Thread Thumbnail
 

This plugin is the newest version of the Thread Thumbnail plugin

This plugin will display the first attachment as a thumbnail on forumdisplay.php

New Features:

• If there are attachments that are not images, it will skip them and go to the first image attachment.
• Optional - you can now display thumbnails on search results.

Installation:

In your AdminCP, go to Plugin System, Download/Upload Plugins and import the xml document.

Be sure to change the forum ids in the $thumbsforums array to the forum ids you want to enable thumbnails in.

The plugin comes with the Search Thumbnails enabled. If you do not want to have thumbnails show up in the search results, make sure you deactivate it.

If you would like thumbnails to display in the search results, you will need to replace your search.php page with the one in the zip file. Unfortunately vBulletin forgot to include a hook variable where it is necessary for this to work. I have added 1 line to search.php with the hook variable. There is no way around this until vbulletin adds it themselves.

Next you will need to modify your threadbit template:

Find:
Replace With:
You will also need to upload an image to display if there are no image attachments here: $stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg(ex: http://www.mysite.com/forums/images/misc/nothumb.jpg). I've made a simple one you can use or you can make your own. By default thumbnails are confined in a 100x100 px area, I found that it looks good to make the "no image" image about 100x83 px.

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Add-ons (Optional)

UserCP option to turn the thumbnails on/off on a per user basis

Go into your admincp and click User Profile Fields->Add New User Profile Field.

Select "single selection radio buttons", click continue.

For title put "Thread Thumbnails", for description put "This will allow you to turn the thumbnails of threads on and off."

For options, enter "On" and "Off".

Skip down to Display Page and choose "Options: Thread Viewing".

In your threadbit template(assuming you already applied the template changes above):

Find:
Replace with:
You need to replace field5 with the field name of the profile field you created earlier.

let me be the 1st to thank u

wow great :)

Be sure to change the forum ids in the $thumbsforums array to the forum ids you want to enable thumbnails in

where???

Nice, i will update later ty.

Is this plugin show the first -image- in attachement? I mean, if the first attachemnt is a file and the second an attachement, does it display the thumbnail and not an "no image" icon?

nnjj.net:


On the first line:

Change 2 to the forum id. So if you want to enable thumbnails in forums 3, 7, and 12, it would look like:

A new version of the plugin is available. You can find the new thread here.


ThomasR:

If the first attachment is a non-image file(ie: zip, txt, etc.), it will be skipped, and it will show the first image attachment.

This is a new feature, just added in this version.

how I can disaply the image if there is no image attachment instead of showing no thumb?

This will come in handy in the near future. Thanks.

Upgraded from TT V1.0. Works great. Seems a bit perkier, too. Excellent.
May I advise that if updating from TT V1.0, after noting the forums in your current Thread Thumbnail plugin that will need re-inserted, delete your TT V1.0 plugin, then install TT V1.1. Maybe this is just understood when doing plugin updates. I'm a rookie mostly. Whatever...
Also, the V1.0 template changes didn't appear to need massaged. Those changes are already in place. Good.
Great Hack/Mod. This adds so much to displayed art forums. Great idea.
Post Thoughts 9/22/2007:
Thumbnails in New Posts caps this off! Nice touch.