why not use something like http://www.websnapr.com/ just a little bit of code/javascript (around 4 lines) and after a short while thumbnails will be generated for your links, take a look here http://www.thecodecage.com at the bottom of the page i have affiliates, hover a link and a thumbnail of their site will pop up!

Sounds like a good idea - in fact LDM includes extras to do this task the other way round (i.e. popup thumbnails of its own entries).

Thanks for the new features and bug fixes Andrew :)

Andrew, thank you for the update.
Here is the updated chinese translation.

yesss
everything works perfect now
thank you very much andrew

I've following this mod since 3.6 always found a great idea but never saw much application for my board. My mistake, people got nuts trying to search for a file or links that were given as a tip a long time ago and got lost in tons of threads and pages.
So I was here glad to surrender to this great idea finally.

But I'm on 3.8.2 running your RC5 and faced a few issues. I didn't open it to my users because I want to make sure everything is OK, so I can test whatever I want before.

Here goes the issues.

- My test users has non usual characters symbols like "&", "%" or "$", in fact my admin account has one of those too and if I try to make an entry using them it says "User not recognised on db" but if I just edit username to any other without those symbols it goes OK.

- I have created a few categories to test (had to edit username too but goes OK) and after that I populated them with some entries. Some pictures, some files and some links, so far so good but at Main Category page if I click on category name, whichever the category I choose, it redirects me all the time to my forums page. Permissions were set as well as I tested some allowances but always goes this way.

- I've seen many addons for this mod, just to save time, is there one that gives me a snap-shot as a thumbnail of URL page I used as an entry ? I mean, this way a thumbnail would be used instead of nothing.

Could you give me some lights ?

Honestly, I felt so dumb when testing your mod, I tought: "Gee, why did I never test this thing before ??? It's so great !!!
Nice job you done.

Thanks for reporting this. I think the problem is restricted to the "&" character (and this is easy to fix), but I will need to do some more checks to be certain that the fix doesn't cause other problems.

This has me stuck. When you hover the mouse over the urls on the Main Category page, what is displayed at the bottom of the browser?

Have you checked the "screenshots" directory in the extra. There are addons to interface with both the snap (www.snap.com) and webthumbs (http://bluga.net/webthumb/) snapshots tools.

Man, I have to say, fastest support I ever had on here !! You should charge for your mod, I woudn't mind to pay.

Yes, double checking it, you're right, it seems only happens with "&".

I think this is working fine cause your system was suppose to hide the original link from the outside one. Every Category link mouse over shows me something like http://www.mysite.com/forums/local_links/links/1 or http://www.mysite.com/forums/local_links/links/2 ,etc. Every category has a different number at the end, but all of them leads to forumhome when clicked.

I saw them, just to wanna know each one is the simplest one and does the job.

Thanks

Well... went online with 2.3.0, everything was fine till i bumped into extra attributes added to certain entries.

I used it to add extra wallpaper size for some i had done. So, the attribute "widescreen" was used and it used to appear as a link, and hits to it were also added to the total count.

I had edited links_viewone_entity for that to happen.

Well, i tried the same this time, but no success, now, even if the attribute is a text i see the whole image in the attribute field.

Also a download link and a magnifier lenz.

If i change the attribute to be an image instead of a URL, te result is a thumbnail, but with no download link, just the magnifier.

In the end if i use this method, the hits are not counted.

Question: :p

Is there a way to show the thumbnail, but also be able to count hits... or, to hide the big image from my linkbit while the attribute is just a URL, would prefer to show the thumb and click on it to download. :D

Hope I was clear :confused:

I think you've enabled LDM's SEO option without configuring your server to handle this. See http://www.eirma.org/wikis/index.php...e_Optimisation.

Both Snap and EasyWebThumbs are straightforward to use. I think Snap is probably easier.

Good luck!