Thread Thumbnail

The new version is available here.




This plugin was based on Thumbnail of Attachments on forum display by Dechevious(I hope its alright with you)

It is mostly the same converted to the new 3.5 hook. I also fixed the "If the attachment is not an image, a thumbnail will not be shown" problem.

Note: This plugin works in v3.68

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.

Next you will need to modify your threadbit template:

Find:

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
	<td class="alt2">
		<if condition="$show['threadicon']">
			<img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="$thread[threadicontitle]" border="0" />
		<else />
			&nbsp;
		</if>
	</td>
</if>

Replace With:

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
	<td class="alt2" align="center" valign="middle">
			<if condition="$tt_displaythumbs">
				<if condition="($thread['attachmentid']) AND ($thread['thumbsize'])">
			     	<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]">
			          	<img src="attachment.php?attachmentid=$thread[attachmentid]&stc=1&thumb=1" alt="" border="0" />
			        </a>
			     <else />
			        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" />
			     </if>
			<else />
				<if condition="$show['threadicon']">
			     <img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="$thread[threadicontitle]" border="0" />
				 </if>
			</if>
	</td>
</if>

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

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:

<if condition="$tt_displaythumbs">

Replace with:

<if condition="($tt_displaythumbs) AND ($bbuserinfo['field5'] <> 'Off' OR $show['guest'])">

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

[jasonmerchant]

Originally Posted by rookiyong

Hi, nice hack here.

Is there any options of displaying the Avatar of the thread started instead of using attachments?

Display the avatar of the thread instead of the attachment? I didn't know threads had avatars, I'll check it out.

[rookiyong]

Thanks for replying jasonmerchant

Actually this hack will retrieve the image of the attachment and show up as a thumbnail, but because I did not allow members to upload attacments, it would be great if this can retrieve the avatar of the 1st poster and put it up as a thumb.

I think there was such an hack in VB3, to be able to toggle between selecting the attachment or avatar to display, but I can't find it.

[mfizzel]

how can this work with 'new posts' ?

[mfizzel]

Ok, I'm having 2 issues with this.

1) It's showing 'no thumbnail' on moved posts, can you remove that? On the thumbnail hack for 3.0.x it didn't do this.

2) It's working great in a few of the forums and in a few of the other forums most of the threads are showing 'no thumbnail'....I can't understand why it's working great in a few but not in others...I've doublechecked the forum array ids...

[mfizzel]

Originally Posted by mfizzel

Ok, I'm having 2 issues with this.

1) It's showing 'no thumbnail' on moved posts, can you remove that? On the thumbnail hack for 3.0.x it didn't do this.

2) It's working great in a few of the forums and in a few of the other forums most of the threads are showing 'no thumbnail'....I can't understand why it's working great in a few but not in others...I've doublechecked the forum array ids...

ok, quick update I believe I know why it's doing that....this hack is getting confused when there are uploaded pics AND files.

In threads where there are just pics it works perfect...

Could you fix this? Thanks man, this is one of the most important hacks on my board.

[neutek]

thanks man
*clicked install

[GamerJunk.net]

Awesome thanks!

[katholic]

Can something be added or changed so the thumbnail size it displays is smaller than the actual thumbnail size in the thread itself? I run a gaming forum where people are constantly uploading new creations for download. We have the thumbnails set to 300 to give people a clearer view of what said item is however having it set at 300 on the forum display is a bit large.

[ConKien]

Anyone use this for vb 3.5.2?

I just download it today 1/17/06 and I still have the problem discussed previously, which the specific forum only shown the "no_image" thumbnail.

Thanks!

[DarKNull]

how can i enable this option for only certain forum not all of them ?