best way to give editors ability to assign background images in drupal 6
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22-07-2019 - |
Question
I've got a design in drupal that calls for a different background image on different pages. I'd like to make it easy for the site editors to assign the image. My first thought was adding a cck field to the Page type where they could assign the image. That will work nicely for node pages, but won't work for views pages. I guess instead of creating the views pages directly, I could wrap them in nodes.
My other idea is to create a BGImage cck type, and then some kind of matrix page where they can assign a given BGImage node to a content node or view, but that sounds complex.
Any better ideas out there? (In a way, this is akin to controlling block visibility, I suppose.)
Solution
I would indeed suggest to wrap them into nodes, the Views Attach Module might help here.
OTHER TIPS
After creating a content type to use as a repository for background images, I think that it would be a fairly quick module to give you a block with dropdown box to choose from uploaded images.
Look up hook_block for the only hook you'll need.
if $op == view pseudocode follows (but it should be clear enough to go on)
$res = db_query('select field_my_image_fid FROM {mycontenttype}');
while ($img = db_fetch_obj($res) {
$my_content .= $img->whatever
return array(
'subject' => '<none>',
'content' => $my_content
)