Thumbnail of Attachments on forum display

This hack has been requested a number of times, for multiple versions of vBulletin. For whatever reason, it was never done (at least publicly) until now. Heres to wishing each and everyone of you a Merry Christmas, and a prosperous, healthy, and safe, New Year!

What it does: This hack will display a thumbnail of the threads attachment on the forum display. Quite useful if you have forums designated for graphics/photos .. etc. Could also be tweaked to display the posters avatar instead of an attachment. Variable possibilities. (Screenshot attached for further review) and or see it in action at this forum in realtime. If the thread has multiple attachments, it will display the first. If no attachment, a 'no attachment' thumb will appear. Can be assigned for use in any forum you wish it to be active in.

Install time is minimal - Less than 5 minutes for the average joe. (Simplicity at it's Finest)
1 file to modify, and 1 template to modify, along with the upload of an image.

Known Issues: If the attachment is not an image, a thumbnail will not be shown. (IE: .zip or .rar)

If you install it, please click the 'Install' icon - Updates will be sent to those who do.

[Delphy]

I just added 1 line I'd missed from the copy paste of my forumdisplay, and added table prefix stuff, thats it.

Does anybody else have a problem with my version?

[lasto]

works perfect now m8 - you even fixed the rar problem.
If a rar is the only attachement it now displays no thumb displayed pic

well done m8

[mhobelsb]

i second that! works great! thanks a lot

[???`S?LV?R???`]

I installed Delphy's version also, and it seems to be working right.

[gkar]

Doesn't work here, all post dissapear when I've installed the hack, it seems to be a problem with the forumdisplay.php modification. I've tried the Dechevious and the Delphy variant, but none works. Any suggestions? Best regards

[lasto]

Originally Posted by gkar

Doesn't work here, all post dissapear when I've installed the hack, it seems to be a problem with the forumdisplay.php modification. I've tried the Dechevious and the Delphy variant, but none works. Any suggestions? Best regards

yeah redo it all again as ive tried both versions and the first worked but showed a red x when a rar was an attachment - the second one works perfect so if u got none of them to work then its down to user error m8 and you need to re-do your steps and see where u went wrong.

[Delphy]

gkar,

Make sure you start from a fresh forumdisplay when installing my version, don't start from an existing thumbnailed forumdisplay base.

Also make sure you have the updated txt file above

[alkatraz]

Great hack!

Sadie Frost : thanks for your code, worked great

[alkatraz]

Ug oh.. just noticed that the 2 forums I want this to work in are showing thumbs, but so is one forum I don't want to show thumbs in...

anyone have this problem? It's just one extra forum but it doesn't make sense. Triple checked the #'s in forumdisplay.php... using the code above for "no default post icon" but have tried enabling the icon and using the stock code and the modified code, no change..

Forum number's are 42 and 95 for the ones i WANT it to work in, and 2 for the one that I don't want thumbs to be displayed. Is there a possibility strpos is matching the #2 from 42 with the forum # 2?

PHP Code:

$displaythumbs = false;
    if (strpos("42,95", strval($forumid)) !== false)
        $displaythumbs = true; 


[Delphy]

alkatraz, yes thats what happening.

If you want to still use the original hack replace the code you have with:

        $displaythumbs = false;
        $forumids = array(42,95);
        if (in_array($forumid, $forumids)) {
                $displaythumbs = true;
        }

Works much better.