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I have uploaded an image to skin1/images, put the following code on a static page
<td width=20% align=center> <img src="{$/ImagesDir}/people1.jpg" alt="Customer reviews" /></td>
The image does not show, only the alt text is visable where the image should be.
The image is in the file as i have checked with FTP.
Where am i going wrong?

Re: Upload img
 

You have an inadvertent backslash:
change {$/ImagesDir} to {$ImagesDir}

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Hi I have removed the inadvertent backlash but image still not showing.

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Have you tried running cleanup.php?

When you view the html source - is the path to the image as you expect it to be? You should see the correct path in your html source: <img src="/skin1/images/people1.jpg" alt="Customer reviews" />

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As to running cleanup.php, no i have not.
I am not sure how i see the correct html source?

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To view the html, look in the browser's menu, for something like View->Page Source or Page->View Source

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This is what i see
<td width=20% align=center<img src="{$ImagesDir}/people1.jpg" alt="Customer reviews" /></td>
Which is not what you thought....any ideas as to why the correct path is not showing?

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There is a setting somewhere to parse smarty on static pages - let me look for it....

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General Settings -> Miscellaneous -> Parse Smarty tags in the content of embedded static pages:

Select this check box if
you want your static pages to be treated as templates.

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This box is unchecked are you saying that the box should be checked, if so what does this do and will it affect my store in other ways?

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If you want to put smarty tags in your static pages - then they need to be parsed and compiled - so you would need to check the box.

It should not affect the rest of your store. The difference will be that it will take some added amount of time & resources to compile your static pages for the smarty. The added time is likely not significant.

If you prefer not to have that done - you can use the absolute link to the image in your static page, and avoid using smarty

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Thanks for the solution gb2world, i had re-aplied the absolute link to the static page, the reason why i tried smarty is the help guide http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=21529 which states a security issue so i thought i would give it a try.
I will try out your sugestion, thanks again gb2world....

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It is not really a security issue - but the problem is you may get security warnings on some browsers if you use absolute paths to the images - which will scare off customers.

So - if you used an "http://" in the absolute link to the image - and if your cart is set up so that the static page can be accessed with an "https://" - you will get a security warning. I think if you set up the absolute link with "/skin1/images/people1.jpg" on your static pages, you'll probably be okay.

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