Pics within post

[John Beaulieu]

As advised I did set up an album that people could go to to view photos. I have noticed though, that several people have had photos show up with their forum post. How do you do that? Sometimes that is more effective as members do not always want to surf through other sites and albums to see the post illustrated. I have been unable to find any 'upload' area on these forums.

[Pat]

Hi John, I also operate one of these phpBB boards, and all you have to do to include a photo within a post is to have the photo album on a publicly-accessible host site (so that people don't have to type in a password to see the picture), and just put the complete URL for the photo inside the Img - /Img tags, like this:

Code: Select all

[img]http://www.phab001.com/img/m001.jpg[/img]

puts a photo from my personal website into this post (oops, sorry it's so big, please delete if necessary, Jim!). It won't work if your album host puts up a registration page, advertisements etc., though; the post will show exactly what is there, so if it's not an image file, you'll see the little red "X" of dismay, unviewable link.

[Jim]

Thanks for the quick assist Pat - nice photo!

[Sandwhy]

Hi again!

Tried to upload a photo but could not (BBCode on side of panel said it was OFF - maybe that is why my signature does not always show up?? I see on the right side that here it is ON).



I was able to post the image under "upload attachment"... but am wondering why sometimes the Code is off or on in a post. This is the forum/topic I am referring to:

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1501

Thanks!

[Mona Miller]

faq.php#f33
In the FAQ section, above right there are many suggestions to what can be done on the forum.

I get my html photos from my flickr account. Flickr shows you how to do this. You can also make the photos smaller on flickr and then post them to the forum.

[Sandwhy]

Read the FAQs already, thanks! Seems like since the "new" forums have emerged I cannot display images in "the usual manner".