Image path issues

[Dimitrio]

When I leave the cmps_index.php in the root folder, let's say at /home/ the images don't show up, example: www.veguild.org/main.php not matter if I rename it to index.php, i always get the same error.

If I Leave it in the forums folder, everything is fine, example: http://www.veguild.org/forums/index.php. Anyway I would like to use the indexpage directly from the root, can anyone help me?

[eJM]

You need to tell vBadvanced where your images are. It is looking in a folder called /images/foldername/imagename.gif when it should be looking for that image folder in the forum. When you move the cmps_index file to the root, which is what I did too, you have to give it more information about your images. I have found the best way to do that is to give it the full url. You can write our the full url (http://www.yoursite.com/forums/images/subfolder/picture.gif) or you can use the vBulletin options, $vboptions[bburl] to shorten the amount of code. It also will be to your advantage if for some reason you ever move your forum. The code would now be like so: $vboptions[bburl]/images/subfolder/picture.gif. I have found it pretty easy to search for the string "/images" and then add $vboptions[bburl] to the beginning of that address where necessary (you may find it's more than just images that need the full URL).

Jim

[Dimitrio]

Originally Posted by eJM

You need to tell vBadvanced where your images are. It is looking in a folder called /images/foldername/imagename.gif when it should be looking for that image folder in the forum. When you move the cmps_index file to the root, which is what I did too, you have to give it more information about your images. I have found the best way to do that is to give it the full url. You can write our the full url (http://www.yoursite.com/forums/images/subfolder/picture.gif) or you can use the vBulletin options, $vboptions[bburl] to shorten the amount of code. It also will be to your advantage if for some reason you ever move your forum. The code would now be like so: $vboptions[bburl]/images/subfolder/picture.gif. I have found it pretty easy to search for the string "/images" and then add $vboptions[bburl] to the beginning of that address where necessary (you may find it's more than just images that need the full URL).

Jim

Ok where I tell Vbadvanced to look for the images, I tried to update the the images path from the install and nothing.... sorry I am a noob with vBadvanced.

Or are you talking aboutchaning $forumpath='home/veguild/forums/' to $forumpath='http://www.veguild.org/forums/' ?

[eJM]

Answered your PM.

[RobM]

Hi eJM,

I'm having the same issue, new install (been working on a phpNuke -> phpBB -> vBulletin migration all day).

I searched all the CMPS files for "/images" and only found one instance in vba_cmps_include_bottom.php. I made the edit but it doesn't seem to work. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[eJM]

vBadvanced uses the same images as the forum. If you use a portal page (cmps_index.php or similar) that is located in the forum folder there is no need to be concerned about the images. However, I prefer to use my cmps_index.php page as my home page at the root of my website, which is higher up the chain than the forum ( http://www.thefloorpro.com/community is my own structure ). In that case, the images may not show, or show broken links on that page and any other page you make with vBa. That is why you should use the full URL for all your images. It's a lot of editing, but it only has to be done once. Some may even argue that for optimum search engine results, you should use full URLs throughout your site, but that's a bit too much for even me.

Edit these areas to show full URLs to your images:

Styles & Templates | Style Manager | All Style Options (complete all URLs)
User Ranks | User Rank Manager (edit all paths if they are to show anywhere on a vBadvanced page)
Post Icons | Post Icon Manager (edit all paths if they are to show in any thread/news module)
Smilies | Smilie Manager (edit all paths if they are used in vBa pages)

That should be all of them. Even if they are unnecessary, the only drawback to using full URLs in your templates is a very slightly larger file size for each page that loads. A full path should look like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/images/finish/path/to/pics.jpg

Naturally, if you don't use WWW., then don't put it in the path.

I hope that helps,

Jim

[RobM]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for all that detail, this is quite helpful!

[Dimitrio]

Yeah, thank you, now it works partially, the gradients are not showing up. Anyone knows how can I make the gradients to show up?

[eJM]

Originally Posted by Dimitrio

Yeah, thank you, now it works partially, the gradients are not showing up. Anyone knows how can I make the gradients to show up?

As I suggested before, you should look for your partial image paths here:

Styles & Templates | Style Manager | All Style Options

It is a very detailed section and you must look closely for the image paths. Gradients are usually background images, so look in the boxes for something like #B3DEB2 url(images/stylename/stylename_alt2.gif) repeat and change it to #B3DEB2 url(http://www.yoursite.com/forum/images/stylename/stylename_alt2.gif) repeat

Just be thorough and you will do fine.

Jim