Latest Photopost Photo In Postbit

Ok so i'm in the middle of developing something cool and it seems that a few people actually only want half of what i'm attempting to do so for you all here you go. Peace, Love and Happiness!

Damn almost forgot the desciption, erm this hack puts a photo, but not just any photo, your last uploaded photo into your postbit, it's s3x11111!!!!! i think .

Ok theirs one question i don't ever ever ever want to see in this thread, unless you're sure you have www.photopost.com's photopost installed, save us all the heartache and just don't do it, be kind, be generous, show me love, but if you aint got photopost installed then what's the point in saying "it don't show the photo for me" it's bound not to oh and for people who are going to ask "can you do it for the vB photo" nope i'm afraid i've never tried

ok after that little bit i should say something cool, like screenshots are not present since i have no desire to install this as is, no wait that sucked, however if anyone would like to provide screenies, you're welcome yay.

Damn is their nothing else i can waste your time with, surely you have no better to do than read my garbage, guess not, oh well it's an easy installation, i estimates 3.75 minutes, 2 files edits, one template mod, 1 vB option group and a setting to fill it.

[high]big thanks to natch without him it would've been impossible and thanks to dean c (mist) too who got me through the final stages like a lucazade during a marathon.[/high]

[high] * sabret00the does cool guy pose[/high]

have fun with it.

Query Load: beleive it or not, from the dungeon of super sucky coders this came and only adds one query to the showthread, i'm not even lying, wow, well that's what the microstats said, so if i was wrong blame Neo, he's obviously misalligned the matrix.

think i covered everything now

in your includes/functions_showthread.php find

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start process_highlight_postbit #######################
       function process_highlight_postbit($text, $words, $prepend) 


above that add

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start last photopost photo #######################
       function fetch_galleryavatarcache()
       {
           global $DB_site, $galleryavatarcache;
           if (!is_array($galleryavatarcache))
           {
               $galleryavatarcache = array();
               $allgalleryavatars = $DB_site->query("
          SELECT pp_photos.id, pp_photos.title, user.userid, pp_photos.cat, pp_photos.approved, pp_photos.bigimage
                   FROM ppost_photos AS pp_photos
             LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX ."user AS user ON pp_photos.userid = user.userid
               ");
       
               while($galleryavatararray = $DB_site->fetch_array($allgalleryavatars))
               {
            $galleryavatarcache["$galleryavatararray[userid]"] = $galleryavatararray;
               }
       
               $DB_site->free_result($allgalleryavatars);
           }
       }
       
       function fetch_cachedgalleryavatar_url($userid)
       {
           global $galleryavatarcache, $vboptions, $stylevar;
           if(!is_array($galleryavatarcache))
           {
               fetch_galleryavatarcache();
           }
           if($galleryavatarinfo = $galleryavatarcache[$userid])
           {
               if ($galleryavatarinfo[bigimage] && $galleryavatarinfo[cat])
               {
          return "$vboptions[galleryurl]/data/$galleryavatarinfo[cat]/{$userid}".substr($galleryavatarinfo[bigimage], 0, -4)."-thumb.".file_extension($galleryavatarinfo[bigimage]);
               }
               else
               {
                   return "$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/noavatar.gif";
               }
           }
           return FALSE;
       } 


now in your showthread.php find

PHP Code:

        $post['musername'] = fetch_musername($post);
               $post['islastshown'] = ($post['postid'] == $lastpostid);
               $post['attachments'] = &$postattach["$post[postid]"]; 


and directly below that add:

PHP Code:

        $post['galleryavatar'] = fetch_cachedgalleryavatar_url($post[userid]); 


now chuck your board into debug mode and add this setting group:

vaname: photopost
       title: Photopost
       vB default: no

now add to that group this option

       varname: galleryurl
       title: Gallery URL
       Description: this is the location to your photopost installation (no trailing backslash)
       Option: [leave this blank]
       Default: http://www.domainname.com/directory
       vB default: no

now in your postbit template, whereever you want it add

<if condition="$post[galleryavatar]"><a href="$vboption[galleryurl]/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[galleryavatar]" border="0" alt="$post[username]'s latest photo" /></a></if>

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by Triple_T

this could be good, if members have the option to turn it off. I would also like it to be set off by default and only show avatar OR PP pic, not both.

just thinking you could do it with a useroption and a conditional, it's how i was gonna do it, but my problem is that i want it to only be available to certain usergroups hence why i need to learn the additional hacking.

[cinq]

If i wanted to include the latest 3 photos in the postbit, how is that possible ?
I know the code would have to changed somewhat.

Any help ?

[sabret00the]

it's not possible with the above code

[cinq]

Yep, but do you know how it can be done ?
( might want to take this to PM, don't want to mix things up with the current hack )

[sabret00the]

the only way i could think of would be to just add the hack twice more i.e. changing the query to get the row beyond the previous one, but that's adds two extra queries to the thread.

[SVTBlackLight01]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

i haven't got a clue, i can only recommend checking the database and seeing what the catid is for that user for the latest piccie.

I was hoping MPDev would have a suggestion, but it seems to be related to choosing additional categories during upload to PhotoPost.

[SVTBlackLight01]

This won't work if the last upload is a multimedia file that doesn't have a thumbnail.

[sabret00the]

add a conditional in order to check the extention is either .jpg or .gif and it aint then return "multimedia_image.gif" or something

[merseybeat]

Anyone got any idea on handling multimedia files for this mod?

Eddie

[SVTBlackLight01]

Originally Posted by merseybeat

Anyone got any idea on handling multimedia files for this mod?

Eddie

I'm still working on a way to do this.


Images in private albums are displayed with this hack as well.