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

[VBDev]

Deutsch and Serbian languages added to the zip

[Gn_Snake]

Hi,
I have not figured out how to run this plugin?
I open a new thread then? There is nothing different than before?

Thx

[VBDev]

<font color="Red">* Product updated it contained a bug that was avoiding covers to display</font>

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Gn_Snake

Hi,
I have not figured out how to run this plugin?
I open a new thread then? There is nothing different than before?

Thx

You have to activate it in the forum where you want the mod to be active through forums configuration in the admincp

[kfyonur]

how can we try the demo..i couldn't see anything about with plugin.

[VBDev]

If you click on the demo link, you'll see the covers displayed.

However to see the covers retrieval when creating a new thread you have to register as you can understand I won't open the thread creation to unregistered user, too much spam would arise...

[Preech]

Originally Posted by VBDev

For CMS ? Like latest covers ? Or Cover animation on CMS widget ?

I am open to suggestion of course, there is a project tools on my forum where user can suggest new features.

For the CMS, yes a widget. Since you are showing covers, maybe a way for users to preview trailers, or songs that go with that cover.

[VBDev]

Originally Posted by Preech

For the CMS, yes a widget. Since you are showing covers, maybe a way for users to preview trailers, or songs that go with that cover.

The CMS thing is feasible.

However the trailers preview is a bit more complicated as it would mean download the trailer from IMDB as they don't allow embedding stuff from their site unless you download them as I do for the covers.

[goxy63]

This looks cool, but is there any way to pull out data from imdb such as rating, year, short descriptions and main actors...?
Also to work with cms/cms articles would be great

[VBDev]

Hi,

That might be possible for the year rating and so and so forth, but it's not meant to right now.

Regarding CMS/CMS articles that would perhaps be possible, feature requests are to be made through the project tools page of my forum.

Clément