Thumbnail Problems -- $5 PayPal for Help!

[tulumbo]

Hey Pliggers,

I'm looking for some help here. Here's my deal:

I'm starting a wallpaper site based on pligg (WallVote.com). I don't want the thumbnails displayed to be screenshots of the website, i want them to be thumbnails of the actual wallpapers. I tried the image upload module and I couldn't get that to work. Since I am the only one who will be adding the wallpapers, I have decided that I will upload the images manually via FTP.


This is the original code in link_summary.tpl

{/if}
<img src="http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url={$url_short}" style="float:left; margin-left:65px;margin-right:15px;padding-top:0px;border:1px solid black;" alt="{$url_short}" height="80" width="110" />

I want to modify this so that it directs to the thumbnails in my images folder so I tried this:

{/if}
<img src="images/{$url_short}.gif" style="float:left; margin-left:65px;margin-right:15px;padding-top:0px;border:1px solid black;" alt="{$url_short}" height="80" width="110" />

But then i realized this wouldn't work, because gif filenames can't include "/", "\", or ":".

Now I'm stuck. I'm not sure where I can edit {$url_short} and if I change it to not include the "http://" will that screw up other things on my website? By the way, I am using pligg version 9.8.0

I will pay $5 via paypal to the person who figures this out for me. Thanks!

[jaunty]

One solution is you may use the title name instead of the url as filename.

replace your code
{/if}
<img src="images/{$url_short}.gif" style="float:left; margin-left:65px;margin-right:15px;padding-top:0px;border:1px solid black;" alt="{$url_short}" height="80" width="110" />

to
{/if}
<img src="images/{$title_short}.gif" style="float:left; margin-left:65px;margin-right:15px;padding-top:0px;border:1px solid black;" alt="{$url_short}" height="80" width="110" />

The idea is to use title name as file name.

[ChuckRoast]

You could also use the {$link_id} number so your images would be
1.gif
2.gif
3.gif
and so on

[tulumbo]

thanks for the responses!

how do I know what the link id is for each story? Is there an easy way to view this?

[ChuckRoast]

thanks for the responses!

how do I know what the link id is for each story? Is there an easy way to view this?

As an admin click on the "admin links" next to any story, put your mouse over "change title or description" and you'll see what the story ID number is.