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I feel like deja vu.  I posted this a few days ago, and now there’s no record of it.  I suspect this is because I didn’t add a title.  Interesting.

In any case, my problem is this.  I’ve got some board member bios I want to post, including an image.

I created custom fields for the board bios. 

For the image, the idea is to just include the url in the field, and then have it render on the page with the code:

{bio_photo_url}

As you see here, the images don’t come out.  Other bracket content does, though. 

FYI, the entire code is:

{exp:channel:entries channel="{my_channel}" orderby="date" sort="asc" limit="15" disable="member_data|trackbacks"}
<div class="entry">
<a href="http://{title_permalink=site/article}">{bio_photo_url}</a> <h2><a href="http://{title_permalink=site/article}">{title}</a></h2>
<p><b>{bio_title}</b><br />
<div class="catsum">{bio_about}</div><br />
</div><br />
{/exp:channel:entries }<br />
{/if}

Debug is now set to 1, didn’t help.  I’ve also tried changing the format of the url text from “none” to “auto br” to “xhtml” - none of these seems to make a difference.

Any ideas?

Have you double checked what happens when Default Text Formatting for This Field is turned off (none) for bio_photo_url?

Your HTML has an unneeded “a href=” after the SRC=, but I’m not sure where that is coming from, when you have formatting set to ‘none’.

Hi, focusfusion.

For the channel in question, have you turned off

Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?

Kernon:
I did try “none” but that didn’t work.

However, I just tried “xml encode” and that does work. 

I don’t even know what xml encode means. 

If someone can explain.  In the meantime, that’s what I’m using.

Thanks!

Sue:

Ah!  I new it would be something like that.  No, “automatically turn urls into links” is set to “yes”.  However, with this handy “xml encode” discovery - I like the fact that I can see the pictures, but have the option of links automatically being generated from urls.

It seems to provide flexibility.  So again, what does xml encode mean?

And thanks all for such quick responses!  You guys are great!

Hi, focusfusion.

Are you talking about the XML Encode plugin? http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/xml_encode/