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="download.php?id={LINKID}&attachid={ATTACHID}&field={ATTACHFILEURL}" target="_blank"><img src="download.php?id={LINKID}&attachid={ATTACHID}&width=300&height=250" alt="{ATTACHFILETITLE}" border="0"></a> </IF> <!-- END LINK ATTACHMENTS --> </IF>
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?
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.
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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="download.php?id={LINKID}&attachid={ATTACHID}&field={ATTACHFILEURL}" target="_blank"><img src="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: www.mysite.com/dir/links/de...6&field=www.msn.com
It's pulling the right url from the field I created, unfortunately I'm trying to get it to go to www.msn.com...
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If you're trying to link to {ATTACHFILEURL}, why do you have a link to download.php there instead? <a href={ATTACHFILEURL}>
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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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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.