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#137721

Hello,

This is a general question that will not require any access to a specific site or access to admin page.

In Teline 1 (Joomla 1.0x), I was able to link an image directrly from one of my external images, in this case found in Flickr to my Joomla 1.0x-Teline 1 site.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/281344413_51e27e7d73.jpg?v=0

Is it possible to do the same now for the latest Joomla 1.5.9-Teline II?

I want to consolidate my images in a standalone PhotoGallery site. It would help reduce my diskspace usage if I can use the “mini” or “thumbnail” version of the image or even the other sizes — without the need of placing them in the Joomla site again.

Thanks,

Cornelio

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#289196

Linking to one specific picture or several for that matter should not be a problem, but I don’t know of any Gallery that would allow you to set up the whole gallery in that way if that is what you are looking for.

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#289206

Hello,

If you want to link up an image you have to make sure you give in the full path, including the ‘http’ . if you skip that, then it will try and get the path from the base url of the website.

Regards,
Mihir Chhatre.

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#289216

Hi Mihir

Please could you expand your explanation for me please! Can you tell me what code I need so that I can place an image in an article and have this link to an external URL.

Many Thanks
Chris

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#289217

In retrospect, my question seems totally unrelated to Cornelio’s! :-[

Sorry for hijacking the thread!

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#289218

Hello,

Lets take an example –

you have an article with an embedded image using the insert image button in the editor. Normally you would store all your images in the images/stories folder. and would put the same path in the image editor.

When you link it up, what Joomla does, is it appends the /images/stories to the baseurl of your Joomla installation.

Now you want to link an external image, if you put it without http:// , Joomla still thinks its a part of the website and an tries to get the image, but it nots there! Instead, you should have your image starting with the http:// so that Joomla knows, that it is not a part of the website, but a completely new link, and it links up 🙂

Hope thats works,

Regards,
Mihir C.
PS: I KNOW IT WORKS!!

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#289228

Thanks sunrise, Mihir and Chris,

As I stated in the original post, in Joomla 1.0.x, I was able to link the image from an outside source by using the full URL, for example

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/281344413_51e27e7d73.jpg?v=0

However, in earlier version of Joomla 1.5.x, this was not possible. In the earlier versions you have to place the images in the stories directory or subdirectories within, as you want, because the earlier Joomla 1.5.x delete the full path, and provide only a portion, and assumes the images are placed in the default main image directory (or subdirectories within the default). Thus, the image would be something like this:

<img src=”/subdirectory (if any)/nameimage.jpg” width=”” other specification here, e.g., align right, left, etc. title, description, etc.>

I think they changed the above option already. so that you can do it with the later versions. I am not too sure. I will try when I get a chance

Chris, to check this go to edit of the article with an image, and check the “img src” portion. And, as Mihir stated and as I indicated in the original post, just replace the image URL with a full URL, for example:

<img class=”caption” src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/281344413_51e27e7d73.jpg” width=”410″ height=”500″ align='[left”. title=”Walk this path with me.” description=”San Marco
Venice, Italy”>

In Joomla 1.0.x-Teline I

the above image will show as follows in the article:

Walk this path with me.
http://cgc.treasuresoftheinternet.org/j000/content/view/82/55/

and the image will appear as specified in the width and height. Unfortunately, this is not the case with Joomla 1.5.x-Teline II later version, even if it works. It will change the image to the default size, as specified in the FrontPage module.

As a result. a vertical or horizontal image will look funny in the homepage of the site (but OK in the article) if the width and height specified in the Frontpage module is that for a “square image”,. e.g. 200×200. Also, note that in the Homepage, it will bypass the size you placed in the

<img class=”caption” src=”http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/281344413_51e27e7d73.jpg” width=”410″ height=”500″ align='[left”. title=”Walk this path with me.” description=”San Marco
Venice, Italy”>

This is the limitation of the current Teline II (latest version). That is why I posted

Variable image sizes in Frontpage feature news
http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/variable-image-sizes-in-frontpage-feature-news/

I asked the aforementioned question before, but it was not answered. I hope Hainn or Menalto or some other more technically proficient members would consider responding this time.

Cornelio

N.B. Warning: Be sure to use external images only that are within your control. If you attempt to place images from other sites. not yours, there are anti-hotlinking scripts that prevent this from showing. Or, the webmaster may get nasty and destroy your site. Images and other multimedia take a lot of bandwidth, and the cost of the bandwidth will be absorbed by the original external site.

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#289230

Sorry Folks, not only have I hijacked Cornelio’s thread, I think I’ve confused things :-[

What I need is an image in an article that links to an external website. Just like the banner Mod, but I don’t want to use a banner mod!

Sorry for confusing things
Chris

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#289232

<em>@questbg 109495 wrote:</em><blockquote>Sorry Folks, not only have I hijacked Cornelio’s thread, I think I’ve confused things :-[

What I need is an image in an article that links to an external website. Just like the banner Mod, but I don’t want to use a banner mod!

