relative path to image

Davidis · November 2010

im creating an image element in my code for a plugin.
i need a way to get the url of the plugins directory. Ive tried the server docroot and pathroot
but these refer to the file paths not the url paths. Is there a way to get the url vanilla is installed in from php.

Davidis · November 2010

nvm found answer
use a /

Tim · November 2010

If your plugin extends Gdn_Plugin, you can called $this->GetResource() and $this->GetWebResource() to get paths to things.

Read more here http://vanillaforums.org/blog/writing-plugins-for-vanilla-2-part-1/

Davidis · November 2010

Code in question extends gdn_module not gdn_plugin.

Linc · November 2010

@Tim Crazy idea: what if we switched Gdn_Module to extend _Plugin instead of _Pluggable to get that extra functionality? I'm running into a similar issue on the project I'm starting at work.

Tim · November 2010

I'll look into it (or you can). My concern is that I don't want to get caught out later when convenience methods start conflicting with each other.

Linc · November 2010

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I'll bookmark this for later.

Davidis · November 2010

Thnx.

S · November 2010

@Davidis
You can use Asset() function (also).
function Asset($Destination = '', $WithDomain = FALSE, $AddVersion = FALSE)

Asset('plugins/TestPlugin/images/my-images.jpg');

relative path to image

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