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creating a hrdcoded image link with a feild


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Pixel

Community Member, 78 Posts

8 July 2008 at 1:58am

I have two advert images on a website homepage which are displayed by two image uploaders and I have also created two text feilds where I want to put an external website address. Is it possible, within the homepage.ss to use the textfeilds to link the image? Here is what i have:

<a href="http://$Left_Advert_Website">$Left_Advert</a>

$Left_Advert_Website is the text feild for the site
$Left_Advert is the image

However when i hover over the image it displays" http:/// and on clicking I get the message: "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded"

Am i trying to do the impossible or is there anyway of resolving this issue - ideally i do not want to hard code the URL

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

8 July 2008 at 12:40pm

Edited: 08/07/2008 12:42pm

Yep it is certainly possible to do - $Left_Advert_Website probably hasnt been correctly saved. What you might have to do is wrap the variable in a {} to prevent it being interpreted as $Left_Advert_Website".. so you would have <a href="http://{$Left_Advert_Website}">. But first off you need to make sure Left_Advert_Website exists

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Pixel

Community Member, 78 Posts

8 July 2008 at 8:48pm

OK im a noob!
When creating the fields I first build the imagefeilds so that I could work on the visuals and get the page styling right. When it came to creating the textfeilds my natural instinct put them with the imagefeilds in the static $has_one = array rather than static $db = array. Whoops!

Thanks for your help willr