[support] Referencing images / multimedia content

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting John Fletcher <fletchnet at internode.net.au>:

> Hi,
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> I'm trying to figure out how to reference images and other multimedia
> content from a page in Drupal.
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> I'm building a large multi-language site in Drupal 6 (about 7 languages,
> will expand in future).  It's a business-style site rather than a
> community-style one, so the pages are reasonably static and will generally
> be originally implemented by web designers.  Non-technical users will
> complete translations of pages and also small updates, fix typos etc.
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> How do I reference pictures that are related to a certain page (as opposed
> to part of the theme)?  I understand I should store them in
> sites/sitename/files so I could reference them with
> src="sites/sitename/files/pic.jpeg", but it would make more sense to
> reference them using the PHP function file_directory_path().  However, if I
> embed PHP code into the page then the non-technical users are not able to
> edit the page unless I allow them to save PHP code.  Does this all make
> sense?  Am I working in the right direction?  What should I do?
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You could write a module that would hook the node and manipulate a 
marker [img:picfile].  The hook would apply the file_directory_path and 
what else was needed to replace [img:picfile].

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