMG
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Posted 03/18/06 - 09:27 AM:	#1
My premium link posters are going to have a custom image on their detail page. Works great. But suppose they would like to promote a coupon with a url to their promotion page, instead of a static picture. I created a new field in the attachments table called 'fileurl' Here is my code on the detail page: <IF {LINKFILEFIELD}> <!-- BEGIN LINK ATTACHMENTS --> <IF {ATTACHISIMAGE}><a href="http://www.webmastersite.net/forums/download.php?id={LINKID}&attachid={ATTACHID}&field={ATTACHFILEURL}" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.webmastersite.net/forums/download.php?id={LINKID}&attachid={ATTACHID}&width=300&height=250" alt="{ATTACHFILETITLE}" border="0"></a> </IF> <!-- END LINK ATTACHMENTS --> </IF> The url when clicked on is: http://www.mysite.com/dir/links/detail/download.p... It's pulling the right url from the field I created, unfortunately I'm trying to get it to go to www.msn.com... and it's not seeing this as an external link. Possibly download.php isn't really set up for this extra feature?

Paul
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Posted 03/18/06 - 07:44 PM:	#2
If you're trying to link to {ATTACHFILEURL}, why do you have a link to download.php there instead? <a href={ATTACHFILEURL}> Edited by Paul on 03/18/06 - 07:46 PM
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RedstoneMG
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Posted 03/19/06 - 12:39 PM:	#3
I didn't figure that the {ATTACHFILEURL} had become a global variable - I assumed it would need the same structure as the image file to link it to the correct listing id... apparently not. Thanks!

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Posted 03/21/06 - 05:33 PM:	#4
It isn't a global variable, it will only work inside the scope of attachments. Since you've placed <!-- BEGIN LINK ATTACHMENTS --> there it works.
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