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.

[GeoffE]

Originally Posted by Delphy

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

Posticons were definitely turned on .. I think I must have changed something with another hack. In the end we decided to go the whole hog and went for the VBA Gallery package but cheers for your help anyway

[Siouxfire]

Ahem, excuse me... :speechless:

[mathias]

how do I turn post icons on?

[mathias]

got it to work pretty sweet thanks my cd cover section is going to love it

[the123d]

Hi

I've installed the "Thumnail in forumdisplay" hack By dechevious but would like to make it work differently.

I want to be able to show image attachments inline !! In order to show images inline, normally the "enable thumbnails" needs to be set to "no" in the "message attachment options". Problem is, if you turn thumbnails off you can't create thumnails for the forumdisplay.php page ? (and thus un-doing the whole point of this hack) Is their a way to modify the hack to get this to work ?

If anybody's familiar with this hack - Any tips or ideas would be welcome ?

[memobug]

Originally Posted by mathias

how do I turn post icons on?

1. I think it's a forum option in the admincp - look under forums/moderators, however I have it active and the post icons show fine, but the thumbs weren't showing at all. I had to remove the second conditional

<if condition="$show['threadicon']">

from the template to see anything at all in the way of thumbnails

2. I am a little confused by the way the template is set up. It seems to be showing thumbnails only if there is a post icon in that thread.

3 If there is no thumb, wouldn't it make more sense to show the post icon, if there is one, instead of that NO THUMBNAIL picture?

Regards,

Matt

[Delphy]

memobug,

2. That is correct. It only shows them if post icons are enabled.

3. Replacing no thumbs with the standard post icon would look *very* strange in terms of rendering - you'd have thumbnails interspersed with very small post icons, and it generally would look horrible.

Hope this helps

[memobug]

Originally Posted by Delphy

memobug,

2. That is correct. It only shows them if post icons are enabled.

3. Replacing no thumbs with the standard post icon would look *very* strange in terms of rendering - you'd have thumbnails interspersed with very small post icons, and it generally would look horrible.

Hope this helps

Hi Delphy
2. Actually what I meant is that I only get thumbnails if there is a post icon in that thread, not that post icons have to be enabled (although that is true, too, it is not a problem.). I am probably confused but it wasn't working at all with the provided template:

There are two nested ifs in that template,

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
<if condition="$show['threadicon']">

I guess the first is to see whether post icons are enabled. The second if seems to check to see if there is a post icon for some reason? That one is my problem.

3. On mixing thumbs and post icons. I am sure it is a matter of taste, but I find it doesn't look strange at all if you adjust the row height accordingly. I use <td height="100"> if there is a thumbnail and <td height="25"> if there is not (whether there is a post icon or not) it looks fine.

I am confused why anyone would want a row of thumbnails advertising that there is no thumbnail, which seems to be rather obvious if no thumbnail is printed! Also, advertising "Nothing to see here!" with the non-thumbnail thumbnail pads out the row height excessively.

Regards,

Matt

[Delphy]

memobug,

If I recall I changed something with regards to those nested ifs, but I can't remember what am I'm waiting for one of my dedicated boxes to come back up so I can see

With regards to the showing post icon if no thumbnail, now that you've explained it in that way, it makes perfect sense and would be very useful for stickies in otherwise thumbnail enabled forums. I might implement this myself on MTS2.

Regards
Delphy

[Delphy]

Just as an update - I've re-coded some parts of my version of this hack to allow per-forum thumbnail views configurable via the Admin CP, as well as showing thumbnails in the search/new posts display.

If anybody would be interested, I can provide an update.