Forum Display Enhancements - Thread Thumbnail

This plugin is the newest version of the Thread Thumbnail plugin

This plugin will display the first attachment as a thumbnail on forumdisplay.php

New Features:

• If there are attachments that are not images, it will skip them and go to the first image attachment.
• Optional - you can now display thumbnails on search results.

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.

The plugin comes with the Search Thumbnails enabled. If you do not want to have thumbnails show up in the search results, make sure you deactivate it.

If you would like thumbnails to display in the search results, you will need to replace your search.php page with the one in the zip file. Unfortunately vBulletin forgot to include a hook variable where it is necessary for this to work. I have added 1 line to search.php with the hook variable. There is no way around this until vbulletin adds it themselves.

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 (Optional)

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.

[rayphua]

I have your previous version installed and working fine, and I need to know what are the steps I need to take to get it upgraded to this current version. Please advice! Thanks.

[Mecho]

ok thanks Jason . hope u will be free soon and add img tag option too

cheers

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

Please can we have the option to allow admins to specify a custom thumbnail? For example; if a thread does not have an attachment but has embeded content like a Youtube video, I want to be able to take a screenshot and then uploaded it as the thumbnail.

[snapshotz]

is there a way to set a custom size for the thumbs in the threadbit, would like to make the thumbs a bit smaller, rather than using the default thumbnail size.

[peterpigman]

Originally Posted by snapshotz

is there a way to set a custom size for the thumbs in the threadbit, would like to make the thumbs a bit smaller, rather than using the default thumbnail size.

I|t is in the threadbit template

<if condition="($thread['attachmentid']) AND ($thread['thumbsize'])">
<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]">
<img src="attachment.php?attachmentid=$thread[attachmentid]&stc=1&thumb=1" alt="" width=120 height=100 border="0" />
</a>
<else />
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" />
</if>
<else />
<if condition="$show['threadicon']">

[snapshotz]

awesome, thanks for the tip

[htrshgytrs]

Originally Posted by peterpigman

The only problem with the search thumbs is if you don't use thumbs in all forums you get a load of no thumb available. Could you not make it so it would only work if someone is searching a section that has it active?

I'd like to add my vote to the above as well, thanks again

[rolfw1]

Thanks, just what I needed, really looks good on this section.

I've only set it up for one section at the moment, do I change the XML file and re-import it to add new sections, or is there another way?


Sorry scratch that, just edit it in the plugin manager.

[htrshgytrs]

Originally Posted by peterpigman

The only problem with the search thumbs is if you don't use thumbs in all forums you get a load of no thumb available. Could you not make it so it would only work if someone is searching a section that has it active?

i think i've worked around this. I wrapped the no thumb section in a thisscript condition, works well enough for me. Thumbs will only be displayed on the search pages if a thumbnail exists.

ie Find -

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" />

replace with -

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'search'">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" />
</if>

[jasonmerchant]

Trana:

Did you have any success with the code I posted before?

rayphua:

There isn't a clean upgrade, so you will need to uninstall the previous version and reinstall the new version. The template changes are the same as the previous version, so you don't have to change those, just reinstall the plugin and add your forum id's.

htrshgytrs:

...That script will not work, it will prevent all thumbnails from showing on the search page. Are thumbnails are showing up?