Automatically Retrieve Image Dimensions

*** NOTICE: This will only work correctly with vBSEO 2.2.0 or higher! ***

The "Image Size Attributes" section of the vBSEO Control Panel is a GREAT feature, but can be a lot of trouble to implement if you have added or changed a lot of smilies, post icons, and/or have all new images in your style, because you would have to manually add/update every image size.

This little PHP script will read them all for you, and produce output that you can just copy/paste into that section of the vBSEO Control Panel.

Upload this PHP file to the IMAGES directory under your FORUM directory, and open it in your browser.

Example:

Code:

http://www.example.com/forums/images/get_image_sizes.php

Then simply copy everything on the screen and paste it into the "Define Dimension Attributes" textbox in the vBSEO Control Panel, overwriting anything that is currently in that field.

Delete the .PHP file when you're done.

Don't forget to repeat this process whenever you add smiles or change any of your style images.

12/11/2005: All known issues have been corrected.

Wow! very neat - I did the default images for vB3.x.x manually and haven't had the energy to do it for another site I run. Cool

Q: How does it handle images with the same name under different folders?

It returns the relative path, so it should differentiate. (as noted in your example on the vbSEO CP)

@ConqSoft:

Great tool - thanks.

Does this actually work?

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

It returns the relative path, so it should differentiate. (as noted in your example on the vbSEO CP)

Great!

I'm moving/sticking this to the 'Template Modifications' forum so that users can use the tool to publish image size attributes for commercial templates like vbstyles, vbdesigns, vbmechanic, vbskinworks, etc.

Originally Posted by Michael

Does this actually work?

No. It's an early April Fool's joke I posted.

Thanks for this great tool

Originally Posted by ConqSoft

No. It's an early April Fool's joke I posted.

I've just tried running it now on a www.vbstyles.com Element skin, and it still provides the same errors as i recieve before .. incorrectly sizing my images, scaling them down ... thats why i wondered if this product was still in development or not. I also received a series of access issues saying this:

Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /home/xxx/public_html/images/get_image_sizes.php on line 35

Not sure... It's just using the standard getimagesize() PHP function, so that function is unable to read one or more of your images for some reason.

You should be able to still copy the output, remove those error lines, and use the rest in your vbSEO Control Panel though.

I'll work on adding more error checking to it...

Ok. I updated the attachment. It shouldn't show you those errors anymore.

Originally Posted by Michael

I've just tried running it now on a www.vbstyles.com Element skin, and it still provides the same errors as i recieve before .. incorrectly sizing my images, scaling them down

Do you have more than one style?

If you have more than one style, and all your style images are organized under your forum images directory, you should be fine.

Example:

/forums/images/style1/buttons/
/forums/images/style1/misc/
/forums/images/style2/buttons/
/forums/images/style2/misc/

etc.

Yeah i am running two different styles, Element Blue and Element Purple.
The only difference being that Element Blue makes use of the /images/element/buttons_blue/ folder as apposed to Element Purple which uses the /images/element/buttons/ folder.

Hmm. I just noticed that the attachment isn't showing on the first post of this thread anymore? If I edit the post, it's there. Anyone else see it?

EDIT: Removed/Re-Attached It

Here is a small example of what i am adding into the Image Attributes textbox:

'element/statusicon/subforum_link.gif' => '10x11'
'element/statusicon/post_old.gif' => '10x11'
'element/statusicon/pm_old.gif' => '16x20'
'element/statusicon/forum_old.gif' => '45x45'
'element/statusicon/thread_dot_hot_lock.gif' => '16x20'
'element/statusicon/announcement_new.gif' => '16x20'
'element/statusicon/thread_hot_lock_new.gif' => '16x20'

Is this correct, their reletive URL link would actually be http://www.staff-lounge.com/images/e...cement_new.gif for example. But when i try and load a page with these items on, most are instead deformed to a 20x20 value.