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.

[ThomasR]

Ok, thank you for your answer Delphy. Damn, I hope for your first answer, I'll have to learn all users to update their first post
By the way, thank you for the hack!

[alkatraz]

one of my FAVOURITE hacks of all time!

will we be seeing this for vb 3.5? please say yes!!

[ThomasR]

Oups, I think we missunderstood

I would say that I like to have the thumbnail version of my attached image in my forumdisplay like you hack do, and have in full size, this image in the threadbit. in fact, use the thumbnail only for the preview you hack do.

If you take a look at CGTalk.com (http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=132) this is what it does (and what I want

By th way, thank you for this great hack

Originally Posted by Delphy

Thomas,

The default will return the last image already.

Also, showing the full size image would severly break your templates, so it's not recommended at all - imagine browsing a forum with a bunch of 1024x768 pictures on the forumdisplay... not a pretty sight

[Harald_T]

I've coded this hack to 3.5.

Anyone still interested in it? I used it again to make a gallery for my forum (what else? ) and this time i used the original hack from dechevious.

Take a look at it:

http://www.scifi-fan.net

[mhobelsb]

wohoooo... already wanted to ask if it would be possible to do it. i would love to if i can use it after the upgrade to 3.5! thank you sooooo much for the work and that you share it with the community!

Martin

[Harald_T]

I'll post it later on this evening.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

Originally Posted by Harald_T

I've coded this hack to 3.5.

Anyone still interested in it? I used it again to make a gallery for my forum (what else? ) and this time i used the original hack from dechevious.

Take a look at it:

http://www.scifi-fan.net

abso-freakin-lutely!! great job integrating it. on your site too.

btw, do I need a photo program (eg: vbgallery) installed first for this to work?

[Harald_T]

I've written the hack further on to a gallery-hack, so you don't need any extra gallery for this. Parts of your forum will act like a gallery. I'm busy on writing the install-text for my gallery-hack for vB 3.5. I'll try to post it this evening.

[shardex]

where is this hack coded for 3.5? That would be awesome, I am having trouble with converting the PHP part in forumdisplay.

[bleodler]

Originally Posted by shardex

where is this hack coded for 3.5? That would be awesome, I am having trouble with converting the PHP part in forumdisplay.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=92565

[shardex]

Thank you very much!

[Delphy]

Harald,

I'm extending my version of this hack to allow members to select which of the thumbnails they want to see listed on the forumdisplay, as well as adding images for actual forums too.

[Harald_T]

Sounds interesting.

[ThomasR]

:up: Yeaaaah Delphy !! you rocks !! :up:
I'll be glad to test it on my forum when you will release it (I hope for 3.0.x)

[George Gerez]

I think it's time to REVISE the original mod.. do all the fixes included in all these posts.. and POST a NEW thread with the full mod.. What do you think guys?