The extension FAQ is not showing images.

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Not for me. Anybody else?

I even tried doing a direct link to the file on my server and they still aren't showing up. And the files are there 'cos I can see them on my web browser.

There ya go, this post can see it - but the FAQ can't ?

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Hey Squeaky,

I think the problem is the syntax being used to point to the images.
The FAQ is now a wiki page in markdown syntax: Markdown Syntax Documentation

Instead of the current:

javascript: Copy To Clipboard
[img]http://www.squeaky.adsl24.co.uk/cb/cbbfaq/faq.php_files/buttondbindex.gif[/img]

This needs to be used:

  • An exclamation mark: !;
  • followed by a set of square brackets, containing the alt attribute text for the image;
  • followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to the image, and an optional title attribute enclosed in double or single quotes.

It is also possible to attach images to the wiki page, from the images tab while editing. Assuming the same filename is used when attaching the image, then the following syntax could be used in the page:
You use:

![Alt text](/uploads/images/buttondbindex.gif)

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Yeah, great thanks.

I tried reading the wiki stuff - but the code boxes for the longer stuff stop short - and when I copied to clipboard the ONLT bit I got was the bit that was visible on screen and none of the extra stuff.

OK... gonna try an edit...

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That's odd, it appears a lot of the Markdown Syntax Documentation page has code boxes around text where it shouldn't do...I think some formatting has got broken...

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rawny wrote:
That's odd, it appears a lot of the Markdown Syntax Documentation page has code boxes around text where it shouldn't do...I think some formatting has got broken...

It's got text overlaying and overlapping all over the place.

I don't who invented this markup but he wants taking outside and shooting!

OK - I'm not going too far on the FAQ yet; can you take a quick look? The first four images have been pointed to viable links (the forum ones clearly don't work) and then there should be no more images for the rest of that part of the FAQ. Which means that a whole bunch more have gone walkabout.

TYIA Smile

I can't work out for the life of me how the justify markup works. Do you know of a really good tutorial site, please?

EDIT: I couldn't find any markup for it, tried bog standard html instead and hey presto centered images.

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squeaky wrote:
It's got text overlaying and overlapping all over the place.

I don't who invented this markup but he wants taking outside and shooting!

Hehe, I suspect it's just that someone hasn't closed a tag when editing or something like that.

squeaky wrote:
OK - I'm not going too far on the FAQ yet; can you take a quick look? The first four images have been pointed to viable links (the forum ones clearly don't work) and then there should be no more images for the rest of that part of the FAQ. Which means that a whole bunch more have gone walkabout.

Yup that's what I'm seeing, 'fraid I couldn't find the images on the server, but nicholas may have a better idea of where they've got to.

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TYIA Smile

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If he can't find them - I still have all the originals. Do those links actually point to THIS forum, or the old one?

A fair few will need udating though because this is a different forum and the layout and themes are different.

Time to start reloading all my graphics, web stuff, ftp...

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The URL's for the images point to this server/site, but I don't think the images exist on the server, at least I couldn't find them, I suspect it's possible they may have gone missing when we moved servers.

Updating them would probably be a good idea, if you do that you can attach the images to the wiki page itself and include them inline as I described above, saving some hotlinking.

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Yeah, all I did in the nd was edit the url in the links to point to my own files.

![Alt text](http://www.squeaky.adsl24.co.uk/cb/cbbfaq/faq.php_files/buttondbindex.gif)

Last time round nicholas gave me access to the server so I could upload them into a FAQ_images type folder. That would be quicker than editing the FAQ 'cos it'd work properly straight away.

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You'll have to ask nicholas about access to the server, I'm afraid I'm not too sure how to give you it, sorry.

Alternatively, if you go to edit the FAQ and click the "Images" tab on the left, you can then upload any images you want to include in the FAQ. Once uploaded they can be shown inline using:

![Alt text](/uploads/images/myimage.gif)

By the way, although I haven't had time to get around to thinking about doing it (Wink2), my plan has been to rename and, I guess, expand/re-work the Forum FAQ into a more general "Site FAQ". I'm pretty sure you have been heavily involved in the FAQ's before, so I hope you'll be able to steer it in that direction. Salute I will try to add to it too when I can.

Thanks Squeaky!

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rawny wrote:
Alternatively, if you go to edit the FAQ and click the "Images" tab on the left, you can then upload any images you want to include in the FAQ. Once uploaded they can be shown inline using:
![Alt text](/uploads/images/myimage.gif)

Yes, I know, and I've done exactly that just to check that upload works. My point is that the uploads folder should be treated as an "inbox" and that files arriving there should be moved on to a more appropriate folder such as, in this case, the CB2 FAQ Images folder.

AND... the FAQ's links are in fact all set to point at such a folder. I would have to go through ALL the current links and change them manually. Then IF "someone" ever moves the files out of the uploads folder into "the" proper CB2 FAQ Images folder - I'll have to go through the whole lot manually to change them again.

Even if you can't give me permissions to upload directly to the CB2 FAQ Images folder, do you have the rights to move the files that I put into the uploads folder across to the FAQ etc one for me?


rawny wrote:
By the way, although I haven't had time to get around to thinking about doing it (Wink2), my plan has been to rename and, I guess, expand/re-work the Forum FAQ into a more general "Site FAQ". I'm pretty sure you have been heavily involved in the FAQ's before, so I hope you'll be able to steer it in that direction. Salute I will try to add to it too when I can.

Thanks Squeaky!


Yeah, until I ran out of puff and fell ill last year (bypass ops are SUCH fun! Not) I had been talking with nicholas about separating the Extension FAQ's from the Forum ones, which has been done here, and, as you'll see if you go into "edit" there are a certain number of images links (most currently failed) with the explanations at the start and then there are none. That's as far as I got.

I'm happy to rework what I've done to fit this new forum, and then continue with the basic FAQ type stuff as time (and, alas, energy allows)


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I think the issue here is that you are thinking about the file locations like this is a static html page you are editing. It isn't. Things are very dynamic, and we don't go moving around files trying to "reorganize" on the server, because that is not how the drupal software is setup.

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Right. Got it thanks.

I'll get to work.

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My PM I sent you not so long ago can be summed up in what nicholas has most recently said and he actually gave a good explanation/reason(s), I should have checked here first, my bad, basically just what he said. Smile

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[sigh]

It has options to "remove" an image, and also to "replace" one.

Actually it doesn't really DO these things - it simply removes them from the list. So a replacement image that you upload does NOT actually replace thye one that is there. A failsafe, I guess, so no-one can accidently overwrite or delete an image loaded by someone else. But it's a pain. Because then you have to check the properties of the thumbnail to find out what your new version of the image is REALLY called.

So if I upload buttonclick.gif, for example, and decide that it needs a tweak to fit better into the wiki I'll "replace" that first one with the tweaked version. Said tweaked version will show on the list and the old version wont. Done deal you might think! But if you preview your "changed" wiki you'll see that the OLD mage is still there! (DO NOT upload again thinking you've made a mistake somewhere - you probably haven't)

You need to go back to the images page, right-click on the new thumbnail and you'll find that it's now called... buttonclick_1.gif and so THAT is the link you have to edit your wiki entry in order to display it.

HTH

Also too as well... Silly me is assuming that if I uncheck the "list" box by an image - the next time I visit I won't see that one. Wrong! So by the time I've got twenty or thirty images loaded I'll be scrolling forever to get to the bottom where the "add" a new image button is.

Did I [sigh] already?

Anyway... the first few bits of the beginner's FAQ have been revised - what do you guys think?

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