tag:forums.movabletype.org,2011://24/tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306- 2011-09-01T02:20:25Z Comments for Asset ID from Label Movable Type 4.292 tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306 2010-01-21T03:58:57Z 2010-09-13T12:48:08Z Asset ID from Label I have an asset's Label (the title text you type above its description) and need to get the asset's ID. Can anyone suggest a technique for doing so? The scenario is this: I've gotten the Entry Body, and it contains... MG I have an asset's Label (the title text you type above its description) and need to get the asset's ID. Can anyone suggest a technique for doing so?

The scenario is this: I've gotten the Entry Body, and it contains an image embedded in the text by the author. The image's alt tag contains the image's label. I can get the label into a variable. Now I want to use that to call up the ID of the asset with that label. I'm willing to assume that this post only has one asset with this particular Label.

thanks!

]]> tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306-comment:35996 Comment from Mike T on 2010-01-21 Mike T The better question is how you are adding the asset to the page. Are you using mt asset tags or creating the link yourself?

]]> 2010-01-21T11:43:47Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306-comment:36022 Comment from MG on 2010-01-21 MG The author's adding the image in the body of the post; MovableType is adding the HTML and associating the asset with the post. So, as it currently stands, the template developer (me) doesn't get a chance to add the image by using asset tags *or* by writing out the HTML for the image.

When MovableType adds the image to the post's body, it inserts code that looks like this:


<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display:
inline;"><img alt="Thumbnail image for 349px-Glass_of_Jamesons.jpg"
src="http://obscured.org/test2010/assets_c/2010/01/349px-Glass_of_Jamesons-
thumb-200x343.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;
float: left;" width="200" height="343" /></span>


That's why I need to use the asset label to get the ID. The only identifying info in there is the label and the filepath (and perhaps the image size).

Once I have that, I intend to do a regex_replace to replace the old code for the image with better code. -- and *then* I'll finally be using asset tags to write the images.

]]> 2010-01-21T16:36:23Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306-comment:36232 Comment from François Nonnenmacher on 2010-01-26 François Nonnenmacher I think the Better File Upload plugin will set you up. Otherwise you have two options:
- modify the template that MT uses to generate that piece of code, and place an AssetID tag where you need it
- write a plugin that does the same on the fly

]]> 2010-01-26T08:46:23Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306-comment:36242 Comment from MG on 2010-01-26 MG Thanks, Francois. The first two options failed me (well, Better File Upload didn't fail me, but I'm not using it, so...) and the third is what I'm hacking at.

This is currently working for me (hack warning!):

<mt:ignore>
	For all of this post's assets, find which ones the
	author inserted into the story.
</mt:ignore>
<mt:Assets>
	<mt:AssetLabel setvar="my_asset_label" />
	<mt:ignore>
		Is the asset label text within the body content?
		The 'like' pattern must *not* be within regex
		pattern delimiters:
	</mt:ignore>
	<mt:if name="body_content"
	like="$my_asset_label">
		<mt:ignore>
			Set the rest of the variables
			set up the replacement text
			Replace images with MT formatting w/ my image
			HTML
		</mt:ignore>
		<mt:AssetID setvar="my_asset_id" />
		<mt:ignore>
			MovableType's default image block (when using MT
			4.21, anyway)
		</mt:ignore>
		<mt:SetVarBlock name="new_image_block">
		A block of image code including: <mt:var
		name="my_asset_id">
		</mt:SetVarBlock>
	</mt:if>
	<blockquote style="background:
	#ff0;"><mt:var
	name="my_asset_label"></blockquote>
</mt:Assets>
]]> 2010-01-26T15:28:20Z tag:forums.movabletype.org,2010://24.19306-comment:46755 Comment from hurriyet on 2010-09-13 hurriyet The author's adding the image in the body of the post; MovableType is adding the HTML and associating the asset with the post. So, as it currently stands, the template developer (me) doesn't get a chance to add the image by using asset tags *or* by writing out the HTML for the image.

]]> 2010-09-13T12:48:08Z