Photopost with vb intergration - the images are all showing as red X's

[criscokid]

In http://www.photopost.com/members/for....php?p=1080901 concering PhotoPost and vBulletin intergtation Michael P wrote:

My headers show up, but the images are all showing as Red X's

This is because vB uses relative paths for your images. You will need to update your vB3 header to use absolute paths.

Using your Style Manager edit your header template, find:

a href="/$vboptions[forumhome].php

and for each of the URL's used you will need to update your path. In this case my forums are installed in the root directory, so I added the / to the path. Simply prepend $vboptions[bburl]/ in front of every url relative link.

a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$vboptions[forumhome].php

You will need to update all your links to use the absolute paths as PhotoPost is not installed in the same directory as vB and so PhotoPost needs to know where to follow the links to.

Also, check your headinclude template:

var IMGDIR_MISC = "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]";

And either put a / in the path or change your vb configuration to point to /images.

I've gone in to vbUlletin's Style Manager, selected by theme/skin and then the header template. I search for 'a href="/$vboptions[forumhome].php' in the template but nothing is found. AM I editing the correct header template?

[Chuck S]

There should be no need to any of this in 4.8.6

what red x's you talking about link to forum?

[criscokid]

Forums: http://scene-out.com/forums/index.php
Gallery: http://scene-out.com/gallery/index.php

[Chuck S]

http://www.photopost.com/members/for...light=advanced

[criscokid]

http://scene-out.com/party/index.php

Something's not right because the arrow icons in the 'View last review posted' & 'Last Product Upload' colums is using the icons from vBulletin. The Photopost area is also all white instead of grey and white like you see at http://scene-out.com/forums/index.php

[ngtrout]

criscokid,

If you solve this please let me know. I just installed 4.8.6 today and the only problem I have is the images when using VB3 styles. My VB installation is completely default with no enhancements so it is certainly an issue. I am an expert php and perl programmer (not so good as css though) so I could certainly hack a fix for this if I tried but want to see if Photopost puts out a patch.

[ngtrout]

the default VB3 templates in the current version do not include absolute paths, in order to make them work you have to edit all the "Image Paths" in your VB3 admin to make them absolute instead of relative. That will fix all of the images in Photopost when using style integration.

[criscokid]

Just to make sure I'm editing the correct thing - is it the image paths in all of the templates that I'll be editing?

[Chuck S]

ngtrout

The default VB templates of a normal VB3 are relative and we autotranslate those to absolute there is not need to edit anything

The only issue issue is when the forums use a program like vb advanced or such that alter those url's to absolute then you have a problem with our templates and you need to remove the $Globals['vbulletin'] call like I stated in our vbenhanced templates

Crisco

You have not done as instructed. See your image paths

http://scene-out.com/forums//forums/...lapse_tcat.gif

Your url's are not relative like a normal vb3 install thus you need to adjust your templates

In your vb3 enhanced templates you need to find these lines

src="{$Globals['vbulletin']}/$stylevar[imgdir_button]

change to this

src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]

[criscokid]

I've already removed the $Globals['vbulletin'] form the enhanced templates and still using vBulletin's icons.

[Chuck S]

Okay if you supposedly did this how come when I view the source of missing images your forum url is being entered in front of the image paths?

Did you remember that the VB3 enhanced templates get copied to your regular templates directory?

[criscokid]

I'd edited the VB3 enhanced templates but not copied them to my regular templates directory - sorry. I've copied them over but the vBulletin icons are still there.

[Chuck S]

Yes and the vb3 icons show as they should now thus problem fixed

[criscokid]

I don't want the vb3 icons - I want the icons from the Imagize theme that I'm using.

[Chuck S]

I don't quite follow you here.

Your using VB3 integration. Your using advanced vb3 integration. The collapse Icons I see are the same ones used in your forum when I view your forum. It pulls the style images of the theme your using

There is nothing wrong with anything that I can see.

[criscokid]

It's not the collapse icons I'm talking about it's the icons that take you to the last post / photo. Take a look at my forums at http://scene-out.com/forums/ and you'll see that the icons used there are from my Imagize theme.

[Chuck S]

Okay thats not a part of the normal coding

For information or help hacking your code for something that is not part of the normal distribution you may post at http://www.photopostdev.com

[criscokid]

I just assumed that those icons would change according to the skin that get's used. Do those arrows have a specific name? (Makes it easier searching / expalining to others what I want to do).

[Chuck S]

right click the image and see the name lastpost.gif they are defined in pp-inc.php