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Obtain ALT for PageList Block Thumbnail

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Hi everybody,

I was wondering if there's a way to obtain alt attribute (Title, in File Manager) from a thumbnail image when you create a custom page list template, for SEO purposes.

What I´m looking for is something like this

<?php  echo $thumb->alt ?>


Thanks in advance
thenine
 
pvernaglia replied on at Permalink Reply
pvernaglia
You could make a file attribute called "alt" then use 
echo $f->getAttribute('alt')

$f might not be the right file object, depending on your template

http://www.weblicating.com/cheat-sheet/...
thenine replied on at Permalink Reply
thenine
Thanks, but I was looking how to extract the Title attribute from the file stored in File Manager.

Actually I just solved it, so here's my solution: I found the method getTitle, my problem was I was then I needed an object to use this method with

Using the code that page list provides I realized that $img is in fact an object so I can use the getTitle method.

$img = $page->getAttribute('example_image_attribute_handle');
$thumb = $ih->getThumbnail($img, 64, 9999, false);
$thumbTitle = $img->getTitle();


I realized this looking at Image Helper functions page (http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/files/helpers)

I´m not a developer and my PHP knowledge is pretty basic, so I´m not sure how clean is this, but it really works.