Profile Enhancements - Homepage Thumbnail Preview in Member's Profile

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Homepage Thumbnail Preview in Member's Profile

Difficulty: Very Easy


Q. What does it do ??

A. If a user fills in the Homepage field, a linked thumbnail preview is generated and replaced by his Homepage text link.

Q. Do I need this ??

A. Yes.

Q. Does it work in different browsers ??

A. Tested in IE, Firefox and Chrome. Works perfect !!


Template Edit: 1
Member Info Templates/memberinfo_block_contactinfo

PLEASE NOTE:- This is not actually a product but a service by www.shrinktheweb.com. You must register before using this as they provide you with a unique key ID that you have to enter in the code below. Its worth registering !! Its 100% free. As they say, the thumbnails are refreshed monthly.

Begins here:-

1. First register at www.shrinktheweb.com and note Your Access Key ID from STW lobby.

2. Open memberinfo_block_contactinfo template:-

Find and delete this:-

<if condition="$prepared['homepage']">
    <dt class="shade">$vbphrase[home_page]</dt>
        <dd><a href="$prepared[homepage]" target="_blank">$prepared[homepage]</a></dd>
    </if>

Then find this:-

<dl class="list_no_decoration" id="additional_contact_details">

And add above:-

<!-- Homepage preview begins here -->
<if condition="$prepared['homepage']">
    <fieldset>
<legend>$vbphrase[home_page] of $prepared[username] (<a href="$prepared[homepage]" target="_blank">$prepared[homepage]</a>)</legend>
<div class="fieldset_padding floatcontainer">
<ul class="list_no_decoration">
<li><a href="$prepared[homepage]" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.shrinktheweb.com/xino.php?embed=1&amp;STWAccessKeyId=Your Access Key ID&amp;Size=lg&amp;stwUrl=$prepared[homepage]" width="175" height="125" align="left" border="0" style="border: 3px double #e3e3e3" alt="$prepared[username]'s Homepage" /></a></li>
</ul></div></fieldset>
    </if>
<!-- /Homepage -->

You'll have to enter Your Access Key ID within the IMG tag in the above code.

You may edit the above code according to your requirements like setting the width, height, border color, Size=lg for large and sm for small.


Hope you like this sweet little mod, very simple but really useful and cool. I am sure, you are definitely going to use this..

Pleaseee MARK AS INSTALLED if you find it useful !!

Critical Changes in 1.5:-
1. XHTML valid now.
2. STW has announced changes in URL parameters that would be mandatory soon:-
u -> stwu
Url -> stwUrl

Change in 1.6:-
1. You do not need "Your Secret Access Key" in the URL anymore. It will work with/without it, but removing it is preferred, as now it makes sense of it being "secret". SO, just &stwu=Secret Key has been removed from the code.


Source: http://tech6.com/f51/homepage-thumbn...-profile-t587/

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[dancue]

your access key ID is not your username. If you registered on the site it will give you both credentials.

[veenuisthebest]

Originally Posted by callumbush

I've installed this but the website image says "invalid credentials"?

"Your Secret Access Key" - I used the long code it gave me.
"Your Access Key ID" - I used my username

What have I done wrong? :S

you forgot to mark as installed

[graham_w]

Nice work by you. Shame about the cost of the inside URLs feature.

[TimberFloorAu]

Gonna take a close look at this as it looks very promising.

Could you hack this for VBALINKS ?

Be great if you could.

[veenuisthebest]

Could you hack this for VBALINKS ?

I would have loved to and it would not had been tough. but I do not have vbalinks and I don't want to buy it.

btw check out this mini link directory done with STW screens. its not vB.

[Audax666]

Very nice Hack!
Thank you.

Now the profile looks more colourful...

[veenuisthebest]

I'm glad you like it

[YuOr]

Great mod, thank you!
Do you know if that is possible to move to "about me" page instead of "contact info"?

[blogcrash]

Originally Posted by YuOr

Great mod, thank you!
Do you know if that is possible to move to "about me" page instead of "contact info"?

Good question... i would also like to have it there

[Whiteyboy5]

Originally Posted by YuOr

Great mod, thank you!
Do you know if that is possible to move to "about me" page instead of "contact info"?

Originally Posted by blogcrash

Good question... i would also like to have it there

Yeah, just get rid of the

 <if condition="$prepared['homepage']">
    <fieldset>
<legend>$vbphrase[home_page] of $prepared[username] (<a href="$prepared[homepage]" target="_blank">$prepared[homepage]</a>)</legend>
<div class="fieldset_padding floatcontainer">
<ul class="list_no_decoration">
<a href="$prepared[homepage]" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.shrinktheweb.com/xino.php?embed=1&u=Your Secret Access Key&STWAccessKeyId=Your Access Key ID&Size=lg&Url=$prepared[homepage]" width="175" height="125" align="left" border="0" style="border: 3px double #e3e3e3" alt="$prepared[username]'s Homepage" /></a>
</ul></div></fieldset>
    </if>

On the template he told you to put it on, then place it somewhere in the "Member Info Templates/memberinfo_block_aboutme" or something template.