How to get pictures to show in a Forum post - please help?X

[sdmiddleton]

Hi All,

I'm probably just being thick, but how do you get pictures to show up HERE in a normal forum post without just supplying links to external pages??

Every time I drag a physical picture from the desktop it just brings up my local drive link, not the image..

[img]/Users/simonmiddleton/Desktop/Picture%201.png[/img] I assume this is required but after that my synapses don't seem to connect.

Is it some weird voodoo html shit i'm missing???

Many Thanks!!!

[H20nly]

you'll have to have a photobucket, snapfish, etc account or some place to store the photo online.

its only a reference to the image you see on the forum so they're always pulled from elsewhere. Your browser does the rest. Most of the pics you see on the forum are "borrowed" from all over the web.

[sdmiddleton]

Ah ok, thanks for that, i thought as much.... I take it, it's not as simple as copy and pasting the url then and it'll just show up, there;s some other code that needed like an embedded you tube pic vid for example?

[sdmiddleton]

Yeah!!! I can do it too!!!

thanks mate! That was pretty damn easy!

[H20nly]

one other hint...


for photos on the web... I always right click (PC)... or (ctrl click on Mac?) and choose
"copy image location" - which is a URL.

then use the "Img" tags when posting.

You don't want to copy the photo because thats a fail every time...

maybe thats what you discovered.

have fun!!

[sdmiddleton]

one last question - should the [img] [/img ] code work in any forum or is that just designed for the Ableton one?

[H20nly]

any PHP forum probably... thats what this one is based on.

you can usually scroll to the bottom of the page to find out what its made in. These days fewer people want to reinvent message boards. so they take a shell like PHP and then customize it.

There may be options that the webmaster of the site has turned off though... its worth a try, but if it doesn't work, chances are its because they specifically don't want it to.

the tags are PHP

HTML would be something like:
<a href="http://www.somelink.com"><img src=/images/your_pic></a>

my HTML is rusty, but thats the gist.

[outershpongolia]

What about when people post thumbnail pics that are links to the larger pic? it'll usually have like "800x600" under it, have they uploaded a thumb in their photobucket or is it a code you can put in

[sdmiddleton]

any PHP forum probably... thats what this one is based on.

you can usually scroll to the bottom of the page to find out what its made in. These days fewer people want to reinvent message boards. so they take a shell like PHP and then customize it.

There may be options that the webmaster of the site has turned off though... its worth a try, but if it doesn't work, chances are its because they specifically don't want it to.

the tags are PHP

HTML would be something like:
<a href="http://www.somelink.com"><img src=/images/your_pic></a>

my HTML is rusty, but thats the gist.

Thanks my friend, that html tip solved my problem.... and for outershophongolia - This little site hinted towards getting the sizes to be as you want them http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_IMG.asp you can even try stuff yourself on this site...

[Da hand]

You can resize images by adding ?w=width&h=height at the end of the image's url. For example:

?w=150&h=113



?w=300&h=126

[cellicello]

one other hint...

for photos on the web... I always right click (PC)... or (ctrl click on Mac?) and choose
"copy image location" - which is a URL.

then use the "Img" tags when posting.

Thank you that's what I was missing