Admin Media Thumbnails

Admin Thumbnails
Summary	Allows users to control which mediatypes and tree to process, and can create thumbnails for larger image files.
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Mod Updated	5 May 2018
Download link	v12.0.0.4.zip TNG 12.0 v10.1.0.3p.zip TNG 11.0 TNG 10.1.1
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Author(s)	Robin Richmond
Homepage	Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database
Mod Support	My Mod Support form or TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	My Mod Support form
Latest Mod	v10.1.0.3b & v12.0.0.4
Min TNG V	10.1
Max TNG V	at least 12.0
Files modified	admin_generatethumbs.php, admin_thumbnails.php, English cust_text.php
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Notes

Purpose of the Mod

To make the the generation of thumbnails quicker and more flexible. Changes include:

• A mod parameter lets you increase the file size limit (which is normally 1MB), since most servers seem able to process files of 2MB or more.
• Process only the Mediatypes and tree that have been selected (I generally don't bother with censuses and documents)
• Generate a list of new thumbnail paths and offer to display it.
• Displays files that couldn't be processed (and offers to hide that list).

On a technical note: This mod turn admin_generatethumbs.php into an Include file that is included directly in admin_thumbnails.php, which, in the native code, runs admin_generatethumbs.php through AJAX. Unfortunately, using AJAX causes some errors to be hidden and makes it impractical to interrupt a long-running operation.

Parameters

Skip files larger than this size, in KB (defaults to 2000)
PHP crashes badly if it runs out of memory when trying to create a thumbnail, and the pristine code sets 1000Kb; that is, 1MB, as a reasonably conservative limit. I have found that I can get by with 2.5MB (2500KB) on my servers.

Compatibility With Other Mods

This mod is compatible with Unused Media, the only other published mod that affects either program.

Dependencies

This mod uses, but does not in any way depend on, Show Mod Names - like virtually all of my mods

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Requirements

• A working TNG installation.
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.
• You should backup files listed in the panel on the right.

Procedure

1. Remove and delete previous version of this mod.
2. Backup the files updated by this mod. They are listed in the panel at the upper right.
3. Download the .zip file, Extract its .cfg file to the mods folder.
4. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files.

Problems?

1. Try using the Mod Manager Remove capability
2. Contact me through My Mod Support form.

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Visualization of this Mod

BEFORE:
AFTER Additional options on the form
AFTER Additional information about what was processed

Revision History

Mod Version	TNG Version	Date	Note
12.0.0.4	12.0+	4 May 2018	No functional changes; changed the .cfg file to be compatible with PHP code that was changed in TNGv12.
10.1.0.3p download	10.1.0 - 11.0	14 May 2016	Updated cust_text.php target location search strings to look for the one-line comment that says "Put your own custom messages here, like this: "Cleaned up the code and added some information to the display such as the file size of files that couldn't be processed
10.1.0.3	10.1.0 - 11.0	14 May 2016	Added Show Mod Names and the parameter that allows larger files to be processed. Cleaned up the code and added some information to the display such as the file size of files that couldn't be processed
10.1.0.2	10.1.0 - 10.1.1	19 Apr 2015	Initial release

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your site to the table below.

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version/TNG-Version	User-language
Robin Richmond's Genealogy Database	Robin Richmond	Admin page; not accessible	12.0.0.4/12.0	EN
Wortelboer Genealogy	Bernard Wortelboer	Admin page; not accessible	10.1.0.3/11.0.1	NL,EN