Images connected to specific pages

Once a client wanted a website containg pages having one specific image at a certain place of the page. (In this case it was his own face.) Only in some cases he wanted to change the image.

Usually images are placed via editing a page. However, in this case it was worth to load the image via the template.htm file. There it was said:

<?php if ($news==""){echo newsbox("mainImage");} else {echo newsbox($news);} ?>

A hidden page was generated called “mainImage” (#CMSimple hide#). This page contained nothing else than just the image which was supposed to show up on most pages. Pages which were supposed to contain alternativ images were provided with a CMSimple script.

#CMSimple $news = 'altImage1';#

or

#CMSimple $news = 'altImage2';#

or

#CMSimple $news = 'altImage3';#

etc.

Hidden pages called altImage1, altImage2, altImage3 etc. contained the alterantive images.

Instead of using a newsbox it is also possible to call up the images directly by adding to the template.htm file the code:

<img alt="Top-Image" <?php if ($topimage==''){?>src="<?php echo $pth['folder']['templateimages'];?>topimage1.jpg" /> <?php }else{?>src="<?php echo $pth['folder']['templateimages']; echo $topimage;?>.jpg" /><?php } ?>

The CMSimple script on a page would then say:

#CMSimple $topimage = "image1";#

or

#CMSimple $topimage = "image2";#

or

#CMSimple $topimage = "image3";#

etc.

Images called “image1.jpg”, “image2.jpg”, “image3.jpg” etc. or similar have to be found in template's “image” subfolder, of course.


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