Miscellaneous Hacks - Watermark Attachments

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Plugin: 2
Query: 0

tested only on the pure installation of vbulletin. install at your own risk to work with other attachment mods.

Feature

* put a logo (watermark) on your attachments.
* option to watermark only attachments after X days of creation. this helps your hotlinked images become free ads.
* option to watermark thumbnails but stop hotlinking to full size image (return a blank image instead)
* option NOT to watermark images for traffic from certain sites

Install

Step 1: import product-watermark.xml
Step 2: create and upload your own watermark logos. one for top and one for bottom.
Step 3: put the absolute path of watermark images into options. (/var/www/html/.../watermark.png)
Step 4 (optional) : if you don't want the attachments watermarked viewing on your own site or some other friend sites (like google image), just put the domains into "Skip Referer" option.

Not working
1. set the "Days Delay" option to 0
2. refresh your cache by press Ctrl-F5.
3. the watermark images should be in PNG format with transparent background.
4. check the "Safe Mode Temporary Directory" option. the directory should be writable.
5. only works for PNG, GIF, JPG attachments.
6. only works if the attachments are stored in the filesystem.
7. GD library should be installed.

Todo
* currently, we have to create a temp file while sending a watermarked attachment. It will be appreciate if anybody can help me to get rid of this.




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[z0diac]

(is this thread still monitored by the author? If so please read ^^ above post. )

[z0diac]

GRRR. Mod uninstalled as it's watermarking wide thumbnails, and this thread seems to be dead...

[t.uzuner]

yes me too same problem. i dont want show thumbnails watermark. please update mod.

[z0diac]

Originally Posted by t.uzuner

yes me too same problem. i dont want show thumbnails watermark. please update mod.

I do believe this mod has been abandoned. I've been asking for help/comments in this thread for ages and the author is nowhere to be found.

I'm looking into paying a coder to mod it so that the mod won't run unless the image is at least X pixels wide.

[elwachiman]

does not work is wrong no further information please thanks

[Mopar1973Man]

I got it to work and understand how to do it...

You need the absolute path to the warkmark.png file. So this might require contacting your web host and find out what your absolute path is. Relative path will not work! Like if you installed file is at /forum/watermark.png and that's what you typed then its wrong and won't function... Like I said you NEED the ABSOLUTE PATH...

[interfx]

Anyone have this working with VB4? Or anyone considering updating to VB4?

[reimic]

does not work. could somebody update it for 4.0?

[HondaATC]

Originally Posted by interfx

Anyone have this working with VB4? Or anyone considering updating to VB4?

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=36738

I've got a feature request in to have watermarking added as native to a future version of vbuletin. Feel free to comment on it, Dev's might see/understand the interest in having it.

[kevin2008]

Yes it is a need for protecting works, it must also be compatible with the extensions: png, to lie, tiff, jpg they is most current.

Thank you by advance with all the coders who will want to work well on this project