Cannot display images in assets folder

[eluser]Cgull[/eluser]
Hello,

I am using codeingniter 2.0.3

My folders are:

orders
-application
-assets
-images

In my images folder I have an image called: calendar.jpg

I call this image in one of my view like this:

Code:

<img src="&lt;?php echo base_url();?&gt;assets/images/calendar.jpg" />

The image is not displayed.

When I go to the page source and try to go to the image I get the page not found.

My htaccess file:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|robots|\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /orders/index.php/$1 [L]

I want to use this image as the icon for the datepicker, and since the image is not displayed, I just put in a view to see if it is found.

So my first question is why can't the image be found.
My second question is how will I add the image to the jquery datepicker code? Will I have to hard code the path like so:

Code:

buttonImage: "http://localhost/orders/assets/images/calendar.jpg"

?

Can someone help and tell me why the image is not found?

Thank you.

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But it helped many others including me

[eluser]Cgull[/eluser]
Great, now I don't feel like such a big idiot lol