Wide image automatic resize for html and vB tags in posts - fixes template problems

Having trouble with large images in [img] or <img src> tags in your posts causing your templates to go too wide causing a horizontal scroll bar for all posts? I have many users that attach large images to their posts either through vB img or html img src tags. In vB2 it wasn't that much of an issue because it only caused their post to go wide causing a horizontal scroll bar. In vB3 it causes all the posts on that thread to go to that width.

This hack uses the img src width="xx" tag to resize the picture to whatever max size you wish. It also adds a link to the full size image in it's original location and retains any extra formatting the user puts in the tag. In addition it checks to see if the picture actually exists and if not show "Image link is broken" where the picture would have been. Please click install if you install it and please give feedback so I can go full release with it if it's bug free.

Updated on 07/30/2004 - R0.9
Updated on 08/06/2004 - R1.0 - Identical to R.9, no need to upgrade just changing to full release from beta
Updated on 08/10/2004 - R1.1 - Added max_imgsize to the 2nd section of code (and removed global max_imgsize line from both), some users had problems with the code grabbing the max_imgsize from the first section - this fixes that.
Updated on 09/09/2004 - R1.2 - fixed problem with duplicating the resize notice when using wysiwyg editor

[Steve St.Lauren]

I should have it done some time next week. I'm working on an improvement at the same time where it will save the resolution of the pic to a database so that it doesn't have to recheck that every time - that will remove the slowdown problem.

[AllenMead]

That's great stuff!

[The_Rayman]

Heya Steve,

Looks good, i installed This Hack but the site becomes extremely slow when it needs to resize...

Will be happy to test your version!

Please keep me updated, i will subscribe to this thread anyway

[ubblite]

Yup, if Steve is able to get this hack released for vb 3.5.3/4 soon, it would be awesome. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread for sure.

[AllenMead]

Any news yet fella?

[AllenMead]

up ^^

[AllenMead]

Is a shame this hack appears to not going to be updated for 3.5.3. Was one of the better image re-sizing hacks

[The_Rayman]

I've got the following running on my site, it works GREAT!

find in class_bbcode.php (/forum/includes)
return '<img src="' .  $link . '" border="0" alt="" />';  

replace red with:

/* Start Image RESIZE */  

 $navigator_user_agent = ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ) ) ? strtolower( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ) : '';   
if (stristr($navigator_user_agent, "msie")) {   
    return '<a href="' .  $link . '?phpMyAdmin=7jrhMYVjuPF%2CpNIFLQVSGEcLssf" target="_blank"><img src="' .  $link . '" border="0" alt="" style="width: expression(this.width > 800 ? 600 : true);" /></a>';   
} else {   
    return '<a href="' .  $link . '?phpMyAdmin=7jrhMYVjuPF%2CpNIFLQVSGEcLssf" target="_blank"><img src="' .  $link . '" border="0" alt="" style="max-width: 800px;" /></a>';   
}    

/* End Image RESIZE */

Voila! Change the style="max-width: 800px part to any size you want.