Forum Display Enhancements - Thread Thumbnail

This plugin is the newest version of the Thread Thumbnail plugin

This plugin will display the first attachment as a thumbnail on forumdisplay.php

New Features:

• If there are attachments that are not images, it will skip them and go to the first image attachment.
• Optional - you can now display thumbnails on search results.

Installation:

In your AdminCP, go to Plugin System, Download/Upload Plugins and import the xml document.

Be sure to change the forum ids in the $thumbsforums array to the forum ids you want to enable thumbnails in.

The plugin comes with the Search Thumbnails enabled. If you do not want to have thumbnails show up in the search results, make sure you deactivate it.

If you would like thumbnails to display in the search results, you will need to replace your search.php page with the one in the zip file. Unfortunately vBulletin forgot to include a hook variable where it is necessary for this to work. I have added 1 line to search.php with the hook variable. There is no way around this until vbulletin adds it themselves.

Next you will need to modify your threadbit template:

Find:

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
	<td class="alt2">
		<if condition="$show['threadicon']">
			<img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="$thread[threadicontitle]" border="0" />
		<else />
			&nbsp;
		</if>
	</td>
</if>

Replace With:

<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
	<td class="alt2" align="center" valign="middle">
			<if condition="$tt_displaythumbs">
				<if condition="($thread['attachmentid']) AND ($thread['thumbsize'])">
			     	<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]">
			          	<img src="attachment.php?attachmentid=$thread[attachmentid]&stc=1&thumb=1" alt="" border="0" />
			        </a>
			     <else />
			        <img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg" alt="" border="0" />
			     </if>
			<else />
				<if condition="$show['threadicon']">
			     <img src="$thread[threadiconpath]" alt="$thread[threadicontitle]" border="0" />
				 </if>
			</if>
	</td>
</if>

You will also need to upload an image to display if there are no image attachments here: $stylevar[imgdir_misc]/nothumb.jpg(ex: http://www.mysite.com/forums/images/misc/nothumb.jpg). I've made a simple one you can use or you can make your own. By default thumbnails are confined in a 100x100 px area, I found that it looks good to make the "no image" image about 100x83 px.

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Add-ons (Optional)

UserCP option to turn the thumbnails on/off on a per user basis

Go into your admincp and click User Profile Fields->Add New User Profile Field.

Select "single selection radio buttons", click continue.

For title put "Thread Thumbnails", for description put "This will allow you to turn the thumbnails of threads on and off."

For options, enter "On" and "Off".

Skip down to Display Page and choose "Options: Thread Viewing".

In your threadbit template(assuming you already applied the template changes above):

Find:

<if condition="$tt_displaythumbs">

Replace with:

<if condition="($tt_displaythumbs) AND ($bbuserinfo['field5'] <> 'Off' OR $show['guest'])">

You need to replace field5 with the field name of the profile field you created earlier.

[dmknights]

will this work for 3.8?

[MissKalunji]

mine still working on 3.8

[dmknights]

*Installed*
Works Perfect on 3.8.0

[hieronymous]

this is a great little plug-in that i've been using almost since i set my board up

i notice it's marked as "not supported" so i guess no tweak was ever released to get it to create thumbnails from embedded [img] files, a facility that was requested early on in the thread?

(for some reason if i search the thread for "[img]" it returns 0 posts, and i don't want to wade through all 19 pages if somebody knows the answer straight off)

[theOZer]

You are correct. In this mod, at least, no tweak was ever released to create thumbnails from embedded [img] files. This mod simply, and so effectively, can only grab/see/display a thumbnail 1) if the thumbnail was created thru vB Attachment Manager and 2) if the thumbnail is in the thread's first post.
Possibly doing a search thru all of vB.org's forums may turn something up.
~theOZer

[hieronymous]

thanks for the reply, i rather thought that would be the case

as i say, the obvious query word "img" or "[img]" returns no results, i guess because there aren't enough letters in "img"... and in any case, if this mod doesn't handle embedded images, then i don't really want to use any other mod - as this one mostly works fine apart from this (very minor) issue

[KevinL]

Yeah this is a great mod.

I actually started using one made by Gio that creates thumbs like this and also gives you a lot of flexibility and options within all your forums. It's a great product.

[indiawilds]

Hi,

I am using this plugin and i am able to display the thumbnails, but if some user links the photo from some other site, then the thumbnail is not displayed.

Can you please let me know what can be done to display thumbnails of images linked from other sites.

I am using 3.8.1.

Thanks.

[Aery]

Hi,
first of all, I really like this mod!

I need only a simple info :

There is a way to show the thumbnail in the forum main page ?
For example : 8 inline thumbnail to the upper part of the forum (or lower, etc)

In the past I had a forum with 8 thumbnail from photopost, now I remove it but I still need to have the thumbnail !

Thanks a lot!

[6piston]

been using for some time now. it was just what my site really needed.

the thing is, i've always been finding ways for the thread thumbnails to load better on IE.
it's just so much more slower when all the thumbnails have to be loaded before the page actually displays

plus, on some pcs, the thread thumbnails hang their IE browsers. could it be the intense loading for the browser?

theOzer or anyone out there found a better way to load the thumbnails? <DIV> instead of tables perhaps?