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[midsomer Friend midsomerJoin date: February 2010Posts: 82Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 27 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#151236

Hi,

I’m using FrontPage in headline_fp mode as a slide show. I would prefer the title and introtext to be overlaid on the article image like many other slide show modules do (Joomlaworks etc).

I have looked into the headline_fp.php code and tried unsuccessfully to use the $image as a background in a div. How do I get the url path from $image to make this line work.

<div style="background-image: url(<?php echo $image; ?>);">

I can get the effect I want by hard coding with one sample image like this

<div style="background-image: url(../../../images/resized/images/stories/akpc/akcross3_230_185.jpg');">

TIA

[John Wesley Brett Moderator John Wesley BrettJoin date: July 2013Posts: 2142Downloads:17Uploads:26 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 645 times in 426 posts]

#344340

I think I’m understanding what you are wanting to do…but may I make a suggestion.
Instead of trying to overlay the headline and copy over an image…try recoding image’s CAPTION or TITLE ids.

The problem you are going to run into trying to recode Headlines and intro text is what happens when there is no picture? Headlines and intro texts are NOT dependent on whether there is an image or not…unlike caption and title which cannot be used UNLESS there is an image.

I think you’ll have better success.

John.

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[midsomer Friend midsomerJoin date: February 2010Posts: 82Downloads:0Uploads:13 Thanks: 27 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#344355

Thanks John,

I’ll look into this alternative approach. I’ll still spinning my wheels on trying to get the variable value I want from helper.php. Both $imagesurl and $img from processImage look ideal but can’t figure how to pipe them over. Enrolling in PHP school 😉

Cheers, M

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