CakePHP: image inside link, want to make link point to image location

Question

I have some images inside links that I want to essentially look like this:

<a href="/path/to/img.png"><img src="/path/to/img.png" /></a>

Clicking on the link should load the image it contains. I'm trying to use CakePHP's HTML helper to do this, as follows:

<?php
  echo $html->link(
    $html->image('img.png'),
    'img.png',
    array('escape' => false)
  );
?>

When I do this, however, I get the following code:

<a href="/pages/img.png"><img src="/path/to/img.png" /></a>

Without using absolute URLs, can I make the link's href attribute point to the image's correct location?

Thanks!

dogmatic69 · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-10 09:37:06Z

4

you can also do this in 1.2

echo $html->link(
    $html->image('img.png'),
    'img.png',
    array(),
    null, 
    false
  );

or in 1.3

echo $html->link(
    $html->image('img.png'),
    'img.png',
    array(),
    array( 'escape' => false ),     
  );

answered Dec 10, 2009 at 9:37

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Jared Over a year ago

Thanks for the response, but by leaving the link URL as img.png Cake uses the Pages controller to handle it, making the URL example.com/pages/img.png. This is why the IMAGES_URL constant is needed. My code ended up looking like this: echo $html->link( $html->image('img.png'), '/' . IMAGES_URL . '/img.png', array('escape' => false) );

deceze · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-10 02:50:14Z

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This should do the trick:

echo $html->image('image.png', array('url' => '/' . IMAGES_URL . 'image.png'));

answered Dec 10, 2009 at 2:50

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Jared Over a year ago

Perfect! I didn't know about the IMAGES_URL constant. Thanks.

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