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1. made.of.legos
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I am having trouble dynamically creating an alt tag for an image while in the loop. I am pulling a posts custom field (where I have stored the url to the image) to create the <img> source. here is a snippet of code.

   // In The Loop
   ...
   <?php echo '<img class="thumb" src="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post_image', TRUE).'"/>'; ?>
   ...

   This works to create the image. However, my "/" use for self cloing the <img> tag is stripped off.

   But, when I add something like this below it does not work.

   // In The Loop
   ...
   <?php echo '<img class="thumb" src="'.get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post_image', TRUE).'" alt="'.the_title().'" />'; ?>
   ...
   

   When the code executes, it places the info from the function the_title() in front of the <img> tag. My source looks like the following:

   text from the_title function<img class="pic" src="pictureURL" alt="" >
   `
   Hope someone can help me with this.

   Thanks

2. Samuel Wood (Otto)
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   the_title() doesn't return the title, it echos it to the output itself.

   You can do either of two things:
   1. Use get_the_title() instead.
   2. Exit the PHP context instead of echo-ing a concatted string.. This usually is simpler to read.

   ...
   <img class="thumb" src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'post_image', TRUE); ?>" alt="<?php the_title() ?>" />
   ...

3. made.of.legos
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Otto42,

   That worked perfectly. I truly appreciate all the help that you have sent my way.

   Take care

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