Thread: Assistance with photos

That depends where you are hosting the photos - to post a photo you need to have its url enclosed in an IMG tag, some hosting sites provide code that already has the tag in it, some forums want the tag to be 'img' instead of 'IMG'. A bit of trial and error should soon find the right code to use.
If you only have the url of the image then use the "Insert Image" button (yellow box with picture of a mountain on it) when writing your post and paste the url in the dialog box that comes up.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the reply DD - but I've tried those things... as I said, on first typing out the post the image pops up OK (using the insert image function), but when it's time to submit the post, the image dissappears and the URL is displayed. I've tried the using the old img (in various forms) command ( which worked well on the old forum). But it's still no go.

You need to post exactly what you type in the message window when you try to post an image. To do this you may need to enclose the text in 'PHP' tags (the php button) so everyone can see what was typed.
E.g. These tags make your text bold:

PHP Code:

[B]bold text[/B] 


Originally Posted by langy

Thanks for the reply DD - but I've tried those things... as I said, on first typing out the post the image pops up OK (using the insert image function), but when it's time to submit the post, the image dissappears and the URL is displayed. I've tried the using the old img (in various forms) command ( which worked well on the old forum). But it's still no go.

Langy

I was having that problem especially with pics from the gallery, don't know what has changed (or if I changed anything) but it seems to have resolved itself.
I was finding the pic would come up Ok in preview but then would just drop back to the plain URL, enclosing it in img tags again didn't fix it.


Martyn

If you are having trouble, tyr posting one here, and I can have a look and see what the problem is

Here you go Mr Phoenix:

Looks to be a problem with the URL, as it doesn't end in .jpg, or have a .jpg or gif in it anywhere, so the forum software thinks it's just a link. I have the same problem when I try and post it. 4bee is having a similar problem at the moment, i'm trying to catch incisor to see if he knows if it can be fixed.

Any IMG tags are being ignored or converted to URL tags by the system...
Bug report?

Langy - When posting photos from your pix8net album click on the 'Get Code' link beside the photo and a new window will open with HTML code and UBB code. Copy the UBB code and paste that straight into your post.

That way instead of this:
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=24557MuAb8&i=912595

you get this: