[wp-hackers] Images attached to posts/pages?

[Bryan Harley]

Say I have a photo already in the Media Library and I want to attach
it to a certain post.  How do I do that?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> Attachments are essentially children of the post they're attached to.
>
> They have the post_parent set to the id of the post, and they have a
> post_type of "attachment".
>
> To get attachments of a post:
> $attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post_id,
> 'post_type' => 'attachment') );
>
> To only get image attachments:
> $attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $id, 'post_type'
> => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image') );
>
>
> Once you have that, you can basically do this sort of thing:
> foreach ( $attachments as $att_id => $attachment )
>     echo wp_get_attachment_link($att_id, $size, true);
>
> And so forth. There's several wp_get_attachment_* functions you can
> use to get various bits from the attachment posts, once you have their
> id's.
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Bryan Harley <bryanharley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can someone explain the concept of how an image (when uploaded via the
>> "Edit Post" or "Edit Page" pages) becomes attached to said post or
>> page?
>>
>> If I were to go to the "About" page and upload 4 images from the image
>> uploader and not insert any of these into my post body... those 4
>> images are still associated will that page, correct?
>>
>> Is there any way to pull these images via PHP?  Is there a template or
>> reference tag?  I can use the [gallery] shortcode, but what if I
>> wanted the images displayed in a lightbox gallery for example?
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