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1. readme123456
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello, here's a question:
   On my website images are displayed with use of PHP like so
   <img src="<?php echo $media; ?>" alt="" width="940" height="600" />
   where
   $media = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'lead_image', true);

   However, some time ago it all start acting strange. Now the pictures get displayed together with a chunk of code, like
   [PICTURE] "alt="" width="940" height="600" />

   So, it seems, echo $media does not return a text string with the picture address, but rather displays the picture, and the remaining string gets treated as inside img src= ""

   It happens whenever there is any php inside img src.
   You can see it all at http://almasy-photography.com/

   Why is this happening and how to fix it?

   Thanks!

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   what gets filled into the custom field and how it this done?

   it seems that now, the whole code to show the image is in the custom field; probably this was not intended and was not always so.

   ((
   if you don't have two different ways of getting these images shown - just always the way you describe here - then the fix is to change the code from

   <img src="<?php echo $media; ?>" alt="" width="940" height="600" />

   to
   

   <?php echo $media; ?>

   ))

3. readme123456
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It's a theme with a custom plugin, so, unfortunately it's not so simple.
   I've tried changing the output like you described, but it changes the wrapping href from pointing to corresponding post to simply a bigger picture. You can see what I mean at http://almasy-photography.com/archives/category/musicians - the thumbs are linked to posts, but if I do what you described, they suddenly have links to bigger photos.
   It's not easy to understand why, I guess.

4. readme123456
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Maybe you can tell me how to pull the link from custom field and not the image it represents?

5. readme123456
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   It's interesting that in the Codex they seem to be using it in exactly the same way:
   

   <?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumb', true) ) : ?>
       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
           <img class="thumb" src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'thumb', true) ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
       </a>
   <?php endif; ?>

6. readme123456
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I figured it out. The above mentioned plugin kept on feeding me the actual images specified in the custom fields, and not their urls.
   So, every time I wrote
   img src="<? echo $pic ?>"
   it was stuffing an image inside the img src.

   Thanks for your support!

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