Miscellaneous Hacks - Add ALT and/or TITLE text to linked images in VB3 by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5 / Qapla.com

The purpose of this mod is to add alt text and/or title text to to the <img> tags generated in VB3.x when an image is linked in a post.

This is the Standard Version. The GOLD Version is FREE but available only from:
Qapla.com - Add Alt Text GOLD by BOP5 Mod

The GOLD edition has 1 additional feature: Smart Tagging
Smart Tagging will check the filename of an image for useful information. If the mod believes the filename can be useful to describing the image it will use a cleaned and formatted version of the filename as the alt or title text. If the mod sees that the filename is all numeric, or a common digital camera format, or a vbulletin attachment filename it will instead use the thread title as the alt/title text for the image.

The Standard edition has only 3 options for alt or title text, each of which can be set independently. - Use Filename, Use Thread Title, or use both Filename AND Thread Title to create the tag.

THIS MOD REQUIRES 1 MANUAL FILE EDIT
Instructions included, the class_bbcode.php file must be edited. Detailed instructions are included on the ONE edit that must be made.

Since VB 3.8.7 is the last VB 3.x release a manual file edit isn't very annoying since you'll never have to worry about re-doing it unless you re-install your forum.

If you ever upgrade to VB4 there is a separate VB4 version that doesn't require any file edits.

Live Demo: A random image posted on JUOT Forums

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
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[weindians]

editing and saving posts will be bit time consuming, to check which images in threads are not showing when u have 73k+ threads.... i'm going to install it... thanx..

Update: i installed the gold version from Qapla... used 'alt text' only with 'thead title ' option... its giving all images including signature images same alt tag...?? also i feel smart tag is bad for tinypic hosted images , just numbers u get in alt text

[BirdOPrey5]

If you used the "thread title" option then yes, every image in the thread (signature or otherwise) will have the thread title as the alt text... That's what it's supposed to do.

Next version will have an option to disable it on signatures. I actually posted code to do it now if you want in the Qapla.com thread, somewhere on the first page or two.

I'll look at fixing tinypic in the next update as well, thanks for the info.

[weindians]

no worries BOP5.... for tinypic any image uploaded gets just numbers.jpg ..do they actually store the orig image name which can be pulled using that number? are u going to exclude tinypic from adding alt/title text

[BirdOPrey5]

I just uploaded this to tnypic and it's not all numbers... can you give me an example link?

[weindians]

its not only numbers letters to.. random way,....

http://i42.tinypic.com/5lbbb6.jpg.... uploaded with name 'boink' and extension 'gif'. i have an account with tinypic..... it never gave me original file name..

[al2thero]

Great. Thank you.

[Manoel J?nior]

Update for 4.x please

[BirdOPrey5]

VB4 Version: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=277033

[soner]

Thanks.!
Installed..

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks, but please click the "Marked as Installed" button in the top post.