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David.Price at austinsmithlord

Sep 16, 2009, 1:28 AM

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Thumbnailing images from a website

Dear All,

Is it possible to link a webpage and have that webpage thumb nailed as an image?

I can add a link to a webpage but would like to see a thumbnail with the link.

Thanks

David

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clausvb.wikipedia at mailnull

Sep 17, 2009, 3:44 AM

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Re: Thumbnailing images from a website [In reply to]

Perhaps I am wrong, but I think you will need to program an Extension.

The following Syntax will NOT work:

[http://ix.de [[File:2009-06-04_pic.png]]]

I have take more than 20 minutes to search
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings
but I could not find anything to
- use external images
- create external hyperlinks with thumbnails

Therefore you have to write your own extension, which should not be
too hard in this matter.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions

Regards,
Claus

PS: If you have never written an Extension, here is a short example:

---
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'example';

function example()
{
global $wgParser;
$wgParser->setHook('example', 'process_input');
}

function process_input($input, $args, $parser)
{
return 'Hello World! Your input: ' . htmlspecialchars($input);
}
---

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magnusmanske at googlemail

Sep 17, 2009, 3:51 AM

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Re: Thumbnailing images from a website [In reply to]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:28 AM, David Price
<David.Price [at] austinsmithlord> wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Is it possible to link a webpage and have that webpage thumb nailed as an image?
>
> I can add a link to a webpage but would like to see a thumbnail with the link.

To automatically create a thumbnail of a website, see
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/9182.htm

You'd have to write that up as an extension. With thumbnail caching
(otherwise, server overload). Good luck. :-)

Cheers,
Magnus

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