Sorry for confusing things
Chris</blockquote>
Hi, I don’t know that I have done that, but I think this would be the way:

<a href=”http://www.questbulgaria.com><img border=”0″ src=”stories/images/testpict.gif” width=”250″ height=”100″></a>

At least you could give it a try?!

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#289233

<em>@questbg 109495 wrote:</em><blockquote>Sorry Folks, not only have I hijacked Cornelio’s thread, I think I’ve confused things :-[

What I need is an image in an article that links to an external website. Just like the banner Mod, but I don’t want to use a banner mod!

Sorry for confusing things
Chris</blockquote>

Chris,

I thought I answered that. Check the “article”

Walk this path with me.
http://cgc.treasuresoftheinternet.org/j000/content/view/82/55/

If you view the image, it links directly to a Flickr image,

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/281344413_51e27e7d73.jpg

not an image in the Joomla 1.0.x-Teline I. I explained further in the previous response, what may or may not be possible.

Note, using images from other sites is called “Hot Linking”. As I noted previously, this is costly to the original site, in terms of bandwidth. So, there are programs in servers that could be turned on to prevent unauthorized hotlinking but allow authorized hotlinking, e.g., those external sites that you own.

There are programs developed by aggregators of news and anything published in the internet that allows “unauthorized” sites to hotlink a “thumbnail” image and even excerpts of the article.

Google, Yahoo, and many small sites with this softwares are notorious of this practice — robbing the original creator of the article and images for exclusive rights and presentation. Ideally, this is not a violation of the copyrights law since you are not copying the entire article. But, the advantage of an aggregator site now is that they can include or select the “best” from what is available in the internet, making an aggregator site more appealing to a casual visitor browser of the internet. Then, the aggregator, earns money through advertising included in the aggregated site and none of that revenue from advertising goes to the original site or internet work creator.

Aggregators go even further, they actually store in their database copies of the original thumbnail images. Google is most blatant in this.

You Tube and a number of commercial sites allow hotlinking of their multimedia because embedded in their advance scripts will eventually bring the viewer to the You Tube site.

Flickr has a “module” that allows you to display all Flickr member site images via a dynamic image presentation. Again, of course, Flickr has designed the module so that if you click on any of the images, it goes back to the Flickr site. Money for Flickr, but members pay annual fees to have their images displayed in their website, individual members do not get any share of whatever revenue gets out of sharing photos found in Flickr.

Cornelio

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#289556

<em>@cgc0202 109446 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello,

This is a general question that will not require any access to a specific site or access to admin page.

In Teline 1 (Joomla 1.0x), I was able to link an image directrly from one of my external images, in this case found in Flickr to my Joomla 1.0x-Teline 1 site.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/281344413_51e27e7d73.jpg?v=0

Is it possible to do the same now for the latest Joomla 1.5.9-Teline II?

I want to consolidate my images in a standalone PhotoGallery site. It would help reduce my diskspace usage if I can use the “mini” or “thumbnail” version of the image or even the other sizes — without the need of placing them in the Joomla site again.

Thanks,

Cornelio</blockquote>

I do it all the time…have you tried it and it did not work or just asking before you do it?

I also use JCE Editor as it works well.

🙂

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#289568

thats right, JCE and tiny MCE will let you do it, no problem,

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#289574

<em>@jimmer 109897 wrote:</em><blockquote>I do it all the time…have you tried it and it did not work or just asking before you do it?

I also use JCE Editor as it works well.

:)</blockquote>
Hi James,

I did it in earlier versions of Joomla 1.5.x and for some reason, upon saving the

<img src="http://domain/dirroute/.../image1.jpg" other specifications>

component of the image, it removes the first components of the full URL of the image

<img src="/.../image1.jpg" other specifications>

implying that the image must come from a specific directory within the image directory. If I am not mistaken, in the earlier versions of Joomla 1.5.x, there is a portion where you have to specify the default directory where the images should be placed.

When I was doing this, I was using the Gavick Pro News Temolate, and it has a slide show that was quite nice and functional. The complication was that some of the original and derivative images are located in different locations.

The other photoimage presentation I use allows individual slideshow within an article. It .requires default directory where the original images must be specified within the images directory; subdirectories are allowed.

Anyway, I was trying to use the thumbnail or intermediate images from these two galleries, but since their location are not the same, I tried to circumvent this by specifing the full URL, biut in the earlier versions of Joomla 1.5.x, as stated above, it truncates the full URL.

I have not visited the issue recently, so I wonder whether this problem has been circumvented in later versions of Joomla 1.5.x. And, as you indicated it works. Thanks.

I will give it a try, once I have updated my site to the latest version.

Cornelio

Notes:
/dirroute/…/ specifies the complete route path of the image

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#289607

Hello,

I tested this earlier. I tested it on Joomla 1.5.8 as well. And it works very well, when i am using the default Joomla Editor.

As somebody mentions, it might be something to do with the editor, but I am not sure about that. See the thing is, in joomla or html , if you give a link after ” / ” then it will append to the url. But when you add a link with the http, it should start as the base link.

I will install the other editors, and will try it out.

Regards,
Mihir Chhatre.

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