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Marzar00 · Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 7

I was wondering if anyone has developed a script that when creating news you select a catogory and when posted the catogory name appears as normal but also an image relevant to that catagory. I have made an example:

Thanks for any help.

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Marzar00

moose · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 196 Location: Winnipeg Canada

if you read the readme, you can find out that you can call the category ID number with a function, and then if you want you could put that function into an <img> tag so it would display an image like:

<img src="<?php function(); ?>" />

and replace function() with the real function

Viper007Bond · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:26 am Post subject:

A simpler way is to use the tag <?php the_category_ID() ?>, upload an image for each category into the same folder that your blog file is in and rename them to the name of the category you want it to show up (CASE SENSITIVE) for and then do this:

epolady · Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 800 Location: Texas

That should work, I did something simliar but with the_author as an icon. Or if s/he wants something more organized s/he can use the_category and it would be named news.gif, sports.gif, rants.gif, etc.
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Viper007Bond · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:43 am Post subject:

Didn't think of that. Doh. Fixed. Smile

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Marzar00 · Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 7

WOW That is so simple. Thanks for the help.

Regards
Marzar00

Viper007Bond · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:43 am Post subject:

No problem. Smile

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frauke · Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 4

Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me. Idea

I have 2 different b2s installed on my server, one as my personal blog and one as sort of a reviews section. I used the aforementioned way to include category/resp. title icons to the posts and it's been working smoothly until a few days ago.

Now the images won't show up, but there are no red crosses or anything. When I hover over the place where the images should be the title pops up correctly...only there's no image.

Look here: http://www.meinetwegen.org/culture/

This is the code in the reviews blog

epolady · Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 800 Location: Texas

frauke · Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 4

That was fast! Smile

Are you serious? Well, then I should check my browser... have emptied temporary internet files and cookies several time, but it doesn't help. But anway, thanks!

epolady · Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 800 Location: Texas

I looked at it in my internet explorer (was look at it in a different browser a sec ago).

I have no idea why it wouldn't show. If you right click where the image would go and save the image, it saves. my only guess is because you have spaces in your titles.
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frauke · Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 4

There are indeed spaces... it's just strange, because it had already been working properly for more than a month.

How would this look in action?

epolady · Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 800 Location: Texas

Were you with a different host or anything like for that month?

Well functions are things like the_title, the_author, the_time, so basically you're doing everything right, it could be the spaces.
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epolady · Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 800 Location: Texas

Did you fix it? I went to your site and the images appeared in IE.
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