How to code php within php?

  • Resolved jemaverick

    (@jemaverick)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there. My challenge is this. I’m designing a theme that displays pics beside each post excerpt on the index, tag, category, etc. pages, and am wanting to make the path to the a default image generic so that users of the theme don’t need to mess around in the code – bam, it’s there for you use without worrying about it. The problem for me is that I’m a bit of a hack, and my php skill set isn’t worth much of a hoot. I don’t even find it intuitive. I’ve tried messing around with TEMPLATEPATH, bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); and the like to no avail, so I need a bit of a prod in the right direction. How do I place php within php?

    Ok, the working code I have got in the theme is this:

    // if there's not a thumbnail
else { echo '<img src="http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/themes/supafly/images/default.png" alt="Default Text Goes Here" title="Default Text Goes Here"/>'; } ?></div>

    Not really useful to anybody else who hasn’t got http://www.mysite.com/ as their domain.

    I would really like to have code that reflects: 

    // if there's not a thumbnail
else { echo '<img src="PATH TO STYLESHEET DIRECTORY/images/default.png" alt="Default Text Goes Here" title="Default Text Goes Here"/>'; } ?></div>

    Can anybody out there help me with meeting this challenge?

    Cheers,

    J.

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    // if there's not a thumbnail
else { ?>
<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/default.png" alt="Default Text Goes Here" title="Default Text Goes Here" />
<?php } ?>
</div>

    It could also be written as
    echo '<img src="', bloginfo('template_directory'), '/images/default.png" alt="Default Text Goes Here" title="Default Text Goes Here" />';
    (think I got that right)

    Thread Starter jemaverick

    (@jemaverick)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you so much stvwolf. That worked perfectly. 🙂

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