I am unable to correctly return the url of an uploaded asset

Question

I'm a newcomer to Craft from the far-off lands of WordPress. I hope my stay is long and fruitful, but at the moment that prospect is in danger. The problem I'm having must be embarrassingly simple, but I can't find my way through it.

The simple task I am attempting to accomplish it to display an image I uploaded to an entry via a new asset field.

If there is a method or practice for displaying an image via asset fields found on the internet, I have tried it. Currently, this is how I am trying to render the image in my twig file:

{% for image in entry.featuredImage %}
    <img src="{{ image.url }}" alt="blah">
{% endfor %}

No image shows up.

When I dump(image), should it be returning an array with 666 lines? I understand an asset returns a kind of Asset File Model (although I don't entirely understand what that means), but I find it hard to believe it's supposed to be that large.

Hoping to find at least the url of the asset, I perform dump(image.url), but it only returns bool(false). Why would it be doing that?

I created my uploads directory, and setup my asset source. I've tried doing this on an entirely fresh, up-to-date and clean install, but it still behaves the same way.

What am I missing or doing wrong?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I found the answer in a similar post here: Image asset url is not being output

My problem was with my Asset Source settings. Now that I think about it, it's obvious: I had no public URL declared for assets from my 'Uploads' source. Giving that a public url fixed the problem.

As I said, it's obvious now, but it'd be nice in the documentation could make even just a small reference to this.

Answer 2

{% set image = entry.featuredImage.first() %}
{% if image %}
    <img src="{{ image.url }}"/>
{% endif %}