Linking to Phanfare images and videos from other websites
From Phanfare Support
You can link directly to your Phanfare images and videos from other websites. This can be useful for embedding images or videos in forums, blogs, on Ebay or on a related website that you control. This is commonly called image or video hosting.
To embed an image or video from one of your albums, that image or video must be available without an access password. You can change the security of a single album within Phanfare or change the security of your whole site.
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Discovering the unique URL for an image
Through your Phanfare site
When viewing an image, click on the Get Image URL in the Album/Image Options menu. The image will display by itself with its external URL shown in the address bar
If you use Microsoft Windows
To discover the unique URL for a particular image, right click on a photo within Phanfare Photo and choose "Link to image" as shown below.
Provided that the image is open to the public, a dialog box will appear that will give you the unique URL. Note that to make use of this URL you may need a knowledge of HTML.
The dialog that comes up looks like this:
This is the link to an album from one of our sample albums. Your own links will show your username in the front, rather than "public." The numerical parts are unique to your image. The final filename is arbitrary and ignored by Phanfare. Some forums require that an external link have a particular file extension. You can craft whatever extension you want when linking to the image.
Note that if you are writing your own HTML, you need to wrap the url for the image in an img tag, as follows:
<img src="http://public.phanfare.com/show/external/628/629/14723/file.jpg"/>
In our example, the final image will look like this:
If you use a Mac
Select the image you would like to have the link for and then right-click on it and select "Copy Link" from the menu as shown below. Your link will be copied to the clipboard and is ready for pasting.
Alternatively, you can bring up the image or video information by selecting the image or video and selecting 'Show Info' from the 'Images/Videos' menu or pressing Apple-I. Once the dialog is up, you can click 'Copy Link' to copy the external link to the clipboard.
If you want the html you need to embed an image in a website, right-click on the image and select "Copy HTML Code" as shown below.
Discovering the unique URL for a video
If you use Microsoft Windows
To discover the unique URL for a particular video, right click on the video within Phanfare Photo and choose "Link to image" as shown below.
Provided that the image is open to the public, a dialog box will appear as shown below that will give you HTML that you need to embed the video in another site.
The dialog that comes up looks like this:
This is the link to an album from one of our sample albums. Your own links will show your username in them, rather than "public."
If you use a Mac
To get the HTML code you will need to embed the video in another site, right click on the video within Phanfare Photo and choose "Copy HTML Code" (as shown below). Provided that the image is open to the public, a dialog box will appear that will give you HTML that you need to embed the video in another site.
An example
The video in the Public Family album has the following HTML blob:
<object width="320" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://public.phanfare.com/video/3;6088890;"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://public.phanfare.com/video/3;6088890;" width="320" height="300" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
Here it is, inlined in these support pages: