Sneak Preview! Image Gallery Hack

<a href="http://www.noows.com/gallery.php" target="_blank">http://www.noows.com/gallery.php</a>

I know gallery.php is the same filename Freddie uses. However, this is my own hack, from scratch (although I do have some large chunks of borrowed vBulletin code).

It adds a new table called 'thumb' and uses ImageMack to generate thumbnails ONCE. It also adds a thumb.php file, which is basically a modified copy of attachment.php. No changes to existing PHP files or tables are necessary. I've written a small PHP file to make thumbs of all existing JPG/GIF/BMP/PNG attachments. Thumbs are generated and stored as GIFs.

AFAIK all security aspects are intact. My release will only support ImageMagick (via PHP system() call), if someone else needs GD/NetPBM support, they're welcome to hack-my-hack.

I'd like to get some feedback from Jesoft before I release. As I mentioned, I use some fairly large blocks of their code (from search.php and attachment.php) and want to make sure their are no issues. If it provides enough functionality, I'd have no problem with Jelsoft incorporating it into their next release, rather than me maintaining it as a hack.

i'd like to try to install this hack as soon as it is ready.

btw i really dig the dancing bacon!

[Blackangel]

great great great i need the same

hehe

[mojotim]

Hey this hack looks great. Are you using the convert function in ImageMagick? If so you could easily just make jpg thumbs. Anyways, I would love to get a hold of this hack! Let us know when you're ready! If you want someone else to test it for you let me know.

Originally posted by mojotim
Hey this hack looks great. Are you using the convert function in ImageMagick? If so you could easily just make jpg thumbs. Anyways, I would love to get a hold of this hack! Let us know when you're ready! If you want someone else to test it for you let me know.

PHP Code:

system("/usr/X11R6/bin/convert -geometry '160x120>' -quality '75' $filename GIF:$thumbname"); 


Is all I'm doing to make thumbnails. My server got slammed yesterday (Everquest Game servers were down, so EVERYONE hits the message boards).. made alot of fixes and improvements. And yeah, you could use JPG thumbs just by changing GIF: to JPG: ... I used GIFs cause I didn't want further quality loss in the already shrunk image. I dunno how 100% quality JPG would compare against a GIF. GIF also seems to preserve animations, whereas JPG wouldn't. Could try PNG too...

I need to add some options to the admin menus, then I'll put a copy up. I have another hack people are anxious for too, I just hate the documentation/instructions part.

<a href="http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21602" target="_blank">http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=21602</a>

[ScottW]

Check out PhotoPost, released on 11/4/01 -- it integrates with the VBulletin user DB:
http://www.techimo.com/photopost/index.html

[SoloX]

Originally posted by Zamtil
http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthrea...threadid=21602

I cannot access this page . is it still out there?

[Steve Machol]

Try changing the 'com' to 'org'.