Admin Media Thumbnails

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Admin Media 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 16 Oct 2018
Download link 12.0.0.4a
TNG 12.0
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Author(s) Robin Richmond
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Mod Support My Mod Support form or TNG Community Forums
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Latest Mod v12.0.0.4a
Min TNG V 10.1
Max TNG V 12.2
Files modified
admin_generatethumbs.php, admin_thumbnails.php, English cust_text.php
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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.

Mod Options

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.

Mod Conflicts

This mod is compatible with Unused Media, the only other published mod that affects the programs that are edited by this mod.

Dependencies

Like virtually all of my mods, this mod uses, but does not in any way depend on, Show Mod Names.

Installation

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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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Visualizations

BEFORE:
You cannot select a tree or a Mediatype; the native program always creates thumbnails for all media jpg files in the Media table.

Admin thumbnails-before1.png

AFTER
Additional options on the form
Admin thumbnails-after1.png
AFTER
Additional options on the form
Admin thumbnails-after1.png
AFTER
Additional information about what was processed
Admin thumbnails2-after.png

Revision History

Mod Version TNG Versions Date Note
12.0.0.4a 12.0+ 16 Oct 2018 No functional changes; fixed a couple of bugs.

changed the .cfg file to be compatible with PHP code that was changed in TNGv12.

10.1.0.3p 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
Eskeland and Haugland Family User:helland71 Admin page; not accessible 12.0.0.4/12.0.2 NO, EN
Hooley Family Links Rick Hooley Public/Private See Here EN
Généalogie Malvache Cédric Malvache Public/Private 12.0.0.4a/12.0.3 FR