How to add a link to an image in a view

Question

I have a view that is showing a single image, and I need the image to link to a specific URL, but when I try using Rewrite Results on the field it will still show the image but doesn't add the link.

I have tried both "Rewrite the output of this field" putting in <a href="http://example.com">[field_file]</a> and "Output this field as a link" putting http://example.com in the field and neither of those ways worked.

How can I rewrite the field to have the link on the image?

Answer 1

You can use the image url formatter module to output the path to the image. Then do like you tried before to Rewrite Results and add the markup.

<a href="http://www.example.com"><img src="[field_file]" /></a>

Answer 2

1. global $base_path;

get the base path (if you globally declared in settings.php)

2. $profile_pic= !empty($data->_field_data['uid']['entity']->field_profile_pic) ? $data->_field_data['uid']['entity']->field_profile_pic : "";

Get the image field url from $data.

3. $Logo = file_create_url($profile_pic['und'][0]['uri']);

Get the URI of that image value if the image is present store that URI

$link_path = "path to where the link has to go on clicking the image"; print the image under a link

<a href="<?php print $link_path;?>"><img alt="profile picture" src='<?php print $Logo.'?'.time();?>' width="126" height= "173"></a>

here the time is to avoid cache problem with image in drupal it will retrive the latest image from the server.

hope this helps