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From what I understand, the file field should output the URL of the uploaded file.

According to the user guide: “In its most basic form, a File field can be used as a single tag that simply outputs the URL of the file:”

But when I try to do something like this:

style="background: url({event_image}) no-repeat;"

The following is output:

style="background: url(M10o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr) no-repeat;"

Thoughts on why it’s not outputting the actual URL?

Hi Jason,

What version of ExpressionEngine are you using? The User Guide always references the most recent release.

What do you see if you take the tag out of the stlye= element? Is the URL output correctly?

I look forward to your response!

Cheers!

Version 2.4

I’ve tried just using the tag alone (outside the style element) and the same thing is output.

A little Monday morning bump.

Additonally, if I do something to test, like

{event_image wrap="link"}

nothing is output at all.

Dan… you still around?

Anyone with any thoughts on this?

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your patience and my apologies for the delay. I just tested this on my 2.4.0 sandbox with the following code and the background image was output as expected.

<div>
   some text here
</div>

Could you post up more of your template code? I would also like to see what you see in the source on the front end. Could you post up what you see there? Can you also confirm that there is an image that has been uploaded successfully to the entry in question? Can you see that image in the file manager?

Sean

Here’s more of the template code:

<!--{exp:channel:entries channel="events" limit="1" show_future_entries="yes" category_id="257"}-->
  <!--<div id="boxBack" st yle="background: url( {event_image}) no-repeat;" onc lick="location.href='{title_permalink=events/event_detail}';">-->
    <h2>Special Events</h2>
<p>   </div><br />
  </div><!--end specialEventsBox--><br />
<!-- {/exp:channel:entries}-->

The comment tags and weird spaces are NOT in the actual code, but the forum was taking the EE tags out of the post.

And the output source:

<div id="specialEventsBox">
 <!--<div id="boxBack" st yle="background: url(M10o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr) no-repeat;" onc lick="location.href='http://removed';">
  <h2>Special Events</h2>
<p> </div><br />
</div><!--end specialEventsBox-->

Shawn, any thoughts?

Hi Jason,

Don’t worry about the odd spacing - I completely understand. In the future if that happens you might want to use a pastie.

If you manually put in the image url into your background tag does it work as expected? Can you see the uploaded image on the server? Have you tried uploading a different image (in the past I had an issue with one image that was corrupted and would never display on the web no matter what I did).

Sean

Hi Jason,

Don’t worry about the odd spacing - I completely understand. In the future if that happens you might want to use a pastie.

If you manually put in the image url into your background tag does it work as expected? Can you see the uploaded image on the server? Have you tried uploading a different image (in the past I had an issue with one image that was corrupted and would never display on the web no matter what I did).

Sean

Yes, if I hand-code the URL it works fine and I can see it on the server.

It’d be great if we could get this resolved… starting to get some SERIOUS pressure from my client on this as it’s preventing the site from going live.

Bumping, yet again. Anyone?!

One of the benefits I’ve always promoted to clients about ExpressionEngine is that if there are problems, we get answers in a timely fashion… this thread is now over 10 days old with not much feedback from the support team.

Is doing more digging on this, when I searched Google for the string that is being output, I came across this old support forum post:

http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/54903/

This was of particular interest to me:

These strings of letters and numbers are inserted by the Template parser as place holders for tags during processing and are not directly relating to the tags or the module/plugin be called by them.  If you want me to take a look and figure out what the problem is, send me Control Panel login information, FTP login for your server, and the exact page where this is occurring.

Can someone from the support team please chime in on this please?!

If I use the file field as a tag pair like so:

{event_image}
  {url}
{/event_image}

Then the following is output in the source:

M10o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr
     
{/event_image}