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Coolhand
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Linking of pictures

07 Aug 2018, 03:21

Good morning,

A few days ago I tried to post (as link) a picture in a forum.

The normal way is to post it with the typical img-tag.
I’ve recognized that this is not possible.
I’ve also tried several other ways to link a picture in a forum, without success..

Maybe it’s miss understandable.... Linking is possible (it’s just a link) but linking with preview picture is not possible...

Is there a way to link pictures in a forum, or am I just too “stupid” ?

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Mike
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Linking of pictures

07 Aug 2018, 03:52

You mean linking images from your website into a FORUM (not this forum)?

Forums don't normally support HTML tags. Often, you can use bbcode in forums, including this forum:
Code
[img]http://domain.com/image.jpg[/img]
Naturally, you need to make sure the path is correct, and that your website allows "hotlinking" images into websites on other domains.
 
Coolhand
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Re: Linking of pictures

07 Aug 2018, 07:38

Hmm, okay..

my problem was to find the correct image path...

Now it works, but is a bit complicated...

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Mike
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Linking of pictures

07 Aug 2018, 08:41

Coolhand wrote:Now it works, but is a bit complicated...
Yes it is, because you may be assuming that an image inside /page/page/ would have an URL /page/page/image.jpg, but of course it does not. There are many reasons for this: 1) Because X3 isn't just a bunch of files and folders on your server, but a dynamic website, 2) URL's are simply not the same as PATH's. You might for example have a folder 2.foldername/3.subfolder, but of course the URL is different, 3) By design, it should not be as easy to grab an image on your website as simply appending the image name to URL.

It wouldn't work like this in Wordpress or any other proper "app" website either.

The way to get your image url, is to right-click the image in popup, and select "copy image address".
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Coolhand
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Re: Linking of pictures

07 Aug 2018, 11:26

Thanks for your reply.

That's the way I do it now...
 
Coolhand
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Re: Linking of pictures

07 Aug 2018, 14:42

Do you any way to get the image url on a mobile device like IPad?

Mike
 
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mjau-mjau
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Re: Linking of pictures

08 Aug 2018, 01:28

Coolhand wrote:Do you any way to get the image url on a mobile device like IPad?
You can't get the context menu in the X3 popup, because it needs to use gestures for swipe/touch/drag. There are other ways:
  • In the sharing toolbar, long-touch the "download" button, and "copy link".
  • Use the panel to copy image links.
  • Or you can even assign the URL dynamically to caption, but then it will be public.
Ultimately, image url's are not supposed to be exposed public, and there is no effort from X3 to make it easy to "copy image links" from any device.