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Description

Checks to see if an image exists in the current templates image directory if it does it loads this image. Otherwise the default image is loaded. Also can be used in conjunction with the menulist param to create the chosen image load the default or use no image

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Syntax

site($file, $folder='/images/M_images/', $altFile=NULL, $altFolder='/images/M_images/', $alt=NULL, $attribs=null, $asTag=1)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$file		The file name, eg foobar.png
$folder	'/images/M_images/'	The path to the image
$altFile	NULL	empty: use $file and $folder, -1: show no image, not-empty: use $altFile and $altFolder
$altFolder	'/images/M_images/'	Another path. Only used for the contact us form based on the value of the imagelist parm
$alt	NULL	Alt text
$attribs	null	An associative array of attributes to add
$asTag	1	True (default) to display full tag, false to return just the path

Defined in

libraries/joomla/html/html/image.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.html.html.image' );

Source Body

function site( $file, $folder='/images/M_images/', $altFile=NULL, $altFolder='/images/M_images/', $alt=NULL, $attribs = null, $asTag = 1)
{
        static $paths;
        global $mainframe;

        if (!$paths) {
                $paths = array();
        }

        if (is_array( $attribs )) {
                $attribs = JArrayHelper::toString( $attribs );
        }

        $cur_template = $mainframe->getTemplate();

        if ( $altFile )
        {
                // $param allows for an alternative file to be used
                $src = $altFolder . $altFile;
        }
        else if ( $altFile == -1 )
        {
                // Comes from an image list param field with 'Do not use' selected
                return '';
        } else {
                $path = JPATH_SITE .'/templates/'. $cur_template .'/images/'. $file;
                if (!isset( $paths[$path] ))
                {
                        if ( file_exists( JPATH_SITE .'/templates/'. $cur_template .'/images/'. $file ) ) {
                                $paths[$path] = 'templates/'. $cur_template .'/images/'. $file;
                        } else {
                                // outputs only path to image
                                $paths[$path] = $folder . $file;
                        }
                }
                $src = $paths[$path];
        }

        if (substr($src, 0, 1 ) == "/") {
                $src = substr_replace($src, '', 0, 1);
        }

        // Prepend the base path
        $src = JURI::base(true).'/'.$src;

        // outputs actual html <img> tag
        if ($asTag) {
                return '<img src="'. $src .'" alt="'. html_entity_decode( $alt ) .'" '.$attribs.' />';
        }

        return $src;
}

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Examples

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