PhotoPost integration hack - photos uploaded to gallery / auto thumbnail creation

[boatdesign]

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Following this post on the PhotoPost site, http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...threadid=20492
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A fantastic mod would be one which further integrated TechIMO Photopost with vBulletin, replacing vBulletin's upload function with a gallery upload function.

What I would love to see would be as follows:

1.) When a user posts, instead of the upload to sql databaes function, they have blanks to upload 1 or more photos to the PhotoPost gallery.

2.) Photopost then generates either a thumbnail or specified width version of the uploaded photo (it does this already).

3.) Then after the photo is uploaded to PhotoPost this mod inserts [ url ] and [ img ] tags into the post to calll either the thumnail or the medium resolution version into the thread (these versions are generated by PhotoPost already using ImageMagick) and to link them to the full res version.

4.) The user could also have the option to insert any existing photos in their gallery, as well as to upload new photos.


Some of the advantages would be:

1.) All photos are automagically thumbnailed for faster display

2a.) Thumbnails can be added to posts instead of link icons so you can see what it is you are downloading (if you choose not to display inline)

2b.) If you do choose to display inline, PhotoPost creates a medium resolution version at the width specified so no more images stretching the thread table out of wack. The medium resolution version PhotoPost creates would be linked to the full resolution version with simple url and img tags.

3.) All photos are organized in one place by poster and can be also organized by gallery. At the same time photos can be quickly uploaded / placed as either forum-width images or thumbnails in relevant threads you're replying to at will.

What do you think?