[6piston]

Originally Posted by Arkham

Have you rebuilt the attachment counters? Try adding a new thread with an img attachment and see if the new one works. I've run into situations where sometimes existing threads with existing thumbs don't show up.

Don't replace the search.php file entirely -- just edit your existing vB version's search.php and add the single line (or 2, including the comment line). I think it's around line 2600-ish. You shouldn't have to fiddle with the search.php much.

hi Arkham

Do yours work fully? Then i gotta try your way right now.

I'll also try to use a fresh copy of 3.7.2 search.php again and include the lines.
Let me get this right:
-Fresh 3.7.2 search php
-Add the 2 Jason lines that is included in the TT's Zip's search.php

Thanks!

Originally Posted by theOZer

6piston,
which vB version?
vB templates or other?
other issues, like, are you running just vB or do you run vBSEO, whatever?
If you have Manage Attachments turned on, and if in the first thread post and the user used vB Manage Attachments to load an image this mod will display that attachment's thumbnail, if coded to do so. The mod's trick is an outer join that relies on the fact that there's a thread first post id that can find/grab the associated attachment postid, enabling the outer join, piggybacking the attachment's row info onto the select.
Create a testvb. Do all your testing there.
After I set up a clean/virgin vB383 testvb, I put together a 'My Way to Install Thread Thumbnails' write up as I updated this testvb to use thread thumbnails in forums/new posts, searches, and tag searches. PM me if you'd like a pdf of this write up.
Ciao, Oz

hi theOZer thanks for the reply!

it's 3.7.2

I do have VBSEO. The thread thumbnails in my selected forums run beautifully right from the start. so i'm not sure if it's anything to do with VBSEO

My main goal is to get the
-regular searches with thumbnails to work in those selected forums.
-find all users' threads to also display the thumbs

Just in case it makes any difference, some of my search links aren't the default ones, for example, my "new post" links only display relevant new posts from certain forums:

http://www.site.com/search.php?do=getnew&exclude=57,52,56,53,54,83,72,55,29

I did try it without excluding the forums and it's the same.

I will also create a test site to do this

Please do PM me the pdf file you made. i;m sure it'll help me much! great job getting all of it to work and more