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How to display images in posts?

68kMLA Software 17 posts Aug 27, 2009 to Aug 30, 2009

#1 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 00:26 68kMLA

Hi,

I tried phpbb.com's instructions by putting the [/img] tags around the url relating to where my picture is, but the submitted post just displays the word Image. How do you do it?

-Apostrophe

#2 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 01:03 68kMLA

Are you sure the URL of the picture ends in ".jpg, .png, .gif", etc? Some image hosting sites use dynamic links to pics, which typically do not work when embedded with tags.

#3 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 03:23 68kMLA

Ya gotta use ASCII art here, son! >

#4 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 09:24 68kMLA

Hmm...

Code:

[img=URI]

...should work fine. To grab an example image from the MLA Wiki, this one's a small image and should be displayed as is:

This one is larger and should be thumbnailed automagically on load:

Seems to work OK for me! What's the URI of the image that you're trying to post?

#5 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 18:54 68kMLA

I peeked at the .TXT in your post, ~tl , but I'm still not clear on the "thumbnailing" process.

Does it happen automagically when an image is beyond a certain size limit (as it appears to have been done in your post) or is there a specific process one must go thru to post an actual thumbnail version of the pic as a link to the larger image? The example in your post leads me to think "thumbnailing" is a, very necessary, utilitarian function of our forum software to prevent direct links to huge images.

As I've said before, we need a howto on this, as well as other info, to make life easier for new recruits . . .

. . . and confused veterans. :I

jt =8-\

#6 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 20:03 68kMLA

Does it happen automagically when an image is beyond a certain size limit (as it appears to have been done in your post) \

Yes, it is done automatically as the BBCode is parsed.

#7 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 20:07 68kMLA

it only resizes it if you are using the crappy ProSilver theme.

#8 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 - 20:18 68kMLA

I peeked at the .TXT in your post, ~tl , but I'm still not clear on the "thumbnailing" process.
Does it happen automagically when an image is beyond a certain size limit (as it appears to have been done in your post) or is there a specific process one must go thru to post an actual thumbnail version of the pic as a link to the larger image? The example in your post leads me to think "thumbnailing" is a, very necessary, utilitarian function of our forum software to prevent direct links to huge images.

As I've said before, we need a howto on this, as well as other info, to make life easier for new recruits . . .

. . . and confused veterans. :I

jt =8-\

It's an automatic process, if the image is over 400px wide/high it's automatically sized down.

it only resizes it if you are using the crappy ProSilver theme.

Heh, so it does. I guess I never got around to adding it to the other one...

#9 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 - 01:33 68kMLA

I just realized there is another theme! Its kinda nice!

#10 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 - 02:47 68kMLA

What's the URI of the image that you're trying to post?

They were images on Flickr. Here's the URL for one of them:

And here it is with the img/img tags:

I didn't write the word "Image". It just came on its own.

-Apostrophe

#11 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 - 02:58 68kMLA

I believe that you have to drag the image into the URL box and then post the image normally. Like this:

3860877048_d34e919974.jpg.9cbc6b1011ef677b98ddeecf9d1c75f8.jpg

#12 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 - 03:57 68kMLA

Here's the URL for one of them:

Yep, you need the link to the picture that ends with the file extension. That one ain't gonna work.

#13 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 - 18:47 68kMLA

Awesome, thanks!

Here, let me try:

Thanks, everyone!

-Apostrophe

#14 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 - 19:33 68kMLA

I'd like to add my thanks as well!

Now I've got a metric @$$LOAD of 10 M.Pixel images to rightsize for posting . . . sounds like work! BLEH!!!

jt =8-\

p.s. OK! Now I'm off tho post another basic knowledge level: Re-creating my sig on the new forum software?

#15 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 - 00:29 68kMLA

jt: If you upload to ImageShack, they can resize your image on the fly, as you upload it.

#16 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 - 02:54 68kMLA

jt: If you upload to ImageShack, they can resize your image on the fly, as you upload it.

Nice one, got it done and even figured out how to do a direct link to the piccie, though maybe I should change the filename! }

How do I get their software to resize to 800x600 that'll thumbnail automagically here to half that size?

#17 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 - 03:06 68kMLA

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