Any chance in trying to integrate this feature into vbportals?

Overgrow - because I need to convert it to use NetPBM or ImageMajick and also have is store the thumbnails in the filesystem.

Right now it is creating them on the fly as I didn't have time to go all the way with it.

Damn, just lost a long reply because my browser crashed :(

The reason why I mentionned vbportals is simply because it already comes with a category system that could also be used to classify the images uploaded via the board.

It'd be great to have a search engine that would be able to search for these images according to artist, category, popularity, size and resolution.

I definitely think you've got something good cooking over there Overgrow, that image hack of yours is a good step towards making this hack reality.

I realize this thumbnail business is getting in the way. I've been searching the web for any type of script that would do the job without having to install anything complicated on the server, but I don't think it's not possible to bypass that requirement :(
Most scripts i've run into require either GD or some other app pre-installed for the thumbnail generator to work.

And you were definitely right about one thing, if this hack would require users to install an external application on the server, it'd most certainly cause a lot of problems and confusion, if not make it impossible for a lot of them to install it in the first place. In case something went wrong in the installation and no support was to be provided, people would be left with a mess and in this case it'd be pretty damn difficult to help them out in the first place since it's not only a question of a few lines of code...

In the other thread discussing this same idea, floleb7 suggested that people would send their own thumbnails. I don't think that's such a good idea, but it'd definitely solve the problem. I just don't know how many people are honestly willing to go through the trouble of making a screenshot of an image, when the server could be doing all the work for them?

I've been contacting the webmasters of all major digital art sites asking them what script they use to generate their thumbnails, so I'll let you know as soon as I hear from them.

This hack would be awesome if it could be made and I know it'd pull a lot of people towards vBulletin since it would be the first discussion software to have this type of feature :D

Anyways, all the luck in developing this! I'll post as soon as I get some answers concerning the thumbnail generators...

Pe<|ce.

PS. Overgrow, your site is amazing. :) Nice design, good work man. I imagine this hack would be perfect for it too :)

I think you should definitely go with Imagemagic.
You can take a look at it here : http://www.imagemagick.org/

how I can add a GD library to my server, and where can I get it???

Imagemagic.
IS the way to go

I just got this as a reply to my inquiry on the installation of ImageMagick on a shared Apache server :

Ross> We cannot install that program as it disrupts te apache server.

Phoenix> In what way? I take your word for it don't worry, I'd just like to know how it disrupts the server... seems to work fine on other sites also using apache...

Ross> It breaks SSL for some reason.

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I don't know what to gather from that, except that if this hack is designed using ImageMagick, many people won't be able to use it as a large number of sites are hosted on shared Apache servers just like ours :(

What about GD?

Check out PhotoPost, released on 11/4/01 -- it integrates with the VBulletin user DB:
http://www.techimo.com/photopost/index.html

It uses ImageMagick and we're running it on FreeBSD/Apache with no problems whatsoever.

SQL-query :

CREATE TABLE descr(

id int( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL auto_increment,
name varchar( 255 ) NOT NULL ,
descr text NOT NULL ,
seclevel int( 11 ) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY ( name )
)

MySQL said:

Incorrect table definition; There can only be one auto column and it must be defined as a key
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