How to use images from themes/third_party folder in a plugin?

Question

I am writing a simple plugin and I want to use some images within the plugin. I assume that the *themes/third_party*-folder is the right place for those. How can I use them? I cannot link to them directly (e.g. <img src="/themes/third_party/...") because the folder is not directly accessible.

Answer 1

ExpressionEngine have Path Constants. You can use PATH_THIRD_THEMES. You should have image path like:

$img = "<img src='".PATH_THIRD_THEMES."IMAGE_NAME' />";

I hope, it would help you.