Re: Background image in css for email from component
Re: Background image in css for email from component
- Subject: Re: Background image in css for email from component
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:12:04 -0400
Ken,
The answers on the list seem to be going around in circles.
I don't know why you are getting the incorrect paths to your resources.
Do paths work in regular pages (images etc)?
To confirm this is in development? With direct connect disabled?
D
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David LeBer
Codeferous Software
On 2013-06-26, at 3:39 PM, Johnny Miller <email@hidden> wrote:
> Are you using a stylesheet or inlining the style?
>
> Aloha,
> Mr. Johnny Miller
> Web Development Manager
> Kahalawai Media Company
> Lahaina, HI 96761
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> On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Ken Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Well, Apple Mail does, and so do the other clients I've tested.
>>
>> Any idea why my resources are so screwy?
>>
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Johnny Miller <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Ken,
>>>
>>> I believe most mail clients don't support CSS background images.
>>>
>>> Aloha,
>>> Mr. Johnny Miller
>>> Web Development Manager
>>> Kahalawai Media Company
>>> Lahaina, HI 96761
>>> tel: (808) 661-7962 | mobile: (808) 283-0791
>>> website | e-mail
>>>
>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Ken Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK - still driving me crazy.
>>>>
>>>> If I ask WOResourceManager for the url, I get this:
>>>>
>>>> /WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>
>>>> but that path doesn't work. If I put the machine in front:
>>>>
>>>> http://127.0.0.1/WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>
>>>> still wrong. I need to add Contents after the woa:
>>>>
>>>> http://127.0.0.1/WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/Contents/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>
>>>> THAT URL works.
>>>>
>>>> So, do I have something configured wrong somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> If I put the image in a WOImage, I get this ing src:
>>>>
>>>> <img src="/fit/-6666/wr/wodata=/Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png" width="800" height="600" />
>>>>
>>>> I can only assume this happens on a local machine, even though I have direct connect turned OFF and I'm definitely running everything through Apache.
>>>>
>>>> Ken
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:57 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Or how to do it with WO, which I wrote from one of your emails :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WOCOM/Emails
>>>>>
>>>>> Problem:
>>>>> Your HTML email have images that you want to display inline.
>>>>>
>>>>> Solution:
>>>>> If you have a WebObjects Component and you want to send inline images with the component, you have to make use of a trick, that was mentioned in Fabian Peters mail on the Wonder Discussion mailinglist on 6 june 2009.
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, in the Component HTML one includes something like this:
>>>>> <img src="cid:image0" alt="Logo" />
>>>>>
>>>>> The code that accompanies this cid:image0 is:
>>>>> URL logoURL = myApp().resourceManager().pathURLForResourceNamed("logo.png", null, null);
>>>>> File logo = new File(logoURL.toURI());
>>>>> ERMailAttachment imageLogo = new ERMailFileAttachment("logo.png","<image0>",logo);
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that the file "logo.png" has to be included in the Resources folder of you WebObjects project.
>>>>> The "cid:image0" is linked to the <image0> in the ImageAttachment.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Or if you want to include the image in the mail, you'll have to reference it by CID: <img src="cid:image0" width="274" height="61" alt="Logo" />
>>>>>> See <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4312687/how-to-embed-images-in-email>
>>>>>> I've never used this for CSS background images though.
>>>>>> Fabian
>>>>>> Am 26.06.2013 um 17:32 schrieb James Cicenia:
>>>>>>> The image has to be public. So you could just store a url to the public image.
>>>>>>> Otherwise:
>>>>>>>> /Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>>>> does look correct. It is the actual path to the image which the server needs to server it up.
>>>>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Ken Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Gang,
>>>>>>>> This is driving me nuts so hopefully someone has an easy answer.
>>>>>>>> In a component I'm using with ERMailDeliveryHTML I want to grab a background image for the email:
>>>>>>>> body
>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>> background-image:url(<webobject name="BackgroundURL"/>);
>>>>>>>> background-color:#ffffff;
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> BackgroundURL : WOString {
>>>>>>>> value = backgroundURL;
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> public String backgroundURL() {
>>>>>>>> return WOApplication.application().resourceManager().urlForResourceNamed("emailBackground.png", null, null, null);
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> I've tried everything including using a method to build the URL by asking WOResourceManager for the URL for the resource.
>>>>>>>> If I put the image in a WOImage to try and steal the URL, this is what I get:
>>>>>>>> <img src="/fit/-6666/wr/wodata=/Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png" width="800" height="600" />
>>>>>>>> even though I'm not using direct connect, which is confusing to me.
>>>>>>>> Is this just because I want to make this work in Development?
>>>>>>>> Thanks for any thoughts! It was great to see many of you this past weekend and I hope to see you next year!
>>>>>>>> Ken
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