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Joomla constant to current template path

Look at https://gist.github.com/leFlea-snippets/4602845 PHP: Joomla - Get active template path // Get active template path from anywhere on Joomla: $app = JFactory::getApplication(); $path = ...
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Can Joomla be used as a photo gallery for large amounts of images?

When you choose a CMS, you are usually best picking the one which has the most features you need out-of-the-box. The rest you will have to build for yourself (unless an extension does exactly what ...
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Ajax error when attempting component updates

I recently encountered this XMLHttpRequest error myself. The root of the problem caused 3 different issues. SOLUTION: In my case, the problem was caused by an incorrect setting for the public $...
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Random image in an article

You have to use a more specific CSS selector in order to target only the main image, and not all images added to an article. The main article image (added through the "Images and links" tab in the ...
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Can't insert intro/full article image

You have either some files corrupted on update, or some outdated server software. Overwrite your web-site with Joomla 3.6.0 full package to be sure it's no a file corruption (extract the Joomla full ...
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Edit multiple images at once

An alternative way to do this is to apply the margins via a suitable CSS selector in a custom CSS file. You can limit the styling to a single page if you want by using a page class and including this ...
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get intro-image from article?

When developing, error reporting should be enabled. You'll see this: Notice: Undefined property: Joomla\CMS\Table\Content::$item Access the images like this: $images = $article->images;
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How to prevent Article images width being stretched to 100%

Normally you won't find good answers that are specific to the template you use. All templates are different. I visited your page and in your case you have this in your template CSS (line 3891 in http:...
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Add html to Article Image captions

The issue with the answer given in that other question is that it requires edits to Joomla core files so site updates eventually will undo your changes. That'll create a maintenance issue for you (ie, ...
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Define a default intro image on article submissions

You would want to put this as a template override for com_content. Depending on whether you want it to appear on the category page or single article, the file would go /templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/html/...
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Latest articles structured data markup

I would have preferred to just suggest some touch ups to your snippet, but there is too much for me to address in your answer as a comment and I'd rather explain fully. Instead, I'll post this new ...
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Force users to upload images with a given ratio

You can maybe "cosider" some users dont have the image In this ratio. You can use JCE editor with plugin image manager extended to possibility user crop his image in this ratio. https://www....
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How to use images from the domain images folder for all subdomains?

If your sites are on Apache web server, you can share images folder from one site to the other, by creating symbolic links. With this technique I successfully created common images folder, which is ...
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Enable 'Title' attribute for images with TinyMCE Editor

The current version of TinyMCE (v4.4.3) now seems to have this option enabled (see below).
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Edit multiple images at once

Sure there is an easier way of doing what you need, and also any other batch change in article... I've been doing it for ages... But for that you have to use editor more suitable for programmers than ...
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Random image in an article

This might not be the exact answer you are looking for, but if it is for a full website you are developing and not only for a template that you want to distribute, then the following ideas could work ...
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Get Category intro image in the index.php

Knowing a tiny bit about the joomla request-reponse lifecycle will help here. Joomla runs in the following order: 1. bootstrap the application 2. router 3. component (including your own layout ...
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Images appear in backend but not in frontend

Two possibilities I can think of: Installing the extension has changed the base tag. View the source and make sure this is still pointing to the site root, so that relative links to images/ are ...
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Ajax error when attempting component updates

Update I had the issue again today, renaming the htaccess only without disabling Admin Tools and then updating worked for me. So it seems to have to do with the rules, set in the htaccess by Admin ...
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Why is there no way to show intro image in single article page?

I don't agree. I never use the same image as intro- and full-text image. If you want to do that, it's very simple to copy/paste from intro- to full-text image, when have picked the into. And if you ...
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Additional "Images And Links" fields - corect way

I would suggest using Joomla custom fields instead. The media field should work: https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Adding_custom_fields/Media_Field
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Programmatically set article image

I don't see set() in the JTable docs. You also need to remember to re-encode the full column value before storing. The following is an untested snippet. $db = JFactory::getDbo(); $query = $db->...
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Mod_Feed removing the strip image function what do the True & False do?

The arguments for JHtmlString::truncate() are: string $text The text to truncate. integer $length The maximum length of the text. boolean $noSplit Don't split a word if that is where ...
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Photo size validation

I think I have a good idea where the error is. You are using $this->getFileName() to get the files original name, then you mutate the filename using normalize(). At this point you have a new file ...
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How can I add height and width attributes to an image in a menu?

Your attributes are added only when image class is set. If you want dimensions on all images, move the code outside of $item->menu_image_css check: if ($item->menu_image) { $image_attributes[...
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Is there a way to use an SVG image in Cassiopeia

I don't know if you figure it out yet. Hopefully you did, But just in case for other to want the answer. In Joomla 4 you have tod, in the media manager add "svg" to supported file extensions ...
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override for /layouts/joomla/content/full_image.php // alt attributes for images in Joomla 4

I found a way to solve it: if(empty($images->image_fulltext_alt) && empty($images->image_fulltext_alt_empty)) { $alt = $item->title; } else { $alt = $images->image_fulltext_alt; } ...
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Add intro or full image to a component/module Joomla 4

You can get the equivalent of what you had in Joomla 3 by going into System / Templates then clicking on Cassiopeia (or whatever site template you're using) Details and Files, and then creating a ...
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Add title to image tag

It's not clear what the screenshot is supposed to show and what is the context. Where do you add those images? When editing a Joomla article, you can add images through the Images tab, and there you ...
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Get Category intro image in the index.php

Firstly, the only code that should go into index.php is code that should appear on every page. What you want to do is on the category view, so your code should go in the category view override. It is ...
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