Embed picture in thread help please.

[Arthur Fowler]

Not sure where to put this post - sorry if this is not the right place.

I wanted to post a picture (rather than a link). I thought this should do it, but just the link appears. Can you help me put the picture itself in the thread please?

Thanks
Arthur


[img] http://images1.fotopic.net/?iid=y3ujne&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1 [\img]

[GreyJackal]

http://images1.fotopic.net/?iid=y3ujne&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

Umm...odd. For starters your [\img] has the slash the wrong way around. But fixing that still doesn't work. Even if they blocked direct linking you'd get a red X or something.
:thinking:

Colin? You playing with the vBB tags?

Test :

http://www.flyingbadger.net/misc/basil.jpg

Guess not :shrug:

[Arthur Fowler]

Still a link - want to see the photo in the thread!

(thanks btw!)

[threadkiller]

its possible it doesn't as its not a straight xxxx.jpg file. plus you may be leaching an image of another site which may not be your own. posting piccies have to be off your own webspace

[GreyJackal]

its possible it doesn't as its not a straight xxxx.jpg file.

Guess that must be it - no filename or anything, just a query string. Not come across that before. I've not come across trying to inline an image with that kind of URL with VBB tags before I mean - seen plenty of query string urls before :D

threadkiller - fotopic is an image hosting service, so chances are it's his pic.

[Arthur Fowler]

I loaded an image (jpg) from my PC to fototopic (not used it before). JPG looks fine on my pc and the link works ok.

[Alan. b]

Arthur - Its not showing correctly because of the file name, most pics when they are shown online are given simple address such as this one:

www.alan@whoever.com/pic01.jpg

[Vex]

Yeah, we had this problem with the SETI sigs.

The vBulletin software doesn't like parameters being passed within img urls (anything with ? and & in). It's a real pain, as the seti sigs needed to pass the team members name to the image generation script, I had to come up with ways to get around the parameter passing problems.

You'll just have to host it somewhere that gives you a non-parameterized url... :)

[Arthur Fowler]

ok, thanks for your help guys. Arthur.

[Faythur]

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