I'd recommend a custom tag for URL's that get pulled from the DB for a
couple of reasons - it probably won't be long before you'll want to offload
them from serving directly from the DB, so the URL could switch, scriptlets
are *bad* (in a Struts environment). You'll want to direct the URL to a
servlet that reads it from the DB and serves up the proper MIME type.
We did this in my last extensive Struts endeavor and made the URL's part of
a properties file so that for development purposes they could serve straight
from a DB accessing servlet, and in a production environment the URL's
generated were being served directly from Apache and the images got
automatically pulled to static files from the DB when they did not exist in
the "cache".
Erik
p.s. And no, you can't nest taglibs like that. :)
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From: "Sean Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: dynamic images
> I think you will need to do this:
>
> <html:img src="<%=card.getImageLink()%>" ...
>
> As far as I know you can't nest tags like this. If someone has a better
way
> I'd like to see it!
>
> Sean
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Henrick Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 6:58 PM
> Subject: dynamic images
>
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > how can I display images whose source URL comes from the database? and
how
> > can I display it's corresponding alt property?
> >
> > I keep getting an error message on this code:
> >
> > <html:img src="<bean:write name="card" property="imageLink">"
> width="168.5"
> > height="88" border="1" align="texttop" alt ="bean:write name="card"
> > property="imageDescription" />
> >
> > thanx.
> >
> > h
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