Automatic Picture Resizer? Possible?

[Joey D]

On several other forums I frequent they have an automatic picture resizer built into their coding so when someone posts an obscenely large photo is resizes it down to something like 800x600. It also allows you to click on the image to make it full size if you wish.

Would it be possible to implement something like that I on GTP? I know it must be part of the vBulliten software but since I've never used it I'm not sure. I know in the import, questionable modification, and funny picture thread there always seems to be some massive picture posted and a resize would make all this slightly more bearable.

 

[Jondot]

Would it be possible to implement something like that I on GTP? I know it must be part of the vBulliten software but since I've never used it I'm not sure. I know in the import, questionable modification, and funny picture thread there always seems to be some massive picture posted and a resize would make all this slightly more bearable.

I believe it's a 3rd party plug-in (or was last time I had any dealings with vB). But yeah, no matter how hard the general 'don't post gigantic pictures' message is hammered, there's always someone...

 

[Spock]

I know vB can make use of GD or ImageMagick for processing avatar uploads & whatnot, which both can be used to re-size images, as I wrote a script to re-size images & thumbnail them automatically with GD for my Borderlands weapons database.
As far as vB goes, A friend of mine runs a game clan and has vB4 for their forums, and looking through the admin panel, attachments can be limited on size, but I don't have the time to see if it will re-size them if they are over that specific size. That is on a vB4 based forums, so I don't know if vB3 has the same options.

 

[Jordan]

It's definitely possible, but as I have mentioned before, it's not a feature that I really like. The idea behind it is good, but I haven't yet seen an elegant implementation that I would want to implement here.

I know vB can make use of GD or ImageMagick for processing avatar uploads & whatnot, which both can be used to re-size images, as I wrote a script to re-size images & thumbnail them automatically with GD for my Borderlands weapons database.
As far as vB goes, A friend of mine runs a game clan and has vB4 for their forums, and looking through the admin panel, attachments can be limited on size, but I don't have the time to see if it will re-size them if they are over that specific size. That is on a vB4 based forums, so I don't know if vB3 has the same options.

Hot-linked images from other servers are pulled directly from those other sites, and are not processed by vBulletin or GTPlanet's server.

 

[Spock]

Ah, I must have thought they only meant attachments.

 

[Omnis]

I hate those. They're so clunky.