best way to link to images?

[sabret00the]

i normally just use images/whatever/image.gif but i'm aware that theirs a better way so i'm wondering what's the best way and why use stuff like $stylevars etc. (sorry just trying to learn)

[AN-net]

$stylevar[imagesfolder] that takes you right to your images folder and i guess u can go from there

[Zachery]

That only worked in vB3 pre beta 7

its now $stylevar[imgdir_*]/

either hard code it

http://www.bla.com/forum/images/buttons/crap.gif

or use relative location

[AN-net]

some of the templates i see still use it>_>

[Zachery]

then your using old templates

[sabret00the]

nice one, thanks everyone, i thought i better standardize my style set coding before i got too far into it

[AN-net]

Originally Posted by Faranth

then your using old templates

well im not using vb3 beta 7 templates im using at least vb3 rc3 templates
can u just use $stylevar[imgdir]?
ok tried $stylevar[imgdir] and $stylevar[imgdir_*] and $stylevar[imgdir_gradients], they dont work>_>

[sabret00the]

she's right, i just tried to link to an image which is located at

images/forumhome/$forum[forumid].gif

as

$stylevar[imgdir_forumhome]/$forum[forumid].gif

and it missed the whole directory off

[Logikos]

Example:
If your style settings were set to http://www.asite.com/forums/stylename

then

$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/boo.gif

will call

http://www.asite.com/forums/stylename/misc/boo.gif

when he said $stylevar[imgdir_*] he ment replace * with the dir name where the image is stored.

Hope this helps

[sabret00the]

but i have my images stored in /images/forumhome so where as images stored in images/misc i can just use $stylevar[imgdir_misc]/image.gif i have made a new directory i want to store my images in and i want to call them dynamically.