How do I get the URL of an image inside a module directory?

Question

In the directory containing a custom module, I have a directory containing images.

How do I get the URL of those images?

Kagu

Answer 1

drupal_get_path('module', $module_name);

Phycomycete

Answer 2

The easiest way, like referred above, is to use the relative path to site root:

'/' . drupal_get_path('module', $module_name) . '/img1.jpg'

Using it without the trailing slash in the beginning would break it on multiple level aliases, e.g. http://www.your_site.dev/category/2012/11/02/

Hardie

Thanks! drupal_get_path() without a preceding slash was messing me up. – Cinchonine

Answer 3

A more complete example that works in Drupal 7 and 8. All other answers just show how to return the path to the module but not how to actually make a URL out of it.

<?php
$module_path = drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule');
$image_path = "$module_path/images/img1.jpg";
$image_url = file_create_url($image_path);

Gloam

Answer 4

// path
drupal_get_path('module', $module_name) . '/images';

file_create_url( drupal_get_path('module', $module_name) ) . '/images';

Hebrides

Incorrect. The file_create_url will always work in relation to default/files not the module directory so the URLs would end up like your_site.dev/sites/default/files/sites/all/modules/your_module/… which is incorrect. – Hardie

Yes, correct. file_code_url will return the URL under /sites/default/files. Thanks. – Hebrides

Answer 5

To get proper URL of your image you need to append base_path() at the beginning of your image path. The correct URL would be:

$url = base_path() . drupal_get_path("module", "MY_MODULE") . "/image.png";

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