Display image in theme template

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Submitted by talengix on Tue, 05/07/2013 - 09:50

Sometimes you need to call an image directly from your theme template if it isn't practical to do with css. This snippet works well for me.

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  1. <?php global $base_path;
  2. print "<img src='" . $base_path . path_to_theme() . "/img/filename.png' />"; ?>

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doubouil commented 4 years 11 months ago

You can also use the theme image function like so :
Drupal 7

  1. print theme("image", array(
  2. "path" => path_to_theme() . "/img/filename.png",
  3. "alt" => "alt text",
  4. "title" => "title text",
  5. "attributes" => array(
  6. "class" => array("img")
  7. ) );

Drupal 6
  1. print theme("image", 
  2. path_to_theme() . "/img/filename.png",
  3. "alt text",
  4. "title text",
  5. array("class" => "img")
  6. );

Theme functions allows themes and module to alter the output, in this case a CDN module could use a different base path.