[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Rouzbeh1

thank you, will try

one more suggestion: is it possible to make vba modules read thumbs from ldm_thumb folder (local storage) instead of generating them each time?
for security reasons, i have my covers ftp on a separate server, and i don't want covers fail to display IF that server is down....

thanks

Yes, good suggestion.

I think it is possible provided the vba module is set up to use the same size thumb as the linkbit.

Edit the adv_portal_custom_ldm_new_thumb_one template.

Replace the current template by

<tr>
<td align="center" <if condition="$links_defaults[cellsize]">width="$links_defaults[cellsize]"</if>>
<if condition="$linkimg">
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/$LINKS_SCRIPT.php?catid=$linkcatid&amp;linkid=$linkid" title="$title">
<img src="$vboptions[bburl]/$RESIZE_SCRIPT.php?linkid=$linkid<if condition="$linkimgthumbsize!=$links_defaults[link_imagesize]">
&amp;size=$links_defaults[link_imagesize]</if>" border="0" alt="$linkcatname, $linkname" />
</a>
<else />
<span class="smallfont">$linktypebit<if condition="$linkstatus<=0">$linkname<else />$linkurllink</if></span>
</if>
</td>
</tr>

The modification is the test on linkimgthumbsize:

<if condition="$linkimgthumbsize!=$links_defaults[link_imagesize]">
&amp;size=$links_defaults[link_imagesize]</if>

I think that this will do the job provided the thumb is already cached. I will look at the code to see if it is possible at this point in LDM also to cache the thumb if it is being generated on the fly.

Let me know if that works ok.