[tlwwolfseye]

I just wondered why you said when no URL then attachment. But it would be good if it would also mean that if no URL and no attachment, then just the NOIMAGE thing.

[Bernd]

Originally Posted by tlwwolfseye

Would it be possible that the attached image, when used for that, would only show in the Thread Thumbnail and not also attached below or in the posting ?



And in case someone doesn´t want to add a Image, how about also allowing that. In that case it would just show the NoImage picture. Should be up to the poster I think. He doesn´t have to.

It would be nice if adding an image attachment is an optional REQUIREMENT. For example, one could create a simple gallery this way and have all the images hosted on their own site instead of annoying hosts like imageshack. Furthermore, image attachments can be automatically thumbnailed by simple adding &thumb=1 behind the url. This means, true resizing of the image using GD instead of scaling an external image using width or height (which should never be done).

Attachments can be filtered for images with the following query
WHERE (attachment.extension = 'jpg' OR attachment.extension = 'gif' OR attachment.extension = 'png')

In short,
-allow attachments.
-option that sets an image attachment as a requirement.
-allow external images.

[Veer]

I think both (URL and Attachment) options are good and should be available.

[Bill from Cleve]

Looks like a great feature! I'm going to wait for the Automatic Template Edits version though.

[nooofe]

Thanks

[Null Parameter]

Originally Posted by tlwwolfseye

I just wondered why you said when no URL then attachment. But it would be good if it would also mean that if no URL and no attachment, then just the NOIMAGE thing.

I just meant that both are supported, but if a URL isn't specified then the Attachment will be used.

Originally Posted by Bernd

It would be nice if adding an image attachment is an optional REQUIREMENT. For example, one could create a simple gallery this way and have all the images hosted on their own site instead of annoying hosts like imageshack. Furthermore, image attachments can be automatically thumbnailed by simple adding &thumb=1 behind the url. This means, true resizing of the image using GD instead of scaling an external image using width or height (which should never be done).

Attachments can be filtered for images with the following query
WHERE (attachment.extension = 'jpg' OR attachment.extension = 'gif' OR attachment.extension = 'png')

In short,
-allow attachments.
-option that sets an image attachment as a requirement.
-allow external images.

Thanks for the bit about being able to automatically thumbnail the attachments, that will come in handy.

Originally Posted by Bill from Cleve

Looks like a great feature! I'm going to wait for the Automatic Template Edits version though.

That will be out in the next version hopefully, so stay tuned.


Thanks everybody for the positive and helpful comments, I'll try to get these changes out as soon as possible.

[mindhunter77]

I'm not speaking to your MOD specifically, just mods that do this in general. This is a neat feature to have but unfortunately it ads some high overhead as all the thumbs on the page are usually served up by php, requiring more php processes and on large forums that's an issue.

If you could figure out how to serve the image thumbs through direct links, that would be much better.

Take a look at this, he has the right idea here, though this will only work with nginx

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=207566

[Null Parameter]

Originally Posted by mindhunter77

I'm not speaking to your MOD specifically, just mods that do this in general. This is a neat feature to have but unfortunately it ads some high overhead as all the thumbs on the page are usually served up by php, requiring more php processes and on large forums that's an issue.

If you could figure out how to serve the image thumbs through direct links, that would be much better.

Take a look at this, he has the right idea here, though this will only work with nginx

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=207566

If you use the URL option (which is actually the only option as we speak), then it is served through direct links. The only things that will go through PHP would be if you decided to use the Attachment Thumbnails (future feature).

Because right now, it is just an img html tag with the url for the src.
Like this:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

No PHP at all.

[twitch]

great idea. option to upload the thumbnail to be used would be perfect

[Sayid]

Wow I can't believe it @[email protected]

I was searching today for something like this

installed+nominated

[Dr.LoVe]

thanx ,

good job

Great mod! It would be cool if it were also possible to have the thumbnail display in the RSS2 feed somehow, in addition to the forumdisplay page.

[Null Parameter]

Originally Posted by Etab

Great mod! It would be cool if it were also possible to have the thumbnail display in the RSS2 feed somehow, in addition to the forumdisplay page.

Interesting idea! I'll look into it.

[aztecboi2003]

This mod looks sick, I will tag and wait for the auto template edits.

[mktrilogy]

It would be nice to show the preview image when you hover over the thread. And also auto assign image. gets the first image available, that would be really nice. subscribing to this thread.