Thumbnail of Attachments on forum display

This hack has been requested a number of times, for multiple versions of vBulletin. For whatever reason, it was never done (at least publicly) until now. Heres to wishing each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas, and a prosperous, healthy, and safe, New Year!

What it does: This hack will display a thumbnail of the threads attachment on the forum display. Quite useful if you have forums designated for graphics/photos .. etc. Could also be tweaked to display the posters avatar instead of an attachment. Variable possibilities. (Screenshot attached for further review) and or see it in action at this forum in realtime. If the thread has multiple attachments, it will display the first. If no attachment, a 'no attachment' thumb will appear. Can be assigned for use in any forum you wish it to be active in.

Install time is minimal - Less than 5 minutes for the average joe. (Simplicity at it's Finest)
1 file to modify, and 1 template to modify, along with the upload of an image.

Known Issues: If the attachment is not an image, a thumbnail will not be shown. (IE: .zip or .rar)

If you install it, please click the 'Install' icon - Updates will be sent to those who do.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Dechevious

Actually, it adds no additional query, as it was merged with an existing query.

Hey guys. I was just doing something like this for a hack I am working on. The only problem that I found doing it this way was that it does in fact add additional queries: 1 for each image.
If your forum displays 30 threads, there are 30 additional queries as attachment.php queries the attachment table everytime its called.

It still didnt add too much overhead, but it may cause a problem on servers with heavy loads.

[KTBleeding]

I had a little bit of a hard time getting this to run.. but now I got it all working correctly. Just one question. How do I have the thumbnail be the first image uploaded only, rather than the last?

[Delphy]

The Geek,

Thats correct - no real way around that unfortunately

[Lee Wilde]

Originally Posted by Harald_T

O.k., i've tried it, it's very easy to do. I'll write it down later.

Hi Harold. Would you mind letting me know how to have Delphy's thumbnail display in some forums and your gallery display in others?

Thank you, excellent work.

[GeoffE]

Does the original or Delphy's hack work under 3.06? Have tried installing both repeatedly and get the same result each time, no errors but no thumbnails at all. Spacing and everything else looks normal. Also I don't see thumbnails in the forum demo link in Dechevious' first post, is it just me or is that not working now?

thanks for your help

[Delphy]

Geoff,

Do you have thumbnails enabled? Did you setup the forum ids where the thumbnails are to appear? Do you have a link where I could take a look?

I have the thumbnails enabled on my site here: http://forums.modthesims2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48

(I still run vb3.0.3)

Regards
Delphy

[GeoffE]

Hi Delphy, cheers for the quick reply.

Yup, have thumbnails enabled, definitely put the forum id's in, and I can see the thumbnails on your site fine. I've taken it off my site at the moment, will put it on again just now.

[GeoffE]

Installed again, checkout http://forum.clubdogma.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25

[Delphy]

You dont have post icons enabled Thats why the thumbnails aren't showing up

[Harald_T]

Originally Posted by Lee Wilde

Hi Harold. Would you mind letting me know how to have Delphy's thumbnail display in some forums and your gallery display in others?

Thank you, excellent work.

Sorry for delay. Had some trouble with my job and no time to look after the hack in the last month. I'll explain how to do at the easter holidays.