Proper use of system variables?

[StuTheDog]

Hi, I'm trying to display an image for my home page, but the system fails to substitute [template] in the code below. This code is in the Header portion of Home, I've also tried dropping it directly into Home.html.

<TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%; BACKGROUND: #ffffff" id=Table1 border=1 border-color=blue cellSpacing=3 cellPadding=3>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD class=data>
<img src="assets/templates/[template]/images/home.gif" alt="" >
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

[maksum]

Yeah, I've noticed that some files take those variables and others do not. These are the alternate routes I take:

• If you're not planning on swapping out your templates, just throw the template name in there
• Place the image in the common folder and reference it there (as long as it's a unique image and not one that 3dcart may update)
• Place the image in "assets/images/" and reference it there.

Just my thoughts.

[StuTheDog]

Thanks, I've taken to hardcoding the layout name but like your suggestion of assets/images better...

On another note I sent you a private email asking if you could elaborate to this thick skull what I need to do to paste code on this board? I used the [CODE] tags but they seem to get ignored, so if I try pasting some html that defines table elements the board attempts to render them rather than display the code. Check out my latest post in feature requests...

Thanks, I'm learning a lot from you!

Steve

[maksum]

That's a good question. Seems that sometimes it posts for me and other times it does not. I've had to add spaces to the < and > parts of tags and placed a note to omit the spaces. Othertimes it posts just fine if I use the [ code ] tags.

:confused: