We're workin' on a new Plugin called "eyecatcher".

With this plugin, you can mirror images in jpg, png and gif format to your server and resize it automatically as jpg in different sizes on your server which you specify in the configuration.

You need a field for your links which contains a link to the image file.

The captured images will be stored as ID.jpg in folders named by the size of the thumbnail.

So you can use in your templates a simple link which contains:

<img src="url_to_your_image_dir/1st_size/<%ID%>.jpg">

<img src="url_to_your_image_dir/2nd_size/<%ID%>.jpg">

to include the images into your site.

We've made this plugin for links sql as a download-archive to add a eyecatcher on category pages and screenshots on some detail pages.

It's also a good idea to sell the category eyecatcher, combined with a priority link.

The plugin needs Image::Magic Perl and LWP, a dedicated server is recommended.

Best regards from
Bremen/Germany

Lothar

Cool!

Will it be able to scan a server sub-directory of full sized images and make the thumbnails automatically in batch mode? This would be very useful.

Also to be able to choose where the thumbnails get placed (subdirectory or same directory) would be nice.

So pretty much like my Thumb_Images plugin, but it supports several image size types?

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Just like "MyFaves" was pretty much like my MyLinks plugin

Yeah, except MyLinks wasn't available at the time, which is why I got asked to write it

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Hi Andy,

I think the plugin is much different as your plugin because we did

not use links sql upload function to save any image on the server.

The plugin can resize the images in any size you like by adding a simple

combination of (with,hight) in the admin menu. It's possible to use 1,2,3,4 or

more different combinations to resize the images.

But BTW: We develope this plugin for our own use and work since 4 or more weeks on it. And we test the plugin in a real links installation with 4.500 links to see how much different errors are possible when you get images from other sites.

It is not 100% ready yet but i saw your plugin post and another question about something like our plugin and I thought: I'ts time to let other links sql users know about it.

Best regards from
Bremen/Germany

Lothar

hi,

a batch mode for local images is not available for the moment.

But we will add something like that, so it's possible to resize the

images when you need (add) another thumbnail size at any time.

You can choose the maindir for the images. In this maindir you find the subdirectorys like

eyecatcher/320x160

eyecatcher/240x160

eyecatcher/160x80

Best regards from
Bremen/Germany

Lothar

Sounds great;

We are doing all the multiple sizes by hand presently. This would save a tremendous amount of work.

Does this handle jpg and gif the same way?
Can it convert to .gif for specific sizes? We find that often a .gif works better for small thumbnails.

Exactly this was the reason for this plugin

The input file can be a png, gif or jpg

the output is a jpg but we can handle gif and png too.

Best regards from
Bremen/Germany

Lothar