Thumbnails

[lingolex]

The script appears to automatically make a thumbnail pic of the website when the import link function is used.

The thumbnail is of the highest level page not the actual url.
eg example.com

Not
example.com/page_about_birds/swan.htm

Is it possible to modify the thumbnail used for each link?

Are the images saved on the home server or are they dynamically created?

[PHPWebScripts]

It doesn't create thumbnails of webpages. It uses a thumbnail service which can be changed in configuration. By default it uses thumbnails from thumbshots.org.

[lingolex]

The trouble with this system is that I want to use this script to index my own site as well.

The thumbnails for external sites look fine but the thumbnails for my own site are the same for all links which looks bad.

What I need is a way of overriding the thumbnail default and replacing it with my own image but only when it is my own site or If don't like the thumbnail given by thumbsot.

In a future version you could allow any link to have it's own custom thumbnail but I wonder if there is a way to do this now.

[PHPWebScripts]

You can use also another thumbnails service but as far as I know, all of them offer only thumbnails of home pages. The reason probably is that it needs a lot of server resources to create these thumbnails.

I have found this thumbnails generator tool which can be installed on a web server:
http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/website-thumbnail-generator.php
Please take a look and read the requirements, these are quite special. If your server meets them, you can install this tool. If it will work, you can use it to create thumbnails in Link Up Gold. I can help you to configure it.

[lingolex]

The trouble with the http://www.zubrag.com/ system is that it needs to be on a windows server.


The hack I was thinking of would be something like this
doing a modification of the template

$thumb_url = #%thumbnail%#; (somhow get hold of the default value)


if ($link_url contains "mydomain.com")
{

$thumb_url = "http://mydomain.com/mythumb_images/$link_id.gif";
}

then somehow get the $thumb_url back into the template.


d1" colspan="5">#%thumbnail%# <div style="


Each thumb would have the same filename as the id of the link
they would be created manually.

So I would create a gif for each link.


Is something like this possible?

[PHPWebScripts]

If you want to create these thumbnails and upload them to a folder on the server, I can modify the script so it will use them. Please email me, I can send you the edited files.

[lingolex]

yes that would be very good.

I only need the customised thumbs for my own site.
I would be very happy with that.

If it were possible to override any thumb of choice with a custom version it would be even better.

[PHPWebScripts]

I have sent you an email.

[lingolex]

Thank you very much for your help

It is now working fine.

I have manually made lots of thumbnails of my own site.

You can see it here.

http://lingolex.com/learnspanish/links.php?n=9

[PHPWebScripts]

It's great, thank you