Forum Display Enhancements - MGC vBCovers

Overview

MGC vBCover is a new enhancement to your forum !

It provides your users with the possibility to add covers when posting new subjects, covers which are then displayed in the subject itself as well as in the thread lists on forumdisplay.

Covers can be input either manually or automatically retrieved thanks to the thread title from many sources (IMDB, Amazon, Google Books, and many other).

Detailed features

Following is a list of MGC vBCover features (pro and lite):

• Simple install
• Forum based activation
• Adapted to films, music albums [PRO], books [PRO] and video games [PRO]
• [PRO] Animation in the thread list
• Two means of input:
  • Manually by entering the image url of the cover
  • Automatically from:
    • IMDB for films
    • [PRO] Allocin? [France] for films
    • [PRO] Amazon for films, music albums, video games as well as books
    • [PRO] Fnac [France] for films, music albums, video games as well as books
    • [PRO] All CD covers for music
    • [PRO] Google Books for books
    • [PRO] Game Trailers for video games
    • [PRO] Jeux-Videos.com [France] for video games
• Fully configurable:
  • Set wether to upload manually entered image to server (automatic ones are uploaded due to restrictions reasons)
  • [PRO] Number of covers between which the user can choose the cover
  • Option to display or not the cover at the top of the thread page
  • Option to display or not the cover at the top of the thread's first post
  • Maximum width/height of the cover on thread page
  • Maximum width/height of the covers in thread list
  • Type of link on covers (no link, thread or full cover)
  • [PRO] Number of covers, type of covers retrieval and width for the thread list animation
  • [PRO] Active sources for cover retrieval
  • [PRO] Supported platform for video games

Install

Refer to the readme for the install instructions.

Demo

Live demo : Click here

Languages

1. French
2. English
3. German (soon)
   
4. Serbian (soon)

Support

On my website mostly and in this thread

Pro version available on my website

[Menno11]

Hi,

I have vb4.2 and everything installed and uploaded
777 xml, even in admin cp everything put yes,
but I see nothing in a new thread.
what am I doing wrong?
can you help me?

Thank you.

[Mr von]

Have you made ​​the settings in the forums?

Forum & Moderators
Manage Forums

[Menno11]

yes i have,

everything is yes..
what do i wrong

[Mr von]

In my case, the functions are reversed.
Forum .. Manage Settings ... MGC vBCover
yes is no

[Menno11]

not for me..
i tride everything..
but no succes..

thx for help Mr Von

[Menno11]

yes its works now.
Thx mr von en mgc

[Menno11]

Hello,

I have one question.
When i started a thread.
and i have put here the url from the picture... ... or input own cover URL:
Why don't i see the first time the picture in de Topics
When i change the thread, and put again the url in ... or input own cover URL:
Then i see the picture in the topic..

Whats do i wrong ?
Help me please

[Mr von]

yes, it's all good, I'd delete my posts.

[Ranger187]

Originally Posted by Mr von

yes, it's all good, I'd delete my posts.

Mr Von. Thanks for that! I removed my posts as well.

Have a great day!

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by wolfe

is it possible to have these images auto upload to a set album on the admins account so if anyone uploads image by url it goes into album and returns album url ?? would be a great feature.. thanks

Not sure what you mean ?

Originally Posted by Menno11

Hello,

I have one question.
When i started a thread.
and i have put here the url from the picture... ... or input own cover URL:
Why don't i see the first time the picture in de Topics
When i change the thread, and put again the url in ... or input own cover URL:
Then i see the picture in the topic..

Whats do i wrong ?
Help me please

? You mean you first set the url => doesn't work then you do it again and it works ?