Image links to Album pictures don't work right.

[MatsP]

Jools,

just so that it doesn't get lost, I'm reporting this "feature" as a "bug".

When using BB-code to link to images in the PC album, the link doesn't work.

Eg:


Note: I just tested posting the image

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[img]http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=88[/img] 

on another forum, and that also refuses to use that as an image, so I guess it's either something in the BB interpreter or the way that the image is exported by Planet Catfish... [or am I going wrong
here...]

For most purposes, I guess this isn't a particularly important bug, so don't put it high on the "fix priority" list, unless the fix is relatively trivial.

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Mats

[Barbie]

phpBB doesn't recognize the url for the pictures as a jpg so it won't post them as a picture. We added a patch to work around that at holics that uses siteimg tags. I can get you the information on what was involved if you'd like to add that as a feature.

Barbie

[Dave Rinaldo]

Hi Mats!

It works for me using the url tags.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/albu ... ?pic_id=88

Also, Mats pic

I just saw this from Jools.

BTW, use the following code for posting images hosted in the personal albums...

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<img src="http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=144"/>

<img src="http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/albu ... pic_id=144"/>

Jools

[Silurus]

The intention was to post the images directly in the body of the text using the [img] tag, not as a link with the [url] tag.

[Jools]

I plan to do this (and I would appreciate more info on the mod) but I am also wanting to automatically size large images to a max width of 640 pixels too, so am going to combine both enhacements into one.

Jools

[MatsP]

The intention was to post the images directly in the body of the text using the [img] tag, not as a link with the [url] tag.

Exactly, and I think it's more important to get this working for those that don't have somewhere else to keep their pictures, and are newbies. The fact that there is a workaround is good, but the "direct html" bit is quite a bit more complicated to type correctly, and it's not what the FAQ says about "how to put an image in your message".

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Mats

[Jools]

and it's not what the FAQ says about "how to put an image in your message".

Yeah, I know, I left teh HTML out of the FAQ as it is my intention to make the BBCode work.

Jools

[MatsP]

I plan to do this (and I would appreciate more info on the mod) but I am also wanting to automatically size large images to a max width of 640 pixels too, so am going to combine both enhacements into one.

Jools

I like the "auto-shrink to 640". And I guess you may want to limit the height to something like 400 or so too, so the bounding box is 640 x 400 pixels. Or maybe 640 x 600, as I doubt that many people have screens maller than 1024 x 768 these days.

I'm just thinking about the case where someone posts a cropped 640 x 1280 picture, for instance...

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Mats

[Barbie]

We also have a fix for the auto size option. I'll ask Tim exactly what was involved and post it here for you as soon as I get an answer! I go find nifty tools, then he has to figure out how to make them work ;). Thank goodness he doesn't mind!

Barbie

[Jools]

We also have a fix for the auto size option. I'll ask Tim exactly what was involved and post it here for you as soon as I get an answer!

That'd be great as I had a good look through the phpbb site but couldn't find either - there's a load of stuff there though!

Appreciate the help,

Jools

[bronzefry]

I got a "debug" error message when I tried to get into my album today. This kinda bummed me out. Yesterday, my laptop was completely wiped out by the new virus that comes in through the internet, not e-mail. I had backed-up all my business stuff, but not my photos! All my photos that I didn't post of the fishies are G-O-N-E!!!!!! I believe I put some of the Chaetostoma sp.(3)? that died in my album here. I also think I still have them on the other photo site. Any ideas?

[Jools]

The album add-on was broken by the last forum upgrade hence the error message. The images files should still be there, have a browse through:

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/album_mod/upload and
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/albu ... load/cache

I do plan to fix the album but it did chew up a heck of a lot of diskspace even with restrictions on image size and number of pics allowed. Timescales for the fix? Not too soon, I have a number of other (data in cat-elog) tasks to take on first.


Jools

[Jools]

The album feature has been restored.

Jools

[Jools]

We also have a fix for the auto size option. I'll ask Tim exactly what was involved and post it here for you as soon as I get an answer! I go find nifty tools, then he has to figure out how to make them work ;). Thank goodness he doesn't mind!

Barbie

BTW, I'd still like to know how this was done as I can't find anything that does it.

Jools

[Jools]

I like the "auto-shrink to 640". And I guess you may want to limit the height to something like 400 or so too, so the bounding box is 640 x 400 pixels. Or maybe 640 x 600, as I doubt that many people have screens maller than 1024 x 768 these days.

I'm just thinking about the case where someone posts a cropped 640 x 1280 picture, for instance...

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Mats

This auto-shrink has now been done (640 pixel wide being the max.) the vertical dimension is not restricted as we are all using to having to move vertical scroll bars! A resized image will have a thin black border, a original sized image will have no border. If you hover over a resized image it will tell you it is resized AND allow you to click on it to view the image full-size in a pop-up.

I remain pondering on the album thing as I am not, as yet, convinced the album is hear to stay.

Jools

[Jools]

Now that I've removed the album, I think I can clear this issue. phpbb3 aka "olympus" is in final beta stages, it includes image upload functionality - we'll likely be upgrading to it in 2007.

Jools