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brucewhealto
Blocks with images - pics that don't appear

Hi,
I found a site that had a promotional banner that one could put on a web page of their own. I thought, "why not place it on the XOOOPS community forum that I have" There were a couple different selections to use for the presentation of the content which included different banners or images. However, none of them displayed the image that was over on the remote page. I could copy the image to my site and upload it, or so I thought. But that didn't work either. Perhaps I should have changed the link to include the image locally. How do I do that? Can an image/banner/pic be added in a block if the image is located elsewhere? This would be a relevant question for banners that rotate the content. If there is a different approach to use, please let me know.
Thanks,
Bruce

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brucewhealto
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!

Hi,
I posted earlier but got no reply yet. I know that there surely is a way to add a image from a remote site to one's site. You put your code into a custom block, right? and if it calls an image from elsewhere shouldn't that work out ok? shouldn't that allow one to show the image? Unfortunately that is not the case for me. I might even want to add the Paypal logo adjacent to the forum but if it is to be referenced as local then how do reference it in the code? In other words, normally on a server one can just add a reference to images/somepic.gif and the picture can be referenced and displayed. But in this folder structure how does one do that? do I upload it into the XOOPS folder directory and then reference it locally? If so that might work in many instances but not when one needs to refernce an image that changes over time, such as a roting banner.
Thanks
Bruce

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tjnemez
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!
  • 2004/6/26 23:52

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should be no problem getting this to happen, do you have a site url?

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brucewhealto
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!

Yes, there is the meetup.com site. Let me pull up a specific url and image link. Ok, what I added was from this page a subdomain of meetup.com - full address is:
http://homeless.meetup.com/tellfriends/ Ok, so I looked down and tried the most basic image and link. I did put that in a block which shows up as a custom block. the marker for the picture is there but the image is not. Maybe it is that site's link to the picture not being so good or it's a .png file so that might be a problem too. Heres what I put in the block ->


Thanks,
Bruce

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brucewhealto
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!

As an important issue to resolve in this matter, I would like to post a paypal link on my site. I assume I would put it in a block, correct? There will be an image and a link.
Thanks,
Bruce

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tjnemez
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!
  • 2004/6/27 3:14

  • tjnemez

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bruce,

i followed this link but the image does not load.



this means the path is wrong or something in it is not correct.

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tjnemez
Re: Blocks with images - Please help!
  • 2004/6/27 3:25

  • tjnemez

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where is your XOOPS site?

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