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[marketinghits Friend marketinghitsJoin date: April 2009Posts: 4Downloads:22Uploads:0]

#826034

To display images in category view is it possible to use the first article image instead of an intro image?

Thanks for your help
Brian

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#826811

Hi @marketinghits,

First, it’s not recommend to do that, the proper way is to specify intro / full image via article manager.

Since the template is built within JLayout, it’s a bit complicated to choose display image from article as intro only when Intro image is not specified. The only option is to open file templates/ja_magz_ii/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php and look for this code :

<?php echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.intro_image', $this->item); ?>

and replace with :

<?php
    $first_image = '';
    if ((preg_match('/<img[^>]*>/i', $this->item->fulltext, $matches ) == 1))
    echo $first_image = $matches[0];
?>

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