How to display Thumbnails without openthubshots.org

[GuRu5050]

I want to achieve 2 things with my links directory. On the links listing page (browselinks.php?) currently it allows to create the humb through openthumbshots.org. How can I create a static thumb image not linking to openthumbshots?
How can I display the same image on the listing page (showlinks.php?) ie again without live link and display a static link?

[KW802]

GuRu5050, if you search the forums you'll see a number of methods people took to upload thumbnails with the older versions of vBa Links. In particular, check out some of the posts by Lionel on the topic.

Be aware, though, that most of those methods involve older versions of vBa Links so the instructions may need to be tweaked a bit if you're running the current version.

[GuRu5050]

Thanks KW82. I thought there will be a straight forward method without tweaking as we use the online thumbgenerator. I am running the latest Links Directory v3.0 Beta 2 and don't want to tweak it until atleast it is release candidate.

[KW802]

Thanks KW82. I thought there will be a straight forward method without tweaking as we use the online thumbgenerator. I am running the latest Links Directory v3.0 Beta 2 and don't want to tweak it until atleast it is release candidate.The biggest problem you're going to run into is that vBa Links, stock, doesn't have any type of mechanism for associating a thumbnail file name to the link entry. Because of that there were two methods of getting thumbnails.... (a) using thumbnails from one of the major service providers [eg: MSN, Alexa, etc.] or (b) hacking some type of file association. Most of used the easier option of using thumbs from one of the providers but, if I recall correctly, Lionel did a pretty extensive method of associating local copies of the thumbs to the entries.

The new 3.0.x release does not have a file association method but showing Thumbshots thumbs is now a default option. Going from the older versions to 3.0.x some of the variable names have changed along with some of the table column names (eg: There is no more 'suspended' entries since with 3.0.x you can now soft-delete an entry) but if you're familiar with PHP & HTML then getting the older hacks shouldn't be much of a problem.

[Brian]

How does your thumb generator work? You may be able to add some plugins or even just some template changes depending on how they are generated/called.