Thanks for welcoming,

erturanya — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:23:19 +0000

Thanks for welcoming, pr0gr4mm3r.

Exteremely helpful. Thank you so much.

So i applied as follows:

echo ("
  <div class='sub15'><img src='images/os/$system.gif' /></div>
  /* Where $system = $row['config_os']; */

it worked nicely. Thanks for help.

Hi erturanya, welcome to

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:13:00 +0000

Hi erturanya, welcome to TWF.

What I would do is output the HTML and then insert the MySQL field as the image name. So when you are ready to output the image, do something like this:

<img src="images/os/<?=$row['config_os']?>.gif">

If you don't have short tags enabled, something like this will work as well:

<img src="images/os/<?php echo $row['config_os']; ?>.gif">

So as long as you have an image in that directory with the file name matching all the database fields (case sensitive), it will work w/o a problem.

If you want to catch any possible file not found errors, you can do something like this:

<?php
if (file_exists('images/os/' . $row['config_os'] . '.gif'))
{
    echo '<img src="images/os/' . $row['config_os'] . '.gif">';
else
{
    echo '<img src="images/os/na.gif">';
}
?>

The na.gif file can be some sort of generic icon instead of it being a broken/404 image link.

Doing it this way will allow you to add operating systems options without changing any code in this area. All you would have to do would be to create it as an option in your form and upload the image icon to the icon folder.