Thumbnails fun (CropImage)

[Peter Knight]

I have an image field as follows:

Max files allowed = 1

Formatted value = Automatic

Inputfield = cropimage

If I follow the instructions here, this needs to be my echo call 
 

<?php echo $page->photo_for_course->getThumb('crop-for-course-detail'); ?>

But this just outputs the fullpath as a string. The documentations states that "getThumb returns url to the thumbnail you have asked for". So I then thought I needed to tag an ->url on the end as follows

<?php echo $page->photo_for_course->getThumb('crop-for-course-detail')->url; ?>

It's not a first() issue as the file only allows for one image so Im a bit stuck.

I've achieved this before but was using the $pages API and had a foreach loop. Surely I don't need to foreach here as I'm only using a single image?

Thanks in advance. I feel like it's you guys that are building this site :-/

[GuruMeditation]

I just usually do something along these lines....

<?php
$thumb = $page->cropimage->getThumb('thumbnail');
echo "<img src='{$thumb}' alt='{$page->cropimage->description}'>";
?>

[Peter Knight]

Yep - You just bet me too it. I eventually tried creating a variable first and then passing the value to the echo thingy.

BTW, re. variables -  my wife came into the office yesterday and I must have looked particularly grumpy. The conversation went kind of like this:

Her: whats wrong?
Me: oh...just bloody variables

Her: Bloody fairy balls? I thought you were having ProcessWire problems!

Well, it made me laugh and got rid of my grump.

[GuruMeditation]

  You should create a variable called $fairyballs, and then explain to her that your $fairyballs variable is giving you ballache.

[Peter Knight]

@GuruMeditation

The tone of this thread could rapidly diminish!

[Martijn Geerts]

Peter, I see a new avatar, but... where's the tattoo ?