How to upload and display an image in the project overview?

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Hi,

Anyone who knows how to upload an image to the database and then display it in the project overview?

Thanks.

Hi iCharlie,

I suppose you mean in the project description?
To add an image to the project overview, you need to use the Textile markup in the description field.
That is:
!URL_OF_THE_IMAGE!

If you want to use an image that is one of the files of the project, you need to get its download URL. To do that, open the file details page of said image and right-click on "Download", and select "Copy Link Location" (Firefox) or "Copy Shortcut" (Internet Explorer) or something like that and paste it between two exclamation marks.

On the other hand, if you want to change the background or something like that, you will have to do so through CSS.

Tim

Hi Tim,

I'm very new to php and Textile markup.
Where should I insert the url of the image?
I've tried to insert !http://www.example....jpg! in the project description, but it shows no image only the text: !http://www.example....jpg!.

Thanks.

Hi iCharlie,

yes, you're right. It worked on my laptop because I'm running the version from SVN, in which the project description supports textile markup.

If you don't feel like getting the SVN version but are ok with editing files, you can do the following:

in /application/helpers/textile.php, line 12, you should have:

<?php
return $textile->TextileThis($text, $lite, $encode, $noimage, $strict, $rel);
?>

On my installation, I have that instead:

<?php
return $textile->TextileRestricted($text, false, false);
?>

So you might want to try that. Make a backup of the file before editing it, just in case. Give it a try and don't worry, it won't break anything ;-)

Tim