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# I feel like a right slag asking here but...
I've trawled a bit of the archive to no avail - can any of you wonderous lot tell me how you do the thing where you can link to a picture and within the img src have some text to appear upon the picture? I believe it may be a php thing.

Thank-you muchly in advance.
(coldcoffee, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:42, archived)
# Dead easy
put alt="whatever" in the image tag
if that's what you're talking about
(I helped save b3ta! A good man, and thorough, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:43, archived)
# <img src="http://www.msncosimcheap.com/image.jpg" alt="this is where i gibber">
does the trick
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:43, archived)
# =
this is where i gibber
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:44, archived)
# Fnord
FYI: The golf tournament to win the glasscock will be in October, although I think they change the trophy every year.
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:51, archived)
# ah well,
maybe we can have a scuplting contest at the b3ta f3t3
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:55, archived)
# Chainsaw glasscock
Ice sculpting?
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:57, archived)
# I've booked my summer holiday when that's on!
Can't believe it, I knew something was on, just couldn't think what.
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:57, archived)
# actually
I dunno if i'll make it.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:59, archived)
# Maybe this year it'll be a
glasscunt.
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Martin is board sigless, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:50, archived)
# opera users
use alt="..." and title="..." because opera doesn't display alts...
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:45, archived)
# You're absolutely right..
It's the only down side. Any idea why that is?
Seems like a fundamental error!..
(I helped save b3ta! Collatallie Sisters, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:47, archived)
# because alt is the text that should be displayed if an image isn't shown
(ie. alternative)
and title is the title of the picture that you are looking at
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:56, archived)
# Yes.
Opera is the only browser to do it correctly.
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Martin is board sigless, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:51, archived)
# ie displays title as well though
does it not? I thought alt had been abandoned in favour of title?
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:48, archived)
# I think just title works
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:49, archived)
# YAY
I can never see enough of that dog. Well done 100% Rogan! ;)
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:51, archived)
# nope can't see nothin
in IE.
You probably need to do both, to cover everybody.
edit:Sorry, you get the title as a tooltip in IE, and the alt text while the picture loads/borks
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:52, archived)
# works for me
i'm using ie 6 on win98

yes yes i know that's very old.
(I helped save b3ta! KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:54, archived)
# I can
in IE 6.0.200000000000000000sdf00sdfhkjhfkas
(I helped save b3ta! A good man, and thorough, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:54, archived)
# the baord uses "title"
to display "I helped save b3ta" on the donation icons, so it must work in all formats.

I know by the way, don't shout, I'm unemployed :)
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:55, archived)
# I can see it!
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:55, archived)
# not on the board, cal disabled it or disabled a load of stuff that happened to include it.
Alt is all that words on here i think.
Well last time I saw bananaman ranting about it it was ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:53, archived)
# cal
turned it back on
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:07, archived)
# woo for Cal! then
you an say what you like about Cal Rob and Pep...

because their name doesn't show up in an egospazz ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:11, archived)
# It
Does.
(I helped save b3ta! Collatallie Sisters, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:54, archived)
# that doesn't work in all browsers...
i think you may have to use title="whatever" to get it to work on mozilla... i think...
edit: argh... b3tan to it and far more coherently...
(I helped save b3ta! eclectech is older but no wiser, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:48, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:45, archived)
# that!
is exactly what I was trying to describe, thanks. Thankyou to all y'all alt recommenders too.
(coldcoffee, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:46, archived)
# well...


Hmmm, looks like I've broken mine slightly somewhere along the way though! I've knocked th ealignment all to buggery. Ah well. It can be done in most webserver side languages. Some have used PHP, others ASP, and I've used perl. And I think flibz used coldfusion.
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:48, archived)
# Ooh
I think the knocked alignment gives it charm and panache, so well done you. I'm impressed, frankly.
(coldcoffee, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:53, archived)
# can you make the blank sign
in the background say something?
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:55, archived)
# that was discussed
back when this one first appeared. The answer is easy: yes of course, it's possible. But you'd not fit much on there. This one was only ever a prototype anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:00, archived)
# a picture then
?
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:03, archived)
# yeah
The perl thingy I used to do it (Imagemagick) is pretty powerful - it can do a lot of the things a desktop package can do but on the webserver (convert, crop, resize, merge images, add text, filters, generate animations, and so on).

This thing is one of the many project type things I never seem to get back to so I can push it as far as the ideas I have for it have gone!

edit - just read back that last sentence. It lost grammatical integrity somewhere. Ah well, I'll take that as my 'go to bed' cue!
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:14, archived)
# night
!
(I helped save b3ta! kitty meow meow, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 1:20, archived)
# or if you're taking about
a kins of spech bubble, where you can add the required text to the URL and the speech bubble comes out with said text?

Yes it's a php thig. I don't know how it's done, but you can make your own in m3ss3ng3r thanks to the genius of Flibz.

*edit* and Witchy does very nice ones too ;)*/edit*
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:46, archived)
# hmm
Though sadly the Make Yer Own link doesn't appear to be working at the moment. It's as if I'm *plagued*, it really is.
(coldcoffee, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:49, archived)