Attachment Descriptions

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|| Attachment Descriptions for vBulletin 3.0.7
|| Author : Psionic Vision
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What is this:
It enchances attachment upload interface with a new 'attachment description' field

Features:

• Conveniently enchances attachment upload screen with the description field (see screenshots)
• Displays attachment descriptions in:
  Attachment Manager, Post Edit (newthread, newreply, editpost) and Attachment List (in posts)

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

YLP1,

My post was addressed to kmike. About you, well you are placing the code in a wrong place... Place your code outside of the <img ...> tag. Right after it.

Hi DarkVisor... I am sorry for being so dense with this...

Is this where I am supposed to place this code?

<a href="attachment.php?$session[sessionurl]attachmentid=$attachment[attachmentid]" target="_blank">  <img class="thumbnail" src="attachment.php?$session[sessionurl]attachmentid=$attachment[attachmentid]&amp;stc=1&amp;thumb=1" border="0" alt="<phrase 1="$attachment[filename]" 2="$attachment[counter]" 3="$attachment[filesize]" 4="$attachment[description]">$vbphrase[image_larger_version_x_y_z]</phrase>" /></a><div align="left">$attachment[description]</div>
&nbsp;<if condition="$show['br']"><br /><br /></if>

Putting the code there causes the images (I have the four images on a line setup) to stack one per line...so instead of this:


Example 1
Image ------ Image ------ Image ------ Image
Caption ---- Caption ---- Caption ---- Caption

Which the above is what I am trying to achieve

I get this instead:

Example 2
Image
Caption

Image
Caption

Image
Caption

Image
Caption

How do I get it to look like the example 1?

[kmike]

Originally Posted by Dark Visor

I would suggest replacing your newpost_attachmentbit template and newpost_attachment templates to their vBulletin originals. Then this will work.

Err, isn't it exactly what I suggested? And newpost_attachment wasn't changed by your hack, only newpost_attachmentbit.

[akanevsky]

You would have to use two levels of HTML tables to achieve that result. Are you sure it is worth it?

[Acers]

is this working for you guys?
me not getting it to work.
following probs in 3.07:

1) in multiple image uploads,, it gives just one description. all other images it discards.. that measn i can enter for only 1 image. Rest are discarded.

2) the image on being uploaded with description is not showing description on main post view page...

[akanevsky]

This hack works fine on non-hacked boards. I cannot guarantee that it will work otherwise.

[Lionel]

works fine for me on heavily hacked 3.07

[akanevsky]

Yes, Lionel, it works for you, but keep in mind that your attachments engine was not hacked prior to installation of my hack. As for this guy, I don't know what he has...

[Acers]

ok.. got a bit of it fixed up...i had a template problem cos of the other hack.

still not fully working but i guess its a template issue that can be sorted. thanks anyway.. grt hack

[kmike]

Originally Posted by YLP1

Putting the code there causes the images (I have the four images on a line setup) to stack one per line...so instead of this:

Example 1
Image ------ Image ------ Image ------ Image
Caption ---- Caption ---- Caption ---- Caption

Which the above is what I am trying to achieve
.....
How do I get it to look like the example 1?

You'd have to wrap all images in a table. It means an additional change to postbit (or postbit_legacy) template is needed.
But wrapping images in a table also means that the table will be as wide as a sum of images' widths. No overflow would happen if images are too wide, instead, a horizontal scroll would appear. Now imagine someone's uploading five 1024x768 images...

But if thumbnails are enabled, it makes sense to wrap thumbnails in a table. First, you know beforehand a maximum thumbnail width and can control maximum table width therefore. Second, thumbnails in one vertical line look really ugly, taking up too much space and making post too long.

So for these reasons I've made the requested change for thumbnails.
To achieve this, I had to change two templates: postbit (or postbit_legacy) and postbit_attachmentthumbnail.

In postbit template, find this code fragment:

					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_thumbnails]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					$post[thumbnailattachments]
					</div>

Replace it with:

					<legend>$vbphrase[attached_thumbnails]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px"><table border="0"><tr valign="top">
					$post[thumbnailattachments]
					</tr></table></div>

Replace whole postbit_attachmentthumbnail template content with:

<td>
	<table border="0" cellspacing="0">
		<caption align="bottom" style="caption-side: bottom; text-align: left;">$attachment[description]</caption>
		<tr><td>
			<a href="attachment.php?$session[sessionurl]attachmentid=$attachment[attachmentid]"><img class="thumbnail" src="attachment.php?$session[sessionurl]attachmentid=$attachment[attachmentid]&amp;stc=1&amp;thumb=1" border="0" alt="<phrase 1="$attachment[filename]" 2="$attachment[counter]" 3="$attachment[filesize]" 4="$attachment[description]">$vbphrase[image_larger_version_x_y_z]</phrase>" /></a>
		</td></tr>
	</table>
</td>
<if condition="$show['br']"></tr>
<tr valign="top"></if>

[Acers]

guys a bit of help.. i have sorted almost all the rest probs but one thing remain...

when i upload attachments, they are not showing in the main reply thread.. see the image. What could be the prob? It was showing earlier prior to the hack.,
thanks in advance