Forum OpenACS Development: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page?

1: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page?

Posted by Lachlan Myers on 01/03/03 11:39 AM

I've searched through the docs and the threads and I understand there's no way to get sophisticated Imagemagik processed thumbnail -> full size images into ETP -

Is there a way to get an <img src="absolute path to a single jpeg or png file"> to work?
When I try, ETP prepends the pseudo URL to the path.

TIA

2: Re: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page? (response to 1)

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/03/03 02:41 PM

The way we do it:

Use File-Manager to upload the file (and get the fixes from Tilmann first). Then link to the URL you uploaded the file to using ETP.

3: Re: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page? (response to 1)

Posted by Ivan Histand on 01/03/03 05:19 PM

There is a simple way to do this using the photo-album, for an example see here:

http://www.histand.net/articles/weight_loss

As you can see the thumbnails link to the larger photo-album page.

The way I accomplish this is to first upload the image to the photo-album. I made a small mod to the photo-album to display an html snippet for a given photo which can be pasted into the ETP editor. It's a simple solution that works.

If you are interested in this approach I would be glad to send you my mods.

5: Re: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page? (response to 3)

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/04/03 10:09 AM

Can't you upload the modification to CVS (or have someone do it). If this does not break existing functionality (which I doubt) this is a really valuable addition to the package. And would work seriously better than our filemanager solution :).

4: Re: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page? (response to 1)

Posted by Jorge Garcia on 01/03/03 09:47 PM

Hi, Ivan.
We are also interested in those modifications.
We are triying to do the same thing Lachlan needs.
If you could upload your code it will be very interesting.
Regards
/Jorge

6: Re: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page? (response to 1)

Posted by Jun Yamog on 01/05/03 03:29 AM

Hi,

You can try mod-ETP, which is capable of binary items. This is something that I built when I was with Infiniteinfo.

http://www.infiniteinfo.com/openacs/modetp.tgz

I already have something that is better that I would release with the proper docs etc. Its a from ground up implementation. Aside from being able to use binary data it can relate this binary data to your pages. More on this in a month or two.

7: Re: ETP - *any* way to get an image into an ETP page? (response to 1)

Posted by Lachlan Myers on 01/08/03 11:24 PM

Thank you all for your assistance - I'll experiment with all these recommendations when I get a chance.